CHAPTER V
WHY MEN SHOULD EXERCISE DAILY
"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor."—Cicero.
"Anything is better than the white-blooded deterioration, to which we all tend."—O. W. Holmes.
One of the most prominent physicians in the world gives it as his firm opinion that four-fifths of the ills from which human beings suffer are caused by an insufficient amount of exercise.
"The measure of a man's vitality is the measure of his working power. To possess every faculty and function of the body in harmonious working order is to be healthy; to be healthy with a high degree of vital force is to be strong. A man may be healthy without being strong; but all health tends more or less towards strength; and all disease is weakness."—Blackie. (Self-Culture.)
"Napoleon said: 'The first requisite of good generalship is good health.' To the strong hand, head, limbs, and frame, fall the heavy burdens; and there fall the great prizes too. Perfect preparation for every contingency made Cæsar. By activity and giant determination, rather than military skill, he won."—Laws of Life.
"For performance of great mark, it requires extraordinary health."—Emerson.
"When God would secure to man the highest, best balanced, most long-continued action of mental and moral power; he does it by giving him a sound physique."—Mark Hopkins.
"The first requisite of success in life is to be a good animal. In any of the learned professions, a vigorous constitution is equal to at least fifty per cent. more brain."—Matthews.
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