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his intellect—genius even—all that a rational man should, his body would every time respond to the demand; and his physical reserve be ample for many an over-draft as well—what a blessing that would be—the saving even of the man; and the assuring of the good to his fellows, and to all after him, which he might do; but is not going to do now. Clear beyond doubt is it, that educating the mind alone; or the mind and moral nature only; and not educating the body, never—save in rare instances—makes the really great man. Who could tell the value of health so eloquently as the few who have reached greatness without it? Ask William, Prince of Orange; or Alexander H. Stephens; what they would have given—indeed what would they not have given for sound health? Ask John Milton what he would not have given for good eye-sight after he went blind at forty-six; and clear on to the end of his great life! Massachusetts, in front of her lofty State-house, has statues of two whom she loves to honor; the one, the famed teacher of her youth, remodeller of her school-system; the other, teacher of a nation—"the Expounder of the Constitution"—Horace Mann and Daniel Webster.
The one with an uneducated body—the other with a grand one, matching that wonderful mind. Let the former state his own case: "At college I was taught the motion of the heavenly bodies, as if their keeping in their orbits depended upon my knowing them, while I was in profound ignorance of the laws of health of my own body. The rest of my life was, in consequence, one long battle with exhausted energies."
And this from the lips of a scholar; the President of Antioch College; one to whom, "as much as to any person, is due the founding of Normal Schools in the
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