Physical Education: A Lecture Delivered Before the Teachers of Hamilton and Butler Co., Ohio, on Several Different Occasions

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Pagina 6 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made his work for man to mend.
Pagina 22 - Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones, for I say unto you, their angels do always behold the face of your Father which is in Heaven.
Pagina 4 - the body and mind are like a jerkin and its lining ; if you rumple the one you rumple the other.
Pagina 18 - A popular lecturer has truly remarked, that " we make brilliant mathematicians and miserable dyspeptics; fine linguists with bronchial throats; good writers with narrow chests and pale complexions; smart scholars, but not that union, which the ancients prized, of a sound mind in a sound body. The brain becomes the chief working muscle of the system. We refine and re-refine the intellectual powers down to a diamond point and brilliancy, as if they were the sole or reigning faculties, and we had not...
Pagina 19 - ... a physical nature binding us to earth, and a spiritual nature binding us to the great heavens and the greater God who inhabits them. Thus the university becomes a sort of splendid hospital with this difference, that the hospital cures, while the university creates disease. Most of them are indicted at the bar of public opinion for taking the finest young brain and blood of the country, and, after working upon them for four years, returning them to their homes skilled indeed to perform certain...
Pagina 18 - ... chests and pale complexions; smart scholars, but not that union, which the ancients prized, of a sound mind in a sound body. The brain becomes the chief working muscle of the system. We refine and re-refine the intellectual powers down to a diamond point and brilliancy, as if they were the sole or reigning faculties, and we had not a physical nature binding us to earth, and a spiritual nature binding us to the great heavens and the greater God who inhabits them. Thus the university becomes a...
Pagina 19 - Thus the universities become a sort of splendid hospitals ; with this difference that the hospitals cure, and the universities create, disease. Most of them are...
Pagina 4 - Keep thy heart with all diligence," said the wise man, "for out of it are the issues of life.
Pagina 20 - He argues that the present system of Six Hours School a Day kills the body and kills the mind...

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