Cultivation of the chest, or, The highest physical development of the human form / by Edmund Shaftesbury [pseud.] The tenth degree book of the Ralston Health Club.

  • Shaftesbury, Edmund, 1852-1926.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Cultivation of the chest, or, The highest physical development of the human form / by Edmund Shaftesbury [pseud.] The tenth degree book of the Ralston Health Club. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Living must be up grade or down. The stream drifts but one way. The passive individual is floating with the tide. It is a pleasure to drift, until the current bears us on the rocks. It is easy to let the garden take care of itself, until the weeds have grown. There is no royal road to happiness. The individual who drifts and takes full ease amid the cares of life, suffers the most when the weeds are come. The boys and girls who are permitted to grow up uncultured, are miserable in this century; and men and women are placed at a great natural disadvantage by being drifters. Finding themselves such when it is too late to mend well, they slam through life like the mad oarsman who splashed wildly at the breakers in the hurrying stream that bore him over the falls. With enemies at every turn, with neglected impulses and habits running to weeds, with the mind and body becoming coarse and deformed by each day of carelessness, it is the duty of all who live to ally themselves with some system of culture.