how immensely more easily, as well as rapidly, his mind works when his body is kept sedulously in what you have called the 'wild-beast' state, than when by ill-regulated diet and neglect of physical exercise the more tangible part of the complex human machine is allowed to become lethargic or dyspeptic. I shall never forget a remark made by a great medical man, whom I accompanied on his tour of inspection through one of our central prisons, 'See, every one here has a tongue like a dog!' Enforced simplicity of diet and enforced exercise had put these men's bodies into the proper 'wild-beast' state. And is it not obvious that their mental condition must have at least equally benefited? It is with individuals as with nations, the effete voluptuaries of Rome, though once the rulers of the world, went down like nine-pins before the vigorous, because unpampered, Goth. A man who forces his intellect while neglecting his body is in my eyes nothing better than a self-made Strassburg goose, whose whole system is drained in order to exaggerate still farther No one monstrously hypertrophied organ. doubt the spiritual part of a man is infinitely superior to the material part-as the seed-corn to the mere clods in which it has to be buried --but if those clods be not sedulously attended to with plough and harrow, nitrates and phosphates, what becomes of your harvest? Dr. Hermann Stoffkraft.-This then is, I suppose, your modern British upper-class creed, what I am told is called 'Muscular Christianity'? Elijah Holdfast.-A mere nickname-smart enough, and likely to stick, because there is some little aptness in it—but, like all nicknames, essentially incomplete and one-sided. Sir Kenneth's ideal, to which I entirely subscribe, is a far loftier thing than what is commonly known as Muscular Christianity—which, to my mind at least, seems to be a sort of reproduction of medieval knight-errantry and chivalry in a modern dress :—with broad-cloth for mail, and the 'noble science' instead of the 'joyous passage of arms.' All may strive after Sir Kenneth's ideal, for, like the Christian life of which it forms a part, it is open to all-the Spanish steel-coat and the broad-cloth are sacred to the chivalrous order of the Knight and the Squire. 'The Yeoman may occasionally be admitted to its ranks, but the Villein never. Dr. Hermann Stoffkraft.-My dear sir, I feel that I have indeed much to learn. Within the last twenty-four hours I have been introduced to a region of which I had hitherto only slight and transient glimpses-so transient that I set them down to fancy. I must observe more before I venture to discuss these matters. Frederick Fairbank-(Aside to his father).I must take him in hand: so he must be kept here at all hazards. He's a splendid little fellow! We'll teach him what he never would have learnt had he attended for a lifetime all the Realschulen, Polytechnica, and Universities in his own Fatherland. Stephen Fairbank.-I fear you will not succeed. The Doctor's early training, or rather want of it, has made it almost impossible to reclaim him by your methods. No! If he is to be reclaimed the work will be done entirely Schiller knew his type well by a woman. 'Aber mit zauberisch fesselndem Blicke Winken die Frauen den Flüchtling zurücke, Depend upon it, this will be the issue. Frederick Fairbank.-I prefer the other ver sion : 'Des Gedankens Sieg entehret Der Gefühle Widerstreit.' CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION OF THE DEBATE. Atqui sciebat quae sibi barbarus Et populum reditus morantem, HORACE. On that day the company were assembled punctually at eleven, for it was known to all that Miss Fairbank had requested permission to take part in the debate. Frederick, in fact, privately told Dr. Stoffkraft that he would catch it this time, and no mistake.' 'It's all very well,' he said, 'arguing with us. We have conventional rules of debate, and so on. But it is a very different thing when the women come in, as you will speedily find to your cost.' But |