Excerpt from The Smaller Tracts Besides, an imperfect knowledge of things is often better than no knowledge at all. In this case, if a child do but ent r tain a very imperfect idea of God, of his duty, and of a future state, he will get such ideas as will be of some use to him at pre sent, but of much more as he grows up and they will be of much more use then, for having been impressed early, when they could be of little use, or even if they should, at that time, be of no use at all. A reverence for religion, for its general dic tates, or even for the words and forms belonging to it, without any clear ideas, if it be inculcated early, when the mind is tender, and apt to' receive impressions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.