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T once, and mingled with the thought of distant pleasure. To meet the
suffering of rage and frenzy by the suffering of fear is assuredly to
make of the little unquiet mind a battle-place of feelings too hurtfully
tragic. The penny is mild and strong at once, with its still distant but
certain joys of purchase; the promise and hope break the mood of misery,
and the will takes heart to resist and conquer. It is only in the lesser
naughtiness that he is master of himself. The lesser the evil fit the
more deliberate. So that his mother, knowing herself to be not greatly
feared, once tried to mimic the father's voice with a menacing, "What's
that noise?" The child was persistently crying and roaring on an upper
floor, in contumacy against his French nurse, when the baritone and
threatening question was sent pealing up the stairs. The child was heard
to pause and listen and then to say to his nurse, "Ce n'est pas
Monsieur; c'est Madame," and then, without further loss of time, to
resume the interrupted clamours. Obviously, with a little creature of
six years, there are two things mainly to be done--to keep the delicate
brain from the evil of the present excitement, especially the excitement
of painful feeling, and to break the habit of passion. Now that we know
how certainly the special cells of the brain which are locally affected
by pain and anger become hypertrophied by so much use, and all too ready
for use in the future at the slightest stimulus, we can no longer slight
the importance of habit. Any means, then, that can succeed in separating
a
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