Scrofula . Medical and Orthopedic Gymnastics CHAP. XII. Deformities of the Neck TREATISE ON PHYSICAL EDUCATION. BOOK THE FIRST GENERAL ELEMENTS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION. CHAP. 1. Importance of Physical Education. LOCKE, in his Work on Education, has admirably commented upon the well known line of Juvenal, "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano." "A sound mind, in a sound body, is indeed a short but full description of a happy state in this world; he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, is but little the better for any thing else: men's happiness or misery is for the most part of their own making." Legislative philosophers, anxious for the welfare of future generations, have endeavoured to lay the foundations of happiness, at the earliest possible period. In former times as soon as B |