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food, regular and adapted exercise — these sum up 

 the measures prescribed as proper to give inward 

 strength and to keep it in sound and supple 

 activity. But they are not quite all, for they 

 leave out mind ; and as a sound body is the 

 condition of a sound mind, so the wholesome 

 exercise of a calm and well-disciplined mind, 

 ready to meet all changes and chances with com- 

 posure, ministers mightily to health of body. 

 Corroding passions and unruly affections, such as 

 anger, envy, jealousy, revenge, lusts and fears of 

 every kind, are a hurt to body as well as mind ; so 

 that rules of wise mental culture and exercise are 

 an essential part of the regimen of health. When 

 one contrasts the simplicity of the salutary rules 

 with the usual stolid violation of them, it might 

 seem that men were in love with disease, such 

 pains do they take to provoke and nourish it. 

 Knowing well that fresh air is a good thing, they 

 go on in practice to shut it out lest a stray draught 

 come their way ; so little care do they take to 

 eat only what is needful that they habitually eat 

 twice as much as is good for them ; so reckless 

 are they of what they drink that they persistently 

 abuse alcohol to obtain temporarily an ideal relish 

 which the insipidity of their real life denies them ; 

 so perfunctory is the routine of daily exercise they 

 take in dull mechanical pacings that they rehearse 

 their lives by rote, never bringing into full use 

 half the possible movements of their bodies and 

 less than half the faculties of their minds ; so 



