The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-11
HEART CULTURE.
A New Cure for An the Ills That
Flesh Is Heir To.
Its votaries Believe In the Building q
and Development of the Spiritual
Together with the Physical
Parts of Man.


stood to be a word invented n contra
distinction to manicure Manicure, or
the culture of the hand physical, is &C
knowledged 10 be well enough in its
way. But as heart and hand must
work together TO effect any permanent
good. the hearticurists aim TO begin az
the beginning with the unseen, the in
ward and the spiritual in contradistinc-
ton to the outward and visible Since
the hand Is powerless to act, unless the
pendulum of the body, the heart, keeps
even stroke and swings in harmonious
time. they propose to open school for
the culture of the heart spiritual.
Physical culture, 20 which so much
time and attention have been given, is
considered as of but secondary impor-
tance. Why? Because the spirit alone
in man is that which animates-
1t is proposed TO open classes for the
heart spiritual, having for motto:
do as you would be done by"
Most of US know this motto by rote,
Just as we learned many OF our lessons
at school, when we crammed our brains
with book knowledge of a dead past.
which could be OF little use 20 US prac-
tically. The hesrticurists point to the
fact that too much brain work, over
study for the cultivation of the brain,
has always been in excess OF the cul-
tiyation of the heart, as is evidenced by
the heartrending headings OF our daily
press news, such as: Suicide of an
only daughter, brought on by over
study" Study of what? they ask
Book study is the answer, a study which
will be of little value to woman after
she has taken unto herself the duties of
wife, mother and home. Does book
lore, does schoolroom lore, make all
that is required of wife. mother, com
panion or friend? NO." answers the
hearticulturist; a thousand times no!
So they say let book learning be Sec
ondary TO the culture of the heart. Let
Us begin in the kindergarten with the
cultivation of the heart. Then, indeed.
shall we have a new race OF men and
women, and our children in the next
generation, at least, viii rise up and call
seeds of tenderness and loving care for
others, to the exclusion of self and an
that is gross and worldly. 1t is for US
now, in this our day and generation,
when crime stalks boldly IN broad day
light, shaInelessly defying public veal,
seeking only its own. To what are we
TO attribute all this crime, all this wick
edness in high places2 Why, to our
own fundamental error-neglect to Gull
tivate the heart Of the young while in
the nursery.
Let us work together, they cry, shout
tons yet unborn. Let US begin now
also TO instill principles into the hearts
of our young men and maidens Of mar
riageable age which shall bring forth
fruit abundautly when in the divine
order of nature they shall become par
ents. Is 1T not high time 70 inquire into
cause, while hitherto we have only been
straining after effect?
In what avails the culture of the
physical body of man that shall perish
and return TO the dust whence II came ?
Let us relegate all save heart culture TO
the place whence it beiongs- Too long
have so-called mental and physical cul-
ture usurped the first place, the place Of
honor, to the exclusion of the cuitiva-
ton of the heart SPIRITUAL; too long
have we made clean the outside of the
platter, the external, ignoring the cul-
ture of the heart, the motive power of
our existence.
''Do unto others as you would have
them do to you" must be imbibed with
the mothers milk, iusGlled from
earliest infancy, IL we would have self
forgetting racce, If we would have the
brotherhood of man exemplified on
earth. Good viii bring peace to man
and glory 70 God. Solet as begin az the
beginning. Teach good viii and peace
will follow Wars and runors OF wars
viii cease. Wars domestic, wars social,
wars political and wars physicAEin
fact, no war. no cause Of unr can exist
when the golden rule becomes Irving
factor IN our daily experisnce.-Cmca-
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