THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. 4.9 
how to counteract the tendency to shallowed and 
conceited sciolism, engendered by hearing popular 
lectures on all manner of subjects, which can only 
be really learnt by stern methodic study ; how to 
give habits of enterprise, patience, accurate obser- 
vation, which the counting-house or the library will 
never bestow; above all, how to develop the phy- 
sical powers, without engendering brutality and 
coarseness,—are questions becoming daily more and 
more puzzling, while they need daily more and 
more to be solved, in an age of enterprise, travel, 
and emigration, like the present. For the truth 
must be told, that the great majority of men who 
are now distinguished by commercial success, have 
had a training the directly opposite to that which 
they are giving to their sons. They are for the 
most part men who have migrated from the country 
to the town, and had in their youth all the advan- 
tages of a sturdy and manful hill-side or sea-side 
training; men whose bodies were developed, and 
their lungs fed on pure breezes, long before. they 
brought to work in the city the bodily and mental 
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