He has to drill his desires, and keep them in subjection to the higher powers of his nature.

They must obey the word of command of the internal monitor, the conscience--otherwise they will be but the mere slaves of their inclinations, the sport of feeling and impulse.
"In the supremacy of self-control," says Herbert Spencer, "consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Not to be impulsive--not to be spurred hither and thither by each desire that in turn comes uppermost--but to be self-restrained, self-balanced, governed by the joint decision of the feelings in council assembled, before whom every action shall have been fully debated and calmly determined--that it is which education, moral education at least, strives to produce." [151] The first seminary of moral discipline, and the best, as we have already shown, is the home; next comes the school, and after that the world, the great school of practical life.

Each is preparatory to the other, and what the man or woman becomes, depends for the most part upon what has gone before.

If they have enjoyed the advantage of neither the home nor the school, but have been allowed to grow up untrained, untaught, and undisciplined, then woe to themselves--woe to the society of which they form part! The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt.