New Walks in Old Ways 



balanced individuals of our own kind. 

 The comparison is not flattering to our 

 vanity. The pity of it all is that so 

 many men and women are doomed to 

 drag through a weary life, possessed of 

 a really good brain and heart, housed 

 in a wretchedly unfit body. The big 

 healthy "husky," even though he has 

 but limited mentality, glories in his 

 good digestion, laughs and grows fat. 

 He may not gain the fame of frail 

 Robert Louis Stevenson, but he lives 

 his life in solid comfort. He can al- 

 ways eat and always sleep, and, so far 

 as physical existence is concerned, a 

 brawny plumber had it all over the 

 doomed author of "St. Agnes' Eve." 



"A sound mind in a sound body" is 

 the only combination ensuring tran- 

 quillity and sanity, and yet not one 

 person in a thousand can fill the speci- 

 fication. It is the scarcity of this 

 balance that is responsible for most of 

 the suffering, squalor and misery that 

 afflict mankind. Some progress has 



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