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Then, again, consider the fact that our lungs were created to consume oxygen. I suppose that never in your life, Dolorosus, did those breathing organs of yours inhale more than one half the quantity of air that they were intended to take in, to say nothing of its quality.
Five hours a day the safe limit for study, Dolorosus, and these terrible schools quietly put into their programmes nine, ten, eleven hours; and the deluded parents think they have out-manoeuvred the laws of Nature, and made a better bargain with Time. But these are private, exclusive schools, you may say, for especially favored children.
To change the sweet privilege of childhood into weary days and restless nights, to darken its pure associations, which for many are the sole light that ever brings them back from sin and despair to the heaven of their infancy, to banish those reveries of innocent fancy which even noisy boyhood knows, and which are the appointed guardians of its purity before conscience wakes, to abolish its moments of priceless idleness, saturated with sunshine, blissful, aimless moments, when every angel is near, to bring insanity, once the terrible prerogative of maturer life, down into the summer region of childhood, with blight and ruin; all this is the work of our folly, Dolorosus, of our miserable ambition to have our unconscious little ones begin, in their very infancy, the race of desperate ambition, which has, we admit, exhausted prematurely the lives of their parents.
From three to five they are "allowed" to walk or take other exercise, that is, if it is pleasant weather, and if they feel the spirit for it, and if the time is not all used up in sewing, writing letters, school politics, and all the small miscellaneous duties of existence, for which no other moment is provided during day or night. Eleven solid hours of study each day, Dolorosus!
To study, with the artist, the least of her beauties, to explore, with the man of science, the smallest of her wonders, or even simply to wander among her exhaustless resources, like a child, needing no interest unborrowed from the eye, this feeds body and brain and heart and soul together. But I see that your attention is wandering a little, Dolorosus, and perhaps I ought not to be surprised.
Put them away, Dolorosus; I know the needs of Angelina, and I can answer instantly. Send the girl, for the present at least, to that school whose daily hours of session are the shortest, and whose recess-times and vacations are of the most formidable length. No, anxious parent, I am not joking. I am more anxious for your children than you are.
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