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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Physical Efficiency; A Review Of The Deleterious Effects Of Town Life Upon The Population Of Britain: With Suggestions For Their Arrest James Cantlie Putnam, 1906 Degeneration; Great Britain; Hygiene; Physical education and training
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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