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Excerpt from On Physical Education: A Lecture Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction at Its Annual Session, Holden in Springfield, August, 1839
Suppose man's unreasonable complaints to have been heard and his requests granted, and man to have been born as are most animals, strong and robust from his birth, clothed with hair, armed with talons and with teeth, prepared to obtain his food by force, and instructed by instinct. He must forever have remained a brute. It would be manifestly impracticable to subject him to the discipline, the study, the instruction of childhood. Such a being could never be docile, never be re strained within those paths which alone lead to knowledge. The arts of life would not be cultivated. Clothing and shelter which now call forth the utmost ingenuity of man, and which in architecture and machinery have developed the loftiest geniuses, and in painting and design have given birth to the finest pro ducts of taste and imagination, would then cease to be objects of interest or forethought.
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