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Health Made Easy for Young People; Or, Physical Training to Make Their Lives Long and Happy
Joseph Bentley
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-22.
ISBN 9781150666155
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. Fob several thousand years the wise, good, and holy teachers of man, have been pressing on his attention the necessity of gaining self-knowledge, in their oral lessons, sublime, inspired essays, and learnedly written folios; and our Poet even goes so far as to say, that to " know thyself, " is " enough for man to know." And yet we have nearly reached the middle of the 19th century, without so much as preparing plain elementary books, from which to teach self-knowledge, Physical, Stlt- ffhas, or Moral, and the Laws on which it is founded. Indeed, we seem anxious to teach every thing in our schools bat this kind of knowledge. Who that has reached the age of 40, or 50, cannot remember many facts they have acquired by mere accident, about the laws affecting, in an important degree, their well being? and how much of bodily or mental suffering they might, humanly speaking, have escaped, had is knowledge been given them as a part of their education? Besides, the early habit of obeying a law makes its observance so much more easy and pleasant in after life. From a thorough examination of all classes of schools, I find that of the total number of pupils passing through them, only 1 in 80 attempts to leam anything beyond reading, writing, arithmetic, or sewing; and in most eases, these are taught in such a dogmatical, nnintellectual way, that the thinking and reasoning powers of the learners are scarcely awakened, much less cultivated. And yet we hear complaints of theI little influence education has on the conduct; though it would be well to ask those who thus luok for " figs on thistle
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