y bad taste. Such a dislike too
is more commonly called an antipathy, than a prejudice, though perhaps
it comes under the general head of prejudices."

"How may we overcome prejudice? I think that when we are prejudiced
against a person, it is the hardest thing in the world to overcome
it."

"A prejudice is usually founded on some unpleasant association
connected with the subject of it. The best way to overcome the
prejudice, therefore, is to connect some pleasant association with it.

"For example, (to take the case of the antipathy to the spider, alluded
to in the last article,) the reason why that young lady dislikes
spiders, is undoubtedly because she has some unpleasant idea associated
with the thought of that animal, perhaps for example, the idea of their
crawling upon her--which is certainly not a very pleasant one for any
body. Now the way to correct such a prejudice, is to try to connect some
pleasant thoughts with the sight of the animal.

"I once found a spider in an empty apartment, hanging in its web on the
wall, with a large ball of eggs which it had suspended by its side. My
companion and myself cautiously brought up a tumbler under the web, and
pressed it suddenly against the wall, so as to enclose both spider and
eggs within it. We then contrived to run in a pair of shears, so as to
cut off the web, and let both the animal and its treasure fall down into
the tumbler. We put a book over the top, and walked off with our prize,
to a table, to see what it would do.

"At first it tried to climb up the side of the tumbler, but its feet
slipped, from the smooth glass. We then inclined the glass, so as to
favor its climbing and to enable it to reach the book at the top. As
soon as it touched the book, it was safe. It could cling to the book
easily, and we placed the tumbler again upright, to watch its motions.

"It attached a thread to the book and let itself down by it to the
bottom of the tumbler, and walked round and round the ball of eggs,
apparently in great trouble. Presently it ascended by its thread, and
then came down again. It attached a new thread to the ball, and then
went up, drawing the ball with it. It hung the ball at a proper distance
from the book, and bound it firmly in its place by threads running from
it, in every direction, to the parts of the book which were near, and
then the animal took its place, quietly by its side.

"Now I do not say, that if any body had a stro