Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-04-07
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we nave read with much interest ln tho New O:leans
Delta nm admirable lecture delivered BY Dr. Cartwright In
the Hall OF the Mechanics Institute al New Orleans upon
Inc necessity OF mechanical education or training OF The
muscles as we'll the mind There is no doubt ha. vgo.
ous and healthy development Of The physical powers and
more practical cast to Southern character would follow tho
adoption OF his pan TIE learned doctor nducr conclu'
Slve reasons In behalf of his proposition bu have room
Tor only few passages of his address:
Modern Inventions and discoveries have created grcatcs
necessity for training of muscle as we'll as mind For.
ery when almost every species industry and every
transformation OF the raw materials objects 10 supply
he wants oil manRnd was elected by ha power ana DIS
rbu'ed by packed mules wagons on lind and by the
aboat barge and sailing vessel rivers lakes and s-aa
there very little necessity for mental culture among the
operative csscs AiElust every species Of labor IN lines
past required nothing than for the muscles be nn"
TO bear burdens or to move in automatic manner when
il took seven Dlcn 10 make PIN intellect mental Gull
urc was requisite for any Of The seven.
But now when machinery has been mostly substituted Tor
hand power, and commerce has pat wings mental as
Well US muscular ainns has become absolutely necessary
Inc system oil education tangh in schools and college
Is mol wei Calculated Qualify men for the business OF ie
II 1t vera for tho work shops and manufactcne
Establishments OF New Engllnd train the muscles and 10
accusom her youth To the of tools her schools and col
egrs though grand and great would be almost uses
10 use expression of Dr. Fnnklin the odd hall OF
pair OF scissors. IL is the New Eaglnd schools and
Colleges per Sc that make the practical useful man. wh"
lives and htves in ony part of the world where his lot IL
CAST but lhe school and the work chop combined anRer
Invention springs from cultvatng the mind In sclool one
part oil the day. and the muscles in tho or Held al
another No better place could BE- anywhere found 10 give
youth the use OF tools and insight into mechanical
than the clock making shops OF Massachusetts and
Connecticut Franklin united Mechanics and Science In
"ed!ock when he founded the Institute that bears h name
At present. New Orleans pays only 49, for Schools while
li2c paid other purposes In Boston, last year, l20
paid for schools while only Sic paid fer all olet
purposes.
The sum- $3.50 O0O expended in New O:lears ur echoos
IL
enment s immensely large being at 81 bO0UuO
ii mems minds were turned out OF the channel OF imprDV'
dcn useless expenditures ana extravaganza. into that vi
practical Industry and economy million OF dollars per an
mum would be taken of the The encouragement OF
the useful practical is the 0st certain way ~ arrest
impI0vident expenditure.
If such arts there would created so grca
demand for apprentices and ali kinds OF labor that the or
phan asylnm5 would be forthwith emplied The orphans
bound 10 good trades looked after by present benevo
lent societies. or oy tho city authorities would become use
ful members o a-cicy, Instead OF bcng TAX on IL Inc
frendcss destitute emiganFs Esiead OF being huraen
to the city, breeding cpdemics from budding Iosclhef
in squad wretctedness in filthy hcVrs would hnd EN-
ploymsn II called on To aid mixing Ne" Orleans great
manufacturing city, aboundng handcta!t .mpoymenta
aod ghl trades which they could louw and enjoy tncif
health from not bcing exposed TO The san.
The sewing machines, lately invented will be great re-.
iiei 10 feIales enabling them devote time to lush
beautiful creations Of ancy and o.t interesting 10 the
mind while they give the body agreeable ard drcicl,c
exercise mixing grace, dt'cacy and health together Ho
mers female characters which have charmed the world Tor
nearly three thousand all occupied In ornamental
and fancy work That such work is healthy, Is inferred from
Penelope after being engaged for years weaving
tapestry, still retained her youthful beauty welcome
Ulysses The Luxurious toll 10 which Adam after Tho fall
was expressly doumed, enjoincd upon Eve