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148 PHYSICAL TRAINING.
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p before our readers . " If , " says Dr . South wood Smith by , " such if the prolongation advancing civilisation of life as we of have the
ei the seen ghteenth time was gained in century which , what was has accompanied ourselves been gained live ? in We the a cannot half-century tellbecause that followed we hav — e no in
record of that definite could facts we have to been inform in us operation . We know in the indeed eig , hte that enth every century sanitary has
influences and acquired agency health greater have depend been energy have superadded recentl in the y ; nineteenth and experienced that ; the ; that an main expan several condition sion powerful and s improvement on which sanitary life
of to _Insurance which no former constructed age present in the middle s a parallel of the . last We century _knoiu , moreover on the then , that value Tables of life , and according to which the at public last life annuities abolished in this b country the Govern were
ment sold doivn because to the they year were 1830 proving , _% vere ruinous peremptoril to the revenue y , and causing y the loss of _-, many , millions to the country "
In another place he observes , — measure " How , an of increase the sum of in comfor the length t of eri life enced of a fro population m the whole is an collective expression circum and - a exp
made and stances enjoyed a human measure that a due make life of supp depend the up ly degree national of ent certain in These prosperity which physical agents the . individual agents In other be , on comprised s words composing which , it our tinder is a an Creator nation expression airli have g has ht
foodand warmth . What . we call progress may in civilisation is improvement , in , those thi the s , object means physical is of the agents securing main to cause regu the l bulk of arl all y of and the the unfailing activity populati and ly on , in . energy abundan The by accomp whi ce and ch lishmen the puri state t ty of ,
tures of civilisation science is and characterised arthave for .- their Agriculture first object , architecture the suppl , y com of these merce first , manufac neces - - sities , of existence , by , the creation best , collection fitted for , and health distribution ful and of enj them oyable in life the
Intellectual form , quantity and , moral and quality qualities , indeed , on which we are apt to fix our atten- . tion almost exclusively , as distinguishing and a diffusion high state of the of civili h sation ,
necesthe generated sarily and p moral h and ysical and rap must to idl developed use y be fol ; low preceded but b the the y the production existence b labou y a liberal r and in any training ix _> ssession high degree indispensable and of enj p the oyment ysical intellectual for , nay turning of , the are
physical . " Allthereforewhich has been already accomplished does but
point still lose , the way one-half to , w of hat the we term have of existence yet to do which , while is our enjoyed lowest by their class
and contemporaries whereeven who with liv this e in favoured healthy localities portion of and society in he , alth among y homes whom , "
and life has fifty gained years , , upon consumption death by , one scrofula -fourth , and during a host the of last other one maladies hundred
yet out Among work all over their the the numerous deadl country y will sanitary by . ardent questions investigators which , are questi being ons worked endless
in within detail the and province in application of this , there Journal is one ; namel which y , falls what more are particularl the causes y
which sap the health of the female sex , —which weaken the infant
148 Physical Training.
148 PHYSICAL TRAINING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/4/
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