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will cripple you for life. A foolish ambition 

 breaks down the constitution of an incalculable 

 number of our youths, unwilling to be outdone 

 they will work at the top of their strength as 

 long as they can stand, perhaps over heat them- 

 selves, or in a single day or week bring on some 

 complaint which debilitates them for life, and 

 carries them to a premature grave. An ambi- 

 tious youth wishing to show his employers what 

 a great day's vrork he could do, shovelled till he 

 lamed his side, so that for fifteen years he has 

 been a partial invalid, cannot do any kind of 

 work, nor more than half the amount he form- 

 erly did, besides working in almost perpetual 

 pain. Nor is this the half; whatever enfeebles 

 the health enfeebles the mind by weakening and 

 disordering the brain. So perfectly are body 

 and brain inter related, that all the conditions 

 of either react upon each other; whatever aug- 

 ments the health, strengtheus the body and 

 thereby invigorates both the brain and the mind* 

 What is the true value of the mind? How much 

 could you afford to give for double the amount 

 you now possess? Neither money nor any fhing 

 else can measure its value. To improve our 



