DOMESTIC EDUCATION.
Chkpter I.
THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
" Train up a c/tiW in the way he should go, and when he is old
he wiM not depart from it."—Proverbs xxii, 6.
GOD is the Creator of the Universe. As such
he has original and divine right to make
laws for the government of its different depart¬
ments, physical and mental.1 But, in the exercise
of this divine right he does not act like a des¬
potic monarch, whose absolute will is law for all
his subjects; whose animus is supreme selfishness
11 employ the term mental in preference to the word
intellectual, because it is of wider comprehension. The
intellectual embraces those operations of mind " by
which we perceive objects and conceive of them; and re¬
member, analyze, or combine them, and judge, or reason
consenting them." See Dr. S. S. Schmucker's " Mental
Philosophy," page 25. So, also, President James H. Fair-
child, on page 14, of his "Moral Philosophy:" "Theintel¬
lect is the general faculty of perceiving and knowing, and
comprehends the faculties of sense, memory, imagination,
judgment, and reason." So, also, Crabb says: "There is
the same difference between mental and intellectual, as
between mind and intellect; the mind comprehends the
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