Arnold Bennett

Mental Efficiency Arnold Bennett

If there is any virtue in advertisements- and a journalist should be the lastperson to say that there is not-the American nation is rapidly reaching a stateof physical efficiency of which the world has probably not seen the like sinceSparta. In all the American newspapers and all the American monthlies areinnumerable illustrated announcements of "physical-culture specialists," whoguarantee to make all the organs of the body perform their duties with themighty precision of a 60 h.p. motor-car that never breaks down. I saw a bookthe other day written by one of these specialists, to show how perfect healthcould be attained by devoting a quarter of an hour a day to certain exercises....