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never bestow ; above all, how to develop tlie phy- 

 sical powers, without engendering brutality and 

 coarseness, — are questions becoming daily more and 

 more puzzling, while they need daily more and 

 more to be solved, in an age of enterprise, travel, 

 and emigration, like the present. For the truth 

 must be told, that the great majority of men who 

 are now distinguished by commercial success, have 

 had a training the directly opposite to that which 

 they are giving to their sons. They are for the 

 most part men who have migrated from the country 

 to the town, and had in their youth all the advan- 

 tages of a sturdy and manful hilhside or sea-side 

 training; men whose bodies were developed, and 

 their lungs fed on pure breezes, long before they 

 brought to work in the city the bodily and mental 

 strength which they had gained by loch and moor. 

 But it is not so with their sons. Their business 

 habits are learnt in the counting-house ; a good 

 school, doubtless, as far as it goes : but one which 

 will expand none but the lowest intellectual faculties; 

 which will make them accurate accountants, shrewd 



