THE PHILOSOPHY OF MANUAL TRAINING. 787 



dians and otlier creatures dear to a child's fancy. The results are 

 undoubtedly wild, but they are full of promise. 



The main point in these suggestions is that the language and 

 science and drawing, thus cut down to the possible and essential, 

 shall be as sincere and as real as the best insight of the teacher can 

 make them. We can do all this and have plenty of time left for 

 the cultivation of the body and the senses. 



And we must begin this bodily culture by getting on good terms 

 with our body, by admitting it to honorable fellowship with the 

 mind. We must not be ashamed of our brother, the body. We must 

 want it to be as subtile and pure and strong and beautiful and un- 

 ashamed as is our spirit. It is a poor education which does not teach 

 boys and girls to walk and run, skate and swim, ride and row, throw 

 and jump, for upon these physical powers joy and health and life, 

 the full and complete life, depend much more than they do upon 

 such formal studies as arithmetic, for example. This bodily culture 

 has an assured place in the rational curriculum, a scheme which fails 

 signally if it does not produce vigorous bodies and warm hearts quite 

 as surely as informed minds. Our motto is the one that you may 

 read at Herder's grave in the quaint old Stadt-Kirche at Weimar: 

 " Licht, Liehe, Lehen.^' 



This increased time also makes possible the enlarged faculty 

 training which a rational scheme demands. The present manual- 

 training work has only to be enlarged so as to include all the faculties, 

 speech and hearing, taste and smell, as well as touch and sight, and 

 to do it not as so many drill exercises, but along the line of human 

 interest and motive. It may seem to you a little fanciful that I in- 

 clude the sense of smell as a serious object of culture. But experi- 

 ment shows that much of the gratification we get from food is 

 wrapped up in the odor, and our life depends upon our food. 

 Further, odors are the carriers of many helpful and delightful 

 memories. A keen sense of smell means enlarged life, besides 

 being a source of direct pleasure, and a safeguard against noxious 

 influences. 



All the senses are to be brought to a high state of perfection, so 

 that they may comprehensively and accurately report the outer world, 

 and by their mental reactions may build up a nerve tissue in the brain 

 of high sensitiveness and power. The possible exercises along these 

 lines are simply unending, and the more intimately they are 

 prompted by the artistic conception of life, the more wonder-work- 

 ing will they be. From this point of view singing is quite as integral 

 a part of voice culture as speaking, while instrumental music not only 

 offers an opportunity for valuable sesthetic culture, but as well a 

 physical co-ordination of sight, hearing, and touch that we simply 



