Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

the benefit of humanity.—The Signs of the Times,
September 29, 1881. (The S.D.A. Bible
Commentary 2:1006.)
Electric Current Affects Vital Powers.—
Physical inaction lessens not only mental but moral
power. The brain nerves that connect with the
whole system are the medium through which
heaven communicates with man and affects the
inmost life. Whatever hinders the circulation of the
electric current in the nervous system, thus
weakening the vital powers and lessening mental
susceptibility, makes it more difficult to arouse the
moral nature.—Education, 209 (1903).
Independent Thought and Moral
Discrimination.—The education that consists in
the training of the memory, tending to discourage
independent thought, has a moral bearing which is
too little appreciated. As the student sacrifices the
power to reason and judge for himself, he becomes
incapable of discriminating between truth and error
and falls an easy prey to deception. He is easily led
to follow tradition and custom.—Education, 230
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