Yourself and your body / by Wilfred T. Grenfell.

  • Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.
Date:
[1924]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Yourself and your body / by Wilfred T. Grenfell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nothing on earth is so valuable to a man as a sound body. The old Romans held that in a sound body dwelt a sound mind. We can go further and admit that the actions of a soul itself are influenced by the health of the body, for it is only the soul’s machine, and it is the soul’s only machine on this planet. More sins are the result of defects in our physical machine than we can realize. The jelly, or protoplasm, out of which it is made becomes granular or fibrous when it should be clear or elastic, and then, like a steel axle that has gone granular, we tell it, as usual, to do one thing and it does another. Very ordinary habits, like the pleasure of a good meal, grow on us till they become a physical sin, just as the habit of drinking whisky is acquired very easily. Henry I of England lost his life by overindulgence in eating fish called lampreys. This kind of suicide is just as bad as any other kind, and is a sin against life itself. Punishment and disgrace are the inevitable result of all physical sins. Having two sons who had just reached the age of ten million Whys ? and Hows ? and Whens ? Vll