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Keeping Fit All the Way

CHAPTER I
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And finally, still well this side of sixty, perhaps, Nature taps him on the shoulder and says, "Stop!" "But," he pleads, "I'll be good!" "You are in the way," she replies, "and the sooner you make place for wiser men the better I shall have my work done." But it is not alone the business world that is full of these untimely breakdowns.

We lose many a man in the professional ranks with ten years of his best work before him, the man of ripened intellect, with his store of reading and experience--stopped oftentimes in the very midst of that masterpiece whose volumes would be read by future generations.
Executives whose value to corporations is increasing in a compound degree suddenly receive notice that the continually bent bow is cracking; almost immediately they lose their ambition and initiative, they become prematurely aged.

These are indeed expensive losses! And all this could be saved at an expenditure of a few paltry hours a week devoted to the repair of the physical man; given that and we may safely promise that he shall round out the full measure of his mental labors.
The men of this country are going the pace at a far more reckless rate than that of any other nation.

Philosophers like Prof.Irving Fisher are sounding the warning.

Shall we heed it?
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