PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.
“Preventive medicine is not to prevent death, for death is a good 'thing. i
It is to postpone death until it is a good thing. To postpone it until the soul lias he on ‘trained as it can never bo trained while the body is weakly and impaired. And, to quote Wordsworth, ‘it is by the soul only that a people can bq great and free.’ Goethe has said that only an educated people can be an effective people, and, in h,is ‘Republic,’ Plato affirms that the only effective way to train people is to teach them music and gynimastics, -I.e.* hygiene and exercise. .English education goes wrong 'if it banks on languages. It must bank on music, i.e., rhythm and gymnastics. Languages are no good in themselves, but only as moans of intercommunication whereby music of the life of different nations may he shared for the common good. fx-t our bodies get old 'll they must, but let. our spirits remain always young. And if you are to achieve anything i’n this mortal life you must dedicate yourself to your job.”—;*Sir Geoige Newman
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 8
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186PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 8
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