Sources of Insanity.
-♦- An a prolific source of insanity, and results inj urious to health and constitution, next lo alcoholic intinperance comes "intemperance of work;" that intense, unremitting application which leads to nx-ntal and physical strain, directly conducing to insanity or systematic defects which may reappear in succeeding generations. Every one admits ihat the ambitious, intense haste characteristic of the present day is too fierce for general good. Still the most marked exponents of this impolitic fashion push on wrapped in the delusion of personal exemption from the universal reign of law. Encouraged by parents, enterprising teachers impose a multiplication of tasks. During the y ars of tender life whe» the physical growth is of prime importance, the brain is overtaxed to memorise a ma.s of dry, disconnected facts and generalities, for the most part to be early forgotten, and of little practical importance beyond the dress parade of the exciting injurious examination day. Such pratice may be teaching, but it is not educating in the proper sense or healthy -way.— Psychological Journal.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 76, 29 November 1883, Page 3
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