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Excerpt from On the Importance of an Early Correct Education of Children: Embracing the Mutual Obligations and Duties of Parent and Child; Also the Qualification and Discipline of Teachers The author, in giving publicity to the following pages, assures his readers that nothing would have afforded him greater pleasure than to have had his ideas dressed and carried out, on the early and proper training of a child, by some one more intellectually endowed than himself, and one too enjoying sound health and natural vision, which latter blessing he has not possessed during the labor of composing and compiling the subject of present intrusion. Subscribers for this little work were, before its publication, made fully acquainted, by the Prospectus, of the authors sore affliction through total blindness, and the consequent necessity of assistance by a proxy, which has been performed, so far as the mechanical part of the manuscript is concerned, by a son between thirteen and fourteen years of age. And in addition to nearly five years bereavement of sight, such has been the impaired state of his general health, as to keep him for many 6 months confined to his bed, and no hopes entertained by the most eminent oculists as to a future restoration of sight. Reduced in pecuniary circumstances to the lowest ebb, one of two alternatives appeared only left for him to adopt, either directly to apply for public charity, or, by an amanuensis, so bring in requisition his humble mental powers, I as would produce a work on some subject which might serve at least I as an apology for a few cents at the hands of an indulgent and charitable public. 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.