Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1914 — GREEK METHODS HIDDEN [ARTICLE]

GREEK METHODS HIDDEN

Rediscovery of Key to Physical Supremacy Would Be inestimable Boon to World. No greater gift could be made to our modern world than the rediscovery bf the Greek physical supremacy. The secret 6f the method by which, for one brief peril d,_ they realised perfection was long since lost, no one knows how. r • At present, no Uttle do we under4-‘ / ,Z. ■-

stand the principles of training, which glided the Greek in his games, in his battles and bis dances, and made the proportions of his figure different from ours of today, that Greek sculpture is in reality a puzzle to us. Certain postures fixed-by the Greek sculptor seem to us contortions, bordering on physical impossibilities. There is always a terrific controversy over the restoration of Greek sculpture, and even then the arms and heads and legs We supply never loot right" All this because we de not under

sUnd the principles by-which the Greek ordered the movements of his body. It was a great secret of bodily coordination, and the secret ha* been lost, and with it the ability thoroughly to understand the Greek art.