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Download or read book The Herald of Health, Devoted to the Culture of Body and Mind, 1890, Vol. 40 written by George Henry Bassett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Herald of Health, Devoted to the Culture of Body and Mind, 1890, Vol. 40: Advocating a Higher Type of Manhood, Physical, Intellectual and Moral The School Board of Glasgow, Scotland, have copied our method of teaching temperance and hygiene to the pupils of the schools of that city. Thus the contagion for good is spreading. We have sometimes thought, however, that in our country the work is not done as well as it should be. In some of the schools we know the teachers are not qualified for it, or are not themselves abstainers, and this vitiates their teaching; in others the pupils are children of liquor dealers, and they and the parents both Object to being accused of engaging in a disreputable business, and the teachers from policy must be careful not to offend them and, in a majority of cases, the text-books are flimsy and contain poor materials. Notwithstanding all these and other difficulties, no doubt some good is being done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.