Verse 11
11. When The specialties will all be superseded by eternal things, as childhood joys are superseded by manhood.
Was Whately says the emphasis should be placed in reading on was, to imply that the playthings of childhood are suitable and right for childhood. As Pope says,
“Behold the child, by nature’s kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”
It was said by Lord Brougham that the human being learns more during his ten first years than in all his life afterwards. His infantile and puerile sports are but experiments of things by which he gains his first amount of knowledge.
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