ng antipathy to a spider,
seeing one perform such a work as this would entirely remove it; but it
would certainly soften it. It would _tend_ to remove it. It would
connect an interesting and pleasant association, with the object. So if
she should watch a spider in the fields making his web. You have all
seen those beautiful, regular webs, in the morning dew, ("Yes, sir,"
"Yes sir.") composed of concentric circles, and radii diverging in every
direction. ("Yes sir.") Well, watch a spider when making one of these,
or observe his artful ingenuity and vigilance, when he is lying in wait
for a fly. By thus connecting pleasant ideas, with the sight of the
animal, you will destroy the unpleasant association which constitutes
the prejudice. In the same manner, if I wished to create an antipathy to
a spider, in a child, it would be very easily done. I would tie her
hands behind her, and put three or four upon her, to crawl over her
face.

"Thus you must destroy prejudices in all cases, by connecting pleasant
thoughts and associations with the objects of them."

"I am very often prejudiced against new scholars, without knowing
why?"

"We sometimes hear a person talk in this way, 'I do not like such, or
such a person, at all.'"

"'Why?'

"'Oh I don't know, I do not like her at all. I can't bear her.'

"'But why not. What is your objection to her.'

"'Oh I don't know, I have not any particular reason, but I never did
like her.'

"Now whenever you hear any person talk so, you may be sure that her
opinion, on any subject, is worth nothing at all. She forms opinions in
one case, without grounds, and it depends merely upon accident, whether
she does not, in other cases."

"Why is it that so many of our countrymen are, or seem to be
prejudiced against the unfortunate children of Africa? Almost every
_large white_ boy, who meets a _small black_ boy, insults him, in
some way or other."

"It is so hard to _overcome_ prejudices, that we ought to be
careful how we _form_ them."

"When I see a new scholar enter this school and she does not happen
to suit me exactly in her ways and manners, I very often get
prejudiced against her, though sometimes I find her a valuable
friend, after I get acquainted with her."

"There is an inquiry I should like very much to make, though I suppose
it would not be quite right to make it. I should like to ask all those
who have some par