THESE Things being duly observed, it now only farther remains, that the CHILD be well train’d up, and carefully educated; instilling all along into its Mind the _Principles_ of _Humanity_ and _Morality_, and instructing it gradually in the Knowledge of _Arts_ and _Sciences_; which it will even at this tender Age be found capable of Conceiving: For the _Human Mind_ being naturally adapted to attain to the _Cognition_ of all sublunary Things, may be thus endued and furnished with the most laudable _Arts_, before it can distinguish the USE of them; since according to the _Philosopher_’s wise saying[185], _Nostrum scire nihil aliud est, quam Reminsisci_. Because (I say) the _Mind of Man_ perceives and comprehends the Notion and Knowledge of all temporal Things in it self, notwithstanding that it cannot easily display it self, by reason of the burthensome Oppression of the _Body_ and its gross _Humours_: Like as a FIRE, overlaid with _Ashes_, must be raised up and fomented, before its engender’d or retain’d _Sparkles_ can exert themselves with any _Lustre_; so it is even with us, before the _Light_ and _Instinct_ of our Natures can shine forth: For as some ROOTS cast no _Smell_, or breathe no _Fragrancy_ of themselves, unless they be softly touched or squeezed with the _Hand_; so neither do our _Natural Powers_ and _Faculties_ exert or show themselves, unless they be diligently exercised and cultivated. THUS we have now guided and conducted the CHILD from its BIRTH, to the _Seventh Year of his Age_; which being only meant by the INFANT, that was safely _Born_, and continued all along in _Health_; I come now in the next place, to hint upon what is farther _Requisite_ towards the _rearing of such_ CHILDREN, whole _Misfortune_ it may be, either to come into the World with _Infirmities_, or to be afterwards subjected to them in their _Cradles_. And FIRST, [Illustration] [Illustration] CHAP. X. _Of the various Symptoms and Indispositions wherewith the_ CHILD _may be Born._ SINCE _some_ only, not _all_ CHILDREN, happen to bring _Infirmities_ with them into the World; and because such _Indispositions_ as are chiefly meant here, discover themselves presently at the Time of BIRTH, and require immediate _Cure_; I shall concisely enter upon, and briefly comprehend them All here, as they most commonly fall out, in this present _Chapter_.