Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 15
of 12 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL, the body. Religion was nothing but the worship of ex-ternal nature, and adoration was paid to physical beautyunder the names of Venus and Apollo, and physicalstrength as embodied in the myth of Hercules. IMind cameof course to be placed above matter, but… … Athletes practising Javelin and Quoit throwing, and Pugilism, to the sound of theFlute. (From a painted vase in the Berhn Museum.) ideas there should have arisen among the ancients at anearly period a special class of men, whose purpose in lifewas to develop their physical strength, and that the…
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