Excerpt from Medical Examination of Schools and Scholars The adoptou of manhood suffrage by the British people had compulsory education as an almost inevitable con sequence, for it is absurd that a man who can neither read nor write and is therefore unable to learn about the affairs of the country Should yet have an equal vote in their management with those who are thoroughly conversant with them. But voting is only one part of the duty of a citizen, and the nation is beginning Slowly to perceive that unless the bodies of children are attended to, aswell as their minds, they will tend as they grow up to swell the ranks of the unemployed and unemployable. Physical training, supplemented by feeding, and, if necessary, by free food, is therefore a necessity, but it can not be undertaken without a preliminary medical examina tion, because the exercise that is sufficient to develop one child might be too little for another, and far too great for a third, so great indeed as to bring about irreparable mischief instead of benefit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.