Men are one-sided in their views and opinions as truly as in the use
of their hands. There was never but one character that was perfectly
symmetrical:
Why shouldn’t we work with two hands just as we walk with two
feet? It seems ridiculous that the human family should have
been using but one hand, either left or right, when nature
provided two good hands with no apparent reason why they should
not both be used. This oversight, or neglect, is being remedied
at a school in Philadelphia, where the pupils are learning to
use either hand with equal facility. The boys and girls are
taught to draw with the right and left hand at once, and it is
marvelous with what ease, after a little practise, the pupils
can draw a design on the blackboard, using the right hand for
the right side of the picture and the left hand for the left
side, completing the entire design in a few minutes, the two
hands working with perfect coordination. Compared with the old
method of drawing laboriously and slowly with one hand, the
ambidextrous system is infinitely superior.
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