we see an intellect, ardent, vigorous, cultivated, mated by a body strong and healthful, active and energetic, there we get a glimpse of the crowning race. But the man whose brain is cultivated at the expense of his body, is shorn of half his strength; while he whose body only is sound is but half a man-without the surging billows of thought and imagina

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Physical and spiritual knowledge, being the highest and best, is the slowest in coming to maturity. Education not only renders man better and enables him to make the best use of the faculties with which he is endowed, but it possesses the wonderful power of making him superior to himself, of enlarging his brain and perfecting its form. It has an all-powerful influence, not only in modifying the conformation of the cranium, but the features of the face and the form of the body.

Education should contemplate the harmony of every individual, should have for its object the formation of character, the growth of consciousness, the perfection of soul, to curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions and cultivate the taste, to encourage this faculty and repress that; so as finally to develop the child into a man of well-proportioned and harmonious nature. This should be alike the aim of parent and teacher. Training must not be of authority so much as of friendship, characterized by steadiness of will and entire self-command; but also and still more, by gentleness, delicacy and playful kindness.

Moral education is the rule when parents are civilized enough to use it. Parents and teachers should not be obeyed merely because they are parents and teachers, but rather because they are worthy of obedience. It is no wonder that some children set up for themselves; it is because

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they have no real parents; parentage means more than physiology. Want of judgment and abundance of improper indulgence, injures where only benefit is intended.

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Savagism begets savagism, and gentleness begets gentleness. Be sparing of commands. To the ministrations of love, the child owes obedience. It is ruled time by impulse and emotion. But it is presumable that its parents have outgrown this stage, and hence for a time their reason and conscience must guide the child. To these faculties the child owes obedience. It owes none to selfishness. If the child cannot be influenced by love, it cannot by fear. The parent's right to command is not based on parentage, but on true superiority manifested in love. This is always obeyed, and obedience excites responding qualities in the child, as the rod used in anger, as it always is, excites anger, hate and revenge.

The love of freedom is one of the strongest in every mind. Authority is oppressive when it denies this right. What higher reward can be bestowed upon the good child than that of freedom? The child should comprehend that he is governed until he is competent to exercise self-government. With this theory of government in his mind, he sees clearly that every act tending to the elevation and purification of his character contains within itself a natural reward-freedom; while every ignoble act, every wrong indulgence of appetite or passion, tends to personal bondage, since such acts must be restrained by authority. A child is a being in process of evolution. Education should establish a morality as indestructible as the universe.

WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO JUST AS WE DESIRE TO DO.

We ought to be so faithful to ourselves, so thoughtful, so ever-guarded, so always ready, as to be able to determine.

our course of action, and control our deportment at will. To have will, one must have personality. Man should be a student and master of himself and the world. Do you want knowledge? you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Fortunes are hewn out of ourselves, not made to order. God helps those who help themselves, and those who do not will wither and decay; for even souls grow thin and slim, or else wax fat and strong.

To succeed in anything one must be devoted. A great actor must have a great field, and great expectations must be balanced by great energy, or they will be followed by the greatest disappointment.

A cheerful spirit and a resolute will are indomitable. Nothing is so arduous that it will not become easy when the mind is properly applied to it. All will obtain the elements of mental nutrition in strict harmony with their individual aspirations. Those who aspire after knowledge will grow rich in the memory of facts and things; those who aspire after ideas will increase in the perception of truths and principles. The law of progress may be slow, but it is an immutable law.

Every mind is able to aspire. Harmony of character and loveliness of disposition unfold gradually from unwavering efforts to acquire them. Headlong passions, form man's proper woes. The appetites must be allayed, the passions chastened, the affections softened, the imagination expanded, reason vivified, the understanding enlarged.

Manhood depends upon goodness, rounded-outness, character, aspiration, combined with intelligence and a cultivated. will. Cultivate the will by calmly, resolutely determining that you will achieve a given end, victory or result, and the power will increase every day, the character be dignified and exalted, and you will be able to do what is necessary and

desirable. To be temperate, master thyself, which is the masterpiece of human attainments and consummate wisdom. It matters not how great a man's reputation may be, if he is, to any extent, in bondage to any bad habit, appetite or passion, he is not saved.

We should cultivate the will power of the mind, to give a mastery over the influences of inharmonious individuals and circumstances. To be in harmony with all surroundings is to draw from perennial springs. In well-regulated minds, the will possesses a supreme direction over the whole current of thought, feeling and action, regulating the succession of ideas and emotions; or, on the other hand, promoting their healthful activity by directing the attention to the object of them, and determining the movements which the reason prompts. The acquirement of such regulating power is the highest object of education.

We are on the way of becoming what we aspire to become. Our aim and standard are the reflex of our wishes and will. The man of ready suggestion, the man of fertile expedients, the man of quick devices, has a well-trained mind; and, other things being equal, is the one who is sagacious and. skillful in discovery and experiment.

The mind is made strong by exertion, and rich by experience. Necessity often hastens the execution of a plan that had begun in choice, and indicates that the capability and power of persons are limited only by their disposition to exert themselves.

In youth we borrow patience from our future years; the spring of hope gives us courage to act and to suffer. The prospect seems endless because we do not see the end of it.

We think life is long because we have much to do, and it is well worth doing. How credulous is youth! Disesteem and disfavor are foreign elements to youthful hope, not yet disillusionized.

How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams,

With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!

Book of beginnings, story without end,

Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend.

THE PENALTIES OF MIS-EMPLOYMENT ARE MISFORTUNES.

Appetencies exist, requiring nothing but exercise to secure development; and every appetency impels toward its own legitimate gratification. Never seek an avocation that gives no play to the mind, or joy to the heart; that never produces a fine tumult of impressions:

To business that we love we rise betime,
And go to it with delight.

When the soul finds that occupation which meets its attractions, it does not wish to be divorced therefrom, but steadily loves and labors onward. Work will become worship when done in a spirit which sweetens and sanctifies it, elevating it above the intrusion of fraud, sham and pretense. Do your best, and the reward is the perception of an ideal better. Reach your highest, and your eye will rest yearningly upon a still higher. The law of nature is that a cer tain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good of any kind whatever.

To have something to love and something to do constitutes the true charm of our existence. Idleness makes one rush into danger or sink into melancholy, or fall into chronic weakness of will. Idleness invariably debases; a negative mind, left alone with its own squandering vagueness, soon ends in collapse. Some persons need the stimulant of necessity; they need to make headway against the current,