In the year 1817 some strong interior visitations came over me, which withdrew me from the world in a considerable degree, and I was enabled to yield myself up to Love's own manner of acting, regardless of all consequences. Soon after this time, I met with an account of the Spirit's work in and by the late venerable Pestalozzi, which so interested me that I proceeded at once to visit him in Switzerland, and remained with him in holy fellowship four years. After that I was working with considerable success amongst the various students in that country, when the prejudices of the self-made wise and powerful men became jealous of my influence, and I was advised to return to England, which I did; and have been working in various ways of usefulness ever since, from the deep centre to the circumference; and am now engaged in writing my conscientious experiences as well as I can represent them in words, and in teaching all such as come within my sphere of action. Receptive beings, however, have as yet been but limited, and those who permanently _retain_, have been still less; yet, at present, there appears a greater degree of awakening to the central love-sensibility than before. I see many more symptoms of the harvest-time approaching in this country. There is, at present, no obvious appearance of the Love-seed beginning to germinate. * * * * * The child has two orders of faculties which are to be educated, essential and semi-essential; or in other words, roots and branches. Radical faculties belong to the interior world, and the branchial to the exterior. To _produce_ a central effect on the child, the radical faculties must be first developed; to _represent_ this effect, the branchial faculties must be developed. The radical faculties belong entirely to Love; the branchial to knowledge and industry. It is imperative upon us to follow the determination of the radical faculties, and to modify the branchial always in obedience to the radical. It is the child, or the Love-Spirit in the child, that we must obey, and not suffer the Parents or any one else to divert us from it. Good is not to be determined by man's wishes, but Good must originate and determine the wish. The Preceptor must watch attentively for every new exhibition of the child's radical faculties, and obey them as divine laws. We must in every movement consider that it is the Infinite perfecting the finite. All that is unnecessary in the external must be kept from the child. The Preceptor's duty is, as far as possible, to remove every hindrance out of the child's way. The closer he keeps the child to the Spirit, the less it will want of us, or anyone else.