Strength and happiness / by Richard A. Proctor.

  • Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Strength and happiness / by Richard A. Proctor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. rilHE chapters on “ Strength ” in the present volume appeared in Knowledge, anonymously, during the years 1882—3, under the title How to Get Strongthose on Happiness appeared in the same magazine at the same time, under the title ^^The Morality of Happiness,^’ and as the work of Thomas Foster. With regard to the essay on “ Strength,I wish it to be particularly understood that its object is not to show how men may become athletes,—a most unde- sirable ambition for men of sense; but how at the expense of a little attention and very little time, the body may be kept in good condition throughout. Moderate exercise, varied so that every muscle, sinew, and tendon, gets its fair share of attention, is altogether better than the special and energetic pursuit of some particular exercise. I take it, indeed^ that a man of sense, not professionally engaged as oarsman, cricketer, tennis-player, or the like, ought to feel that special skill in any exercise should be something to be excused or explained. A man not moved to better employment by his higher qualities.