Comfort and Exercise: An Essay Toward Normal ConductSmall, Maynard, 1900 - 138 pages |
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Comfort and Exercise: An Essay Toward Normal Conduct (Classic Reprint) Mary Perry King No preview available - 2017 |
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acquisition action activity adapted adjustment æsthetic arms artistic balance beauty of motion become bodily body breathing carafe cation character charm chest clothing co-ordination coactive conduct diaphragm dignity discord economy EDUCATIONAL EXERCISE efficiency element environment equal excessive exer exercise of energy fashion feet foot force free gymnastic freedom fundamental grace growth happiness harmony human ideal gymnasium II COMFORT impulse individual inevitable influence instinctive intercostal intercostal muscles laws and processes less liberal liberal education lift living MAYNARD & COMPANY ment mental and spiritual mind and spirit motion and speech motion culture muscles muscular natural natural economy ness never normal order of motion orderly ourselves overtrain oxygenation perfect personal poise physical practice recuperative relation restricted rhythm shape shoe social sonal soul standard stimulation strength successive successive order tion toes tone production tonic true unnatural utility utmost walking waste wearer weight woman women yawn and stretch
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Page 7 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 5 - I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 5 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Page 18 - For it is as true today as of old that the life is more than meat and the body than raiment.
Page 51 - Our arts, our cities, our dress, our speech, our motion, our life from minute to minute, our civilization from age to age, are all varied forms in which human spirit is expressing itself. Our sole satisfaction in living is to find vent and scope for our aspirations and to embody them in expression.
Page 26 - liberated woman " can be found pursuing any line of work , including housework , or no work at all. She may or may not be married ; she may or may not have borne children. She may belong to any race ; she may have attained any age. She may be poor or wealthy , educated or illiterate . She need have only one trait in common with her " liberated sisters " : she makes her own choices , whether they be the colors on her walls or the advanced degrees...
Page 8 - The aim of perfection which such a culture sets itself can never be the cherishing of one phase of our nature and the desertion of the other two...
Page 42 - It would seem self-evident that the arts of reading, writing, and talking are the rudiments of common education, and yet as arts they are rarely 42 taught at all.
Page 37 - The true end of culture is not reached when it has given us merely a healthy body well nurtured and developed, or a sound mind broadened and enriched with various learning, or a glad, wellintentioned spirit.