Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

inducement to lead them to unite physical with
mental labor.
Moral, intellectual, and physical culture should
be combined in order to have well-developed, wellbalanced
men and women. Some are qualified to
exercise great intellectual strength, while others are
inclined to love and enjoy physical labor. Both of
these classes should seek to improve where they
are deficient, that they may present to God their
entire being, a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable
to Him, which is their reasonable service. ...
Those who are content to devote their lives to
physical labor, and leave others to do the thinking
for them, while they simply carry out what other
brains have planned, will have strength of muscle,
but feeble intellects. Their influence for good is
small in comparison with what it might be if they
would use their brains as well as their muscles.
This class fall more readily if attacked by disease,
because the system is not vitalized by the electrical
force of the brain to resist disease. Men who have
good physical powers should educate themselves to
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