The aristocracy of health : a study of physical culture, our favorite poisons, and a national and international league for the advancement of physical culture / by Mary Foote Henderson.

  • Henderson, Mary F. (Mary Foote), 1842-1931.
Date:
1904-
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Credit: The aristocracy of health : a study of physical culture, our favorite poisons, and a national and international league for the advancement of physical culture / by Mary Foote Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    America (which we occupied from Canada to Louisiana), in India, at Mauritius, in Egypt. He rules America, by Canada and the United States; Africa, by Egypt and the Cape ; Asia, by India and Burmah ; Australasia, by Aus- tria and New Zealand; Europe and the whole world, by his trade, industries, and policy. That race seems destined to succeed the Koman Em- pire in the government of the world. The Anglo-Saxon world is now at the head of the most active, the most progressive, the most overflowing civilization. Men of this race have no sooner established themselves on any spot in the world than they transform it by introducing with marvellous rapidity the latest pro- gressive innovations of our European communities. And often these younger societies succeed in outstripping us. They already call us, with a certain disdain, the Old World. And, indeed, we must acknowledge that we do look somewhat old by the side of these, our juniors. . . . See what has become of southern America under Spanish and Portuguese rule, and behold the transformation of northern America in the hands of the Anglo-Saxon. It is like night and day. It is not sufficient to point out this superiority, to ' denounce' it in Parliament or in the press, or to shake our fists at UAnglais, like angry old women. We shall examine the situation as men who will be equal to it, as scientists who will analyze it with exactness and most deliberately, so as to become acquainted with its real properties. The question, indeed, is to find out the secret of that extraordinary aptitude to civilization, and the means of doino; it. Such an investigation for our sons and our- selves is a question of life or death. Pecrimination is easier than adopting the ways of the strong.