Gymnastics for Youth, or a Practical Guide to Healthful and Amusing Exercises for the Use of Schools

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Excerpt from Gymnastics for Youth, or a Practical Guide to Healthful and Amusing Exercises for the Use of Schools: An Essay Toward the Necessary Improvement of Education, Chiefly as It Relates to the BodyA sound mind in a {trong and healthy body has been for ages the grand object of education. How 18 it then, that we com monly forget the improvement of the body, though we are fully convinced, that neither wealth nor title, neither learning nor worth, can proteé't the'feeble, the unhealthy, and the infirm, from the lamentable effeéts of their condition? Should you have nothing toibequeath your child, fhould you bellow on his mind but a narrow education, {till he will blefs you, if you form his body to health, firength, and activity, whether he earn his fimple meal, fweetened by labou1, at the plough or the anvil, with the adze or with the hatchet. On the contrary, while you, cultivate his u'nderfianding to the highefi pitch, if you neglect the health and firength of his body, could you leave him the treafures of a Cioefus, the debi litated, fufiering, wretched, 'helplele crea ture Would curfe the education he had re. A 4 ceived.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.