LITTLE trict. Gossip, which has its advantages in that it can 

 JOURNEYS be carried on with no tax on one's intellectual powers, 

 had no part in our conversation. Discussion of great 

 themes began at once wherever Tyndall was. The 

 atmosphere of the man was intensely stimulating 

 everybody seemed to become great and wise and good 

 in his presence. 



We walked on the shores of Windermere, climbed 

 Rydal Mount, rowed across Lake Grasmere (leaving 

 our names on the visitor's list), and all the time we 

 dwelt upon high Olympus and talked. But alas ! Tyn- 

 dall' s vivacity undid me two days of his company, 

 with two sleepless nights, and I fled him as I would 

 a pestilence." 



But Carlyle growled out one thing in Spencer's pres- 

 ence which Spencer often quoted. "If I had my own 

 way," said Carlyle, "I would send the sons of poor 

 men to college, and the sons of rich men I would set 

 to work." 



Manual labor in right proportion means mental de- 

 velopment. Too much hoe may slant the brow, but 

 hoe in proper proportion develops the cerebellum. 

 Qln the past we have had one set of men do all the 

 work, and another set had all the culture one hoes 

 and another thirsts. There are whole areas of brain 

 cells which are evolved only through the efforts of 

 hand and eye, for it is the mind at last that directs all 

 our energies. The development of brain and body go 

 together manual work is brain work. Too much brain 

 work is just as bad as too much toil the misuse of 

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