THE PHYSIOLOGY OF EXERCISE. 3 i 7 



Improved processes of decoration have been devised by M. Sal- 

 vetat and M. Ebelmen, of which the manufactory of Sevres has pos- 

 session, and which, I believe, will permit the substitution for painting 

 of a lively and brilliant decoration, as distinct as that of delf, but 

 which will be as superior to that as the material to which it is applied 

 is more precious and delicate. Using these processes, the artists of 

 Sevres will be able to go beyond making commonplace copies of what 

 has been made in the East, and to create a genuine French school of 

 porcelain, restoring that material to the high rank which the artistic 

 delfs have nearly taken away from it. 



I consider that the manufactory at Sevres, being a national estab- 

 lishment, supported by the country, ought to lay aside the character 

 of a factory, and become a school of ceramics, devoting itself to the 

 search for new processes, for original forms and decorations, to the 

 creation of workmen and artists who shall be masters in their business ; 

 and that it is its absolute duty to give to French industry the results 

 of its investigations. Thus might it become a most useful element in 

 the national industries, and a glory to France and the republic. 



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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF EXEECISE* 



By EMILE DU BOIS-EEYMOXD. 



ALTHOUGH the reputation of the Romans as a civilized people 

 has somewhat sunken of late, their army -life still awakens un- 

 bounded admiration. The Greeks called their army after the camp, 

 the Macedonians after its formation. To the neo-Latins the army is 

 armed power ; the Germans seem to regard it as a union of the war- 

 riors into a common host. The Romans, on the other hand, as Gibbon 

 has remarked, named their army from exercise. The Greeks aimed at 

 the harmonious development of individuals, without any well-defined 

 purpose. Incessant methodical drill of the manhood, a field of Mars, 

 is essentially a Roman institution, for war was the natural condition 

 of the Roman commonwealth. 



Overthrown by the barbarian hosts, the regular army disappeared 

 from the world's stage for a thousand years, and the greatest question 

 of controversy for mankind, whether Christian or of Islam, was how 

 once upon a time the quarrel of a clan over a pretty woman was de- 

 cided by single combat of knights before Ilium. With the revival of 

 ancient culture on the threshold of the new time, the drilling of troops 

 came again into its right. No one now doubts that, other things being 



* An address at the anniversary of the Institute for Military Surgeons, Berlin, August 

 2, 1881. 



