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Those admonitory lines of Pope, "Know thou
thyself;" and again, "The proper study of mankind
is man," should, it is suggested, occupy very prominent
places amongst the printed sentences found to be occasionally
employed by parents and teachers to fix attention
upon certain truths, and, like them, they should be made
conspicuously pendent upon the walls of every school-room
and cottage in the kingdom.
This subject, it is almost needless to insist upon, has a
very important bearing upon sanitation ; for education and
hygiene must not be divorced so long as it is felt to be to
the interest of society to respect the compact which the
two have, of late years, been made to enter into for the
general benefit.
There is, be it remembered, an increasing tendency in
the present age to make common property of special knowledge,
and there are now but few persons of education
who do not think this tendency deserving, within
reasonable limits, of some direct encouragement—and
encouraged it is sincerely hoped it will be by every
one either nearly or remotely connected with the sanitary
and educational movements of the day.
R HA11LAND-WHITEMAN,
Mcdical Officer of Health,
for Putney and Roeliampton.