Does our physical culture make heroes?—A serviceable body the end of physical culture—‘Ye are not your own’—Use of habit in physical training—Self-restraint—Self-control—Self-discipline—Local habits—Alertness—Quick perception—Stimulating ideas—Fortitude—Service—Courage—Prudence—Chastity, 101 CHAPTER XI SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL TRAINING We are law-abiding in matters physical and moral—Not so in matters intellectual—Three ultimate facts, not open to question—Limitations of reason—Reason brings logical proof of any idea we entertain—Another fallacy—intellect man’s peculiar sphere, knowledge his proper discovery—Great eras come from time to time—Nothing so practical as great ideas—The formation of intellectual habits—We trust blindly to disciplinary subjects—Some intellectual habits—Meditation—The sustenance of living ideas—Children’s literature—Independent intellectual development of children—Self-selection and self-appropriation—Inherited parsimony in lesson-books—Plato’s educational aim, 113 CHAPTER XII SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF MORAL TRAINING Three foundation principles—Authority the basis of moral teaching—Principles not rules—Limitations of authority—Duty can exist only as that which we _owe_—Morals do not come by nature—Children born neither moral nor immoral—Moral teaching—Of the poets—Ethical teaching of the Middle Ages—We have no authoritative teaching—High ideals—Value of biography—Of patriotic poems—Mottoes—The habit of sweet thoughts—Virtues in which children should be trained, 126 CHAPTER XIII SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Authority in religious education—Questions in the air—How authority works—The habits of the religious life—Habit of the thought of God—Reverent attitudes—Regularity in devotions—The habit of reading the Bible—Children formalists by nature—The habit of praise—The habit of Sunday-keeping—Inspiring ideas of the religious life—The fatherhood of God—The kingship of Christ—Our Saviour—The indwelling of the Holy Ghost, 137 CHAPTER XIV A MASTER-THOUGHT