Address on physical training : (given at Johannesburg on Tuesday, August 29, 1905, Sir Richard C. Jebb ... in the chair) / by Sir Lauder Brunton.

  • Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Address on physical training : (given at Johannesburg on Tuesday, August 29, 1905, Sir Richard C. Jebb ... in the chair) / by Sir Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 ADDRESS O RAINING. 'to rSICL (Given at Johannesburg on Tuesday, August 29, 1905, Sir Rich Ait d C. Jebb, O.M., Litt.I)., D.Cli., LL.D., M.P., in the Chair.) By Sib Lauder Bronton, M.D., F.B.S., etc. Tile subject of physical training is a very large one, and may include the food and drink and general regime, as well as the exercises best adapted to improve the physique, but time will not allow me to take up more than the question of exercise. From time immemorial the threefold nature of man has been acknowledged, and has been expressed in the words body, soul, and spirit. Corresponding to these we have three kinds of education—physical, moral, and mental. In savage communities physical training receives most atten- tion, for it fits a man for war, or the chase, and the results it produces are evident in the magnificent physique of such cases as the Zulus, which the British Association had opportunities of observing in the dances arranged for them in their recent visit to South Africa, by the kindriess of the Hon. Marshall Campbell, at Durban, and the Municipal Authorities at Maritzburg. The magnificent and beautiful cathedrals with which Europe is studded, bear witness to the importance attached to the care of men’s souls at a time when learning was confined to a few, and most of the distinguished nobles and magnates were unable to write, and could only sign with a mark. It is only of late years that the importance ol a general knowledge of the three R’s has become an article of belief, and like many new proselytes, we have been inclined in our care for the mind to neglect the body, and to neglect physical in our care for mental education. But mind and body cannot be separated. We do not know, and probably never shall know, the nature of thu connection between body and mind, but there can be no doubt that the brain is the organ through which the mind works, and that a severe blow on the head, or (2890)
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