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directed to bodily exercises, and plays, or work as interesting 

 as any play, that will give useful training to nerves and 

 muscles. 



The senses also must be educated. The sight should be 

 trained to the accurate perception of forms and colours . 

 symmetry and harmony; the observance of the wonders and 

 beauties of nature, and its reproduction in art. The earlier 

 all this begins the better. The ear has its own education in 

 speech and music, in a refined and graceful eloquence, and, 

 where the musical ear exists, in melody and harmony. Con- 

 versation and reading aloud, singing and playing on musical 

 instruments, belong to the education of the sense of hearing, 

 the faculty of imitation, and of the aesthetic and intellectual 

 faculties. Taste and smell have also their education, some- 

 times a very bad one; for people learn to eat, drink, and smell 

 many things useless and hurtful. The proper education of 

 these senses includes the science of cleanliness, the blending of 

 sweet odours, and the selection and preparation of healthful 

 and pleasant food the whole science and art of a refined 

 gastronomy. There is, therefore, great need of the cultivation 

 and education of the senses of both taste and smell. Touch 

 enters largely into all mechanical dexterities, and the manipu- 

 lations of art. Without it we could not use tools of any kind, 

 play on musical instruments, prepare food, make clothing, 

 araw, paint, model. All these operations, therefore, educate 

 the sense of touch. 



And every faculty of man, every propensity, every sentiment, 

 from the perception of order or number, to love, reverence, 

 hope, charity, conscience, and the highest elements of heroism 

 and religion, are to be educated, trained to use, strengthened, 

 and perfected. Man has no faculty which may not be regu- 

 lated, ordered, and perfected for the highest use, by the power 

 of his own good will and the aid of others ; and this training of 

 humanity to its highest condition, this repression of whatever 



