...reason could go in tracing out . . . the . . . first principle of all religion, the being of God. . . . He had reached his fifth (or sixth) year, knew the alphabet, and could read a little. ... In a corner of a little garden, ... I wrote in the mould, with my finger, the three initial letters...

...children would in like circumstances think as he did), but merely as a moral or logical experiment. He had reached his fifth or sixth year, knew the alphabet,...learned from my own experience, that to be made to repeat words not understood is extremely detrimental to the faculties of a young mind. In a corner...

...Hay Beattie written by his father, with various stories of the boy's childhood. Here is one of them : "He had reached his fifth (or sixth) year, knew the...little; but had received no particular information as to the Author of his being: because I thought he could not yet understand such information; and...

...speaking of his son, thus observes : ' He had reached his fifth or sixth year ; knew the alphabet, nnd could read a little ; but had received no particular...information with respect to the Author of his being. In a corner of a little garden, without informing any person of the circumstance, I wrote in the mould...

...think ae be did), but merely as a moral or logical experiment " He had reached his fifth (or fixth) year, knew the alphabet, and could read a little ; but had received no particular information with reipeil to tlie Author of his being ; becanlc I thought he eould not yet undcrtlarid fuch information...

...and accomplifhed fun, prefixed to the edition of his works. \ " He had reached his fifth (or fixth) year, knew the alphabet, and could read a little ; but had received no particular information with refpeft to the Author of his being; becaufc I thought he could - not yet undedtand fuch information,...