Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?
Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
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More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. Vol. 1, London T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1799, ch. 2.