Health And the Higher Culture: a Discourse Delivered Before the American ...
Health And the Higher Culture: a Discourse Delivered Before the American ...
Samuel Osgood
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There is, undoubtedly, a mystery in the art power, whether in common business or in works of genius, and it cannot be made to order. But we may be sure that it depends largely upon healthy conditions of body and mind, and that the will power may be built up by healthful relations with the solar forces in nature, and may be carried up into the inmost chambers of the mind. Caesar undoubtedly was a better writer and speaker, because he had been a soldier, and could put into his pen in his Commenta...ries the point and the fire that he had won from his sword in his campaigns ; and David was a greater poet, because the hand that touched the lyre had grap- pled with the lion and the bear, and hit the Philistine on the head with a sling as unerring as the words that have reached the heart of the race, and will reach it evermore. If words are battles, it is because of the heroism that is in them ; and surely every great fight, whether at the point of the bayonet, or of the pen, or of the tongue, is carried by force, and not by theory or sentiment — force of some kind, force that is not dreaming, but doing ; not mere talk, but brave action.
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