Excerpt from The Law of Activity, Being Volume Two of the Tree of Life Library: Containing Professor Watkins' Condensed System of Physical Culture, the Most Unique and Ingenuous Arrangement of Physical Culture Movements Ever Formulated by the Skillful and Scientific Invention of Man The true Object of physical culture is now, and always will be, health. The effort of some teachers to make an athletic man of amen tal man, 15 rediculous in the extreme. If such a thing was possible, it would not be advisable, for it is better to remain, every one, in his own inherited temperament. The author does not claim that this system will develop large and powerful muscles in a person of the nervous temperament, but he does claim that the exercises of this volume will give an all-round balanced muscular activitv, and that this will give good health in so far as that blessing can be had through the Law of Activity. There are other Natural Laws that govern human life which must be observed before perfect health is possible. 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.