,a  ,lecture  ,on  ,physical            
,development1 and its ,relations to     
,mental and ,spiritual ,development1    
delivered before the  ,american         
,institute of ,instruction1  at their   
,twenty-,ninth ,annual ,meeting1  in    
,norwich1 ,conn41 ,august #bj1 #aheh4   
,by  ,s4,r4 ,calthrop1  of ,bridgeport1 
,conn41  ,formerly of ,trinity ,college1
 ,cambridge1 ,england4      ,,mdccclix4 
,entered according to ,act of ,congress1
 in the year #aheh1 by ,ticknor ,and    
,fields1 ,in the ,clerk's ,office of the
 ,district ,court of the ,district of   
,massachusetts4    ,on motion of ,g4,f4 
,thayer1--,voted1 unanimously1 ,that    
five thousand  copies of ,mr4           
,calthrop's ,lecture be printed at the  
expense of the  ,institute1 for         
gratuitous circulation4                 
,,lecture4      ,mr4 ,president1 ,ladies
 and ,gentlemen3--    ,we have met      
together to consider the best methods of
 ,educating1 that is1  drawing out1 or  
developing the ,human ,nature common to 

all of us4 ,truly a  subject not easy to
 be exhausted4 ,for we all of us feel   
that the ,human  ,nature1--out of whose 
bosom has flowed all history1 all       
science1 all  poetry1 all art1 all life 
in short1--contains within itself far   
more  than that which has hitherto been 
manifested through all the periods of   
its history1 though that history dates  
from the creation of the world1  and has
 already progressed as far as the       
nineteenth century of the  ,christian   
era4 ,yes6 we all of us feel that the   
land of promise lies far  away in the   
future1 that the goal of human history  
is yet a long way  off4    ,a large     
portion of this assembly consists of    
those whose business it is  to study    
,human ,nature in all its various forms1
 and who have taken upon  themselves the
 task of developing that nature in the  
youth of ,america1  in that rising      
generation whose duty it will be to     
carry out the nascent  projects of      
reform in every department of human     

interest1 and make the  thought of      
to-day the fact of tomorrow4    ,some   
doubtless there are among this number1  
who by very nature are born  ,teachers1 
called to this office1 as by a voice    
from heaven6 ,men1 who in  spite of     
foolish detraction1 or yet more foolish 
patronage1 understand  the dignity1 the 
true nobility of their calling2 who know
 that the  office of the teacher is     
coval with the world2 and also feel with
 true  prophetic foresight1 that the    
world1 fifty years hence1 will be very  
much what its ,teachers intend1 by      
,god's blessing1 to make it4            
,brothers in a high calling6 ,the       
speaker1 proudly enrolling himself in   
the number of your noble band1 greets   
you from his heart this day1 and        
invites you to spend a thoughtful hour  
with him2 and to help him1 by  your best
 wishes1 to unfold in a manner not      
wholly unworthy of his  theme1 some     
small portion of the nature and method  
of ,human ,development4    ,ours is the 

age of analysis4 ,we begin to see that  
before we can  understand a substance1  
it is necessary to become acquainted    
with all  its component parts4 ,thus1   
then1 with regard to ,human ,nature1 we 
must  understand all at least of its    
grand divisions1 before we can          
comprehend  the method of developing it 
as a whole4    ,let us then say1 that   
there are five grand divisions in ,human
  ,nature1--the physical1 the           
intellectual1 the affectional1 the      
moral1 and  the devotional1--or in other
 words1 that man has body1 mind1 heart1 
conscience1 and soul4    ,concerning    
these great divisions1 ,i shall assert1 
first1 that they are  all mutually      
dependent upon each other2 that if one  
of them suffer1 all  the others suffer  
with it2 that man is dwarfed and        
incomplete1 unless he  is fully         
developed in all the five3 and1         
secondly1 as my special  subject1 ,i    
maintain that physical well-being1      
health of body1 is  therefore necessary 

not only to the complete development of 
,human  ,nature1 but that it is also    
essential to a happy and harmonious     
development of each one of the four     
other great divisions of ,human         
,nature2 or in other words1 ,i assert   
the body has something to do both  with 
the mind1 heart1 conscience1 and soul of
 man1 not merely to all  these          
collectively1 but also to each of them  
separately4    ,first1 then1 ,i shall   
speak on the mutual dependence of the   
faculties4    ,now1 although it is not  
possible that any faculty should be so  
completely isolated1 as to act without  
moving any of the rest at all2          
nevertheless1 since a comparative       
isolation and separation of the         
faculties is but too common1 let us     
glance through the history of the  past1
 and mark any notable instances of such 
isolation2 and if we find  that a       
one-sided development has always proved 
a failure1 we shall begin  to discern   
the folly of trying such disastrous     

experiments over again1  specially since
 they would have to be made upon living 
human beings1  upon he young children of
 the rising generation1 who cannot      
resent our  folly1 but whose distorted  
natures will be living proofs of our    
incapacity1 of our impotence as         
educators1 when the experiment tried for
  the thousand and first time fails yet 
again1 as it always has done1 and       
always will do to the world's end1 while
 ,human ,nature remains the same4       
,let us then take a few examples1 which 
are not intended to stand the  test of  
severe criticism1 but which are only    
used as illustrations of  the idea which
 we are now considering4    ,let us then
 first suppose that the devotional      
element in man acts alone4  ,the        
experiment has already been tried4 ,many
 a hermit in lonely cell or  rocky      
cavern1 has cut himself off from the    
society of men1 from action1  duty and  
love1 in order that he may be devout    
without hindrance4 ,how  many such men  

have poured out their souls upon the    
ground1 on barren  sand or desert rock1 
souls which might have watered thousands
 with the  dew of heaven1 and all       
because they made one fatal             
life-mistake2--they  thought1 that to   
pray always meant to be always saying   
prayers4    ,who could be more devout   
than ,saint ,simeon ,stylites8 who spent
 all his  life upon the top of a tall   
pillar1 absorbed in contemplation1      
ecstasy1  remorse and prayer4 ,let the  
poet speak for him4      ,bethink thee1 
,lord8 while ,thou and all the saints   
,enjoy themselves in heaven1 and men on 
earth    ,house in the shade of         
comfortable roofs1    ,sit with their   
wives by fires1 eat wholesome food      
,and wear warm clothes1 and even beasts 
have stalls1    ,i1 'twixt the spring   
and downfal of the light    ,bow down   
one thousand and two hundred times      
,to ,christ1 the ,virgin ,mother and the
 ,saints3    ,or in the night1 after a  
little sleep1    ,i wake1 the chill     

stars sparkle2 ,i am wet    ,with       
drenching dews1 or stiff with crackling 
frost1    ,i wear an undressed goatskin 
on my neck1    ,and in my weak1 lean    
arms ,i lift the ,cross1    ,and strive 
and wrestle with ,thee till ,i die4     
,o mercy1 mercy1 wash away my sin6    ,a
 mournful spectacle4 ,devotion excited  
to madness1 while mind1 heart1  and     
conscience1 all are dumb1 and the poor  
weak body only bears the  heavy burdens 
which the tyrannous soul heaps upon it6 
,devotion1 then1 needs conscience4      
,conscience tells a man that he must    
act as well as pray4 ,devotion makes the
 great act of prayer4 ,conscience  works
 out into the actual of every-day life1 
the ideal of which devotion  has        
conceived4 ,will then devotion and      
conscience be sufficient for a  noble   
manhood8 ,devotion and conscience alone 
developed1 have ofttimes1  in the days  
that are past1 formed some stern old    
grand inquisitor1  torturing the life   
out of human sinews because he ought4   

,the grand  inquisitor's devotion and   
conscience told him that he ought to    
advance  the holy faith by every engine 
in his power1 and therefore1 as he      
considered that the rack1 the           
thumbscrews1 the rope1 the fire and the 
faggot were the best possible engines1  
he used the same to the utmost of  his  
ability2 and thought1 alas for humanity6
 that he was doing ,god  service4       
,the grand inquisitor had devotion1 he  
had conscience1 he probably  also had   
nerves of iron2 but he could not        
possibly have had a  heart4 ,devotion1  
then1 and conscience need a loving1     
human heart4 ,will  these three be      
sufficient8 ,the picture grows fairer1  
we begin to feel  less pain when we turn
 away from the stern1 dark portrait of  
the grand  inquisitor1 which frowns so  
grimly in the picture gallery of        
history1  and look upon that fair and   
gentle upturned face1 half shaded by the
  veil that covers her head4 ,that is a 
nun of the order of ,saint ,theresa4    

,the pale1 emaciated countenance tells  
of many a vigil protracted through  the 
long hours of the night2 those wild eyes
 once saw1 or thought they  saw1 the    
picture of the ,virgin hanging in her   
cell smiling on her as she  prayed2 yea1
 and have wept many a tear as she       
repeated her sins over to  her          
confessor1 or as she stood by the       
bed-side of some poor sufferer1  while  
those gentle ,christian hands smoothed  
the dying pillow4 ,rest in  peace1 soul 
sainted and dear6 ,the tears thou didst 
once shed1 are wiped  away now forever2 
the sins thou didst once bewail1 are all
 forgiven now1  for thou hast loved     
much6    ,but the day of nuns has gone  
forever4 ,a higher development must be  
sought for4 ,the nun becomes impossible 
when we train the intellect2  ,devotion 
says1 ,worship2 the ,mind adds1 ,the    
,lord thy ,god4 ,the ,conscience  says1 
,do right2 the ,intellect shows what is 
right4 ,the ,heart says1 ,love  thy     
fellow-men2 the ,intellect tells the    

right way of loving them4 ,piety  and   
charity6 these are glorious6 these are  
the two angels from ,heaven  which      
prompt us to help our brothers who need 
our help2 but intellect  must show us   
the way to do it4 ,to take a single     
instance4 ,piety and  charity cannot    
show us how to drain and ventilate and  
rebuild the hovels  of the poor in ,new 
,york4 ,no1 every spade1 every saw1     
every hammer  employed in that most     
righteous undertaking must be directed  
by  intellect1 by science4 ,piety and   
charity may prompt1 but intellect must  
guide4    ,i know full well that many a 
woman's heart1 guided only by her sacred
  instinct of loving1 acts out the law  
of right without any conscious          
questioning of the intellect2 that a    
thousand tender feet carry the  gospel  
of ,christ along the alleys of ,new     
,york and ,london1 or along the         
corridors of the ,crimean hospital1     
though even there also woman's wit  has 
to aid woman's heart4 ,the noble heart1 

the ,christian love of  ,florence       
,nightingale took her to those eastern  
shores2 this made the  voice tender and 
the hand gentle4 ,but whoso reads the   
account of what  she did1 will see that 
beside these1 wit and wisdom1 keen      
discerning of  means to ends1 ability to
 see what ought to be done1 intellect1  
reason  in short1 was necessary in order
 to make a ,florence ,nightingale       
possible1 together with an exhaustless  
fund of bodily endurance1  fortitude and
 stoicism4    ,thus1 then1 we find that 
devotion1 conscience1 heart1 and        
intellect are  all necessary to each    
other in the harmonious development of  
,human  ,nature4 ,will they be found    
sufficient for a perfect life8    ,put  
together a strong soul1 a tender        
conscience1 a woman's heart1 and a      
man's intellect1 and we have a          
,charlotte ,bront1--surely one of the   
best  types of the modern mind4 ,will   
she find these four noble parts of      
,human  ,nature sufficient for the task 

of living8    ,let ,charlotte ,bront    
answer1 walking painfully across the    
moor with hand  held hard to beating    
side1 sitting now and then upon a stone 
to keep  herself from falling1 wondering
 why the daylight blinds her so1 obliged
  to give up ,villette owing to the     
terrible headaches which it brings on4  
,let ,charlotte ,bront answer1 dying    
before her time at thirty-nine years  of
 age1 when the path of fame was just    
beginning to be bright before  her1 and 
the world was just beginning to know how
 much it wanted her4  ,charlotte ,bront1
 the gifted and the feeble1 the         
lynx-eyed and the  blind1 so full of    
glorious strength and pitiable weakness6
 ,charlotte  ,bront1 who feels the      
pressure of every-day life to be as hard
 as a  giant's grasp upon her throat6   
,charlotte ,bront cannot tell why she is
  so unhappy1 why she feels like a      
prisoner in the world1--why earth1 our  
beautiful earth1 is like a charnel house
 to her4 ,and yet we think that  the    

most ordinary passerby could see very   
satisfactory reasons why  ,charlotte    
,bront was what she was1 and felt what  
she felt4 ,hollow cheek  and faded eye1 
teach their wisdom to their possessor   
last of all4 ,the  pale-eyed            
school-girl1 who never played along with
 the other children1  never ran and     
laughed and shouted with the rest1      
little knew what days  and hours and    
years of dulness1 of pain and agony1 she
 was laying up for  the future1 what a  
premature grave she was digging for     
herself4 ,peace be  with her1 her toil  
is over2 it is now three years since    
,heaven received  in ,charlotte ,bront  
one angel more4    ,intellect1 then1    
needs body4 ,come1 then1 and see me     
build a ,man6 ,a  calm1 silent devotion1
 a conscience pure and reverent1 a heart
 manful  and true1 an intellect clear   
and keen1 a frame of iron1--with these  
will  we dower our hero1 and call him   
,washington6    ,from me ,washington    
needs no eulogy4 ,free ,america is at   

once his eulogy  and his monument6 ,it  
is useless to say more4 ,every one here 
feels in his  heart a higher praise than
 can be uttered by the tongue4 ,but let 
me ask  you1 ,what would ,washington's  
qualities of mind and heart have availed
  his country1 unless the manly         
strength1 the frame of iron had been    
added8 ,a good man he might have been1 a
 patriot he surely would have  been2 but
 the ,father of his ,country1 never6    
,the soul that trusted in  ,god1 the    
conscience that felt the omnipotence of 
justice and right1 the  heart that beat 
for his country's weal alone1 the mind  
that thought out  her freedom1 was      
upborne by the body that knew no        
fatigue1 by the nerves  that knew not   
how to tremble4    ,washington had to   
endure physical fatigue enough to have  
killed three  ordinary men4 ,and how    
well did his youth prepare him for a    
life of protracted toil4 ,hear his      
biographer ,irving4 ,he was a           
self-disciplinarian in physical as well 

as mental matters1 and practised        
himself in all kinds of athletic        
exercises1 such as running1 leaping1    
pitching quoits1 and tossing bars4 ,his 
frame even in infancy had been  large   
and powerful1 and he now excelled most  
of his playmates in  contests of agility
 and strength4 ,as a proof of his       
muscular power1 a  place is still       
pointed out at ,fredericksburg1 near the
 lower ferry1  where1 when a boy1 he    
threw a stone across the river4 ,in     
horsemanship1  too1 he already excelled1
 and was ready to back1 and able to     
manage1 the  most fiery steed4          
,traditional anecdotes still remain of  
his achievements  in this respect4      
,some of you have doubtless seen in     
,thackeray's ',virginians1' that young  
,warrington found that he was more than 
a match for the ,english jumpers1  as   
indeed1 writes he1 he ought to be1 as he
 could jump twenty-one feet  and a half1
 and no one in ,virginia could beat him1
 except ,colonel ,g4  ,washington4      

,it is needless to say that ,i do not   
mean to exalt the body at the  expense  
of the higher faculties4 ,i only        
maintain that the rest are  incomplete  
without the physical element2 in which  
indeed all the other  powers dwell1 and 
by means of which they are more or less 
clearly  manifested4 ,there may1 of     
course1 be vast physical energy without 
any  corresponding development of mind  
or soul1 as any blacksmith or prize     
fighter could tell us4 ,and further1    
there may be a character1 in which  some
 of the higher qualities may exist in   
great perfection1 coupled1  too1 with   
mighty force of body1 and yet the       
character may be incomplete4  ,take1 as 
an instance1 another of ,america's great
 men4    ,daniel ,webster6 perhaps the  
most cavernous head1 set upon the       
strongest  shoulders1 which has appeared
 upon the planet1 since the soul of     
,socrates went back to ,god4 ,daniel    
,webster6 strong mind in strong body1   
leader and king of men1 deep-chested1   

lion-voiced1 whose words of power  moved
 men as the wind moves the sea1 whose   
eloquence had a physical  energy1 a     
bodily grandeur about it like to that of
 no other man4 ,daniel  ,webster6 pride 
of all ,americans2 to you ,i leave it to
 say where he was  weak4 ,it belongs not
 to me1 a stranger1 to pluck one laurel 
from that  stately brow2 his own        
brethren must do it1 with reluctant and 
half  remorseful hands1 pitying the     
errors which marred so grand a          
character1  but saying of him as ,i     
would say of ,england1 ,webster1 with   
all thy  faults1 ,i love thee still4    
,our analysis of human character1       
necessarily one-sided and imperfect1 is 
now ended4 ,it remains for us to ask1   
,what are its bearings upon ,american   
education8 ,how far does ,american      
education fulfil the wants of ,human    
,nature1 and wherein does it disregard  
them8 ,the title of my ,lecture  tells  
plainly enough1 where ,i think that the 
great deficiency is found2  a deficiency

 which reacts upon both mind and morals1
 and ofttimes  utterly defeats the best 
efforts of clergymen and teachers4 ,i   
assert1  then1 that1 in ,america1 the   
body is almost entirely neglected4      
,thirty  thousand clergymen1 from as    
many pulpits1 advocate the claims of the
  conscience and the soul4 ,a hundred   
thousand teachers are busied  throughout
 the length and breadth of the land in  
training the intellect1  while a man    
could almost count on his fingers the   
number of those  engaged in training the
 body4 ,the intellectual training which 
the masses  receive1 is the highest     
glory of ,american education4 ,if ,i    
wanted a  stranger to believe that the  
,millennium was not far off1 ,i would   
take  him to some of those grand ,ward  
,schools in ,new ,york1 where able heads
  are trained by the thousand4 ,when ,i 
myself entered them1 ,i was literally   
astonished4 ,when ,i looked at the      
teachers who instructed that throng of  
young souls1 ,i could not help saying to

 myself1 ,ah6 dear friends1 it  would do
 you good to know what ,i feel just now4
 ,i can feel the very  blessing of ,god 
descending on your labors1 just as if ,i
 could see it  with mine eyes4 ,what    
piety have been at work here1 in the    
construction  of this colossal system of
 education6 ,what inspired energy was   
needed to  work it out6 ,what charity is
 necessary to carry it on6 ,many a      
teacher  saw ,i there1 unknown1 may-be1 
to all the world1 carrying on her work  
with noble zeal and earnestness1 to whom
 the quick young brains around  bore    
abundant testimony4 ,when ,i saw them1  
,i blessed them in my heart1 ,i         
magnified mine office1 and said to      
myself1 ,i1 too1 am a teacher4    ,i    
spent four or five days doing little    
else than going through these  truly    
wonderful schools4 ,i stayed more than  
three hours in one of them1  wondering  
at all ,i saw1 admiring the stately     
order1 the unbroken  discipline of the  
whole arrangements1 and the wonderful   

quickness and  intelligence of the      
scholars4 ,that same evening ,i went to 
see a friend1  whose daughter1 a child  
of thirteen1 was at one of the ward     
schools4 ,i  examined her in algebra1   
and found that the little girl of       
thirteen  could hold her own with many  
of a larger growth4 ,did she go to      
school  to-day8 asked ,i4 ,no1 was the  
answer1 she has not been for some time1 
as  she was beginning to get quite a    
serious curvature of the spine1 so now  
she goes regularly to a gymnastic       
doctor4 ,i almost feel ashamed to       
criticize such noble institutions as the
 schools of ,new ,york2 but truth       
compels me to do this4 ,hitherto1       
nothing whatever has been done to train 
the bodies of the tens of thousands who 
are educated there4 ,all that is  done  
is excellent1 is wonderful1 but fearful 
drawbacks come into play1  in the shape 
of physical weakness1 and positive      
male-formation of body4    ,the only    
remedy which can be devised1 ,i think1  

in a crowded city like  ,new ,york1     
where it is impossible to get open      
ground1 is to have large  gymnasiums    
attached to every ward school1 and daily
 exercise therein  should form an       
essential part of the education there4  
,the importance of  this to ,new ,york  
cannot be estimated1 and ,i heard with  
joy1 that a  gymnasium was established  
in at least one of the ward schools1 and
 ,i  found out that the teachers of     
others were alive to this most crying   
need4 ,i read too1 with very great      
pleasure1 that a ,mr4 ,sedgwick of ,new 
,york was appointed to deliver a lecture
 on the importance of physical          
education1 at the next meeting of the   
,teachers ,association1 in that  ,state2
 and indeed every one begins to feel    
that something must be done1  and that  
quickly4 ,miss ,beecher's book          
enlightened most people on this         
subject1 and reform is already          
inaugurated4 ,it is well that it is so1 
or  the race would dwindle away before  

our very eyes4 ,listen to some          
serio-comic verse upon this subject1    
taken out of your ,lecturer's           
portfolio4 ,it is an address to         
,america1 dictated by an ancient sage3--
      ',oh6 latest born of time1 the    
wise man said1    ,a mighty destiny     
surrounds thy head2    ,great is thy    
mission1 but the puny son    ,lacks     
strength to finish what the sires begun2
    ,thy hapless daughters breathe the  
poison'd air1    ,fair they may be1 but 
fragile more than fair2    ,they know   
not1 doom'd ones1 that the air of       
heaven1    ,for breathing purposes to   
man was given2    ,they know not half   
the things which life requires1    ,but 
melt their lives away where stoves and  
fires1    ,and furnace issuing from the 
realms beneath1    ,distils through     
parlor floors its poisonous breath4     
,sooner or later must the slighted air  
,and exercise take vengeance on the     
fair4    ,ah6 one by one ,i see them    
fade and fall1    ,both old and young1  

fair1 dark or short or tall1    ,till   
one stupendous ruin wraps them all4'    
,one can sometimes1 in a smiling way1   
give utterance to truths which seem     
hard and stern when spoken in grim      
earnest4 ,let us see whether we cannot  
find some allegory to represent what we 
mean4    ,some time ago1 ,i read a tale 
which related that a certain gentleman  
was1  once on a time1 digging a deep    
hole in his garden4 ,he had1 as ,i      
myself  had in my younger days1 a       
perfect passion for digging holes1 for  
the  mere pleasure of doing it2 but the 
hole which he was now digging was by    
far the deepest which he had ever       
attempted4 ,at last he became perfectly 
fascinated1 carried away by his pursuit1
 and actually had his dinner let  down  
to him by a bucket4 ,well1 he dug on    
late and early1 when just as he  was    
plunging in his spade with great energy 
for a new dig1 he penetrated  right     
through1 and fell down1 down to the     
centre of the earth4    ,to his         

astonishment he landed upon the top of a
 coach which was passing  at the time1  
and soon found himself perfectly at     
home1 and began to  enter into          
conversation with the passenger opposite
 to him1 a very  gentlemanly looking man
 enveloped entirely in a black cloak4   
,he soon  found out that the country    
into which his lot had fallen was a very
  strange one4 ,its peculiarities were  
thus stated by his gentlemanly          
fellow-passenger4 ,ours1 ,sir1 said he1 
is called the country of  ,skitzland4   
,all the ,skitzlanders are born with all
 their limbs and  features perfect2 but 
when they arrive at a certain age1 all  
their limbs  and features which have not
 been used drop off1 leaving only the   
bones  behind4 ,it is rather dark this  
evening1 or you would have seen this    
more  plainly4 ,look forward there at   
our coachman1 he consists simply of a   
stomach and hands1 these being the only 
things he has ever used4 ,those  two    
whom you see chatting together are      

brothers in misfortune2 one is a        
clergyman1 the other a lawyer2 they have
 neither of them got any legs at  all1  
though each of them possess a finely    
developed understanding2 and  you cannot
 help remarking what a massive jaw the  
lawyer has got4 ,yonder  is ,mr4----1   
the celebrated millionaire1 he is just  
raising his hat2 you  see he has lost   
all the top part of his head1 indeed he 
has little of  his head left1 except the
 bump of acquisitiveness and the faculty
 of  arithmetical calculation4 ,there   
are two ladies1 members of the          
fashionable world1 their case is very   
pitiable1 they consist of nothing       
whatever but a pair of eyes and a bundle
 of nerves4 ,there are two  members of  
the mercantile world1 they are munching 
some sandwiches1 you  see1 but it is    
merely for the sake of keeping up       
appearances2 as ,i can  assure you1 from
 my own personal knowledge1 that they   
have no digestive  organs whatever4 ,as 
for myself1 ,i am a schoolmaster4 ,i    

have been a hard  student all my life1  
at school and at college1 and moreover  
,i have had a  natural sympathy with my 
fellow-men1 and so ,i am blessed with a 
brain  and heart entire4 ,but see here4 
,and he lifted up his cloak1 and lo6    
underneath1 a skeleton1 save just here6 
,see1 here are the limbs ,i never  used1
 and therefore they have deserted me4   
,all the solace ,i now have  consists in
 teaching the young children to avoid a 
similar doom4 ,i  sometimes show them   
what ,i have shown you4 ,i labor hard to
 convince them  that most assuredly the 
same misfortune will befall them which  
has  happened to me and to all the      
grown-up inhabitants2 but even then1 ,i 
grieve to say1 ,i cannot always succeed4
 ,many believe that they will be  lucky 
enough to escape1 and some of the       
grown-up inhabitants pad  themselves1   
and so cheat the poor children into the 
belief that they are  all right1 though 
all the elder ones know better4 ,you    
will now perceive  the reason why all   

the gentlemen you see wear such tight   
pantaloons1  they pretend that it is    
fashionable1 but in reality it is in    
order to  prevent their false legs from 
tumbling out4 ,surely my case is        
miserable  enough2 my only hope consists
 in the idea of educating the rising    
generation to do better4 ,no doubt it is
 easy to persuade them to do so  in the 
country from which you come1 but ,i     
assure you1 added he with a  heartfelt  
sigh1 that it is sometimes very hard to 
do so here4 ,nearly  all of us1 then1   
have lost something of our bodies4 ,some
 have no head1  some no legs1 some no   
heart1 and so on2 the less a man has    
lost1 the  higher he ranks in the social
 scale2 and our ,aristocracy1 the       
governing  body1 consists of the few    
individuals who have used all their     
faculties1  and therefore now possess   
them all4    ,at this moment a dreadful 
earthquake broke out1 and an extempore  
volcano  shot the gentleman who had     
listened to this interesting1 narration 

right  up to the crust of the earth     
again1 and by a strange and fortunate   
chance shot him up into the very hole   
which he had been digging1 and he       
discovered himself lying down at the    
bottom of the hole1 feeling just as  if 
he had awakened from a dream2 and to his
 surprise1 heard distinctly  the voice  
of his wife crying out from the top1    
,come1 come1 dear1 you're  very late1   
and supper is getting quite cold6       
,the name of the country of ,skitzland  
translated into the vulgar tongue  is   
the planet earth1 and ,america is one of
 the portions thereof4 ,if we  were to  
look round in a circuit of a hundred    
miles1 how many of the  ,skitzland      
aristocracy should we find1 think you8  
,what a dropping off of  limbs and      
features there would be1 if the letter  
of the law of ,skitzland  were carried  
out6 ,but it is absolutely certain that1
 this is in effect  the law of nature1  
which does not act1 it is true1 all in a
 moment2 but  which slowly and truly    

tends to this4 ,the ,hindoo ties up an  
arm1 for  years together1 as a penance1 
thinking thereby he does ,brahma        
service2  the limb with fatal sureness  
withers away1 and rots4 ,the prisoner in
  solitary confinement has his mind and 
faculties bound1 fettered and  tied1 and
 by a law as fixed as that which keeps  
the stars in their  places1 the said    
prisoner's mind grows weaker1 feebler1  
less sane1 day  by day4 ,school children
 are confined six long hours in a close 
school-room1 sitting in one unvarying   
posture1 their lungs breathing          
corrupted air1 no single limb moving as 
it ought to move1 not the  faintest     
shadow of attention being paid to heart1
 lungs1 digestive  organs1 legs or arms1
 all these being bound down1 and tied as
 it were2  and so1 by the stern edict of
 heaven1 which1 when man was placed upon
  earth1 decreed that the faculties     
unused should weaken and fail1 we see   
around us thousands of unhealthy        
children whose brains are developed at  

the expense of their bodies2 the        
ultimate consequence of which will be1  
deterioration of brain as well as body4 
,what is the remedy for all this8 ,i    
have before stated that in large        
crowded cities1 gymnastic training1     
systematically pursued as a study1  is  
the only thing which seems possible to  
be done1 and most assuredly  will be    
beneficial wherever it is introduced4   
,but there is a different  method of    
physical education1 which can be pursued
 either exclusively1  or in association 
with gymnastics1 which can be followed  
up either in  the country1 or in towns1 
where playgrounds can be obtained4 ,this
 is the  method which ,i have invariably
 pursued myself1 namely1 the systematic 
pursuit of health and strength by all   
manner of manly sports and games4  ,i   
myself learnt to play and love these    
games at school and at college4 ,i  have
 given them now nearly four years' trial
 in my school1 and every day  convinces 
me more and more of their beneficial    

results4    ,i cannot tell how much     
physical weakness1 how much moral evil  
we have  batted1 and bowled1 and        
shinnied away from our door2 but ,i do  
know that  we have batted and bowled    
away indolence1 and listlessness1 and   
doing  nothing1 which ,i believe is the 
,devil's greatest engine2 and ,i also   
know  that the enthusiasm of the boys in
 these games never dies out1 their      
enjoyment never flags1 for these games  
supply the want of the boys'  natures1  
and keep their thoughts from straying to
 forbidden ground4    ,now these games  
are the very thing which that portion of
 mankind called  the sporting world1    
have always loved and cherished4 ,they  
have infused  the love of these games   
into the very bones of ,englishmen1 and 
who knows  how much good ,england owes  
to them6 ,let us then overlook for a    
while the  religious world1 the         
commercial world1 the literary world1   
for they do  not contain what we seek   
now1 and let us look at this poor sister

 world1  a world which seldom finds     
itself in such good company4    ,each of
 these worlds has its work2 the one we  
now have to do with1 the  sporting      
world1 is a world probably as much      
decried1 and with as much  reason1 as   
any4 ,but see how pertinaciously this   
world will persist in  coming up to the 
surface wherever a community of men may 
be4 ,see how  rigorously the ,puritans  
tried to put down1 or rather squeeze    
this  heinous tendency out of ,human    
,nature6 ,but they did not succeed1     
though  goodness knows1 they tried hard 
enough4 ,yet it has come up again1 and  
lo6 it is now as vigorous as ever4      
,friends6 ,i am finding fault with the  
,puritans in the very midst of their    
descendants4 ,but what greater          
compliment could ,i pay these old       
,puritans than this8 for their greatest 
glory is1 that they left to their       
descendants the precious legacy of  free
 thought6 and so deeply imbedded is this
 in the very bones of the  race1 that   

they will gladly hear a stranger        
criticize and even condemn1  a portion  
of the ,puritan mind3 knowing full well1
 that the fabric which  they builded on 
the shores of this ,continent is        
sufficient to bear  witness to the real 
manhood that was in them4 ,but what was 
the reason of  their failure8 ,simply   
they were trying to drive out ,nature   
with a  pitchfork1 and she of course    
will perpetually keep coming back4 ,so  
we  say of this world1 the sporting     
world1 so liable to abuse1 and so       
unsparingly abused1 what is true of all 
the worlds1 and that is1 that it  would 
be well for mankind1 if they were to    
bestow a little thought upon  the       
demands of this1 as well as of the other
 worlds2 and not be content  to ignore  
wholly a thing the value of which they  
do not understand2--how  the sporting   
world has witnessed1 does witness1 and  
will forever  witness1 for a fact in    
,human ,nature1 which no amount of      
pressure will  ever squeeze out of      

,human ,nature1 and that is1 the        
necessity which human  beings feel for  
amusement1 and for open air exercise1   
not exercise  merely1 but hearty1       
joyous1 blood-stirring exercise1 with a 
good amount  of pleasant emulation in   
it4    ,this1 then1 is what cricket and 
boating1 battledore and archery1 shinney
  and skating1 fishing1 hunting1        
shooting1 and baseball mean1 namely1    
that  there is a joyous spontaneity in  
human beings2 and thus ,nature1 by means
  of the sporting world1 by means of a  
great number of very imperfect1         
undignified1 and sometimes quite        
disreputable mouthpieces1 is            
perpetually striving to say something   
deserving of far nobler and  clearer    
utterance2 something which statesmen1   
lawgivers1 preachers1 and  educators    
would do well to lay to heart4 ,my      
children1 she would say1 are  not       
intended to be made working machines2   
they have capacities for joy1  for      
spontaneous action1 for doing some      

pleasant thing for the mere sake  of    
doing it1 without any regard to gain or 
profit1 whether it be of  money or      
anything else2 and by obeying my        
dictates1 they will find  riches which  
they never sought for1 will obtain gifts
 they never asked4    ,why1 a fast young
 man at an ,english ,university too     
often learns no good  thing there1      
except to play a capital game at        
cricket1 have a good seat  upon a horse1
 pull an oar till he drops1 and to have 
a general belief in  the omnipotence of 
pluck6 ,and ,i can tell you that is no  
bad education  too1 as far as it goes4  
,i am perfectly well aware that fast    
young men  too often learn other and    
worse things than these1 learn to drink1
 and  swear1 and debauch1 and to spend  
as fast as possible in riotous living   
the manhood and strength which ,god has 
given them4 ,but this ,i know and       
publicly declare1 that it is this love  
of manly sports which keeps the  fast   
young men of ,england from utter        

corruption and decay4 ,such men1        
renowned in their school and college    
days as good cricketers1 oarsmen or     
riders1 were the men that made ,alma1   
,inkermann1 and ,balaklava possible2    
who have just done battle at fearful    
odds on the burning plains of  ,india1  
on behalf of helpless women and         
slaughtered babies2 and those  whom     
their strong right arm could not save1  
it was able to avenge6 ,the  iron       
endurance which they had gained in many 
a bloodless contest1 stood  them in good
 stead there1 when all their manhood was
 needed1 if ever it  was2 and over those
 that nobly died there1 methinks that ,i
 can see the  ,genius of ,england weep  
bitter tears1 and thus speak with deep  
self-reproach3--,ah6 sons of mine6 loved
 and early lost6 ye whom ,i could  not  
teach1 whom no one in all my broad lands
 could teach1 how to unite  the         
virtuous1 wise and holy soul1 together  
with the soul joyous and  free6 ,alas6  
for me1 that ye had to die1 before ,i   

could know how noble ye  were6 that your
 cold bodies1 fallen on the field1      
wounds all in front1  and none behind1  
would be so many poor dumb mouths to    
tell me of the  untold wealth which ,i  
have in my children1 those very ones who
 too often  are nought but shame and    
grief to me6 ,dear1 noble old ,england6 
if ,god  will teach her this wisdom1 her
 old heart will beat on bravely for a   
thousand years to come4    ,the         
preponderance of the animal1 the bodily 
element1 produces fast young  men2 and  
fast young men1 and boys tending to     
become such1 are the  problem of        
society1 the terror of the peace-loving1
 money-making world1  and the scandal of
 the ,educator1 as he himself feels well
 enough his own  impotence in dealing   
with them4    ,i have seen many an      
,educator who has felt that he ought to 
get at these  young rebellious forces1  
but who does not know the way1 and      
despairingly  wonders why he cannot do  
so4 ,friend6 ,i would say1 no man can   

influence  another1 unless he has       
something akin to ,him4 ,what do you    
think gives  these blacklegs1 men of not
 a tithe of your force and talent1 such 
power  over them8 ,why1 it is community 
of nature1 interests in common4 ,but    
what  interests have you in common with 
a fast young man8 ,you know nothing     
that he knows1 you admire nothing that  
he admires2 and until you do  really get
 a community of interest with him1 you  
will be wide asunder as  the poles1 and 
the fast young man will remain1 as he   
has hitherto  remained1 the one         
disgraceful problem which modern        
education cannot  solve4    ,if an      
educator or college tutor wishes to     
influence this class of his  scholars1  
or if a clergyman wishes to gain the    
souls of this part of his  congregation1
 the one most difficult to deal with1   
let him join with  them in some manly   
game1 and let him assuredly know that   
whatever true  manhood he has will stand
 him in good stead1 and nothing else3   

nothing  but real vital religion1 real  
nobleness of character will be of any   
use  in the cricket-field or the        
row-boat2 and this will hold its own    
here as  well as elsewhere4    ,once1   
then1 establish a community of interest 
on any one subject with  young men1 and 
you open to yourself a door1 by which   
all good may enter4  ,nature1 dear      
friends1 makes nothing in vain1 and it  
is of such infinite  importance that    
strength of limb1 readiness of eye and  
hand1 physical  vigor in short1 should  
be transmitted from generation to       
generation1  that she keeps producing   
fast young men1 in spite of the thousand
  excesses which they commit1 and will  
do so1 until the ablest and wisest      
human minds take the matter in hand1 and
 see to it that this part of  ,human    
,nature has its proper and legitimate   
food1 guided by mind1  thought1 and     
reverence1 instead of being allowed to  
run riot in all  manner of wantonness4  
,the sporting world1 then1 with its     

manly games and manly sports1 gives  us 
the means which are needed by the       
community at large for physical         
education2 and the future educators of  
the country must be taught to  love     
these manly games at school and at      
college1 and then they will be  able to 
disseminate them2 whereas1 at present1  
educators in this country  are almost   
entirely ignorant of any manly games    
whatever4 ,but are not  these games very
 dangerous1 asks a careful mamma2 don't 
you find that  boys get hurt very much  
by them8 ,i have heard of some one who  
got his  teeth knocked down his throat  
by them4 ,somebody else got his head    
hurt  at shinney and so that was put a  
stop to1 ,i believe1 at ,mr4----'s      
school4 ,such mammas1 doubtless1 put    
into the hands of their children  some  
good little book1 with a narration of   
this sort4 ,little ,johnny was  told by 
his mamma not to climb trees4 ,he was a 
good boy1 and generally  obedient4 ,but 
one day he was in the garden of one of  

his schoolfellows1  who asked him to    
climb a cherry tree2 he forgot his      
mother's command1  and went up1 but     
after he had climbed nearly to the top  
his foot  slipped1 and down he tumbled  
through the branches on to the ground4  
,he  cried very much1 and could not     
move1 so they had to put him upon a     
shutter and carry him home4 ,the doctor 
found that his leg was broken2  the pain
 was dreadful when he had it set1 c4 c42
 the drama ending by  ,johnny throwing  
his arms round his mother's neck1 and   
declaring that if  he ever got well1 he 
would never disobey his dear1 dear      
mother any more6    ,the good people who
 write these edifying stories never seem
 to think  whether it was wise for mamma
 to forbid ,johnny to climb a tree4     
,monkeys  are never forbidden to do so1 
and ,i seldom hear anything of their    
falling off4 ,poor people's children    
climb trees1 and there does not seem  to
 be an extraordinary increase of        
juvenile mortality on this account4     

,what should you say if some            
hard-hearted person1 myself for         
instance1  were to say to the dear      
mother of little ,johnny1 ,dear ,madam1 
you  yourself1 ,i grieve to say1 were   
the cause of ,johnny's accident2 you    
have  habitually prevented him from     
doing anything which would quicken his  
perceptions and strengthen his limbs4   
,he must not soil his pinafore1 he  must
 not get his hands dirty1 and above all 
he must not play at any  games which    
make his hair untidy1 or tear his       
clothes4 ,in fact1 you have  forbidden  
him to do precisely those things which  
,nature prompted him to  do4 ,he has    
generally been very obedient1 you say1  
and therefore his  bodily powers have   
become weaker instead of stronger4      
,well1 the  temptation came1 the unused 
and untrustworthy limbs were summoned to
  act1 his consciousness of doing wrong 
enfeebled him still further1 and  made  
them still more nervous4 ,he went up the
 tree1 and the natural  consequence was1

 that he fell4    ,this1 in substance1  
is the answer to all questions of this  
class4 ,i have  played at cricket or    
shinney1 or boated1 since ,i was nine   
years old4  ,during the last three years
 and a half1 ,i have played at one or   
the  other almost every day4 ,i have    
played at shinney1 or hockey1 as we call
  it1 all through the winter1 through   
snow a foot deep1 and when the          
thermometer was below zero2 ,i have     
played at cricket in summer with the    
thermometer at #ij1 and ,i have never   
yet seen one serious accident4 ,the     
fact is1 that ,i have a theory that     
,nature loves young men and boys1 and   
love to aid them in their sports4 ,she  
sends her ice and snow to educate  them 
and make them hardy1 while we are       
sitting by the stove and abusing  the   
weather4 ,she won't let them be hurt    
half as much by a blow or a  fall1 as   
older people who do not love her half as
 well4 ,she breaks the  young one's     
fall1 and herself puts the plaster on   

his little fingers4  ,she is delighted  
at every conquest that these young      
children of hers  make over herself1    
just like some big boxer she stands1 who
 is teaching  his boy to box4 ,he feints
 and threatens and looks big1 but who so
  pleased as he when the young one gets 
in his one two6    ,again1 the danger is
 little or nothing to the daring and    
courageous4 ,the  fellow that isn't     
afraid of the ball1 is scarcely ever    
hurt4 ,he defends  himself with eye and 
hand4 ,the coward is the one most likely
 to get  hurt4 ,i think that there is   
just enough risk in these games to      
engender  a manly contempt for pain1 and
 a bold handling of a danger4 ,if the   
cricket ball were a soft affair1 it     
would be a game for babies not boys4    
,let us then take a hint from the       
sporting world1 and turn to the use of  
the many that which has formed the only 
redeeming feature of a few4 ,the  good  
that these manly games do1 should not be
 confined to a small class1  but should 

be diffused among the whole community1  
for the sporting world  has something to
 say to all of us4 ,it rouses the       
scholar from his desk1  shakes him1 and 
tells him that much study is a weariness
 to the flesh1  and that the fields are 
alive with song4 ,out then he must come1
 and  leave his musty books4    ,it     
comes to the business man in the crowded
 city1 and babbles of green  fields1    
nudges ,mr4 ,sparrowgrass with its      
elbow1 and tells him to take  ,mrs4 ,s4 
and the children into the country4      
,it comes to ,mr4 ,fezziwig at          
,christmas time1 and tells him to let   
the  young men in his shop have a jolly 
time of it1 put by their work1 listen   
to the fiddle1 and join the dance4      
,ay1 and the dream of those             
half-forgotten days comes over ,scrooge1
 the  miserly1 miserable ,scrooge1 and  
wakes up something like a soul in him4  
,it comes to ,colonel ,newcome1 and bids
 him go to ,charter ,house ,school1  and
 take his boy out for a holiday4        

,this same spirit came to the ancient   
,greek in drama1 dance and game1 and    
with him was set to music1 and          
consecrated to the gods1 to ,apollo the 
ever young1 to ,pallas the wise1 to     
,bacchus the joy-giver4    ,it came to  
the stern old ,roman with his           
,saturnalia1 when for once in all  the  
year the slave and the plebeian might   
speak their minds without  fear4    ,it 
came to the dark-eyed ,hebrew with his  
feasts of tabernacles1 his  feast of the
 harvest and the vintage1 and over his  
joyaunce a sacred  shadow rested1 as of 
,one who was over these things1 who both
 made and  consecrated the joy4         
,spirit of joy6 ,wide as the world6     
,offspring of heaven6 ,that descendest  
with airs redolent of thy native home1  
and comest to give to the  toil-worn    
brickmakers of the earth a little rest6 
,forgive us1 foolish  dwellers in the   
clay1 if ofttimes we take thy festal    
garlands1 and drag  them in the mire6   
drunk with the wine of thy pleasures1 we

 turn thy  gifts to ashes and to        
mourning4 ,come thou1 nevertheless6 and 
stay not1  turn not away for our folly1 
come with thy love-light1 and           
smile-light1  and make the whole earth  
green with thy summer of delight4    ,it
 were a theme worthy of the place and   
time1 if we could sketch out the        
progress of mankind2 to show how ,god   
laid the foundations of the human  race 
in the barbaric ages1 strong1 savage    
human bodies being the stones  thereof2 
how in due order1 order as sure and     
stately as that of the  geologic eras1  
arose the ,roman and the ,greek1 the    
types of full  developed body and mind  
together3 how in the fullness of time   
,christianity revealed the mighty powers
 of heart1 conscience and soul1  which  
before were lying dormant in the human  
race2 so that now at last  upon us has  
fallen the task of developing the whole 
of man1--body1 mind1  heart1 conscience 
and soul4    ,but my time1 if not your  
patience1 fails me3 so ,i leave it as a 

hint for  future thought1 and will in   
conclusion utter a few words of courage 
and  hope for mankind1 which each event 
of to-day seems to strengthen and       
enlarge4 ,yes1 it is no longer fitting1 
that for the future we should  have few 
hopers and many fearers4 ,nay1 rather   
let us all join hands  to-day1 and form 
a great ,electric ,cable of ,hope1 that 
shall stretch from  sea to sea1 from    
shore to shore4    ,for it is certain1  
then1 that the planet upon which ,god   
has placed us1  is absolutely well      
fitted for the development of the human 
race4 ,the  more ,science investigates1 
the more wonderful seems the adaptation 
of  ,human ,nature to the world in which
 it is placed4 ,the more refined a man  
becomes1 the more delicate his insight  
into ,nature1 the more satisfied1  the  
more overjoyed is he with her           
exhaustless charms4 ,it is only our     
sin1 our folly1 our ignorance1 which    
perpetually befools us1 and robs us  of 
our inheritance4    ,when the great     

coming race1 prophesied of so long1     
shall at last inhabit  the earth1 they  
shall see no more glorious stars1 no    
bluer atmosphere1  than we do to-day2   
the moon shall pour forth no more silver
 from her  bounteous horn2 the sun shall
 lavish his golden rays no more freely1 
than he does to-day4 ,but yet the whole 
world shall be unimaginably  brighter   
and more beautiful to that crowning     
race4 ,and why8 ,because  their natures 
shall be in tune with the outward       
universe2 their eyes and  ears1 and all 
their senses1 shall be unimaginably more
 acute than ours2  their bodies shall be
 perpetual sources of joy to them1 and  
their souls  shall be awake to          
knowledge1 truth and love4    ,if our   
eyes were endowed with magnifying powers
 equal to that of some  colossal        
telescope1 how would the dome of heaven 
expand into  inconceivable dimensions1  
the stars would be seen to be scattered 
along  the sky like the sands upon the  
sea-shore4 ,each bright particular star 

would be magnified a thousand times1    
seeming vastly larger1 and yet  vastly  
more distant4 ,the whole concave of     
heaven then would appear a  thousand    
times larger than it does to our eyes1  
that is1 it would appear  a thousand    
times over more like its real size1     
though even then1 eyes  thus grandly    
gifted would fall immeasurably short of 
the reality of the  universe which lies 
in the bosom of ,god6 ,now that great   
race of the  future shall have their    
nature so in tune with things1 and their
  spiritual conceptions so enlarged1    
that the great world shall be  realized 
in its vastness1 so much more vividly   
than we can conceive of  it1 that it    
shall be as if their material eye were  
exalted to the power  of ,lord ,rosse's 
telescope4    ,put together the         
fragments of men that we have amongst us
 to-day1--the  physical joy in existence
 of the western hunter1 the intellectual
  keenness of the man of science1 the   
love of ,nature of the artist or  poet1 

the love for each little bird and insect
 of the naturalist1 the  justice of a   
,washington1 the love for ,god and man  
of a ,florence  ,nightingale1 and then  
we gain some glimpses of the men of the 
future  whom ,god has willed shall      
possess the planet at last4 ,for        
assuredly the  race is safe1 though     
nations or individuals may fail and     
perish4 ,safe1  because ,god has not    
built the planet in vain2 safe1 because 
his long  patience shall have its full  
satisfaction at the last4 ,how shall    
these  things be8 ,god will give this   
blessing to human labor directed by     
truth  and love4    ,from partial and   
one-sided cultivation of ,human ,nature1
 partial and  one-sided results can     
alone ensue4 ,the commencement of this  
glorious era  will date from the first  
complete education of all the manifold  
nature  of man4 ,the grand work once    
inaugurated1 by the wondrous law of     
hereditary descent1 natures completer   
and nobler on all sides will be  the    

heritage of the next generation1 by     
virtue of their birth1 and so on  in    
stately progression each generation     
shall expand and transmit a  larger     
power to the generation that succeeds   
it2 and at last the grand  universe of  
matter shall put the world of man to    
shame no longer1 but  man with ,god's   
image shining through him1 shall be seen
 to be worthy of  the glorious nature in
 whose bosom he dwells4    ,see to it   
then1 ,educators6 that young ,human     
,nature has its due4 ,see to  it that   
conscience and the soul have their      
rightful supremacy1 that  intellect and 
sweet human affection walk hand in hand4
 ,and lastly1 see  to it1 ,educators6   
that these young bodies have their due4 
,learn for  yourselves numberless manly 
sports and games1 and resolutely        
continue to  teach them and practise    
them yourselves in the midst of your    
scholars4  ,love open air and exercise  
yourselves first2 this love will be     
contagious1 and will communicate itself 

to those around you4 ,no atom of  true  
dignity will be lost1 and a priceless   
fund of good humor will be  gained for  
yourself1 and a mutual good feeling will
 be established  forever between you and
 your scholars4 ,do this1 and we shall  
no longer  hear of schoolmasters        
becoming old men before they are forty2 
but the  schoolmaster will be known as  
the youngest looking1 healthiest and    
happiest man in the district4    ,upon  
us1 my friends1 more than upon any other
 class of men1 this great1  this        
lamentably neglected duty devolves4 ,we 
are to see to it that young  limbs and  
lungs have their rights2 we must make   
men understand that it  will be a sin   
against ,god1 if they do not have their 
rights2 a sin1  whose punishment is as  
certain as the law of gravitation4 ,and 
more1 it  must be our task to make men  
understand the inevitable blessing which
 is  sure to descend upon the keeping of
 ,god's commandments written upon the   
body4    ,schoolmaster in country       

village6 whose two dollars per diem are 
begrudged and shaved down by some       
committee of boobies6 whose lot1        
may-be1 is additionally blessed by the  
privilege of boarding out among  the    
exceedingly willing inhabitants of the  
district6 upon thee no  foolish word of 
pity shall fall from lips of mine6 ,thee
 no wise man will  pity1 but rather bid 
thee be of good cheer and play the man6 
,witness  thou1 in thy little corner of 
the great world1 for all ,human ,nature4
 ,see  thou that each part has its due1 
in the little flock of which thou art   
shepherd4 ,be faithful to thy sacred    
trust1 and eyes yet unborn shall  shine 
with the truth-light which thou didst   
first impart4 ,yea1  generations shall  
rise up and call thee blessed6 ,by thee 
the young  nerves1 and limbs1 and brain 
shall be loved1 and pitied1 and         
understood4  ,thou1 like another        
,greatheart1 shalt shield them from     
ignorance and  wrong4 ,to thee no word  
of man can matter much4 ,whether thou be

 praised  or despised of men1 is to thee
 a small thing2 for in the calm         
eventide1  when the day's work is over1 
thou hast ears to listen to the         
,master's  voice1 saying to his servant1
 ,well done6