This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...possibility of being able to make provision for the suitable education of his son. As an immediate consequence of this outward prosperity, together with the excellent character he maintained, the father of Luther was ultimately chosen as a member of the council of Mansfeld, the principal town in the county of the same ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...possibility of being able to make provision for the suitable education of his son. As an immediate consequence of this outward prosperity, together with the excellent character he maintained, the father of Luther was ultimately chosen as a member of the council of Mansfeld, the principal town in the county of the same name. The parents, however, with all their general excellence, had a miserable theory as to the 218 HARSH DISCIPLINE. education and up-bringing of children. Terror and the rod were the only specifics--specifics which are applicable only to the inferior part of our nature, and which, for the most part, strengthen and develop those evil passions which they are meant to subdue. This was the discipline at home, as he himself gives us to understand Nor was it otherwise abroad. The same coarse elements were in constant dperation in the school to which he was sent. The system of beating was carried to a savage extent. No fewer than fifteen times, he tells us, he was beaten in the course of one morning. This, it must be confessed, was terrible discipline. Had the boy been facile or timid, it must have made him an idiot; as it was, there is reason for thankfulness and wonder that it did not make him a tyrant. Some few things were doubtless beaten into him by this magisterial process. The Creed, the Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and some fragmentary passages of the Latin Almanack of St. Donatus, were in the end driven into his brain; but it would have been no great marvel if they were much further than ever removed from his heart. It was thought necessary, however, that a change should be made. John Luther cherished the ambition of seeing his son among the learned, and, as a step towards this, he sent him, in his fifteenth year, to the school of the ...
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