Gymnastics, an essential branch of national education, both public and private : the only remedy to improve the present physical condition of man / by Captain Chiosso.

  • Chiosso, James, 1789-1864.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Gymnastics, an essential branch of national education, both public and private : the only remedy to improve the present physical condition of man / by Captain Chiosso. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    efficient step remains to be made, viz., to introduce and establish gymnastics and physical efficiency, as an essential branch of national education, both public and private. Considering, therefore, the great extent to which gym- nastic exercise, under fonns and circumstances most varied and diversified, had been can-ied on, both by the ancients, as even in the middle ages; we may well comprehend its vast effects on the health, constitution, and the general mind of the men of those times. Recalling to our memory, that all this has been then completely neglected, and what that neglect all implies within itself, we can really not wonder, that the physical condition of mankind has be- come so much impaired ; that such a host of dire and piti- ful maladies have made their appearance, that an equally melancholy complex of medicines and expedients had to be called into aid,—we may, we say, rather wonder, that things have not become even worse. But benign nature has put even to man's misfortimes and sufferings a merciful limita- tion, and it is witloin the ebb and flood of such events and changes of man's existence and being, that the great cycles of history are performed.
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