The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1858-01-21

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the formation Of character. Reliance ON
alien service, in a case of such imTs,r, ance
is criminal indifference. The teacher NAV
iail to do, IN q few months, what parents
have failed 70 do in many years. The case
is not at Sall improbable. Parents can never
shift their responsibilities on teachers, nor
teachers theirs on parents. Each Is respon. !.
sloie IN his own person, and in that light will
God view them scyeralIy.
In the close of these desultory thoughts.
! will add an additional word upon the sub
Ject of physical education. have said.
that the manifestation Of mind in BOYS. and
the tone OF their moral feelings, are astonish.
ingly connected with the condition of their
physical system. There is much more an,
pertinent 10 the development Of body. than
we have ever dreamed of in our deenest
philosophy. Aside from ihe truths of he.
reditary transmission of Qualities. and the
liked fact that perfection, or impetfec,ion.
either mental, moral or physical, is trans.
mitted to offspring. physical education pre-
sents us with subject pregnant with much
merit. Gods laws, regulating the physi.
cal world, are unchangeable therefore thew
are unmodifable; they are in1exible, there.
tore they are not plastic to meet all our ca.
prices they arc universal, therefore we can.
not escape their action--our ignorance OF
them will not shield us from their enforce.
ment against us; they are founded in wis.
dom, and address our inteects: they are
founded In consistency, and address them.
selves to our adoption; they are founded in
'oeneyolence, and therefore address them.
selves to our moral feelings We cannot leap
over them, nor run round them; they aIe
the outside bulwarks Of the universe. Their
infringement is ever followed with penal.
ty. All responsibility must be personal ii
cannot be corporative--on one cannot obey for
another. -
Boys, to be physically educated aright
ought to be made acquainted with their
own anatomy, their organs, and physiology
OF function, and the organic laws thence EN-
ergent.
Without this kn owledge, exercise on which
Development depends, may be hurlful.--
The physiology Of digestion is the founda
ton OF a rational system Of Hygiene. Die.
tetics have much to do with intellect and
morals.
The abandonment Of tea, coffee and tobac,
co, alcoholic stimulants, indigestibles and
narcotics. aud the adoption Of plain, nutritiye
food, have very much to do with the forma
ton of the mind, the morals, and sound
bodily deyelopement.
1t Is in vain to educate the minds OF onr
youth, and leave their bodies undeveloped !;
u IS in vain to educate the body. and leave
the mind undeveloped; Il is in vain to edu-
cafe them both, and leave the moral cliarac.
ter undeveloped. They must be equally de-
veloped, and then the human being, as
man, has approximated to tie highest per
fection Of which he is educationally suscep.
tible. And this is my idea of education.
The crown of this approximate perfection,
its leaf and flower, its mellowness, It's fra
GRANGE and favour, is the leaven of true
religion. This is the cord that must bind
the strong man.
ExERrIos is the price Of a. noble life
The pursuit Of noble object adorns, and
eleyates, and enobles, and WHITES lIfe.-
Without definite aim, life is like a rudder-
less ship, drifting about between life and
death, buffeted BY the winds Of circum-
stances, and entirely at the mercy Of tile
waves. While one with folded arms waits
for future opportunities, another makes the
meanest occurrences subservient to a golden
result One labors to find something TO do !;
the other labors to do something. When
the Alps intercepted bis line of march, Ma.
poleon said !" There shall be no Alps !y---
When difficulties from poverty, beset him,
Franklin resoIutely determined there should
ben difIiculties. Greatness has in lis yo-
cabnlary no such word az fail. II will
work; it must succeed. Happy is he who,