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Excerpt from Deterioration of the Puritan Stock and Its Causes
The workers shall inherit the land and dwell therein for ever, for work develops the human body and mind and gives substance and strength, and to a great extent counter acts the effects of many bad habits, and protects the young from many vicious in?uences. If a father desires to part speedily with the hard earnings of his life let him lend them to a son who has never earned or saved a dollar to start him self in business, and that father will be very sure to find him self soon penniless, and his son ruined almost, if not quite, beyond redemption. Or, having brought up a daughter in idleness, let him endow her, newly married, with a fine house and with servants to do her active work, and for tonate will he be if he has to wait long to see health, peace and happiness depart from her household, and all prospects destroyed of perpetuating his race through her to more than one or two feeble generations at most.
If we love our children let us not be anxious to have them commence where we leave off. We had to creep be fore we could walk, and if we attempt to reverse this orderly course with our children their creeping time will be very sure to come sooner or later. Young men and women who have not acquired habits of industry and economy are neither qualified to handle money with safety, nor to see a prospect of inheriting it without great danger of destroying all ideas of a life of active usefulness in the world. AS a rule, the nearer our children commence life where we began, the better it will be for them. Let us never forget that without active work at some useful employment there can be little substantial development of body or mind.
Active play until the child is eight or ten years old, and after that active work and play a reasonable share of the time, up to adult age, are indispensable for the development of body and mind. With students active play, gymnastic exercises and systematic lifting may take the place of work for a time but before all young people, of both sexes, should ever be held up a life of active work at some useful employment.
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