...system has been more or less abandoned, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal. The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it ; »nd hence,...

...all those things to the women," would probably be the reply. And in most cases the tone and manner of this reply would convey the implication, that such...prosperity. Not only is it that the event of a war often turns on the strength and hardiness of soldiers; but it is that the contests of commerce are...

...perfectly fitted to make them good mothers or useful old maids. It is still too often forgotten that ' the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.' It is still too much the fashion to teach what may possibly be useful, before what certainly must be....

...has been in great measure given up, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it; and hence...

...has been in great measure given up, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal. The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it ; and hence...

...serious one, however. Ludicrous as is the antithesis, the fact it expresses is not less d's,istrous. As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite...prosperity. Not only is it that the event of a war often turns on the strength and hardiness of soldiers ; but it is that the contests of commerce are...

...says in his work on Education, p. 232. " As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite in lii'e is ' to be a good animal,' and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition of national prosperity. Not only is it that the event of a war often turns on the strength and hardiness...

...Mr. Kingsley has contributed in no small measure, that it recognizes the truth of the principle, that the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal." But what I wish to show is, that Loafing is possible and prevalent in other things than football. I...

...their attention." Mr. Spencer goes on to quote with approval the observation of a recent writer that the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal." Our present condition physically he •describes in the following sentence. " After a period distinguished...

...Laws of Health —H. Spencer says, " As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success iu life 'is to be a good animal ;' and to be a nation...animals is the first condition to national prosperity." Even in England there is still lamentable ignorance among the masses with regard to the simplest principles...