Elements of Morality

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Excerpt from Elements of Morality: For the Use of Young Persons In this ingenious production, the chief aim of the author is, to impress upon the minds of parents and guardians the importance of con veying fnformation to their young friends re specting the pernicious effects of vice, and the beneficial in¿uence of virtue, and to illustrate, by a variety of examples, what he considers the most effectual means of checking irregular propensities in the youthful mind. This, he thinks, is to be effected, not merely by reason. Ing and precept, but by experience and exam ple -the offender, he alleges, must be made to feel, in some measure, the ill effects of his depravity, otherwise every mode of correo tion will prove ineffectual. In this simple, but interesting little work, which describes the juvenile adventures of the family of a wealthy citizen, who considered the moral improvement of his children as paramount to every other earthly concern, the petty delin quencies of childhood are judiciously exem plified, and suitable preventatives most no. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.