4 OUTDOOR STUDIES 
got far beyond Plotinus. It is scarcely worth 
while to quote Calvin on this point, for he, as 
everybody knows, was an invalid for his whole 
lifetime. But it does seem hard that the jovial 
Luther, in the midst of his ale and skittles, 
should have deliberately censured Juvenal’s 
mens sana in corpore sano, aS a pagan maxim. 
If Saint Luther fails us, where are the advo- 
cates of the body to look for comfort ? Nothing 
this side of ancient Greece, it is to be feared, 
will afford adequate examples of the union of 
saintly souls and strong bodies. Pythagoras the 
sage may or may not have been identical with 
Pythagoras the inventor of pugilism, and he was, 
at any rate, — in the loving words of Bentley, — 
“a lusty proper man, and built, as it were, to 
make a good boxer.” Cleanthes, whose sublime 
“Prayer” is, doubtless, the highest strain left 
of early piety, was a boxer likewise. Plato wasa 
famous wrestler, and Socrates was unequalled 
for his military endurance. Nor was one of 
these, like their puny follower Plotinus, too 
weak-sighted to revise his own manuscripts. 
It would be tedious to analyze the causes of 
this modern deterioration of the saints. The 
fact is clear. There is in the community an im- 
pression that physical vigor and spiritual sanc- 
tity are incompatible. New England ecclesias- 
tical history records that a young Orthodox 
