ent in the languages, in music, in art, and have the
culture of travel, but can not describe or locate the various organs or
functions upon which their lives depend! "The time will come," says
Frances Willard, "when it will be told as a relic of our primitive
barbarism that children were taught the list of prepositions and the
names of the rivers of Thibet, but were not taught the wonderful laws
on which their own bodily happiness is based, and the humanities by
which they could live in peace and goodwill with those about them."
Nothing else is so important to man as the study and knowledge of
himself, and yet he knows less of himself than he does of the beasts
about him.

The human body is the great poem of the Great Author. Not to learn how
to read it, to spell out its meaning, to appreciate its beauties, or to
attempt to fathom its mysteries, is a disgrace to our civilization.

What a price mortals pay for their ignorance, let a dwarfed,
half-developed, one-sided, short-lived nation answer.

"A brilliant intellect in a sickly body is like gold in a spent
swimmer's pocket."

Often, from lack of exercise, one side of the brain gradually becomes
paralyzed and deteriorates into imbecility. How intimately the
functions of the nervous organs are united! The whole man mourns for a
felon. The least swelling presses a nerve against a bone and causes
one intense agony, and even a Napoleon becomes a child. A corn on the
toe, an affection of the kidneys or of the liver, a boil anywhere on
the body, or a carbuncle, may seriously affect the eyes and even the
brain. The whole system is a network of nerves, of organs, of
functions, which are so intimately joined, and related in such close
sympathy, that an injury to one part is immediately felt in every other.

Nature takes note of all our transactions, physical, mental, or moral,
and places every item promptly to our debit or credit.

Let us take a look at a page in Nature's ledger:--

To damage to the heart in The "irritable heart," the
youth by immoderate athletics, "tobacco heart," a life of
tobacco chewing, cigarette promise impaired or blighted.
smoking, drinking strong tea
or coffee, rowing, running to
trains, overstudy, excitement,
etc.

* * * * * * * *

To one digestive apparatus Dyspepsia, melancholia, years
ruined, by eating hurriedly, by of misery to self, anxiet