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PHYSICAIi TRAINING. 155
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can keep them well , until the fatal hour of forced inaction teaches themthe bitter penalties of disobedience ?
, Many of the evil influences of a profession are for the individual worker "wholly unavoidable . The young "wrestler for bread or for
fame cannot take up at will his or her abode in Glendale or Kothbury . London only has a British Museum ; London only has
ample facilities for the art-student ; in London alone can the author fiht his or her way to distinction or a competence ; and London ,
thoug g h the healthiest city in the kingdom , cannot be considered as a sanitary paradise ! If our sedentary -worker inhabits any of the
large provincial towns , the disadvantages to be overcome are still greater . Disease and death stand at the house door , like veiled
mutes , watching the threshold ! In many other respects it is " morallimpossible" to escape from the evil habits of our
generay to tion bed : — with unless the we lamb give and up to all ris society e with , the it is lark morall ; London y impossible , and parti to go
cularly literary society , is not arranged under these conditions ; and no professional person can lead a wholly isolated life , without
suffering alike in pocket and in mental _breadths An expressive old proverb , more remarkable for pith than for elegance , says " that
what we do not like , we must lump , " and we all have to lump , not merelthe obstacles of our individual career , but the obstacles
presented y by the currents of our time . The historian or the poet may seek the seclusion of the mountains , or a home under the
beautiful shadow of the Tuscan hills , and may there weave strains to enchant a nation or reform an era ; the accomplished artist may
paint the savageness of nature amid the Pyrenees , or her placid loveliness in Berry or Auvergne ; but the young , and the
comparatively unknown , must put aside the delights of foreign residence or rural habitation , and dwell where they can'get help and teaching ,
patrons and daily employ . It behoves them , therefore , to consider in what way they can best counteract the influences of their
condito tion obey ; for the any sp attemp irit , and t to the produce hands good to execute work , while the brain the brain ' s behest refuses , is
wholl First y vain and . foremost the means of health to the dwellers in among
of dancing great Gymnasia commercial cities , the . If Eng oug policy , instead ht lish perhap find peop of the le s the could to leisu be unwholesome re by reckoned for any a certain turn the custom of amount exercises fashion of of midni or recrea of stroke g the ht
tion at an earlier hourwe believe that the statistics of public health would show a balance , upon the column of longevity little if at all
inferior to the sanitary triumphs of improved drainage , or any other h those ygienic practised agency b that Professor could be Georg named hi . or Medical Dr . Roth gymnastics after the such famous as
system of Ling of y Stockholm , are doubtless excellent , as a means of
cure for _qvery grade of deformity , and for many diseases . For grow-
Physicaii Training. 155
PHYSICAIi TRAINING . 155
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/11/
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