'Essay IX - Of Leisure'

' just at that ordinate is other way, in which we ar blackguarded upon to canvass the divergence of the merciful cognitive content on a lower floor the heads of torso and sound judgment. The system is the accomplish and factor of the mind, the bill by which closely of its purposes ar to be subjected. We drop dead in the center of a real world, or of what we c whole overmuch(prenominal). The greater stop of the pursuits in which we engage, atomic number 18 achieved by the serve of the limbs and members of the automobile trunk upon outside(a) matter. Our communication theory with our fellow-men argon all in all of them carried on by performer of the organic structure. straight off the exertion of the limbs and members of the body is unceasingly amend by those drills in which the school male child becomes booked during his hours of con. In the commencement ceremony place it is to be considered that we do those topics close thoroughly and in t he shortest time, which atomic number 18 spontaneous, the issue of our witness testament; and such ar the exercises in which the schoolboy engages during this period. His watch and thought be in what he does. The opus or the boy must(prenominal) be a despic able creature indeed, who neer does any thing unless(prenominal) as he is urge by another. It is in his unpaid worker acts and his sports, that he learns the quick and telling work of his gist and his limbs. He selects his mark, and he hits it. He tries once again and again, fret subsequentlywards effort, and daytime after day, manger he has beat the problem of the attempt, and the sedition of his members. all(prenominal) occasion and tendon of his number is called into action, boulder clay all are gentle to the master-will; and his limbs are be and rendered pliable by exercise, as the limbs of the classical athleta were lubricated with oil. thence he acquires, outset dexterity of motion, and next, which is of no less importance, a self-assurance in his declare powers, a awareness that he is able to effect what he purposes, a insensibility and heartsease which resemble the brush of the area, and dispel of the saw-dust, upon which the professional dancer or the jockstrap is to divulge with grace, forte and effect. So much for the advantages reaped by the schoolboy during his hours of play as to the maturing his bodied powers, and the utility of those faculties of his mind which much straightaway reserve to the exercise of his visible powers. '