52 GLAUCUS ; OR, 
mind; and with the vast majority there will be no 
mens sana unless there be a corpus sanum for it 
to inhabit. And what outdoor training to give our 
youths is, as we have already said, more than ever 
puzzling. This difficulty is felt, perhaps, less in 
Scotland than in England. The Scotch climate 
compels hardiness; the Scotch bodily strength 
makes it easy; and Scotland, with her mountain- 
tours in summer, and her frozen lochs in winter, 
her labyrinth of sea-shore, and, above all, that 
priceless boon which Providence has bestowed on 
her, in the contiguity of her great cities to the 
loveliest scenery, and the hills where every breeze is 
health, affords facilities for healthy physical life 
unknown to the Englishman, who has no Arthur's 
Seat towering above his London, no Western Islands 
sporting the ocean firths beside his Manchester. 
Field sports, with the invaluable training which 
they give, if not 
‘¢The reason firm,” 
yet still 
‘*The temperate will, 
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill,” 
