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Physical Efficiency - A Review Of The Deleterious Effects Of Town Life Upon The Population Of Britain, With Suggestions For Their Arrest (1906) (Paperback)
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Physical Efficiency - A Review Of The Deleterious Effects Of Town Life Upon The Population Of Britain, With Suggestions For Their Arrest (1906) (Paperback)
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PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY CHAPTER I MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL
EFFICIENCY Bv physical efficiency is meant the fitness of men and
women for their life's work. It matters not what the work may be,
the maintenance of the physical powers of the individual is the
all-important element in the national asset. In its widest sense
physical efficiency implies both bodily and mental efficiency; for
although physically unfit persons do occasionally exhibit mental
powers of a high, it may be of the highest, order, the continuance
of the species will not be of them nor of such as they. The
physical and moral health of the people is the all-important factor
in a nation's welfare; all other considerations are merely details
of policy. Governments come and go, monarchies fall andrepublics
rise, even religions and religious beliefs alter, but the soundness
of the people physically and morally is the essence of national
being. It is therefore no ephemeral question which at present
concerns us, for it is none other than our continued existence as a
virile race. Public Anxiety Regarding National Physique. That the
possibility of physical degeneration has taken hold, justifiably or
otherwise, upon the minds of British folk, there is abundant
evidence; the subject is well-nigh in every one's thoughts, and
many have written convincingly upon it. Not only in Britain, but in
several other countries, the health- standard of the people is
causing anxiety; and, for the first time in the history of the
British people, the subject has lately been seriously considered by
two Royal Commissions. Both of these inquiries practically resolved
themselves into a question of the physical degeneration of the
people; and ."although the findings of these commissions and of
other investigating bod...
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