...popular squeamishness, he maintained corporal punishment as a stern necessity ; protesting against " that proud notion of personal independence which is neither reasonable nor Christian," which " encourages a fantastic sense of the degradation of personal correction." t Though Dr Arnold...

...boys and little ones. " I know well," is his criticism on the liberal dislike of that punishment, " of what feeling this is the expression : it originates...independence which is neither reasonable nor Christian. . . . At an age when it is almost impossible to find a true manly sense of the degradation of guilt...

...corporal punishment is degrading:' the author of the Letter asserts this expression to originate in a ' proud notion of personal independence, which is neither...reasonable nor Christian, but essentially barbarian.' (Letter, p. 281.) It is not important to settle this point, which we leave as it stands. But it is...

...these offences and for this age degrading, he replied with characteristic emphasis — " I know well of what feeling this is the expression ; it originates...Christian — but essentially barbarian. It visited Europe with all the curses of the age of chivalry, and is threatening us now with those of Jacobinism. At...

...these offences and for this age degrading, he replied with characteristic emphasis — " I know well of what feeling this is the expression ; it originates...Christian — but essentially barbarian. It visited Europe with all the curses of the age of chivalry, and is threatening us now with those of Jacobinism. At...

...these offences and for this age degrading, he replied with characteristic emphasis— " I know well of what feeling this is the expression ; it originates...personal independence which is neither reasonable nor Christian—but essentially barbarian. It visited Europe with all the curses of the age of chivalry,...

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...these offences and for this age degrading, he replied with characteristic emphasis — " I know well of what feeling this is the expression ; it originates...independence which is neither reasonable nor Christian — hut essentially barbarian. It visited Europe with all the curses of the age of chivalry, and is...

...which are often made against the existing system of discipline in our schools. " Corporal punishment " it is said, " is degrading." I well know of what feeling...times with all the curses of the age of chivalry, and 22 is threatening us now with those of Jacobinism. For so it is, that the evils of ultra-aristocracy...

...offences, and for this age degrading, he replied with characteristic emphasis : — " ' I know well of what feeling this is the expression ; it originates...Christian — but essentially barbarian. It visited Europe with all the curses of the age of chivalry, and is threatening us now with those of Jacobinism At an...