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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    one lias worked himself up to position and wide influence, is it sensible to do what his humblest employe could rightly tell him is overcrowding, and so forcing the pace that he certainly cannot hold it ? Instead of taking that position and that influence and wielding them for greater ends, and improving them very markedly, must there not be a keen pang to their owner when, tantalized with what seems surely within his grasp, that grasp it- self weakens, and the machine goes all to pieces ? These later years are especially tbe precious ones to the wealthy man. They are his best days. Then his savings, and his earnings too, accumu- late as they did not when he was younger. Look at the work done by Vanderbilt, for example, ac- complished almost thirty years after he was fifty- two ! Did not the active out-door life on the little periauger of his youth, and the daily constitution- als which, notwithstanding his infirmities, all New Yorkers saw him taking in later life, pay him ? And are they less precious in any other line of life ? Look for a moment at the value health is to a man in any of the learned professions—of having a sound and vigorous body, with each branch of his vital system working regularly, naturall}'-, and in harmony with the rest. Do these things make no difference to the divine ? Had the sturdy, prize- p
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