...advantageous to knowledge or light of any kind, except as contained in a couplet, I think, of Shenstone-—• "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made." But ordinarily, so far as youth is concerned, physical education is ju-st as necessary to good citizenship...

...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. Edmund Waller...

...to indite. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new Light by chinks that time hath made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Thus it is common with persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting, overlooking, and taking small...