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[790c] of young children in the same manner as we commenced our advice regarding their bodies.

Clinias
You are quite right.

Athenian
Let us take this, then, as a fundamental assumption in both cases,—that for both body and soul of the very young a process of nursing and moving, that is as continuous as possible both by day and by night, is in all cases salutary, and especially in the case of the youngest: it is like having them always rocked—

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