PHYSICAL TRAINING AND THE 

 OPEN-AIE LIFE 



Modern civilisation lias been maintained by a con- 

 stant struggle against physiological principles. The 

 results have been wonderful, but it cannot be said 

 that they have produced satisfaction and content- 

 ment among mankind. There are widespread un- 

 rest and discontent, and the question arises whether 

 guidance might not be obtained from physiology. 

 May it not be wiser to accept the fundamental 

 principles of life, which are the same for all classes, 

 give up the endless struggle and adjust the con- 

 ventions of civilisation to those principles ? A full 

 discussion would involve the physiology of every- 

 day life and would raise questions upon which men 

 feel strongly, but in this lecture only the physical 

 training of the body and its relation to an open- 

 air life will be considered. 



Few would doubt that in the beginning man 

 obtained his physical training in a similar manner 

 to that which obtains among animals, and was 

 obliged to spend a large part of his life in the open 

 air. In suitable surroundings the body attained 



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