Do you worship at the shrine of beauty? Now, while in the heyday of youth, while the rays of life's sunshine are warmest and brightest, do you not yearn for comely proportions, for a clear-tinted complexion, for the grace, suppleness and vigor of glorious, exhilarating health? If so, now is the time to determine with a strong, inflexible will, that these marks of perfection shall be acquired. Now, while the body is still immature, still expanding and developing, your physical appearance can be changed in every outline, in every proportion. Remember that ugliness is a positive sin against Nature, and its possession indicates, beyond all chance of refutation, that you have grossly disobeyed laws controlling the harmonious development of vigorous health.
To make posible 'The Life Beautiful' the body as well as the mind and soul must be cultured and made symmetrical in every curve. Life, in its aesthetic sense, with all its subtle magnetic force, cannot be even partially realized by the mere act of existence. To exist is not to live. It is the abundant vitality of a cultured body that gives to every action, to every word, that forceful spontaneity, that ease of perfect confidence, so essential to the successful accomplishment of the projects of life. Within physical training a woman has a power for beautifying, not only her physical proportions, but her eyes, her complexion, her very personality itself.
-- Bernarr A. Macfadden.
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