The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-13

economy for sound and harmonious evolu-
ton of health and beauty. Necessarily in
this connection knowledge OF the vital
forces Of life and heredity must be incul~
Gated, and the noblest laws OF moral philoS>
ophy taught from the vital physical develop
ment of the body, the next step should be
its culture in grace Of bearing. motion,
emotion and expression. Pleasing aud cor
rect department., commanding physique
and refined and effective speech would re-
ceive the mechanical attention necessary TO
subject and control these faculties through
the intellect and the will, until the educa-
ton became the mastery of onesef-snd the
individual the highest type Of art in
nature.
To erect and furnish suitable building,
of classic and noble proportions, at the
national capital, Washington, to carry this
work forward in a manner worthy Of
greas nation like our own large fund is
necessary. shall devote my best energies
for the next five years to the purpose Of
raising such a fund and establishing such an
institution, and | ask the hearty co-opera-
ton of all who are interested in the de-
velopment of better social status, of
sounder moral Tone and generally higher
and more comprehensive bodily education
which will include the harmonious develop
ment of all the material forces animated
and controlled by the mental and moral.
The main part of my public lecture work
will be in the interest OF this object,
and believe that my efforts will be gener-
ously seconded by the press and the people
of the country.
Such All institution will beIthe first of its
kind in the world, for, although tradition
and history combine to throw a certain eK-
allied superstition over the achievements
of the ancients, it is quite certain that the
whole people of to-day, irrespective Of
sex, and inclusive ofsthe rank and file, are
far enough ahead OF the Greeks and
Romans in their supreme grasp Of the higher
elements OF noble character, founded on
equity, humanity and spirituality to war
rant us in the belief that any concentrated
and determined effort upon the part OF the
whole people to exalt and develop the body
as these ancient races exalted and cultivated
the physical proportions of their male
youth, would place us long way Ia ad-
vance of their best ideals IN a compara-
lively short time.
This work will be in no sense tie work Of
personal ambition, and it will know no lin
itations of personality. nor will it appeal to
the interests of one class or another of the
whole people. 1t will not be sectarian,
connected with any ISM" for the benefit
OF any section of the country, or any
favored class of the people-it will be in
the best sense an institution for the ma
tional physical education. Located at the
capital as the most convenient and appro-
pirate center, and one favored by nature
and art, 1t must partake of the general tone
Of its surroundings The organization will
be a stock company, and the control of
funds and general management vested in a
board of trustees whose names will be the
guarantee for success and faithful manage
ment Its faculty and its lectures will be
the ablest the world affords, aud its aim
universal physical. mental aud moral up
buildment
The course of training win include not
only a thorough knowledge of anatomy
with dissecting, physiology and practical
experiments, and the study Of the chemis-
try of foods in their relation to blood and
body building, heredity and other like
subjects, but the best models Of art, and
lectures with artistic demonstrations for
the cultivation of understanding and ap-
probation Of symmetry and proportion,
will form an important part of the course
The practical exercise taught will embrace
none which physiological law does not dem
onstrate to be in harmony with the exact
demands of the physical structure and the
important work of preserving due rela>
ton between the energy OF supply and that
OF waste between the life giving, life sus-
tanning forces and the brain.
1t will not be necessary to impose artifi-
clal restraints for moral uprightness upon
the student who has taken such a course of
training, for the laws of his own being will
have been aroused to the command of his
eppetites and the control Of his baser nature.
1t will be the law of eradication and self
command where we have heretofore relied
upon forceful suppression, and appeal to
sentiments which, however responsive mo-
mentarily, mad not the vital grip necessary
TO long continued resistance.
While this movement has been promised
free gifts, its practical scope and purpose
ia far too wide to hope that it could be sue
cessfully carried on by philanthropio con-
tributions only-neither should such work
be in any sense a charity. The stock COM
pany organization upon q large and equita-
Bile basis will afford all localities certain
equal opportunities for securing scholar
ship advantages. Any section, community
club, organization, school board or
individual may by the purchase of a
limited amount of stock secure the
right so send one student, pledged to
teach for time, for the entire course with
out further expense, and Is the purchaser
will hold the original stock, whatever it
may pay in the way of dividend from the
earnings which will accrue through private
pupils, the income from admitting the pub
lie TO lectures, the use Of the oratory and
special work in this department. baths, etc. &,
will give legitimate interest upon the
original investment.
l believe that twenty-five years of the
practical and widespread moral influence
that such an institution promises will be
sufficient to demonstrate the claim that vice
and crime can be controlled at the fountain
head by physiological law.
When every school board in the land
commands the services OF teacher sent out
Dy SUCH an Institution, the feet OF humanity
will indeed be sent upon the royal road to
noble and well rounded character. / have
no doubt that this plan will encounter and
triumph over the objection in many quarters
that II is Utopian and impossible; but moth
ing ls impossible which has the elevation OF
our common human nature for its object,
the sanction of moral law, and the faith OF
an enthusiasm which is grounded in the
belief that right must eventually triumph,
because the grand lesson of the centuries has
been the multiplication of evidence that
human destiny Is upward and onward to-
ward divinity OF all the powers OF mind aud
body.
In my work this season | shall outline
this plan as comprehensively as possible,
and literature upon the subject of the
organization. together with the names Of
those who have generously given to the
organization fund, the trustees, course of
work, and other details will be ready In a
few months. Stock Will be for sale some
time during 1892, and a very fine model Of
the building, with its baths, exercise courts,
class rooms and oratory for the revival Of
the truly classic in the art OF effective
speech and action, aud other interesting
features will be shown at the Columbian
exposition.
From the oratory particularly effective