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Show GENIUS RESIDES IN ROBUST BODIES The strong mind generally demands de-mands a sound and vigorous body through which to work. The spiritual force in a frail physique may at times strike with rare effectiveness, but greatness itself recognizes that poor health and weak bodies form heavy-handicaps. heavy-handicaps. Addison, Bacon. Beecher, iCarlyle, Franklin, locke, Bfollere, Montaigne, Plato, Spencer and Wesley Wes-ley are among the many distinguished men who have commented eloquently on the value of health and strength. There is an inspiration in the knowledge of what successful doers of the world's work have achieved even when physically disqualified, but It is disheartening to realize how mucb more humanity would have been enriched hnd these workers' mental energies been unhampered. Given two men of fine intellectual inferior in-ferior to the other, then the latter is more llkelv than the former to do first-class work. I-et one of the two hae the finer endowment of mind and the better body, nnd then he is almost assured of greater achievement achieve-ment in whatever sphere ..f human endeavor. Dr. Rogers of the New Haven. Conn..- noimal school of gymnastics' has looked up some records and facts as to the intellectual life and the physical apparatus of, a number of famous men. The lists are long and imposing, covering spheres as widely apart as statesmanship and preaching and extending from Plato to Spencer Their force lies more in the piling up of evidence than in thoiouh analysis an-alysis of It, but he makes a plausible case In support of the belief that great minds generally are based on strong bodies. The popular notlnn, common and deeply rooted, is that men of large achle ement, especially In literature and art, are physically inferior, even when not forthrightly " infirm and sickly. But Dr. Rogers maintains that the Intellectual life, especially the senius, never Is at war j w ith bodily health and strength As a rule, the createst in eery sphere of man's en deavor have been lusty fellows relatively rela-tively free from prolonged or serious -ickness, and usually of wonderful vi-lalitv vi-lalitv and endurance, even when not robust Picliens and Michelangelo. Balzae and Goethe, Shakespeare and Turner. Tennyson and Wordsworth are but a few among the nearly lOOi geniuses whm he summons as witnesses wit-nesses for his point of view Spokes-. Spokes-. man Review. |