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…but are also when properly followed, the best means of character building, the way to perfect and sane development of the whole human being.
So far as known it was the first of all the outdoor organizations, and was followed by many others, which were, in part at least, inspired and shaped by the Woodcraft ideals. Its immediate object was to lead the young to the spiritual side of nature through recreational outdoor life. It sought to open to all ages and both sexes the wonderland of beauty and romance, apart from daily vocations. It was based on the primitive instincts, the delight of the camp-fire, the pleasures of the naturalist and woodcrafter, and the mysticism of the woods.
The Boy Scouts was established in America in 1910 by a committee of which Seton was chairman. He wrote for them their first Manual, and was duly installed as their Chief Scout. He held the post for five years. In 1915, he went out of office. No other Chief Scout has yet been put in his place.
Six feet tall, spare, sinewy and athletic, though in the sixties now, he can swing axe or spade or tramp all day with men who are twenty years younger. Nature blessed him with a marvellous shock of curly black hair, which seems, more than anything else, to express the wild man of the woods, the “wild animal man”, as the children call him.
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