School (Newspaper) - January 5, 1893, London, Middlesex A Religious and Literary Vol. 3. JANUARY 5, 1893. One am an old-fashioned believer in the wisdom of who is otherwise not sufficiently an authority amongst us in these The words are Sir Dyce and the special form of wisdom to which he refers is that contained in a certain proverb about a rod for the The in to whose back Sir Dyce Duckworth would make this and in regard to whom he says still more emphatically sometimes regret that we do not orice more set up the stocks in some of our country is the The magisterial sentences now pronounced on drunkards in my quite inadequate act in no way as a deterrent from renewed A man may have spent many shillings in making himself brutal and dangerous he is fined and sent about his Small wonder that he repeats the If the fine were always made ten shillings for the first a severe lesson would be A second lapse from sobriety should be visited by an increased in by several with and hard For a second conviction I am strongly in favour of withdrawing the privilege of the electoral and the power of voting for School for at least ten The title of Sir Dyce which will be found in the House Magazine for is Amended Legislation for Habitual Drunkards It is evident in what direction he would amend the propose such measures may perhaps shock some of my mala he Yet they are not so shocking as they For this eminent physician makes a clear distinction between two kinds of and while he would simply increase the punishment of the one he would totally alter our method of dealing with the He says there are two great classes of there is the occasional who sins from ignorance or and there is the insane who has lost by the evolution or onset of brain disease all control of his moral nature These two classes are The one is for he can control his actions and avoid his bouts of the other is not he is the victim of brain When the former lapses from sobriety he is a and should be punished as other criminals to punish the latter is to add gratuitously to his already all too terrible he is no more to be blamed than an epileptic or a the former may be the so far as my experience is irreclaimable We have seen how Sir Dyce Duckworth would treat the merely and therefore criminal What would he have us do with the other In the case of the insane whose uncontrolled life is of no value to his and certainly of none to the I he that compulsory seclusion is imperatively called At this moment I know of no certainly approved method available for the permanent reform of such There is as little evidence to prove that even prolonged seclusion with suitable excluding dangerous contact with other is of Yet these persons must be dealt with by some new mode of They must no longer be left at large in their or amongst any The awful and mischief entailed at present by inefficient powers of dealing with this class of madmen is insufficiently realised by the and known chiefly to the pitiable relatives and the doctors who are unable to procure the necessary seclusion for such No arrangement exists whereby the isolation requisite for insane drunkards can be What is urgently needed is that they should be treated as are other insane persons in the our lunatic asylums in my the best places wherein to seclude even if some of these institutions have to be enlarged for the In his new Mothers and which was touched upon last the headmaster of Haileybury asks the How s oon may we appeal to the in young How soon may we count upon their feeling for an unseen God It is a question of the first importance for Sunday School And yet no consent has ever been come to upon it. Writers on education assume they never attempt to the most contradictory One holds that the religious instinct in boys is wholly another that it is exceedingly And the great majority never discuss the question at In the practical work of the Sunday and the home for that you find the same The question is or never though it is the question which goes to the very root of all Sunday School and all religious Each teacher is left to to to individual and generally quite accidental Thus it comes to pass that in the same school you will find who constantly appeals to the sense of an unseen God in the youngest in the while at his side there is another teacher whose sole appeal is to the The one uses religious the other is content with Whatever their results may their attitude is as wide asunder as the Mr. Lyttelton is a and thinks as a schoolmaster the question is beyond his see the question is not what boys are at should myself say they were mostly irreligious at that whether this instinct which seems to exist in early childhood might not be kept alive by proper treatment till and on through Schoolmasters know pretty well that it is not so kept So he though I would say nothing on this subject that the religious instinct begins very early in But if that is why does it die out It does die out he says I should myself say that boys at sixteen were mostly It dies out for want of Along with his readiness to acknowledge God's the child manifests a tendency to people visible spaces and objects with creations of his own But he comes to see that none of his elders share these superstitions with and that is the main cause of his abandoning Suppose then that he sees no practical evidence that his elders share his early belief in an unseen but ever-active Suppose he sees that his mother has no living belief in the that nothing she says or does in his presence recalls those truths of which he has been surely his belief in God will share the fate of his belief in fairies Mr. Lyttleton is and we may even from the earliest years appeal to the religious sense of the and ought steadily to maintain that appeal on through the years of boyhood and does it follow that for what is called moral teaching there is no place in the home or school He certainly does not mean For the question never is between religion and In debating societies and the like you have the two pitted against one as if they were opposite and The question is as to the sanction of Should we say to the children Do right because it is Do right for the sake of Jesus is there the only question