How To Manage The Senses In Education

The pleasures, tho paius, and th privatione of the senses are tho earlies and the most unfailing, ifnotalsostrong est. of motives. Boeides their hearing on seif prosorvatioii, Ihey are a principr standing dish in lüe's feast. It is when the senses are looked at on the side of feeling, or as pleasuro anc pain, that the defectivcness of the cur rent classification into five ís most evi dent. For, although, iu the point o view of knowledge or intellect, tbe flv senses are tho really important ap proachcB to the, mind, yet, in the view o leeling or pieasure and paiu, the omis sion of the vaiied orgauio susceptibility leaves a wide gap iu tlie handliug of th subject. Sorae of our very strenges pleasures and pains grow out of the re giou of orgauic life- the digestión, circu lation, respiration, muscular and nervon integritv or derangement. In cxerting iiiiiuenco over human beingn thisdepartment of sensibility is a flrst resource. It can be counte'd on with more certainty than porhaps an' other. Indeed, almost all the punish ments of a pnrely pliyeical iind fal wiihin the douiain of the orgauic sensa tiouf. "VVliat is it that makes punishmen foimidable, but its threatening the very vitáis of the system ? It is the lower degree of what, m a higher degroe, takes away life. For exaoiple, the muscular systèm is the seat of a mass of sensibility, pleasurable andpaiuful.-the pleasures othealtby exercise, the pains of privation of cxercise, and the paics of extremo fatigue. In early life, when all the muscles, as well as the sonees, aro íresh, the muscular organs are very largely connected both with enjoyment and with sufftriag. To accord full scope to tho aetivity of the fresh organs is a gratification that may take the form of a rich reward; to refuse this scope is, the inflietion of misery; to compel exercise beyond the limits of tho powers is still greater misery. Our penal discipline adopls the two forms of pain: in the milder treatment of the young, the irksomeness of restraint; in the severe methods with the full crown. the