they will be increased. If, on the contrary, they be taught to avoid
these social or solitary evils, they will be abated. Let them be
educated to work and the intellectual faculties will assert their sway,
the moral powers will be strengthened, and the body better developed,
for purity of mind is the result of the perfect development of man.

INFLUENCES OF CLIMATE. Individuals possess distinguishing peculiarities
characteristic of the nation to which they belong. Climate exerts a
powerful influence upon mankind. In tropical regions the inhabitants are
enervated, effeminate, and sensual. The rich live in luxury and ease,
vice is unrestrained and license unbridled. When the animal propensities
are allowed to predominate, the mental faculties are kept in subjection.
Hence races that inhabit those latitudes rarely produce scholars or
philosophers. A warm climate hastens the development of the reproductive
organs. Men and women become mature at a much earlier age in those
regions, than in countries where the temperature is lower. In like
manner there is a tendency to premature enfeeblement, for the earlier
the system matures, the sooner it deteriorates.

MAN IS A SOCIAL BEING. History demonstrates that when man is deprived of
the society of women, he becomes reckless, vicious, depraved, and even
barbarous in his habits, thus illustrating the maxim: "It is not good
for man to be alone." Social intercourse promotes mental and physical
development. The development of the individual implies the unfolding of
every power, both physical and mental. Nothing so regulates and
restrains passion as a healthy condition of the organs through which it
finds expression. And every organ of the body is powerful in proportion
to its soundness. The propensities play a prominent part in the
education of the child. When properly disciplined and held in
subordination to the higher faculties, they constitute an important