BUT touching the _Affections_ and _Passions_ of their Minds, great _Care_ must be taken, that they be not provoked to _Wrath_ or _Anger_, nor frighted with fearful _Notions_ or _Phantasms_; since such Things make strong _Impressions_ upon their soft Bodies, and frequently give ORIGIN to _Convulsions_, _Epilepsies_, &c. However, as _Children_ are naturally more prone to _Evil_ than to _Good_, and to _Vice_ rather than to _Virtue_, they are not to be too much indulged; but from their _Infancy_ upwards, all such perverse _Faculties_ and _Passions_ of Mind are to be so curbed and moderated, that they may become subservient and obedient to _Reason_; and _that_ because this very _Age_ is the proper Time to lay the _Foundation_ of their future good _Qualities_ and _Disposition_, agreeable to the _Rules_ and _Præscripts_ of a right rational OECONOMY. I know _This_ is sometimes accounted a hard _Task_, but if we consider that the WHELPS of Savage _Bears_ and _Lions_ may be so tamed, as to obey the _Motions_ of their KEEPER, how much more easily may the _Sons_ of MEN be inur’d to follow the _Laws_ of right _Reason_? Their _Passion_ first discover themselves most commonly by _Crying_ and _Tears_, tho’ sometimes also otherways; wherefore such FITS of _Anger_ or _Passion_ ought to be prudently reprehended in them; and when neither _Admonitions_ nor _Commands_ may prevail, then _Threats_ ought to take place, that all _Frowardness_ and _Obstinacy_ may be stifled in the BUD; for the Mind of _Youth_ may be justly compar’d to a _Mass_ of WAX or CLAY, on which we may readily _stamp_ what _Impression_ we please to make. FOR these _Reasons_, their _Attendants_, or such other Persons as may be occasionally about _Children_, ought carefully to avoid _doing_ or _saying_ any _mean_, _base_ or _vile Thing_, especially in their Presence or to their Knowledge; since here the _old Proverb_ holds most true, that, _we are drawn by Precept, but led by Example_. Wherefore to moderate and mitigate their _Passions_, CHILDREN ought to be allowed proper _Diversions_, and such _Exercises_ of Body as their _Age_ and _Constitution_ will permit; and _that_ also, because if they were to be brought up lazily or sluggishly, without _Motion_ or _Exercise_, their VICTUALS which is now commonly given them both plentifully and frequently, could not possibly _disperse_ itself nor _digest_, upon which the _innate Heat_ would infallibly suffer a sensible _Decay_.