Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-06-25
We learn it again, from the fact that mans
Intellectual and moral DEVELOPMENT

We learn it again, from the fact that mans $
physical, intellectual and moral development
depends, in a very great degree, upon it.
The development of the entire man is great
ly aided by labor. The Creator has endow-
ed man with capacities, and left with him
to say whether they shall lie dormant and
entirely useless, or be developed and trained,
and thus made to contribute to his happi-
ness.
The light of nature itself, would teach
us that such is the case Observations and
experience teach that the muscles and sin
ews and various members of our physical
organization, are dependent upon the amount
of training they receive for their health and
growth. To be convinced of this we need
only observe the difference between the full
grown, healthy, well developed man, and
the dwarf, or the sickly and efeminate crea-
ture, with simply the name of man, so far
as he is physically concerned, Look at the
laborious man, who, from hisyouth up, has
been accustomed to hard work, and, if he
has enjoyed a good'opportunity, and has met
with no calamity, you will always find him
possessed of sound and healthy body. He
is strong and vigorous, able to endure fa-
tigue and suffer hardships; while the man
who, from early life, has been accustomed
to spend his time in ease, who has never
known what it was to labor, whose powers
have been allowed to lie lifeless, who, though
by nature endowed with more perfect Or
ganization, has subjected his various men,
bers to no training, is now, perhaps the vic
tim Of disease, and, in no manner fitted for
the duties of life. Or if there are some men
who have never subjected themselves to any
physical discipline, and are yet strong and
healthy, this is rare-and, to say the least
Of it, they are still just as much inferior to
what they would have been. had they pur-
sued this other course, which common sense
and the light of nature and revelation would
have suggested
Nature has her fixed and unalterable laws,
which cannot be violated with impunity.-
To these laws rewards and punishments are
attached. Opon those who obey these laws
she is most lavish in bestowing her rewards; !;
but upon him who violates them, she visits
her punishment in all their rigor and Sc
yeritys
sssek now -atsthe deyelopment of-tbe
Intellectual man, we find that much bodily
exercise is absolutely essential in the devel-
|opment of the mind, fact confirmed by the
experience of nine or ten students, who have,
for any length of time, confined themselves
to hard study. Without it the mind soon
becomes wearied, and the mental powers re-
fuse to perform their appropriate functions
faithfully. But with constant, vigorous ex-
ercise. the mind may be trained to an ex-
tent that but few men conceive Of A heath
en- poet has said: ''Meus sana in sano cor
poro." CA sound mind in sound body
Bodily exercise gives vigor and energy and
activity to every faculty Of the mind It
imparts degree of life and elasticity to the
intellect that nothing else can impart.
Some are ready to say, "the laboring
man has no time to study" But we do not
advocate the doctrine, that no man can be
a student except him who studies text books;
neither do we believe in it. Far from it.
A man is not obliged to con6ne himself to
the school of letters, nor to the mathematics
and languages of college in order to be a
student. There is another book, and there
are other schools in which he may study
The book of Nature has never yet been
mastered. 1t contains problems which have
never yet been solved, and truths which
have never yet been fathoned. It introdu-
ces man into a boundless field. To it's rich
treasures, its deep fountains its inexhausti-
bic store houses, every man is invited. It
is volume which all may study, and from
which the wisest may still learn wisdom
Yes We rejoice to say that the Creator has
furnished us book which we all can study :;
from the most illiterate to the most learned:
from which the humble plough boy and the
honest mechanic may draw rich treasures
as we'll as the philosopher and the devotee
of science. And thus we see that the labor
ing nan is, in this respect, always prepared
for study. Besides this, his mind can al
ways be employed with his labor. Howev-
er we'll he may be acquainted with his bust
ness it always requires his attention, and
he nay constantly occupy his thoughts in
endavoring to discover some improvement
in tie mode of labor and the implements he
employs. It is certain that his mind need
never be idle, but always may and always
WILDE employed.
As to mans moral development, we need
say but little in this connection ssThe idle
mars brain is the devils workshop" is an
adase no less common than true. While
we 10 not say that no men such as labor
witt their hands can be good and upright,
andvirtuous and holy, on the other hand,
tha all such laboring men are good, it is
an ndisputable truth that labor does have
tndency to cultivate in man moral, up
riglt, correct, virtuous and Christian feel