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THE CULTIVATOR. 
pursued, they unfit man for society. The mind accustomed to dwell upon 
abstractand general principles, without the cultivation of the taste and ima¬ 
gination, is not susceptible of the softer and gentler feelings, so necessary 
in the interchange of thought and sentiment. On the contrary, the study 
of literature only, renders a person too imaginative and too fanciful for 
the ordinary avocations of life. The luxurious and beautiful foliage of the 
tree, becomes too ponderous for the slender trunk, and the first rude wind 
which sweeps by, prostrates it to the earth and destroys its exquisite love¬ 
liness. He who lives too exclusively in the ideal world created by his 
fertile imagination, is not prepared to enter the scenes of life, where he 
will be exposed to hardships, misfortunes and unkindness. 
The combination of science and literature alone form a perfect charac¬ 
ter. Their united influence is requisite to elevate society to the greatest 
height of civilization and refinement. Both should receive a due propor¬ 
tion of attention, in all systems of education in which the full develop¬ 
ment ot the intellectual faculties is desired, rather than the production of 
a particular genius. The mind should not only be rendered systematic, 
accurate, and powerful; but a correct taste should be formed, and the 
imagination properly directed; more particularly in this age, when the 
triumphs of science are attracting the attention of all, and withholding it 
from the more quiet walks of literature. Man should be taught to dis¬ 
cern the really beautiful and sublime, to estimate the productions of in 
tellect, and enjoy the enduring pleasure which they afford. 
When both science and literature receive the attention they respective¬ 
ly claim, great and eccentric geniuses may be known no more; the cold 
accurate mathematician; the ardent,'enthusiastic, sensitive writer; the 
abstract metaphysician; and the trifling idler, may disappear; but a'more 
noble race, possessing a more sound and healthy intellect, will succeed 
Education, instead of producing a sickly and distorted state of the mind 
ought to be so directed as to render that invaluable temple, the. human 
soul, perfect in all ils various parts. Then would the “power” which 
knowledge gives be enjoyed to its full ex'ent,uot only by individuals, but 
communities; then would all feel the pleasures which literature scatters 
so profusely in its variegated pathway, enjoy the wealth which science 
pours upon a nation, and receive a portion of that glory which beams up¬ 
on the wise and good of all countries. 
HINTS TO MOTHERS. 
[Abstracted from “ The Economy of Health.”] 
Health_ Without health riches cannot procure ease, much less hap 
piness. It would have been an unjust dispensation of Providence, if gold 
had been permitted to purchase that which is the poor man’s chief wealth 
and the want of which reduces the affluent to worse than indigence. 
Beauty. —Is beauty inaccessible to sickness? Of all.the gifts which 
heaven can bestow, the “ fortune of a face,” (so anxiously implored by 
every “ teeming mother ” at each successive birth,) is the most doubtful 
in value. It is a mark at which every malignant star directs its hostile 
influence—a light that leads both its bearer and its followers more fre¬ 
quently upon rocks and quicksands, than into the haven of repose. Be 
tween beauty and disease, there is perpetual warfare. They cannot co 
exist for any length of time—and the latter is sure to be the victor in a 
protracted contest. 
The Greeks taught, that a full expansion of the corporeal organs was 
essential to a complete development of the mental faculties—in other 
words, that strength of mind results from, or was intimately associated 
with, strength of body. 
Gymnastic exercises, in youth, and simple food, do more to nurture the 
virtues of man, than all the precepts of priests and philosophers. 
It is during the first and second septenniads, (the first fourteen years of 
life,) that the foundations of health and happiness, of physical force, -in¬ 
tellectual acquirements, and moral rectitude, are laid. It is while the 
wax is ductile that the model is easily formed. In the early part of child¬ 
hood, and even in.youth, every fibre is so full—so exuberant of vitality, 
that rest is pain, and motion is pleasure. 
It has been shown, that the organ of the mind, in the first stages of our 
existence, is exclusively occupied with its animal functions. 
Food.— Errors in diet, in the first septenniad, (first seven years of 
. qhildhood,) do not consist so much in the quantity of food, as in the pro¬ 
vocative variety with which the infantile and unsophisticated palate -is 
daily stimulated The rapid growth of infancy requires an abundant sup¬ 
ply of plain nutritious aliment; but it is at this early period that simplici¬ 
ty’in kind, and regularity in the periods of meals, would establish the 
foundation lor order and punctuality in many other things, and thus con¬ 
duce to health and happiness during life. In youth, and particularly dur¬ 
ing the first septenniad, milk and farinacious substances should form the 
major part of the diet, with tender animal food once a day. As the teeth 
multiply, the proportions of the two kinds of sustenance ought gradually 
and progressively to vary. 
Clothing —As to clothing during the first septenniad, I shall say 
little more than that it should be warm, light and loose. It will be time 
enough—alas! too soon,—to imitate the Egyptian mummy, when girls 
become belles, and boys beaux. I beg, for the first and second septen¬ 
niads, at least, full liberty for the lungs to take air, the stomach food, and 
limbs exercise, before they are “ cribb’d, cabin’d and confined,” by those 
destructive operatives, the milliner, the tailor, and the boot-maker, cum 
multis aliis, who rank high among the purveyors or jackalls to the doctor 
and undertaker. 
Exercise— During the first septenniad, exercise may be left almost 
to the impulses of nature. The great modern error is the prevention of 
bodily exercise, by too early and prolonged culture of the mind. In the 
first years of life, exercise should be play, and play should be exercise. 
Towards the end of the first septenniad, some degree of order or method 
may be introduced into playful exercise, because it will be essential to 
health in the second and third epochs. Even in the first epoch, exercise 
in the open air should be. enjoined. 
Moral education of the first septenniad. —During the first, and even 
the second, septenniad, the amount of elementary learning required 
should be less, and the daily periods of study shorter. Sport and exer¬ 
cise should be the regular and unfailing premium on prompt and punctu¬ 
al acquirement of the lesson prescribed. I am adverse to the system of 
precocious exercise of the intellect,- but an advocate for early moral cul¬ 
ture of mind. It is during the first years of our existence that the foun¬ 
dation of habits and manners is.laid; and these will be good or bad after¬ 
wards according to their foundations. • The best temper, or the purest in¬ 
tention, will not compensate for regularity, industry and punctuality. 
Habit is the result of impression, rather than of reflection; and youth is 
the age for receiving impressions, rather than for exercising the judg¬ 
ment. 
[In the first seven years of childhood, the mother should be the sove¬ 
reign, though not the despot. She should know how to exercise autho¬ 
rity, though she should be cautious not to abuse it. She should be mild, 
though firm and undeviating .] 
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