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the whole, well known, for best construction, and it is well established 

 that a frugal yet ample supply is essential of those substances which 

 furnish in potential form the energy which is demanded by the animal 

 machine. Especially should we avoid such kinds as will clog the ma- 

 chine and impede the evolution of the potential energies in kinetic form. 

 These constitute main conditions of production and of maintenance of 

 the maximum efficiency of the machine, and also of its passenger, the 

 inner man, with whom, even in our individual selves, we have so uncer- 

 tain and so mysterious an acquaintance. 



Man has learned by scientific methods to identify and utilize a vast 

 number of materials distributed amongst the various kingdoms of na- 

 ture and the physician and the surgeon are able to perform wonders in 

 the maintenance and repair of this mysterious motor. Plainness and 

 simplicity of diet, frugality and maintained efficiency of the apparatus 

 of preparation, are thus requisites for highest attainments, whether in 

 physical or in intellectual and moral and spiritual realms, whether in 

 gymnastics, in learning, or in imagination and in spiritual life. The 

 famous athlete, the great man of science, the philosopher, the poet or 

 the divine, each and all live a better life and are more perfect men in 

 proportion as they perfect the physical side. 



Methods of life and habits of body and mind exercise an enormous 

 influence upon the health, happiness, capacity and achievement of the 

 man. It is the daily experience of every one that only when the body 

 is at its best can the mind and the soul rise to highest levels. Keep the 

 animal machine in good order and the highest efficiency of the being 

 dwelling within it is maintained and only thus can efficiency be at- 

 tained or maintained. 



The teachings of comparative physiology, indicating what are the 

 desirable and what the undesirable materials of construction, and the 

 teachings of the natural instincts which, in the child as in the animal, 

 reject harmful substances, give ample instructions to him who seeks, 

 honestly and earnestly, for such knowledge. Guided by these precepts, 

 an ambitious and intelligent man can usually find his way safely and 

 successfully through the snares of this world which everywhere trap 

 the foolish and unwary. 



With ordinarily good physical health and a good body within which 

 to dwell, at the outset, the way by which to an approximation of the 

 ideal perfection of Agassiz, the 'soul of the sage in the body of the 

 athlete,' is open to every man. No aspiring and earnest youth need 

 doubt which is the proper course. The way toward the ideal, the per- 

 fect, man, is open to him. 



The prerequisites of a successful life are health, strength, intelli- 

 gence ; power of self-control and of self-direction ; selection of that pro- 

 fession, or that vocation, which gives largest opportunity for the pecul- 



