The Pedestrian's Record

the pedestrian's record. 29 bad health, the whole frame sympathizes with it; similarly as when " one member of the body suffers, all members suffer with it." The Greeks and the Romans indulged in athletic exercises, in fact, it formed a part of military discipline ; and constant allu­ sions to the various games instituted have beenhanded down to us by ancient authors, and in these it is distinctly apparent that the exercises were of a nature calculated to produce all round perfection of the body; they wrestled, threw heavy weights, and carried weapons requiring two hands to wield them; they also ran races ; of these St. Paul was a spectator more than once when he was a prisoner at Rome, for he writes : " They that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize." Many readers may think that too much has been said about the education of the mind for athletes, that the ancient Greeks and Romans were educated only in the art of war. No doubt such was the case, but their minds were quickened by such discipline, and no doubt some games, or even learning obtained from observation, gave an impetus to the nervous system, and, as it were, electrified it. The Greek philosophers were men of the greatest culture, as their extant works proclaim ; the masses were what we should call ignorant, but the speeches made by the Greek heroes of the Trojan War give sufficient evidence that they were men of vast observation if not of education, and although Homer wrote the speeches, he must have come in contact with men of