Mental Culture Or the Means of Developing the Human Faculties
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210 MENTAL CULTURE. history! To see man descending by insensible degrees from the heights of philosophy and learning, to crawl like a reptile in the haunts of vice, and there miserably perish by his own hand ! We reserve our proof that the organic laws are alone capable of explaining such changes, until we have in- quired whether man may be improved by any natural means. The natural Means of improving the Human Race. If the brain is the seat of the mental faculties, it would appear that in case...s of low organization we have only to excite the weaker powers by precept and example, and that the individual would improve, because the in- struments of the moral sentiments and of the intellect would become increased in size, and more active, from exercise. From having tried experiments on the natural organ- ization, we deem ourselves authorised in stating it to be an indisputable truth, that it is possible to improve by these means the individuals of even our second class. Can any thing be more interesting to the philanthropist than the well-grounded conviction, that he possesses the certain means of thus benefiting his fellow-creatures, of thus exalting their condition by the education of all their faculties ?
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