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fferent children need different treatment. But how typical of the times is the interpretation, for he goes on to say: That is because the wickedness of youth exhibits itself in so many ways. This most elaborate of colonial pedagogical works is similar in form and purpose to the numerous books on behaviour produced in all European countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it has little of the penetration or urbanity and none of the literary grace of Castiglione or of Chesterfield, or of the good Bishop de la Casa. The most influential as well as most characteristic textbook of the colonial period was The New England Primer, first issued about 1690 by a Boston printer. Constructed on principles borrowed from Comenius's Orbis Pictus and from the Protestant tutor, it was used quite generally throughout the colonies and universally in New England. Countless youth made their way through the alphabet from In Adam's Fall We Sinned All to Zaccheus he Did Climb the