. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. hundred andfifty years. Evidence in support of this is negative; in the face of theinexorable law, that every cause has its effect, it cannot be accepted that allthe different hygienic offenses ought not to have any shortening influenceon a mans age. The most common hygienic offense of which we all, with-out exception, are, or have been, guilty, is that of breathing
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. hundred andfifty years. Evidence in support of this is negative; in the face of theinexorable law, that every cause has its effect, it cannot be accepted that allthe different hygienic offenses ought not to have any shortening influenceon a mans age. The most common hygienic offense of which we all, with-out exception, are, or have been, guilty, is that of breathing tainted apparently is the chief cause of our too-limited existence. Every tissueand every nerve has been, therefore, inoculated with some kind of poison,and has lost entirely its power of resistance and its faculty of existence. . .Nietzsche was certainly correct when he declared that the meanness of lifeof our present generation, and its lack of ability to live, was attributableto our musty store and cellar air. Ninety-five All true physical expression has its generative centre in the region of theheart, the same as the emotions which actuate it. Movements flowing fromany other source are aesthetically Our Contribution to Health dared criminal—which accounts for normally born per-sons missing the joys of life because of easily avoidedinsignificant ailments. The whole idea is far from centuries ago Dryden wrote: Better to hunt in fields for health unboughtThan fee the doctor for a nauseous wise for cure on exercise depend;God never made his work for man to mend. And Thomas Gray, of about the same period, picturingthe healthy man: From toil he wins his spirits light,From busy day the peaceful night;Rich, from the very want of wealth,In heavens best treasures, peace and health. While Thomson, word-painter of the most exquisitelandscapes that exist in English poetry, might almost besuspected of being a classic Greek dancer, writing thus: I
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