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

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Emerson, “ marks some excellence of strueture ; and again, ^^any real increase of fitness to its end, in any fabric or organism, is an increase of beauty Look at the famous beauties of any age, and everything in the picture or statue points to this same firmness and symmetry of make, this freedom from either leanness or flabbiness. The Yenuses and Junos, the Minervas, Niobes, and Helens of mythology, the Madonnas, the mediaeval beauties, all alike have the well-developed and shapely arm and shoulder, the high chest, the vigorous body, and the firm and erect carriage. Were there a thin chest or a flat shoulder, a poor and feeble arm or a contracted waist, it would at once mar the picture, and bring down on it judgment anything but favourable. Put now on the canvas or in marble, not the strongest and most comely, neither the weakest and least-fiivoured, of our American girls or women, but simply her who fairly represents the average; and, however well the face and ex- pression might suffice, the imperfect physical de- velopment and indifferent figure and carriage would at once justly provoke unfavourable comment. That the same vigorous exercise and training which brought forth womanly physical beauty in ancient days will bring it out now, there need be no manner of doubt. A most apt and excellent
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