Excerpt from The Co-Education of Mind and Hand The complete separation of the schools from the arts in the early ages, resulted in such incongruities as the pyramids of Egypt and periodical famines; the hanging gardens of Babylon and the horrors of Jewish captivity; the Greek Parthenon and dwellings without chimneys; the statues of Praxiteles and Phidias, and royal banquets without knives, forks, or spoons; the Roman Forum and the Roman populace crying for bread and circuses. Since, then, civilization is synonymous with education, and since the state of the arts is the _true measure of civili zation, the training that promotes the highest development of the arts must possess the greatest educational value. The use of tools quickens the intellect. The boy who begins to construct or form a machine, a tool, or anything, is compelled to think definitely, to deliberate, reason and conclude. As he advances he is brought into contact with powerful natural forces. If he would control those forces he must master their laws he must hence investigate the phenomena of matter, and thence he will be led to a study of the phenomena of mind. Thus the training of the hand reacts upon the mind, inciting it to excursions into the realm Of science in search of hidden laws and principles, to be utilized through the arts, in useful and beautiful things. 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.