Excerpt from Health and Strength: A System of Simple and Effective Indoor Exercises for the Proper Development of the Human Body
It is not so many years ago that the general disposition was to look upon any systematic culture of the physical faculties with somewhat contemptuous eyes. While the ancient aphorism mens Sana in corpore sano might be very well in an academic way, still the tendency undoubtedly was not only to place the operations and cultivation of the mind on a far higher plane of dignity than merely physical functions, but to insist on an absolute separation in idea between the mental and the physical.
The last twenty years or so have, however, greatly changed the point of view from which the question is regarded. Doubtless the great wave of athleticism which has swept over this country has had much to do with the change of opinion, as well as being in itself partly a product of the new mental attitude towards things physical; and while it is possibly true that the "athletic craze" may have reached its topmost point, even if it has not begun to decline, out of it or coincident with it has grown a widening impulse among those who have no great interest in athletics as a sport to take regular exercise for its hygienic effect on their own physical well-being.
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