Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
Date:
[1914]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    To keep fit is to maintain perfect health; and perfect health depends upon a perfect bal- ance of mind and body, unimpaired physical vigor and absolute inner harmony, and a calm, mental poise which nothing can disturb. Every normal human being can, if he will, raise himself to this condition. He can live in such a simple yet scientific manner that he will not only have great disease-resisting power but will also be at the maximum of his creative ability. When the body is in superb physical condi- tion, it stimulates the mind and develops its maximum of the force that creates, that accom- plishes. When the body is down the mind is down, all life's standards are down, and the whole nature is demoralized. No one can be healthy or harmonious with a morbid or pes- simistic outlook on life, for this produces physical and mental depression, the forerun- ner of ill health. Not only disease catches him whose vitality, physical resiliency and resisting power are low, but mediocrity marks him also, because all his mental standards are down, too. I criticized a carpenter working for me re-
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