Human Physiology, 



We, have to train men to good morals, honesty, and the love of 

 brotherhood, as we train men to be soldiers, or rowers, or 

 cricketers. We have to root out and repress what is evil, and 

 develop, strengthen, and bring all his useful faculties and good 

 tendencies into vigorous and harmonious action. We can make 

 good cricketers by a certain course of training, good dancers, 

 good gymnasts, good soldiers. Why can we not as surely make 

 good men. and women? good citizens, good statesmen, good 

 Christians ? I believe that we can and shall. 



Judgment and conscience watch over the passions and emo- 

 tions of man, and, by the aid of the will, have the power to 

 bring some into more active exercise, and repress and regulate 

 others. We can educate ourselves, control ourselves, form our 

 habits of thought, feeling, and action, and therefore, and so far, 

 we are morally responsible. We can influence the conduct of 

 others by precept, by example, by approbation or condemna- 

 tion by all the motives that govern those to whom we are in 

 any way related. Here, again, are high responsibilities. When 

 we influence one person to good or evil, we may be a blessing 

 -or a curse to thousands now living, or to live hereafter. There 

 is no limit to the good or evil which may come from our influ- 

 ence upon one human soul. One man may mould the charac- 

 ter of a nation through centuries, and that nation may widely 

 affect the destinies of the race. The character of that man 

 may have been formed or strikingly modified, by parent, teacher, 

 friend. There is both exultation and terror in the thought of 

 the good or evil that may be done by one individual, and the 

 responsibility that rests upon every one of using his power for 

 good and not for evil 



