Another World

s--One routine for all
characters--Neglecting minor qualities in Boys of
Genius--Precept-cramming--Bad habits--Character-divers
created--Sole occupation to discover Child's early
tendencies--Duties distinct from those of Preceptors or Fathers of
Knowledge--Germ of evils destroyed


VI.--CORRECTION OF FAULTS.

Remedies employed vary with characteristics--Absence of violent
punishment--Children to be raised, not degraded--Animals not
corrected by blows--Example--Pupil not corrected by the imposition
of tasks--Child encouraged to regard study as a
privilege--Correction effected by gentleness--Time, labour, &c.,
bestowed unsparingly--Even when fault seems eradicated fresh tests
applied--Adult offenders--Child of genius watched with reference to
superior refinement--Economy of sparing nothing in educating the
future man--Lists of faults occupying attention of the
Character-divers--Results--Small beginnings lead to incurable vices
and disease


VII.--CHARACTER-DIVERS.

Secondary position of Tutors in former times--Now honoured--Aid
given by the Character-divers, &c., to Narrator--Young men of
special aptitude educated for the office--Their
astuteness--Example--Subjects of tesselated pavements--Zolea--Early
evidence of artistic talent often deceptive--Narrator's early
talent indicating him as a harpist--Guided to other studies


VIII.--THE STAR CITY.

Power of the Sun--Colours and forms in the sky--Situation of
Montalluyah--External World Cities--Reasons for uniting them--
Peculiarities--Straight lines--Variety of colour, &c.--Subterranean
seas--Great cataract and water-lifts form background of palaces and
statues--Hanging bridges--Health studied--Baths--Violet streams--
Trees--Birds--Artificial nests--Perfumes--Harmonious
sounds--Chariot wheels and horse's hoofs noiseless--Red light--City
full of animation--Recurring change of sce

John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.

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