An elementary course of gymnastic exercises : intended to develope and improve the physical powers of man / by Peter Henry Clias.

  • Clias, Peter Heinrich, 1782-1854.
Date:
1823
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Credit: An elementary course of gymnastic exercises : intended to develope and improve the physical powers of man / by Peter Henry Clias. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. COMPLICATED EXERCISES. Wrestling. But we who are made to be vigorous, do we believe it pos- sible to become so without trouble } Rousseau Emile. The salutary effects which result from the different manners of wrestling extend themselves over the whole body. The members are developed, the muscles are fortified, the vital spirits are circulated more freely, and increased in a very visible man- ner. This exercise presents also the advantage of arming young persons with patience, courage, and constancy. A long experience, supported by daily practice, has clearly proved to us, that, of all tlie exercises of the body, wrestling, well directed, is that which increases courage the most, inures to pain, and accustoms young persons to perse- verance. This only gives them that moral force which is commonly called resistance.* * No other exercises are here meant than those which my scholars perform in my presence, in order to increase, in amusing themselves, all their faculties ; and an intelligent man will easily perceive, that all those exercises are, in fact, the natural plays of childhood, which only require to be directed by a man capable of appreciating the dispositions of each individual. E
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