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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯:自助论·摘录 205

塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《自助论》· Self-Help · 领导

Practical success in life depends more upon physical health than is generally imagined. Hodson, of Hodson’s Horse, writing home to a friend in England, said, “I believe, if I get on well in India, it will be owing, physically speaking, to a sound digestion.” The capacity for continuous working in any calling must necessarily depend in a great measure upon this; and hence the necessity for attending to health, even as a means of intellectual labour. It is perhaps to the neglect of physical exercise that we find amongst students so frequent a tendency towards discontent, unhappiness, inaction, and reverie,—displaying itself in contempt for real life and disgust at the beaten tracks of men,—a tendency which in England has been called Byronism, and in Germany Wertherism. Dr. Channing noted the same growth in America, which led him to make the remark, that “too many of our young men grow up in a school of despair.” The only remedy for this green-sickness in youth is physical exercise—action, work, and bodily occupation.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/935
定位:Excerpt 205 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

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人生实际的成败,比一般人想的更依赖身体健康。霍德森的骑兵队里的霍德森写信回英国说:“我相信我在印度能混得好,从身体上说,全靠消化好。”任何行当要持续干活,很大程度上都得靠这个,所以为了脑力劳动也得顾好身体。学生里常有的不满、不快、懒散、幻想,看不起现实生活、厌恶寻常道路,恐怕就是忽视体育锻炼的结果——英国叫拜伦主义,德国叫维特主义。钱宁博士在美国也注意到同样趋势,说“我们太多年轻人是在绝望的学校里长大的”。治这种青春期的“绿病”,唯一的药方就是体育锻炼——行动、干活、让身体忙起来。

上下文

斯迈尔斯在《自助》中讨论健康对成功的基础作用,引用霍德森、钱宁等例子,批评当时文学中的消极浪漫情绪。

今日一问

你最近一次因为身体不动而情绪低落,是什么时候?今天能出门走半小时吗?

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