Human Physiology. 



of attractive industry and all uses, and therefore of the enjoy- 

 ment of the highest happiness. 



There is nothing destructive in the preparation for a better 

 social state, and there need be no disorder in its inception. 

 On the contrary, the whole progress should be orderly, and one 

 of improvement of our actual conditions. We cannot take the 

 first step without gain. Cleanliness, a pure diet, the disuse of 

 intoxicating drinks and tobacco, the improvement of our minds 

 and manners, the cultivation of the high Christian virtues of 

 purity, temperance, order, patience, industry, and honesty, 

 can do no harm in any social state. We cannot educate our- 

 selves too thoroughly, or too carefully train all our faculties to 

 the best uses. There is no danger of our being too kind, toe- 

 helpful, too unselfish, too full of the feeling and expression of 

 the charity that covereth a multitude of sins, and is the crown 

 of all virtues. There is no preparation for any future so good 1 

 as making the best we can of the present. 



And in the education of the young, the same rule holds good. 

 Let it be useful. Many of the employments of life are almost 

 or entirely useless some terribly hurtful. It is best to let ^lese 

 die out. No man with a conscience would deliberately educate 

 his daughter for a life of shame; but how many do uncon- 

 sciously educate daughters for the most terrible fates. Every 

 miserable woman is somebody's daughter. And sons are no less 

 educated to lives of profligacy and crime, or to the idleness that 

 leads to them. And people go on in the bad ways of the world, 

 because they see no hope of anything better in this life, or in 

 any life. The hope of a higher life in the next world gives men 

 a motive to live a better life in this. The hope of a higher 

 social condition here must, I believe, also stimulate men to the 

 effort to prepare for it to become fitted for its requirements, 

 and its enjoyments. 



And the element which must pervade all education and' 

 preparation for a better life on the earth is what we most need 



