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bors more than twofold. At the same time, as their 

 fathers required no extra exercise no relaxation from 

 their parochial duties, the public appear to have grown 

 up in the belief that their sons do not ; and that it would 

 be derogatory to clerical sobriety and dignity, for them to 

 indulge in any sort of pleasant unbending of their minds. 



750. Different Effects of Exercise. Sawing and split- 

 ting wood, with perhaps a little work in the garden, and 

 riding on horseback a few miles, or walking the streets for 

 an hour or two, form the chief amusements, and the chief 

 muscular exercise of the most laborious, and in the esti- 

 mation of the great majority of the people, the most useful 

 body of men in community. Even this small amount of 

 exercise is seldom taken regularly, and if so, is of very 

 little use to the subject, as there is no other object in 

 view but merely to perform a duty. The thread of the 

 next discourse frequently remains unbroken, and often 

 the individual hurries home while the ink of his last 

 paragraph is hardly dry, to record some new idea, or 

 write down what he has made ready in his mind during 

 his absence. 



751. To one whose body and mind begins to suffer, in 

 consequence of confinement to his study, and perpetual 

 mental exertions, nearly all who have experienced its ef- 

 fects, will allow that such exercise is of little or no use. 

 Such a one wants a motive ; he wants cerebral excite- 

 ment to co-operate with and invigorate muscular action ; 

 and it will astonish those, who, for the first time, notice 

 the different effects on their own feelings, of forced mus- 

 cular exertions, and that sanative exercise which is pro- 

 duced when the mind is intensely fixed on an object, the 

 attainment of which requires the strongest corporeal ex 

 ertions. The one induces fatigue of the body, without at 

 all relieving the mind ; while the other, so far from pro- 

 ducing fatigue, brings the whole system into a highly 

 pleasant state of freedom and elasticity ; 'while the mind, 

 sympathising with these pleasant sensations, becomes in- 

 vigorated, and is again ready for the performance of its 

 proper functions. 



752. Continued muscular Efforts to require Cerebral 

 Excitement. The principles of physiology which we have 



