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powers under the genial influences which nature so clearly in- 

 dicates. . . . And it may be taken as an absolute fact that 

 the best intellectual culture is only possible when mind and 

 body are alike regarded, and are trained to work harmoniously 

 in one .... Even the supreme end of all education, the 

 training of moral power in man, the ability to seek the right 

 and to do the right depends to some extent upon the healthy 

 action of the bodily powers." 



On these lines the Americans have been wakening up to the 

 need of gymnasia for their students, and some of their institu- 

 tions of this kind with their thousand and one appliances for 

 every conceivable exercise indicate the energy with which our 

 cousins go ahead with such things, once they are convinced of 

 their fitness. 



Besides mere gymnastics, exhilarating games perfect the 

 muscular development, train hand and eye, and promote health 

 and good humour, and are therefore to have every encourage- 

 ment. Boating, on account of the exercise it affords and the 

 self-reliance and resource which it (especially sea-boating) 

 encourages, is an excellent means of training, as is also riding 

 for similar reasons. A certain amount of light manual labour, 

 such as gardening to which many boys take kindly, would be 

 healthful, and would have a good moral effect as well. 



Proper food, and pure air by night as well as by day, are 

 matters of which the necessity is more freely acknowledged than 

 the practice adopted. The human organism has been fitted to 

 live in fresh air. It exhales besides carbonic acid another and, 

 as has recently been shown, a still more deadly poison. The 

 air of an inhabited room is simply a solution of these poisons 

 more or less dilute according to the means of ventilation em- 

 ployed, and is in a corresponding degree more or less poison- 

 ous to the inhabitants. Strength is reduced temporarily so that 

 the best work is no longer possible, nerve force fails, pettishness 

 and ill humour supervene, and resistance to evil temptations 

 weakens. Whether repeated doses produce specific disease or 

 merely lower the vital tone below its normal capability to resist 

 those disease germs, "our invisible foes," which may be always 



