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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7223, 12 January 1885, Page 5

National Education.— views may be held relative to the question of religions instruction in our public schools, there is narsr any question of the importance of a universal and thorough grounding in secular subjects. The man who cannot read or write in these days is out of the race of life, and, except in the case of extraordinary natural force, will re* main behind for the whole of his natural life. This belief is now so general that it need not further be discussed; our only duty now being to make the system of . instruction as perfect as possible. It is in this regard that we join our voices with those who are asking for greater attention to the study of natural science, and we would especially refer to that much neglected sciencephysiology and anatomy construction of the human body. No education can be considered complete that does not provide for an intelligiblo conception of the position, structure, and functions of the great vital organs, the commoner diseases to which they are subject, with the remedies, and a knowledge of the nutritive qualities of different kinds of foods. We are aware that no complete knowledge of these things can be communicated in the short period of a school course, but it is absurd to pretend that,' whilst boys and girls can be turned out with a fair smattering of languages and mathematics, they cannot also be taught « the functions of liver, • stomach, heart, brain, etc., together with ; the ! causes which produce and the symptoms which indicate derangement. : ■ How many a man for instance, goes around in a state iof - settled melancholy, moping and growling, because he doesn't know that he has a liver, and that'By diet and Hamburg Tea he may be restored to cheerfulness ? But ten times worse is the case of a man who tosses for years racked wtttt torture from sprained tissues, neuralgia, rhouautism, etc., when thousands of *« ta "™J from * known persons are forthcoming to «how that his suffering may be permanentlyT)ftnisheJ by the use of St. Jacob's Oil.