Pedestrianism

238 ON TRAINING# able condition at the commencement, and pos­ sessed of sufficient perseveranceand courage to submit cheerfully to the privations and hardships to which he must unavoidably be subjected. Training is indispensably nescsary tothose who are to engage inCorporeal exertions be­ yond their ordinary powers. Pedestrians, therefore, who are matched either against others or againsttime ; and pugilists,who en­ gage totight; must undergo the training pro­ cess before they contend, as the issue of the contest, if their powersbe nearly equal, will, in a great measure,depend upon their relative condition. But the advantages otfhe training system are not confined to pedestrians and pugilists alone. They extendto every man ; and were training generally introduced, in­ stead of medicines, as an expedient for the prevention andcure of diseases, its beneficial consequences would promote his happiness, and prolong his life. It is well known to physiologists, that both the solids and fluids which compose the hu­ man