The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-10-19
''HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF LIFE"

The Grindelwald Conference held this
year was marked by a new feature. In
addition to the religious discussion which
had previously taken place, there was
opened on August 18th, literary and
scientific department, the debates in which
were to continue at intervals for a month.
The Introductory address in this section
was given by a member of our profession,
Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, with after
addresses delivered by Sir Robert Ball
Mr.. Whympcr, Mr.. earns Wilson, Mr.
Edmund GoSsc, and several others.
The title of the Introductory address
was, How to Make the Most of Life, the
lecturer dealing naturally with the physical
side of the question in the first place He
set forth by stating that. accordin" to his
views, that man or woman who trained
himself or herself in the best bodily and
mental health made the best of life He
considered the bodily welfare first. not
because he rcckoned it more important in
itself. but because the health of the mind
body. He then described the various con-
dtions leading to good bodily health, and
showed how a good engine outlived many
OF its masters because they attended to it
more carefully than they attended to their
own bodies; kept it clean, made it regular
i'll its work, freed it from obstruction in
its furnaces, and fed it with proper and
simple fuel and pure air.
He then traced the relationship of life
to maturity indicating that life should eX-
tend five times the period of maturity, so
that a man taking twenty-one years to
mature should live to 10j wears. Such
length of life was exceptionally obtained,
which showed the possibility of the
occurrence; and why it was not more
widely obtained in the human species was
due to errors, often of the grossest kind.
ing to the question of mental health, the
lecturer dwelt on three subjects-diligence
learning. and travel Diligence he thought
Il better term than work. because it in
play, even in sleep. "Blest are the diligent
who can command time. Natures clock"
OF learning he said that the most impor-
taut was historical. and among the histori-
cal the most important was biographical.
Know the life of a man of any period,
he remarked, land you must then know
not only the man, but his period also
The fact was illustrated from several in
the existence of great men who in their
own time were practically unknown; men,
for instance, like Stephen Grey, who in
the early part of the last century, carried
from the Carterhouse to Faversham the
elementary parts of our present electrical
science in the little basket. from the con-
tents of which he laid down the first
elementary electric telegraph.
Dea ling with travel Sir Benjamin
Richardson treated on the marvellous eX-
pansion of the mind that came from eN-
cursionS over the world. The famous Dr. !
William Harvey and men of his school
made the grand tour in their day. They
wen to Italy, came back, as it was said
"ltalianated and were thought to be re-
markablc scholars. Now men went all
over the globe; the whole world became
their Italy, and they might be said to be
"pIanctatcd.' This was mode of learn
ing in which the surface of the earth be
came the living map, the spoken languages
the living wrammarS-a mode that must
extend day by day as the mind ycarned
for more knowledge and the power that
springs from it, He saw no end to line
of learning by travel now inau@uratcd,
and he suggested as the next step that
university ships should he MANNED not
with guns and fighting men. but with pro
fcSSors, laboratories obScrNatoricS and
libraries and in which VOYAGES of research
should be made by all classes round the
world, England, as mistress of the seas, |
lea,lin" the advance-Thc Lancet,