The process of _taming_, though quite essential to the unruly, to "flesh and blood" is never "joyous, but rather grievous." The objection started is something like that which the celebrated Rush, in some of his original effusions, has observed is met with in the case of certain morbid patients, whose _weak stomachs refuse milk as a diet_. The food itself, in the judgment of the acute physician, is of the most simple, inoffensive, and invigorating character; and _the fact that it is rejected is the proof that it is needed_. The intemperate can ill brook the privation of _alcohol_; the epicure and debauché will not relinquish with good will the gratification of inordinate appetites; nor will the _slothful_, who _turns himself in his bed as the door on the hinges_, give up with cheerfulness _the luxury of laziness_. But the true and proper question for determination is, would it not be doing to loungers and profligates themselves, as well as to others, a kindness, to put them upon a course of _regimen_, (provided it can be done without too great an exertion of violence,) which should bring them back to nature, and constrain them to a just and proper observance of the salutary laws of industry, sobriety, and temperance? With such an authority we think that the parents and guardians of youth every where should be invested; and those who should manifest a spirit of insubordination against its exercise, if that spirit could not be quelled by a temperate yet firm resistance, would exhibit the proof of a temper that ought to be regarded in a young man _as a positive disqualification for receiving an education_.