Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BEGINS WITH THE BODY 1. The Body as the Physical Basis of Life. Education begins with the body; for at bottom we are Hbone ana! blood and brain. The body is the basis of all our life, mental and moral as well as physical. Body and soul are intimately NXs interwoven into a mystic unity, and neither of these parts of our human personality can be complete without the other. The body is the coarse material stem on which blooms the fine blossom of the spirit. And the breadth of the brain has something to do with the width of our thinking, and the volume and warmth of the blood with the fervency of the feelings and the force of the will. operations. in the soul, and every change in the soul at once affectsthe body. The body sends every sensory stimulus into the mind, and every thought and feeling and volition expresses itself through the body. The emotions paint themselves on the face, a sense of shame flooding it with scarlet, and fear blanching it white; and the will controls all the voluntary muscles and through them acts upon the world. The body is thus a marvelous mechanism which is the nimble servant of the soul. Its hands and feet are the means by which man takes hold of the world and masters it, and his senses are so many fine feelers with which he reaches out and touches and interprets the world at every point and even feels his way out among the constellations to the most distant star. Not only is the body a wonderful machine, but it also makes machines which are enormous extensions and reenforce- ments and refinements of its powers. Man's telescopes and microscopes are gigantic eyes which penetrate the depths of star spaces and peer down among molecules and atoms. His control of nature's energies enables him to pass with incredible speed across continents and s...