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as letters and telegrams were being despatched to many friends 
that he had been lost in the snow, and that all hope was 
abandoned. With care, that brave man quite recovered, and 
lived for many years to minister to these hill tribes, and walk across 
the same mountain where he had all but lost his life from fatigue, 
and where others that same night died from yielding to the 
prompting of their senses. 
It makes an impressive picture; this lonely man on the 
Stretton hills, fleeing from death as best he knew, struggling on, 
as he hoped, towards life, straining his sightless eyes and numbed 
ears for some prospect, some sound of coming help. And how 
often during those terribly dreary twenty-two hours did he 
experience the hope deferred, and the sickness of heart which 
followed. I have cited, at some length, this remarkable instance 
of a brave spirit manfully fighting his way when almost. over- 
whelmed by a raging storm of snow and sleet, and in greater 
danger still of being overcome by the suggestion, ever repeated 
and ever gaining in urgency, from his inward enemy, his increas- 
ing sense of fatigue, and yet never giving up hope, but ever 
pressing on, to remind you that there are elements in this 
question of fatigue which no Myograph or Ergograph can settle. 
Mind, after all, is greater than muscle. A man of less powerful 
build, but of more determined spirit will attempt more, and 
Overcome more, than a mere muscular Hercules. And lastly, 
may I express the hope that whilst giving every attention to the 
perfecting of the human body, and so making it a better working 
machine, with less likelihood of its mechanism being clogged with 
exhaustion products, our young athletes may not forget that it is 
knowledge, courage and endurance which tell in the supreme 
crises of life ; and that these functions need to be developed with 
the same pride as is taken in the increasing biceps; and that the 
mind must always maintain its rule over all the functions of the 
body. 
