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Excerpt from Building Human Intelligence
While it is true that physical health is the best guarantee for a healthy mental condition, which is also expressed in the saying of the Romans, Mens sana in corpore sano,1 it is, never theless, shown that a surprisingly large number Of great men, particularly of the great thinkers and scholars such as Kant, Helmholtz, Newton, Watt, and others, have been sickly chil dren, and often remained weak their whole lives long; yet this in no way affected either their mental faculties or their longevity. To illustrate some Of my statements I, found it necessary to delve somewhat more into the modes of life and habits Of some of the great men. The necessary data were found in a number of treatises by contemporaries of these mental heroes, as well as in the writings Of Moebius and W. Oswald. I have also used a number of encyclopedias, which were placed at my disposal in the British Museum, in London, and in the Royal Libraries, at the'hague, in Holland, particularly the very correct and thor ough biographies found in the Encyclopedia Britannica and Hispano Americana. 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.
