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|Text=<p>"This, then, is what cricket and boating, battledore and archery, shinney and skating, fishing, hunting, shooting, and baseball mean, namely that there is a joyous spontaneity in human beings; and thus Nature, by means of the sporting world, by means of a great number of very imperfect, undignified, and sometimes quite disreputable mouthpieces, is perpetually striving to say something deserving of far nobler and clearer utterance; something which statesmen, lawgivers, preachers, and educators would do well to lay to heart."  S. R. Calthrop, <u>A Lecture on Physical Development, and Its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development</u> (Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1859), page 23.  Provided by David Block, 2/27/2008.  <b>Note:</b>  Maybe Calthrop means "have fun, don't talk so much?"  Calthrop was to become a Unitarian minister.  He avidly played and taught cricket in England as a young man.  [For his other sports connections, see #1851.5 and #1854.13 above.]</p>
|Text=<p>"This, then, is what cricket and boating, battledore and archery, shinney and skating, fishing, hunting, shooting, and baseball mean, namely that there is a joyous spontaneity in human beings; and thus Nature, by means of the sporting world, by means of a great number of very imperfect, undignified, and sometimes quite disreputable mouthpieces, is perpetually striving to say something deserving of far nobler and clearer utterance; something which statesmen, lawgivers, preachers, and educators would do well to lay to heart."  S. R. Calthrop, <u>A Lecture on Physical Development, and Its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development</u> (Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1859), page 23.  Provided by David Block, 2/27/2008.  <b>Note:</b>  Maybe Calthrop means "have fun, don't talk so much?"  Calthrop was to become a Unitarian minister.  He avidly played and taught cricket in England as a young man.  [For his other sports connections, see #1851.5 and #1854.13 above.]</p>
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"This, then, is what cricket and boating, battledore and archery, shinney and skating, fishing, hunting, shooting, and baseball mean, namely that there is a joyous spontaneity in human beings; and thus Nature, by means of the sporting world, by means of a great number of very imperfect, undignified, and sometimes quite disreputable mouthpieces, is perpetually striving to say something deserving of far nobler and clearer utterance; something which statesmen, lawgivers, preachers, and educators would do well to lay to heart." S. R. Calthrop, A Lecture on Physical Development, and Its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development (Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1859), page 23. Provided by David Block, 2/27/2008. Note: Maybe Calthrop means "have fun, don't talk so much?" Calthrop was to become a Unitarian minister. He avidly played and taught cricket in England as a young man. [For his other sports connections, see #1851.5 and #1854.13 above.]

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