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Excerpt from A Handbook of Gymnastics Some generations since, the state of society was so essentially combative, that men valued mere brute force far beyond the more ethereal quali ties of the mind, and cultivated it accordingly. To train the body was the grand end of edu cation; and the best-educated man was he who could strike the heaviest blows, and endure the greatest labour. Sometimes a knight and a gentleman possessed the accomplishment of reading, and thereby obtained the character of a great scholar while, if he could also write sufficiently to sign his name, was in some danger of suspicion as a wizard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.