A treatise on the use and peculiar advantages of dancing and exercises, considered as a means of refinement and physical development ... / by Francis Mason.

  • Mason, Francis.
Date:
1854
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    direction to movements which revel in nature's exuberance free and uncontrolled. It was this interference with the develop- ment of nature’s work which first led to the introduction of that destructive practice, destructive alike to figure and to the very principles of life; and which, carried to the excess which in some cases prevails, by the pressure on and the distortion of the viscera, checks and retards the necessary circulation, com- presses the lungs, deranges the digestion, and lays the foundation for many of the diseases to which the young are subject, frequently terminating in hopeless de- formity, and sometimes the grave. Were it our purpose to dilate on this subject, much more might be advanced to the same end, but it is sufficient to awaken attention