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memory with facts which no one has taught them 

 to arrange, and the reason with problems 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 sanum for it to 

 inhabit. And what outdoor training to give our 

 youths is, as we have already said, more than ever 

 puzzling. This difficulty is felt, perhaps, less in 

 Scotland than in England. The Scotch climate 



