THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES.
A CHILD!—this is the subject of our study. An infant
is a bud to be unfolded, but, sad thought! a cankered
bud to be healed also. Every child possesses a threefold
nature-physical, intellectual, moral, and the future
character of the being will depend upon the training
which these receive. In most cases the physical nature
is well cared for. No unfriendly blast is allowed to reach
the frail body; no doubtful aliment is administered; no
treacherous influence suffered to approach; and no amount
of watchfulness is considered too great. If symptoms of
disease appear, the most skilful advice is sought, and the
most tender nursing secured. All this is right as far as
it goes. But in regard to the intellectual and moral nature
it is often otherwise. There we but too frequently see
no parental wisdom, care, forethought, or effort, and the
result is that the intellect is left undeveloped, and the
moral feelings untrained; or if trained, unconsciously
and inadvertently trained to evil.
Many of our readers may remember the disappointment
which they experienced when they saw the great koh-i-
noor diamond in the Exhibition of 1851, and perhaps they
may have said, Is that the koh-i-noor? Is that all there
is to see? Many may also remember the same koh-i-noor
in the Exhibition of 1862. How different! Surrounded
as it was then by the choicest gems, it excelled them all,