Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924.
Date:
[1914]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    health is like the workman too busy to sharpen his tools. Anything that produces, should be kept in a condition to produce the largest possible output. What should we think of a man who had an enormous gold-mine, but carelessly cut down its possible output seventy-five per cent? Yet, most of us cut down the possible output of our brains, our energies, even more than seventy- five per cent, by our carelessness, strangling or crippling our sources of power. We should think it pretty bad economy for an engineer, who had a power plant capable of producing a hundred thousand horse power, to utilize only ten per cent, of it. Yet that is precisely what most of us do with our physical powers. Now, health squandered can never be com- pensated for by the mere acquisition of money. It is simply lack of intelligence that causes any one to barter health for wealth. A well- balanced man would find the way to have both with detriment to neither. The lowering of physical vitality by unsci- entific living, by vicious practices, or by dissi- pation, correspondingly lowers our general ef- ficiency, mentality, and will-power.