Too Fat

There is one lesson that, above all others, I desire to drive home to readers of this book, and that is that the mental, moral and spiritual states are largely controlled by the physical state. To be and remain upon an elevated mental, moral and spiritual plane, and yet be in a depressed physical state requires constant effort. On the other hand, to the physically perfect individual, mental, moral and spiritual attainment is automatic. The physical bankrupt finds it easier to descend mentally, morally and spiritually—it is a struggle not to do so—while the physically perfect person has a fight on his hands to make himself do wrong.

So positive am I that the moral and spiritual states are largely dependent upon the physical state that I am bound to say: those to whom the argument for elevating the moral and spiritual states, through improving the physical state, does not appeal are already far sunk in physical deterioration; and they had better be advised in time to set about putting their physical house in order.