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Page 429 - ... scarcely choose a course more fatal than this, which sacrifices the body to the mind. Either they disregard the tastes of the opposite sex, or else their conception of those tastes is erroneous. Men care little for erudition in women; but very much for physical beauty, good nature, and sound sense.
Page 429 - On women the effects of this forcing system are, if possible, even more injurious than on men. Being in great measure debarred from those vigorous and enjoyable exercises of body by which boys mitigate the evils of excessive study, girls feel these evils in their full intensity. Hence, the much smaller proportion of them who grow up well-made and healtfey.
Page 429 - London drawing-rooms, we see the effect of merciless application unrelieved by- youthful sports ; and this physical degeneracy exhibited by them hinders their welfare far more than their many accomplishments aid it. Mammas anxious to make their daughters attractive could scarcely choose a course more fatal than this which sacrifices the body to the mind. Either they disregard the tastes of the opposite sex, or else their conception of those tastes is erroneous.
Page 457 - Thou livest in the life of all good things; What words thou spak'st for Freedom shall not die; Thou sleepest not, for now thy Love hath wings To soar where hence thy Hope could hardly fly. And often, from that other world, on this Some gleams from great souls gone before may shine, To shed on struggling hearts a clearer bliss, And clothe the Right with lustre more divine.
Page 466 - GRADUATION. 1. The candidate must be of good moral character and at least twenty-one years of age.
Page 419 - must needs be vigorous in order to obey the soul: a good servant ought to be robust. . . The weaker the body, the more it commands; the stronger it is, the better it obeys.
Page 418 - ... indocility, and viciousness, are frequently aggravated by teachers, incapable of discriminating between their mental and bodily causes, is also undeniable ; while that teachers often miserably fail to improve their pupils, and then report the result of their own iucompetency as failures of nature, — all may have seen, although it is now proved that the lowest imbeciles are not sunk beneath the possibility of elevation.
Page 457 - Thou art not idle : in thy higher sphere Thy spirit bends itself to loving tasks, And strength, to perfect what it dreamed of here, Is all the crown and glory that it asks.
Page 418 - The imminent question," he says (p. 406), " is, how may the child and youth be developed healthfully and vigorously, bodily, mentally, and morally ? and science alone can answer it by a statement of the laws upon which that development depends. Ignorance of these laws must inevitably involve mismanagement. That there is a large amount of mental perversion and absolute stupidity, as well as bodily disease, produced in school, by measures which operate to the prejudice of the growing brain, is not...
Page 432 - ... so hard to restore to place now as when confirmed in its position by long years of a bad habit, which should never have been tolerated a day. If the chest is weak and flat, or pigeon-breasted, now is the time to remove the defect. Build up the arms to be strong and comely now ; accustom the chest and. shoulders to their proper place, whatever their owner is at ; cover the back with full and shapely muscles ; get the feet used to the work which comes so easy and natural to them, once they are...