Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-03-28

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the expense or to the neglect o
another, if we desire to preserve tn
:. proper harmony of all the faculties
and to confer the greatest benefi
and happiness upon our youth. .
what avail is it to be in possession
I of a vast amount Of scientific knowl
: edge, while, from ignorance Of tht
few and simple laws Of health, Of
the lack of power to observe them
the Individuals prostrated by phys
ical weakness, and dragging out q
, miserable existence About as
much, for all practical purposes
would such knowledge benefit him
as the costly and glittering decora
tions sometimes lavished on the
wealthy, when consigned to the
tomb, benefit them But suppose
the individuals physical and intel
lectual faculties be attended to and
well developed, to the neglect ofhis
moral nature; and it would prove
only a curse to him. He would be-
come a physical and intellectual gi-
ant, without the power to so direct
his strength as to accomplish good,
either to himself or to others. He
might be compared to a well-built
ship, "with towering masts and sails
all set" heavily laden with costly
freight and crowded with human
life, but driving on some rock
bound coast, and totally without
sailors to man, captain to direct, or
rudder to guide
But suppose the moral faculties
alone be cultivated, and the result
would be equally ruinous. Instead
of becoming great in goodness, a
worshiper Of the true God, and a
blessing in his social relations,
person thus educated would become
miserable, superstitious being-a
fanatic and an idolitor. This would
necessarily result; because his IN
teHect remaining undeveloped and
uncultivated, he could neither dis
cover Gods laws, as established in
the universe, nor comprehend the
truths of Revelation. 1t is only
through the intellectual that the
moral can be reached, and that thro'
the physical. Herein we again find
strange reason for the harmoni-
Gus cultivation Of all our faculties;
and the conclusion must be, that to
rightly educate youth is to unfold
their susceptibilities, and to give
them full and free use Of all their
powers.
First. 1t is to give them free and
full use Of nll their physical powers;
"laying, broad and permanent, the
foundation for an iron-fbred con
stitution." This can never be done
until parents and teachers under
stand our physical natures-until
Physiology becomes as common a
study in our schools as Reading or
Arithmetic-until people come to
understand that God will hold men
and women just as responsible for
sins against the beautiful bodies
which he has given them for adwel-
ling for their souls, as for any 9th
er sins. For in the day of Judg-
ment, they will find they cannot
shift their individual responsibility
upon some cadiverous specimens of
the medical fraternity. That a GU
riously wrought tenement God has
given our souls In contempla-
ting it, the Psalmist exclaims, 81
am fearfully and wonderfully
mader and the poet sings,
strange that a harp of thousand
strings, should keep in tune so
long" Oh how many of these
beautiful harps are yearly unstrung,
and consigned to the cold grave, by
the hands of novices I!
Neither can proper physical train
ing be given in the ordinary class of
school houses. 1t certainly must
seem to every person familiar
with these matters, that if all the
wisdom of the State-medical and
all--had been convened, and spent
and months in devising
some plan upon which to construct
school houses that should contra
vene all the laws Of health and
serve most efectually to ruin and
destroy the physical nature of chill
dren, and torture them in almost
every conceivable manner, all their
wisdom and skill could not have
devised a plan better adapted to all
these fell purposes, than we find dis
played in the location. internal ar
rangement, and general adaptation
OF too many so-called school houses
in our land. But
Secondly. To properly educate
our youth, is to train the intellectu-
them an inTncible love
of truth, and instructing them to
arrive at truth-the truth of any
subject. Their minds must be
trained to soundness Of judgment;
to weigh and compare evidence; to
Judge and decide for thousands, for l
each stands on his own responsible
ity in this world. Their minds must
be fortified against the many and !
varied sobrces of error In their
minds must be melted thaO m s
qunchable thirst for substantial D
knowledge, which will ever after {
terward urge them away from the
ten thousand visions of fancy, down |
INTO the very hearts core of any !
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