46 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



misdirected ; craving to learn, yet not knowing 

 how or what to learn ; cultivating, with unwhole- 

 some energy, the head at the expense of the body 

 and the heart ; catching up with the most ca- 

 pricious self-will one mania after another, and 

 tossing it away again for some new phantom ; 

 gorging the memory with facts which no one has 

 taught them to arrange, and the reason with prob- 

 lems which they have no method for solving ; 

 till they fret themselves into a chronic fever of 

 the brain, which too often urges them on to 

 plunge, as it were to cool the inward fire, into 

 the ever-restless sea of doubt and disbelief. It is 

 a sad picture. There are many who may read 

 these pages whose hearts will tell them that it is 

 a true one. "What is wanted in these cases is a 

 methodic and scientific habit of mind ; and a class 

 of objects on which to exercise that habit, which 

 will fever neither the speculative intellect nor 

 the moral sense ; and those physical science will 

 give, as nothing else can give it. 



Moreover, to revert to another point which 

 we touched just now, man has a body as well as 

 a mind ; and with the vast majority there will be 

 no mens sana unless there be a corpus sanutn for 

 it to inhabit. And what out-door training to give 



