Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.


cess. Thus, in the opinion of one, a
child is educated when he can read, write /
and cipher. To these, others wonld add /
certain higher scholastic attainments,
more or less in number; and "a third |
party hold no child educated unless to
what they term school learning" is add |
ed some trade OF employment by which |
he can make living. The great and all |
important fact that a child has powers
and sentiments which preiestine him to
advance forever in ledge and virtue
but powers W hlch will be stifled or CT
verted in their very infancy without prop
er culture-this fact is overlooked
1t is not considered that he has moral
and intellectual character to be formed
and that this character will never reach
the required excellence, unless wise prin-
ciples are instilled, and good habits form
ed.
An ignorant, uncultivated mind, is the
native soil of sensuality and cruelty,
and the whole history of the world proves
that in large proportion of instances,
it does not fail to bring forth its appropri
ate fruit.
That man has had liberal education
who has been So trained in youth that his
body is ready the servant of his will and
does with ease and pleasure all the work.
that as a machinism it is capable of do
ing; whose INTEL ct is an engine with all
its parts ofequal strength, and in smooth
working order ready like steam engine
to be turned to any kind of work, to srin
gossamers, as we'll as forge large anchors
whose mind is stored with a knowledge
: of the great and fundamental truths OF
: nature and of the laws of her operations ;
who is full of life and fire. but whose pas
sions are the trained servants of a vigor-
Gus will, the servant of a tender consci-
: ence, who has learned to love all beauty,
whether of nature or of art to hate all
vileness, and to respect others as himself
Such one, and no other, has had a
liberal education, for he is as complete
in harmony with nature, as a man can be.
He will make the best of her and she OF
him, they will go together she as his ever
; beneficent mother he rs her mouthpiece
: her conscious self, her minister and in
terpreter.
S Every body OF matter may be cut OF
= broken into pieces. This is one of tn,
qualities or properties of matter, and is
n called divisibility There are bodies all
r around us SO small that we can not sec
Y them. They are in the air we breath,
e and in the water we drink. Some O
them are alive and some are not, many 81
them are 50 very small that we need tn,
:, most powerful microscope to see then
!" at all Yet every one is made up o
y pieces or parts which are of course small
! er than itself. The dust which clings t,
one IS finger when be holds butterfly o.
= moth, is made up of very sma il particles
and yet each OF these little PARTICLES o
- dust, which We can scarcely see with til,
Il naked eve, is found by using the micros
cope, to be made up OF Il Thousand o
% more little balls
J. Air is very compressible. You may lear,
i, this from so humble thing rs a pop gun
J. before the stopper is blown out, the al
, behind ii you can see To be crowded int
perhaps not half the space it filled at first
Water is very slightly comprcssible, yer
I j.,
enough to show that ii is compressible ii
IF all. y pressure which would compress
is air into less than ii hundred tn part of it
r. natural bulk, would not compress water
Al ,'uough to be noticed. All bodies ar,
n mDre or less compressiblc Air is one G
J. the most compressible of all substance.
# and water is one which is among til
least eompressible.
! 1t is easier to lift block of wood tina
Is stone of the same size, because gravita
tiou is pulling the stone down with NOR
N power To say that the stone is heavier
than the wood means just the same as t
y say that the attraction of The earth upo
Is the stone is stronger than upon the WOO
y Indeed, the freight of a body is the onl
measure of the attraction which the cartl
exerts upon it.
Scholars, and persons who sit mnch 4,
the time, should frequently, during til
- day, breathe full and deep, so that til
smaller air-cells may be fully filled wit
air. While exercising the lungs, tn
shoulders should be thrown back and til
head held erect. When the lungs al
~ properly filed with air, the chest is el
larged in every direction If any artic
= of apparel is worn so tight as to prevel
- the full expansion of the chest and add,
: men, the lungs, in consequence, do n,
- receive air sufficient to puffy the bloc,
When any article of dress encircles IL
chest or abdomen, so as to prevent an il
" crease of its circumfe Essence, it has an i