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Rh pure air; washing and bathing; a light easy dress; clear cold water for drinking; and simple good meals to nourish the body.

Q. By what means is the perfection of the body to be attained?

A. By avoiding sloth and inactivity till the twelfth year, after which plays and exercises will bring the body to every degree of perfection of which it is susceptible.

Q. What is yet necessary to facilitate the improvement of the body?

A. The instruction of children in the various exercises of the body which tend to render man healthy, strong, industrious, and happy.

Q. What posture of the body ought we to recommend to children and to every one?

A. The erect posture, whether we stand or walk, keeping the breast and head elevated and on all occasions that will admit of it an upright posture is best.

Q. Is it proper to accustom children to make use on all occasions of the right hand only?

A. No; that is very wrong. Children are to be taught to make the same use of the left hand as of the right.

Q. What does most diminish beauty?

A. The habit which children sometimes contract of making wry faces and foolish gestures.

Q. Is the beauty of man all that depends on his perfection?

A. No; innocence and peace, reason and virtue, the consciousness of having done one’s duty, and contributed toward the general good, in endeavouring to diffuse happiness among mankind in this terrestrial abode, all shew the perfection, the beauty, and dignity of man.