t moral and physical
existence; they imprisoned him in a vicious circle, where the overworked
brain injured the stomach, which reacted to the injury of the brain.
They watched the slightest deviation from the rules of logic, and
neglected those of dietetics, to which the former are a farce. They
thought of no exercises but Latin; they gave him a Gradus instead of a
cricket-bat, until his mind became too keen for its mortal coil, and the
foundation was laid for ill health, derangement of stomach, moral
pusillanimity, irresolution, lowness of spirits, and all the Protean
miseries of nervous disorders, by which his after life was haunted, and
which are sadly depicted in almost every letter before us."

EDUCATION INCREASES HUMAN HAPPINESS.

What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To rust in us unused.--SHAKSPEARE.

All the happiness of man is derived from discovering, applying, or
obeying the laws of his Creator; and all his misery is the result of
ignorance or disobedience.--DR. WAYLAND.

If the doctrines taught and the sentiments inculcated in the preceding
chapters of this work, but more especially in the preceding sections of
this chapter, are true; if it is established that education dissipates
the evils of ignorance; that it increases the productiveness of labor;
that it diminishes pauperism and crime--if all this is true, it may seem
a work of supererogation to attempt the establishment of the proposition
that education increases human happiness. I admit this seeming
impropriety; for that the proposition is true may be legitimately
inferred from what has gone before. But I wish to amplify and extend
this thought, and to show that education has, if possible, still higher
claims upon our attention than have yet been presented; that it not only
has the power of removing physical and moral evils, and of multiplying
and augmenting personal and social enjoyments, but that, when rightly
understood, it constitutes our chief good; that to it, and to it only,
we may safely look for man's highest and enduring joys, and for the
permanent elevation of the race.

MAN IN IGNORANCE.--That we may be the better prepared to appreciate the
advantages of education, a