Health, work, and play : suggestions / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Henry Acland
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health, work, and play : suggestions / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ey 46 The wise Policy of the Greeks. It is not too much to expect that the University ground, North of our Museum, may be saved for this purpose. If, at our Encenia, the stranger might see a public holiday, with our working youths racing, or throwing, as ‘ Discoboli,’ their discs for a prize, it were a sight not unworthy of the place, or the people. “Striving for the mastery, being temperate in all things, keeping under the body, bringing it into sub- jection,” they might do no dishonour to persons who spend so much time in the contemplation of the people of Athens, and so little in the exercise of some parts of their wisdom, and some means of their greatness. The University, by giving prizes for these Athletic Games, and by imposing its own regulations on the use of its own ground, would shew that public concourse does not necessarily mean public revelling, nor games im- ply idleness. § 24. The General Considerations which have been advanced in the preceding sentences will, I trust, tend to confirm those who seek the physical well-being of their neighbours, in the opinion, that attempts in that direction must also be attended by the promotion of intellectual culture, and of increasing purity in the moral and the religious sense,—that practice! convic-
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