The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

184 THE YOUNG lady's COUNSELLOR.
how it is to be accomplished, must be before the
mind, or every effort will be like an arrow aimlessly
shot into the air. What, then, is the appropriate ahn
of all attempts at self-cultivation ? Is it not the
highest and most harmonious development of your
entire being, physical, intellectual and moral ? It
comprehends the health of the body, the expansion
of the intellect, the purification of the heart. It
guards the health, because a feeble
body acts power
fully on the mind, and is a clog to its progress. It
cherishes the intellect, because it is the glory of a
human being. It trains the moral nature, because, if
that is weak or misdirected, a blight falls on the soul,
and a curse rests upon the body. As each faculty
reacts favorably or unfavorably upon all the others,
true self-culture attends wdth a due proportion of
care to each. It strives to restrain one power whose
action is too intense, and to stimulate another whir.h
is torpid. Thus by degrees the several faculties aie
balanced, — they act in delightfux harmony with
each other, and the result is the healthful progress