EARLY DISCIPLINE ILLUSTRATED; OR, THE INFANT SYSTEM PROGRESSING AND SUCCESSFUL. BY SAMUEL WILDERSPIN. "Old impossibilities are become modern probabilities, and the ex- LONDON: WESTLEY AND DAVIS, STATIONERS' HALL COURT. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE DISTINGUISHED PATRON OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION, THIS VOLUME, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION, IS INSCRIBED, AS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE, TO HIS MIGHTY GENIUS AND UNWEARIED PHILANTHROPY, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S MOST GRATEFUL AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, SAMUEL WILDERSPIN. PREFACE. ALTHOUGH the Infant System has been in operation several years, no report has yet been given of its general reception and effect. To supply this deficiency the present volume was prepared, with the earnest hope that it may be instrumental in correcting existing errors, and in urging a more extensive adoption of the plans it illustrates. A friend has kindly undertaken the arrangement of the facts and observations it contains, for which I have not sufficient leisure. It is only necessary further to remark, that the opinions expressed in reference to Ireland have been long entertained, and were |