Though the depravity, luxury, and of the times, form just subjects of complaint for the grave, the thoughtful, and the , yet I cannot help believing, that many of these complainants are themselves lending a hand to render the rising generation as effeminate and as the present.  
I am now appealing to parents on the education of their children, which appears to me a subject that ought to attract the serious attention of those who wish , peace, and happiness to their children, and prosperity, , and a reformation of manners to the rising generation.
 
 
"The first seasoning," says Plato, "sticks longest by the . Thus those, who are permitted from their earliest periods to do wrong, will hardly ever be persuaded, when they arrive at , to do right." It is a with some people, a maxim surely founded only on pride, that their children shall not be checked in their early years, but be indulged in whatever their little hearts shall pant after; and for this reason, because they will grow wiser as they grow older. But, since the love of ease, finery, and pleasure, is natural to almost every youthful mind, how careful ought each parent to be to check those sallies, which, if encouraged, will in time be productive of the very evils they complain of in the present generation.
 
It is not only in childhood, but also in their progress through school, and during their , that these indulgences are continued; and an excuse is always ready, that their children must not be more hardly treated than others. Hence it follows, that you often meet the of eighteen through the streets in his boots on an errand of business, or screening himself from the dew of heaven under the shade of a large silken umbrella!—It would be worse than sacrilege, in their opinions, to appear abroad with an before them, or in their working dress.
 
Their evenings are too often spent abroad at chair clubs, in alehouses, at the theatres, or in some gardens. "To know the world," as they call it, is more their study than the of their profession, by which they are hereaft............