5. Every one shall reverence his mother and his father. (Note that the father is placed first in the one passage and the mother first in the other, to indicate the equal title of both to their children's reverence.) 6. Thou shalt not speak disrespectfully of those in authority. 7. Before the hoary head thou shalt rise and pay honor to the aged. 10. Thou shalt not spread false reports. 11. Thou shalt not go about as a tale-bearer among thy fellows. 12. Thou shalt not hate thy neighbor in thy heart, but shalt warn him of his evil-doing. 13. Thou shalt not bear a grudge against any, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 8. Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf (thinking that he can not hear thee), nor put an obstacle in the way of the blind. 9. If there be among you a poor man, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother, but thou shalt open thy hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need. 14. If thou seest the property of thine enemy threatened with destruction, thou shalt do thy utmost to save it. 15. If thou findest what is not thine own, and the owner is not known to thee, guard it carefully, that thou mayest restore it to its rightful owner. 16. Thou shalt not do evil because many others are doing the same evil. Bearing grudges, lying, mocking those who (like the deaf and blind) are afflicted with personal defects, appropriating what is found without attempting to discover the owner, seeking to excuse wrong on the plea that many others are guilty of it--all these are forms of moral evil with which children are perfectly familiar, and against which they need to be warned. It is more than strange that such commandments as the sixth and eighth of the Decalogue (the commandment against murder and against adultery, forsooth), which are inapplicable to little children, should be made so much of in primary moral instruction, while those other commandments which do come home to them are often overlooked. The theory here expounded, that moral teaching should keep pace with the experience and intelligence of the child, should save us from such mistakes.