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He is afraid too of the influence of the drama, on the ground

that it encourages false sentiment, and therefore he would not

have his children taken to the theatre; he thinks that the effect

on the spectators is bad, and on the actors still worse. His idea

of education is that of harmonious growth, in which are

insensibly learnt the lessons of temperance and endurance, and

the body and mind develope in equal proportions. The first

principle which runs through all art and nature is simplicity;

this also is to be the rule of human life.