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it, the highest educational value. The task of parents 

 and teachers must always be difficult. Hereditary 

 material for the trainer's guidance may not only be 

 colourless it may be disguised, or falsified, or mis- 

 reported, or misread, or wilfully withheld. And 

 moreover, sad to say, disease and accident are 

 always on the watch to injure nerve and lower 

 character. They are especially prone to step in 

 when, in father or in mother, high nerve struc- 

 tures are in early married life tensely and unrestingly 

 strung. It is justly contended that the young wife, 

 and possible mother, should not be subjected to undue 

 mental or bodily strain, but the young husband's 

 health, mentally and bodily, also needs careful con- 

 sideration. 



Much training must of course be common to all 

 young nerve. All must be taught cleanliness, exercise, / 

 and care of the body. All must be taught to love 

 right, hate wrong, and be ashamed of ignorance. 

 Health, cleanliness, inquiry, truth, gentleness these 

 are, in themselves, an entire system of physiological 

 morality they are the continually thriving product of 

 a million years. To these should be added, in due 

 time, disciplinary and acquisitional methods. Some 

 methods fortunately combine both training and know- 

 ledge the thorough study of one science at least does 

 this. Stuart Mill looked on physiology as effecting 

 this double purpose very completely. On all grounds 

 it is strange that we should hesitate to place first the 

 study of our own framework its structures and 

 actions, its powers and limitations. There must often 

 be a compromise between the kind and degree of 

 discipline as well as of acquisition on the one hand, 

 and organisation, endowment, proclivity, and imperious 



