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    FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. 265

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    XLL—FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

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    The security of law and of a sound scien...

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    tages ? In the densely covered town districts what _sjDace is there for artisans' children to partake of any such exercises ? or what time

    is there after the present school hours to get to any space out of the town to engage in them ? These or other games ought to be

    maintained and provided for , but they do not however dispense with systeniatised bodily training . Cricket often leaves contracted chests ,

    which a well applied drill or systematised gymnastics expand ; round shouderswhich the drill makes straight ; shambling gait

    which the drill , makes regular and firm and quick . The youth , of Eton and Oxford , I have been assured by the collegiate authorities ,

    are greatly improved in health and strength and in every way , by the . common military drill in addition to their ordinary exercises .

    For the middle and higher classes who could afford it , the cavalry drill or horse exercise would be a valuable sanitary as well as a

    civil and military improvement . As denoting tLe connexion between body and mindit may be mentionedthat as a general rule to which

    there are fewer , exceptions than mig , ht be supposed , those who are foremost in the drill and in bodily exercises are found in low

    schools as -well as high to be the foremost in mental exercises . Our hiher education which governs the education of the middle and the

    lower g class is assumed to be classical , but in the hands of the ecclesiastics of the middle ages from whom we derived it , it ceased to

    be so ; it is not now so , and our movement ought to be to make it strictly so ; for the classics , as may be seen from the dicta of Plato ,

    Aristotle , and Galen , j > _ut "the bodily training before the mental , and by the Greeks and Romansduring the time of their strengthit was

    most successfully cultivated . , But care and exertion will be required , that suitable provision is made for the bodily as well as mental

    training of females .

    Friendly Societies. 265

    FRIENDLY SOCIETIES . 265

    Xll—Friendly Societies.

    XLL—FRIENDLY SOCIETIES . ( Continued ?) A

    The Security Of Law And Of A Sound Scien...

    The security of law and of a sound scientific basis is absolutely necessary for the success of large and permanent Benefit Societies ;

    and numbers and permanence are essential to enable such Societies to accomplish the fall amount of benefit which they are capable of

    yielding . But while every Benefit Society should aim at becoming * both large and permanentand endeavor to avail itself of the security

    afforded by statute , and by , the mathematical calculation of chances which has been applied to life assurance , there is nothing to hinder

    them , under good management , from starting on the old friendly terms . The clergyman of a district crowded with working men

    and women , among whom he sees much reckless and useless expenditure in time of health and prosperityand the direst of want

    , and ruin in sickness or adverse fortune , may rapidly possess himself

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/49/