How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Here^ then, is the case of a man who voluntarily gave much time, thought, and labour to the severest test of his strength, and who had hoped to bring about staying powers; and he comes out of it all, to begin his real race in life, often no better fitted, perhaps not nearly so well fitted, for it as some of his comrades who did not spare half so much time to athletics. The other men, who did not work nearly as much as he did, still managed to hit upon a sort which, instead of cramping their chests, expanded them, enlarging the lung-room, and so gave the heart, stomach, and other vital organs all the freest play. If the ordinary play and exercise of the boy do not build and round him into a sound, well-made, and evenly-balanced man ; if the hardest work he has hit on, when left to himself to find out, mostly to be paid for by a considerable amount of money; if these only leave him a half-developed man, can it not be seen at once that an improvement is wanted in his physical education ? Are we not behindhand, and far behindhand, then, in a matter of serious importance to the well- being of the people of our country ? Do we not want some system of education which shall rear men, not morally and intellectually good alone, but good physically as well ? which shall qualify them both to seize and to make the most of the advan-
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