BOOK VII. 



THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL, AND MORAL 

 CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVED. 



But the wealth of a nation depends in the long run upon the con- 

 ditions, mental and bodily, of the people of whom it consists, and the 

 experience of all mankind declares that a race of men sound in soul 

 and limb can be bred and reared only in the exercise of plough and 

 spade, in the free air and sunshine, with country enjoyments and 

 amusements, never amidst foul drains and smoke blacks and the 

 eternal clank of machinery. — James Anthony Froude. 



