Training of the body for games, athletics, gymnastics, and other forms of exercise

PREFACE
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wind', but is absolutely essential for a proper stroke in a
great number of Ball-games (such as Rackets). But what I have
found out is probably only a small portion of what each might
find out for himself. The experiences of many others are sadly
needed, and it will give each reader a fresh interest in every
exercise that he tries, and indeed in everything that he does,
if he feels that he may be finding out something which will
be useful for others besides himself. Throughout games and
exercises it is of the utmost importance that everyone should
realise this. It will raise the point of view from which games
and exercises are regarded, and will encourage observation and
memory and many other faculties. In truth, the personal ex-
perience of numbers of separate persons may some day prove
to have been and to be the greatest teaching influence in the
whole world. At present it is the most solid basis of the Science
of Health. More on this subject of General Health will be
found in a work which will be published in a few months.
Everyone wants to be healthy, everyone is interested in
health; but very few take the trouble to be healthy, and still
fewer dare to think for themselves. They are the slaves of habit
and custom and fashion. If this book does anything towards
making the majority try new methods and then rely on their
own judgment, it will not have been in vain.
EuSTACE
M
ILES.
King's College, Cambridge.