The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . mmands the mindTo suffer with the body. —Shakespere. To the strong hand and strong head, the capacious lungsand vigorous frame, fall, and will always fall, the heavy burdens;and where the heavy burdens fall, the great prizes fall, too. —Laws of Life. jHE first element of happiness is goodhealth, or a sound mind in a sound is an animal, as well as an immortal,and as long as he stays on earth he cannotbe indifferent to the condition of his ani-m
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . mmands the mindTo suffer with the body. —Shakespere. To the strong hand and strong head, the capacious lungsand vigorous frame, fall, and will always fall, the heavy burdens;and where the heavy burdens fall, the great prizes fall, too. —Laws of Life. jHE first element of happiness is goodhealth, or a sound mind in a sound is an animal, as well as an immortal,and as long as he stays on earth he cannotbe indifferent to the condition of his ani-mal nature, and expect either to be suc-cessful or happy. To be sick, weak, feeble, emaciated,run down, dyspeptic, or nervously exhausted, is to begood for nothing, except to be miserable. Time was when the body was looked upon as asort of drag upon the mind, and was treated as some-thing which a man had to carry around with him, likea burden. The old religious ascetics, who lived incaves, and in mountains and deserts, used to tortureand crucify their bodies under the erroneous impres-sion that they were thereby making themselves more. CULTURE OF THE BODY. 415 spiritually-minded and more acceptable to as good a man as Pascal once said that dis-ease was the natural state of Christians. A moreblasphemous utterance never was written or spoken ;still, that was the common idea among certain classesand orders of the Romish Church at that time, and isto this day. Burtons idea, however, comes muchnearer the truth, when he says: The body is thedomicil or home of the mind ; and, as a torch gives abetter light, a sweeter smell, according to the matterit is made of, so doth our soul perform all her actions,better or worse, as her organs are disposed ; or, aswine savors of the cask wherein it is kept, the soulreceives a tincture from the body, through which itworks. Rev. Dr. J. W. Alexander used to say, whenasked whether he enjoyed religion, I think I do,except when the wind is
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