Health and Education

Health and Education, by Charles Kingsley
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Title: Health and Education
Author: Charles Kingsley
Release Date: December 31, 2005 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1874 W. Isbister & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
HEALTH AND EDUCATION
BY THE
R EV . CHARLES KINGSLEY, F.L.S., F.G .S. C ANON OF WESTMINSTER W. ISBISTER & CO. 56, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON 1874 [All rights reserved ]
THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH
Whether the British race is improving or degenerating? What, if it seem probably degenerating, are the causes of so great an evil? How they can be, if not destroyed, at least arrested?—These are questions worthy the attention, not of statesmen only and medical men, but of every father and mother in these isles. I shall say somewhat about them in this Essay; and say it in a form which ought to be intelligible to fathers and mothers of every class, from the highest to the lowest, in hopes of convincing some of them at least that the science of health, now so utterly neglected in our curriculum of so-called ...