... the degree of maturity to which they have attained,standing a little aside, as it were, in doing so, and encouraging them to do the work themselves, instead of taking it out of their hands and ... had been enjoined upon them as, forexample, when they left the door open in coming in or going out, in the winter; or interrupted their motherwhen she was reading, instead of standing quietly ... that the faculties of reason and reflection, and the power of appreciating " ;the necessity and propriety of things," and of bringing considerations of future, remote, and perhaps contingent...