WHEN TO BEGIN TRAINING. 63
fests itself on a small scale or a large one, in a nar¬
row circle or a wide one, must be based on obedi¬
ence, and is a result of it; and still more, a child
ought to be taught that there is no such thing as
true greatness in man nor woman if there be not
the love of order, law, and government in the
heart of that man or that woman who aspires to
greatness, and that this love for these things must
be in their Jieart, as a guiding, regulating, controll¬
ing principle.
I will add, that the essential principles of
moral greatness which makes the grand character,
and, therefore, the great man and the great
woman, should not only be inculcated by precept,
but also by lucid examples drawn from the biog¬
raphy of the good and the great of both sexes—
of all races and of all ages.
Again, what is a child without a character?
What is character without goodness? But there
is no such thing as goodness where there is not obe¬
dience. Goodness and greatness in man or in
woman ought to begin with infancy; ought to run
through childhood and control early manhood
and early womanhood. Like good seed in good
soil, it will grow with their growth, and in ma¬
ture manhood or mature womanhood be as strong
and powerful as the sturdy oak.
"O, no," says the objector, "the child, the
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