The Republican journal., 1869-12-09
CLOTHING TIE MIND.

Man is a three fold being, physical, mental
Aul moral on spiritual The Iir>t is the bod,
which for a time he lives in, and which like Il YES
turc wraps ana protects the others. Man thinks
reasons wills, judges. &c; this is the mental o.
intellectual part, and during life is entirely depend
ent on The physical or material part Again-ht
la,a> hates hopes. fears ana has aspirations 10
>9mething higher and beyond all that the materl
lHd mental Of his being afford: this Is the mora
hr spiritual element OF his nature.
Observe the close the inseparable relation 0
these three departments. Ii the body be wantin.
De normal material and force, the others fail in pro
portion, seen in sickness and death; il this ex
ISIS in proper conditions, the others wanting il
fibre and force man is only a splendid animal.
Hence education must be thrce-told in lis nature
al>o-physcal, mental and moral; and they cal
no more be separated without peril than can thu
three departments of the human being.
See What results from training of them to
The neglect or at the expense Of the others. Give
man q good physical education alone, aud he be-
comes the bloody gladators of ancient Rome; the
shoulder-hitters and prize fighters OF our own land
lie savages of our forests with a physique model
artists may envy Cultivating the mental neglect
ing the moral writes the history of every tyrant
snd oppreSsor in the world; from blood-thirsty
Nero ana Caligula Of old 10 the treasury and bank
robbers, gold gamblers and myriad kinds of spocu-
lators and scoundres in our times and midst.
Train the moral without the mental to guide it,
and you have the blind religious big0t and the fa-
matte Of every make and degree, whose march
along the ages may he traced by what rivers of hui
man blood The cruSades trampling out million,
Of human lives i'll vain pursuit of religious ch-
mera; the pions Isabella of Spain, encouraging il
nor establishing the horrd Inqusition Cotton
MAther, With his Wtch-craf1 and all its woes
countless similar acts to the present hour; all show
how great Il wrong is training the moral faculties
alone
When and in what order shall this three-told
education begin: AL the earliest dawn of life and
in the natural order Of human development; which
is that of body, mind soul. Seek those means and
measures, then, which tend to make good health
and sounU constitutions; right clothing Of which
we lately spoke proper food bathing; good air
due exercise Ec., educational measures of the
highest order ali through infancy. childhood and
youth,
This must be in and by direction, mainly, Of the
family And on scarcely any subject, we think, are
right views SO much wanting, both in theory and
practice, as in3 this. While most parents desire
their chiidrens minds to be cultivated and to shine
how few reflect that The mind force can 10 more
have power to acquire knowledge without body
power to rest upon and to back ii up than steam
force can exist without the machinery that gener-
ates it. This is specially true AS tn :lerciSc and
more as to girls than boys. A. life bounds thro'
the youthful frame, every nerve and fibre arc
aglow with animal firce, whose natural balance
and is
Of the harmful repression of those forces by re-
quiring young children to st six solid hours "A tay
one the hardest and most uncomfortable of seats.
usually the feet not touching the floor; if looking
la The right eit or giving the least kick or wig
sle to let oil this surplus animal force, thwacR goes
the cudge. Wetcll you, parents and guardian, of
these children from much praricli acquaintance
Wth the subJct OF schools, met ,camen and poor
Immigrants Oh shuboard; not conYicts in our pris-
ou- NOT slaves IN their d.Dy of bondage ever suffer
eu Aysie4l wrong, tyranny and cruelty like them
tJr Il AMY treatment can mlm these harps Of d
thousand strings, TO give then lives only such ma,
sic ounces can grind from broken instruments
it i, this sad drfecr IN their physical cducaion We
knoW very many parents who send their children
even under the school age, TO school moi 10 learn
but 10 get the noisy things out Of the way" Will
all such the rckels are better than the rackets
For better iasten them up il the barn. or even 4
barrel, with freedom ot motion, and crickets and
swallow, to make them music. Until SIX or seven
t ls the body you want 10 educate. If during this
time child more as a pastne than labor, learns
It's letters and in some cases gets into easy reading
IL Is well enough; bur nine times iii ten the one
who has never seen book at that age, but has laid
its foundations broad ana deep on the solid rock 0
physical culture will al ten, far oustrip the one
pushed into early study Just the young man
who stood only average 1T his college ljeaUs 0h the
worlds prizes in after life, while he who then
shone with " the first parts" is never heard ot
more.
For small boys the Very best teachers are jack
knife, gmbfet, saw and hammert the ball and Kite
iegs to run, climb and slide. For girl, whose hab-
its and mode Of life impose upon them more re-
sirant, let them run too let them Dig swm skate,
slide dance, play ball let them do anything short
ot unseXng themselves that Shall give them that
highest and best Of NIL earthly things-a sound
mind in healthy body.
This Is physical education, hut it is in the high
est degree mental also. Many object TO those
foolish plays as so much loss Of precious time "
but when does the human mind eyer lay in such 4
grand stock Of knowledge as during infancy and
early childhoodH No close student or professor no
philosopher or professional man hard at their work
ever learn more facts, get more knowledge in Il
month than the child pulling in its mothers arms
get in that time. He is ii little great philosopher
upsetting lamps and lnkstands breaking crockery
burning fingers and doing countless such acts. get
ting we'll punished theretor,--not for - mischief.
is usually sad but because the young soul is
nsing his limbs and senses tendrilS to seize and
take into itself knowledge of things; coors.
neat, light, form, size, distance and sodhy. What
school great furnishing the frame of I'LL future
learning
And from out these " useless plays of childhood
looks the future man-ana woman In the corn
stalk fiddle, the shingle vessel, the mill upon the
tiny stream, the flies impaed on pin, the carved
chip, the mimic arts of preachers and pleaders of
boyhood, you may read the arts, employments and
destiny Of them men, unless, by the usual er-
rors of thought and action, you blindly stamp out
this budding OF genius. Trace back the history OF
nearly all those whose names stand forever as the
benefaetors of mankind; the inventors in the arts,
the dscoverers in the sciences that bless the world
and you will find they about all struck out into the
paths they afterwards goriously trod not by early
book-learning but the result of body-trainins,-
physical education. Thus the Chaldcan shepherds
Of old became eminent astronomers of those times
as Ferguson the Scottish shcphcrti did 1000 wears