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SECTION III.

RESULTS OF PHYSICAL TRAINING.

Physical perfection scrvcs lo assurc morał perfection. There is nothing morę lyrannical tlian enfecblcd organism. Nothing sooner paralyzes the free activity of the reason, the flight of the imagi-uation and the exercise o£ rcflection; nothing sooner dries up all the source of thought than a siekły body whosc functions languish and for which every effort is a causc of suffering. Thcn have no seruples if you would form a soul which is to have ample devclopment,a man of generous and intrepid will, a workman capable of great undertak-ings and arduous labors, lirst, and above all secure a vigorous organism of powerful resistancc and muscles of Steel.    marion.

All rational systems of pbysical training agree as to the results. As Thomas Huxley would say, “The voices raised in favor of the doctrine are distressing in their harmony. “ If the people could only be convmced that there is morę in gymnastics than the execution of a few pretty movements of the body in a pleasing matiner, the new science would be morę respected.

The following are a few of these results*

BETTER HEALTH.

That all persons wish to be healthy is a fact. That all persons are not healthy is a fact; but that both men and women, by exercise, may overcome in a great measure their predisposition to discase, is also a fact. With a morę thorough knowledge of the laws that determine health there will be mere generał recognition of naturc's methods for physical perfection, and the mechanism of the body will lo