to charge themselves with the instruction of their own Children, that (to their Immortal Honour) they have made it part of their Business to assist to that of other Peoples also, who were likely one day to be of consequence to the Common-wealth.  And could the bare Love of their Country induce, among many more, the great Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, and Aurelia the Mother of Julius Caesar, to do this for the Sons of Noble-men of Rome to whom they had no Relation but that of their common Country, and shall not the like consideration, or what is infinitely beyond this, that of their Children being hereafter for ever happy or miserable, accordingly as they live in this World, prevail with the Ladies of our Days, who call themselves Christians, to employ some of their Time and Pains upon their own Off-spring?  The care of which (as has been said) should begin with the first Years of Childrens Lives, in curbing at the earliest appearance thereof, every their least evil inclination; and accustoming them to an absolute, constant, and universal Submission and Obedience to the Will of those who have the disposal of them:  Since they will hardly ever after (especially in a great Fortune) be govern’d by their own Reason, who are not made supple to that of others, before they are able to judge of fit and unfit, by any other measure than as it is the Will, or not, of such whom they believe to have a just Power over them.  As they do become capable of examining and determining their Actions by Reason, they should be taught never to do any thing of consequence heedlesly; and to look upon the Dictates of their Reason as so inviolable a Rule of their Determinations, that no Passion or Appetite must ever make them swerve therefrom.  But instead of following this Method, it is commonly thought too soon to correct Children for any thing, ’till the Season is past for this sort of Discipline; which, if it come too late, is commonly so far from producing the good it was design’d for, that losing the benefit of Correction (which, if duly apply’d, is of infinite use) it turns to a Provocation; and renders stiff and incorrigible a Temper it was meant to supple.  Nor is it seldom that through this wrong tim’d Discipline, together with that remisness and inequality wherewith Childrens Inclinations are over-rul’d, their Parents Government over them seems to them not a Natural, and just right establish’d for their benefit, but a Tyrannick and Arbritary Power, which accordingly they without Remorse disobey, whenever they believe that they can do so with Impunity:  And what is still worse, their evil Dispositions, for the most part, are not only not timely enough restrain’d, but Children are actually taught to indulge to their naturally irregular Inclinations, by those Vicious or wretchedly ignorant People, who are plac’d about them; and who almost universally instil down-right Vice into them, even before they can well speak; as Revenge, Covetousness, Pride and