Physical education : an essay read before the Cumberland County Teachers' Institute / by J. S. Hostetter, at Shippensburg, P.a., December 30, 1857.

  • Hostetter, J. S.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Physical education : an essay read before the Cumberland County Teachers' Institute / by J. S. Hostetter, at Shippensburg, P.a., December 30, 1857. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    medicine, while experience and observation teach us, daily, that an angry, fretful, scolding disposi- tion is destructive of health and happiness; and more than this, it exerts a baneful influence over the young around us. Fretfulness agitates the mind, and throws it into commotion under every trifling circumstance, and destroys all enjoyment, physical as well as moral. For this reason, says Solomon, fret not thyself in anywise to do evil. Nothing can be more pernicious than frequent outbursts of angry passions. Persons have been known to pass through the ills of excessive labor, and even intemperance, to old age; but it may be safely doubted whether a single instance can be produced, where a person of violent passion ever attained to a good old age The disposition, with the habit of fault-finding, dju , and scolding, is another <tager of body as well as ' mind, both of the scolded and the scolding. What tears and sighs, what wasting of health, strength and life, follow a constant course of fretting fault-finding and scolding. J< hn Wesley said, that scolding seemed like tearing the flesh from the bones, and that we have 510 more right to be guilty of it, than of cursing, or ■•swearing, or stealing. It is a matter of the highest importance to every one, who wishes to live long, and enjoy life while he does live, to have his brittle vessel, or the house he lives in, glide smoothly, and calmly down the stream of time, amid the rocks and shoals of his probation. For want of proper investigation, thou-