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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63806	A new method of educating children, or, Rules and directions for the well ordering and governing them during their younger years shewing that they are capable ... : also, what methods is to be used by breeding women ... / written ... by Tho. Tryon ...	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1695 (1695)	Wing T3190; ESTC R34678	43,755	121

windy Diseases and that Epidemical Distemper call'd the Scurvy both in the Mother and Child for those fiery Fumes and Vapours that all hot Foods send forth are of a furious and unpeaceful Temper and contrary to the Natural Heat both of the Stomach and the Food it self So that I affirm the Eating solid Food hot or before these deadly Vapours have separated themselves to be one of the grand Causes of Wind especially in Women and Children as we have largely demonstrated in our Way to Health and other of our Writings 3. They ought to refrain the eating of all sorts of Roots as Turnips Pa●snips Carrets c. For by reason of their Crude and Earthy Qualities they naturally beget Wind. Unripe Fruit and all things sharpned with Viuegar Oranges Lemons c. are hurtful For being unequal in their Parts they generate cold windy Humours and afford a very small and imprope● Nourishment especially to Persons u● der the Circumstances we are no● speaking of 4. They must be very careful n● to exceed in Quantity All Repletio● does in a very high degree obstruct the Course of Nature and produces many Diseases and utterly destroys the Health and Harmony both of Body and Mind affecting both with some signal and irreparable Damage being of far more mischievous Consequence than most do imagine 5. They ought to forbear all robust masculine Labour and Exercises as likewise a soft and sedentary Life Both the one and the other ought to be gentle and easie not too thoughtfully engaging the Mind nor over-burdening the Body Such a Course wou'd strengthen Nature by removing Obstructions and causing the Blood and Humours to circulate with more freedom and facility For it is observable in all Countries where Women live live Temperately use moderate Exercises eat simple Foods and drink mostly Water that windy Diseases are hardly ●wn to be found either in them or ●r Children ●astly Above all things they ought ●beware that they do not give place Passion to suffer those irregular ●tions of the Mind to reign and get 〈◊〉 Dominion over them These sort 〈◊〉 Disturbances put the whole Constitution out of Tune and make fierce and violent Invasions on the Sweetness of the good Powers and Qualities making the deepest Impressions on the Child and powerfully incorporating with the ●erverse Seed of their Simile whereby evil Inclinations and Dispositions are begotten and do arise for there is a strong and unconceivable Sympathy betwixt the Mother and the Child both in Vertue and Vice so that there is no evil Indisposition that attends the Mother but the Child participates thereof receiving the Nourishment both of Spirit and Body from her Nothing is more certain than that every Passion when it arrives to Extremity begets its own Complexion for it penetrates even to the Center joyns with its Simile and be●es strengthned by it By this means the irregular Me● of Mothers affect their Children 〈◊〉 often distempering their Minds and 〈◊〉 dies which in a very short time becom● so deep and central that they are hard● ever cured or eradicated This it is to be an ignorant Big● to Custom and Tradition So unco● trollable is the Dominion they have ob● tain'd that they sway and biass us against all Reason and Experience So preposterously is Mankind blinded and depraved that we can neither Hear See Feel nor Taste Truth nor the Simplicity of Nature's Operations All Seed partakes of the Nature and Quality of the Ground whereinto it is sown If the Ground be good and the Seed good you may reasonably expect sound and firm Fruit without ble mish or distemper Proper Method● must be observed or all will be spoil'd What Crop can the Husband-man hope for if he neglects to Till and Manure his Land or sows it with improper and unsuitable Seed Or what Profit can he expect from his Horses Cows and Sheep if particular Care be not 〈◊〉 about the well-ordering his Cattle that ●hey may bring forth their Young Ones with Strength and Health The like is to be understood of the Humane Ground if that be not dress'd and cultivated by good Order and Temperance you must not look for a healthy and vigorous Off-spring In a word the whole Education Improvement and Accomplishment of Mankind in a great measure depends on the Management and good Conduct of Women For Proof of which let us a little consider what a powerful Influence from our very Infancy they have over us and what a mighty Interest and Concernment they have in those very things that conduce most to our well-being and have the greatest Effect upon our Constitutions and Dispositions Custom and common Practise has so order'd it That as we spring from them we must be return'd to them No sooner are we born but we are thrown into their Hands As they gave us Birth 't is judg'd reasonable they should give us Education It is not enough ●at we must suffer under the Impressions we receive so earlily from them during the mistaken Methods they too generally observe in the time of their Pregnancy but we must be submitted to their Discipline and Direction after we are produc'd stampt with the Image of God Do they not form in us our first Notions and prepossess the Soul before it has leisure to understa●d its own Power and Liberty All the Nonsence of our Conceptions and Irregularity of our Morals is deriv'd from them whilst through an over-fond Tenderness they confirm and encourage those Seminal Principles of Vice that they ought to discountenance and subdue How many Souls are ruin'd by Mothers and Nurses scaring their Children with horrid and frightful Names when they would bring them to comply with their own Humour Hereby the Seeds of Fear are planted which continually subject the Soul to constant and unavoidable Bondage Besides the Examples of their Passions and irregular Actions have a mighty Influence upon our tender Souls insomuch that those first Impressions can never be obliterated or removed They also prepare Childrens Food and order and appoint their Diet and Exercises From hence it appears how much we are under their Conduct and Management as to Bed Board and all things conducing to the Preservation of Life and manner of Living For this cause it is possible to convince an Hundred Men of the Errors o● Life before One Woman they being the Mistresses of Intemperance and mightily espouse the Methods of that ancient Gentleman call'd Custom Hence it follows that it is of great Importance That particular Care be taken about the Education of Women themselves since they sow the first Seeds in the Humane Ground When you ask Children why they do This or That They will answer Their Mothers taught them and they saw their Mothers do it So that the whole Care and Instruction of Children especially whilst they are most capable of Impression is committed to them For few or no Men mind it their secular Busi●ess calling them to the Management of other Affairs which some term

the Summer time they shall rest an Hour and a half sitting silent in a Chair where they may sleep if they are inclined to it which will greatly enliven and sit them for the Afternoons Business After which they shall read half an Hour or an Hour and then such as are for Painting or Musick must spend one Hour in the Exercise of those Arts and in the mean while the others shall be employed in Writing Arithmetick and Accompting When this is done they shall be employ'd again in Gardening Planting Sowing Weeding Digging c. Every one having a little Garden of their own which they shall be taught to Dress and Cultivate and such as are not capable of that Exercise shall walk among the others and learn from them to do it themselves always having their Tutors along with them After which they shall walk run and play about for half an Hour their Tutors carefully observing that they do every thing with Decorum and handsomly for all those Exercises that are perform'd by the Motion and Activity of the Body and Limbs are to be used in the Afternoon or near the time of going to rest and not after Fullness or Dinner as the Custom is 11. Thus they shall all learn Latin and French by Custom and Conversation for there shall be nothing else spoke in the School Likewise they shall learn to read the same Tongue which may be done a quicker and easier way than the common Method and by many degrees more to the purpose For after any Child has learn'd the Letters this will not take up above three or four Months at the most to teach the dullest Capacity to read tolerably well and in any Book and some Mercurial Children will learn it in half the time This Method of ours will be natural and furnish the Child with more Variety of Words than the common way by this way they shall lay a Foundation for the Knowledge of all things that are convenient and needful for Mankind to know French and Latin shall be as their Mother Tongue and in two Years they shall speak and read and understand it perfectly and withal in the same time learn many useful Arts and Sciences The day being divided into several pairs they shall easily pass out of one thing into another without any Weariness or Lassitude by which means it will be like Play to them for it is call'd Play because Children do with pleasure pass from one thing to another of their own Inclination But if they were confin'd to it they would find it very hard Work and be more unwilling to continue at it than others that are put to the study of any useful Art 12. Now the learning and practising several Arts will mightily acquaint them with the knowledge of Words for every Art or Science has particular Terms and Proprieties of Expression adapted to it which they will be obliged to understand in the reading Books French and Latin that treat on those Subjects so that they will have but little need of a Dictionary when they are put to write or discourse of the nature of Things which many great Schollars are forc'd to have recourse to 13. Thus when they have learnt to speak these Languages perfectly then they shall be taught the true Grammar of them which will be easily done For to Speak is one thing and the Art or Reason of Speaking is another The first must be done by Imitation and Practice the other is the work of Time and must be improved by Degrees They that learn the Art of Speaking before they can Speak invert the true Method and as they say put the Cart before the Horse and I do affirm that if there be a true Method taken the dullest Boy alive may be taught to speak good Latin and French as well as he has the use of his Mother-Tongue No Man can speak any Language well and discourse handsomly of all things but he that learns young and by Conversation all the Rules in the World can never make him a Master afterwards All other Methods of Learning are like the Mystery of the Lawyers who have used all possible Skill and Endeavours to make Honesty and Justice intricate and hard to be understood which the plainest Man upon Earth knows perfectly without being beholden to their Books or being skill'd in their Art True Pronunciation and Speaking is learnt by Hearing Those Children that are accustom'd to hear a Noble and Elegant way of Speaking will imitate the same This is the way to make Eloquent Orators and good Artists Pray tell me if the best of Doctors of them all would not be at a Loss if they were call'd to assist a Person in the Buying and Selling most sorts of the Commodities of Merchants and Shop-keepers to discourse of all the parts of Housewifry Agriculture Navigation Ships their Tackle and Furniture and a thousand other useful things most of them I believe would be forc'd to their Dictiona●ies and I am sure in many respects find but little assistance there neither No Man can possibly be a Master of any Language but such as learn it very young and by Conversation neither is he then a M●ster any farther than the custom of the Country allows him for 't is that which makes all Words proper and improper 14. It is believ'd by some that if a Child shou'd never hear Speaking he wou'd never Speak tho' there is indeed a real Ground in Nature for Language It is a noble thing and distinguishes Mankind from the Beasts and wou'd do much more if Man had not lost the true Knowledge and Understanding thereof by his Fall and Degeneracy viz. The Language of Nature which was the Original Tongue that in the first Ages of the World the Antients had some glimmering Knowledg of as appears by their giving such Names to their Children and other things that by the Word and Sound the Nature and Qua●ity of the Person or Thing named might be understood whereof there is now little or no Knowledge remaining 15. But the Fowls of the Air and Beasts of the Field do still retain their Original Language which the great Creator of all things at first endued them with for they have not degenerated nor broken the Law of God and Nature but have continued under the Government thereof and tho' they cannot express their Minds and Inclinations in Articulate Words and tho' for the most part they have but one Tone or Sound yet they have by the various alteration of that Tone a quicker and more natural way of Communicating their Sentiments to each other suitable to their Occasions and the respective State of their Minds and Desires than Mankind can by Articulate Words I am almost bold to say that if Mankind had not Education he wou'd be much more ignorant than the meanest of Beasts Now the chief difference between the Education of Men and Beasts is this the latter have their Education from Nature and act according to their first