Education, Vol. 39
A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature of Education (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Education, Vol. 39: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature of Education<br><br>We frequently observe that students who exercise regularly rank higher in scholarship than their classmates who rarely exercise. It is also a matter of common observation that people employed at sedentary work who spend the morning and evening hours in recreation, are more capable, more successful, more certain of promotion than their over-ambitious neighbors whose only activity outside of working hours is to bear the burden of toil from the office far into the night. It is an accepted fact that athletes who continue some form of training after leaving the diamond or the gridiron are much more successful in business and. professional life than their former team mates whose motor cars and steam launches have actually displaced their legs.<br><br>How how shall we account for the fact that greater efficiency results from exercise How explain the axiom that physical activity gives man a better instrument by means of which to operate his will In seeking an answer let us consider first how we came to have that particular part of the organism through which the will operates.<br><br>Primitive man survived or perished according to the development of his muscle, the "master tissue" of the body. If by sheer physical force, his only power, he was able to capture food and a mate, his existence was assured, for a time at least, and his branch of the race had a fighting chance to be perpetuated. If for any reason his muscle failed to earn a livelihood extinction was soon and certain. Only the fittest survived.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.