William Channing Woodbridge
Published: 2017-10-19
Total Pages: 598
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Excerpt from American Annals of Education and Instruction, for the Year 1834, Vol. 4 Authors on Revealed Religion, and Philologists occupy the middle point of the scale. Mr Madden remarks, that those pursuits in which the imagination is largely exerted, are least favorable to longevity. While this is unquestionably true, we are not inclined to ascribe it chiefly to this cause. So far as our own experience, or our knowledge of physiology can guide us, that occupation is most exhausting, which produces most sensation, either nervous or intellectual. Ln conducting the instruction of the deaf and dumb, we found the mimic exhibition of feeling, and the excitement it produced, incomparably more exhausting, than any amount of ia tellectual labor in examining or explaining mere science, provided there was nothing to call forth personal anxiety or apprehension, and we could ascribe to no other cause, the peculiarly prostrating influence of this occupation. An eminent musician, in feeble health, informed us, that too much use of a piano often exhausted him by the nervous excitement it produced; the harmonica or musical glasses, must be used with great care on this account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.