Fear and Love by Mrs. Hutchinson

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 2, 1860

Fear and Love.

By Mrs. Hutchinson

To excite the fears of children may, at first sight, appear the easiest mode of controlling them; but, in practice, it will be found that an influence which is based on love will ever be more successful than any that can be gained by the use of coercion: and though the latter method has received the sanction of long usage, my experience has convinced me of its utter inefficiency as compared with those milder and more persuasive means which right feeling, when unwarped by custom, will always dictate as at once the most natural and most pleasing foundation on which to rest our influence with our fellow-beings of all ages. This method has also the great additional advantage of calling into exercise, and so strengthening by habitual use, the higher in preference to the lower impulses of heart and mind.—Mrs. Hutchinson on the Early Education of Children.