his mind. 'Tis not a soul, 'tis not a body that we are training up, but
a man, and we ought not to divide him. And, as Plato says, we are not to
fashion one without the other, but make them draw together like two
horses harnessed to a coach. By which saying of his, does he not seem to
allow more time for, and to take more care of exercises for the body, and
to hold that the mind, in a good proportion, does her business at the
same time too?

As to the rest, this method of education ought to be carried on with a
severe sweetness, quite contrary to the practice of our pedants, who,
instead of tempting and alluring children to letters by apt and gentle
ways, do in truth present nothing before them but rods and ferules,
horror and cruelty. Away with this violence! away with this compulsion!
than which, I certainly believe nothing more dulls and degenerates a
well-descended nature. If you would have him apprehend shame and
chastisement, do not harden him to them: inure him to heat and cold, to
wind and sun, and to dangers that he ought to despise; wean him from all
effeminacy and delicacy in clothes and lodging, eating and drinking;
accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-
knight, but a sinewy, hardy, and vigorous young man. I have ever from a
child to the age wherein I now am, been of this opinion, and am still
constant to it. But amongst other things, the strict government of most
of our colleges has evermore displeased me; peradventure, they might have
erred less perniciously on the indulgent side. 'Tis a real house of
correction of imprisoned youth. They are made debauched by being
punished before they are so. Do but come in when they are about their
lesson, and you shall hear nothing but the outcries of boys under
execution, with the thundering noise of their pedagogues drunk with fury.
A very pretty way this, to tempt these tender and timorous souls to love
their book, with a furious countenance, and a rod in hand! A cursed and