Jupiter is still in his fiery youth, while the moon is senile in decrepid old age, and yet his separate existence began long before hers.

Either hypothesis will explain the abnormally early development of the Chinese race, and its subsequent career of inactivity.

Meanwhile the youthful nurse, in blissful ignorance of the evidence which her present precocity affords against her future possibilities, pursues her sports with intermittent attention to her charge, whose poor little head lolls about, now on one side and now on the other, in a most distressingly loose manner, an uninterested spectator of the proceedings.
As soon as the babe gets a trifle bigger he ceases to be ministered to and begins his long course of ministering to others.

His home life consists of attentive subordination.

The relation his obedience bears to that of children elsewhere is paralleled perhaps sufficiently by the comparative importance attached to precepts on the subject in the respective moral codes.