The Napoleon of the future will be no epileptic. That terrible
disease has afflicted many of the noblest intellects, and it is
undoubtedly a disease brought on, or at least intensified, by
great intellectual activity and a lack of co-ordination between
the mental and physical operations of the body. But some great
men have been great, not because of that terrible disease, but in
spite of it. Science will conquer that trouble, as it has
conquered others, and the scientist to do this work will be,
himself, one of the world's great men. ----

The Napoleon of the future will be no huge-brained dwarf, with
feeble body, carried on an air cushion.

It is true that many great men of to-day are relatively small in
body. The gigantic muscle, thick legs, broad shoulders and hairy
chests of the successful Viking have nothing to do with modern
achievement.

But it is also true that to-day, as always, the healthy mind
lives in a healthy body, and lives ON a healthy body.

As well expect to find the most perfect fruit on a withered,
half-dead tree, as to find the most able brain in a withered,
half-dead body. The blood is the life of the brain, and unless a
HEALTHY body supplies HEALTHY blood the brain's chance is small.

Napoleon, it's true, was at one time a physical wreck--BUT DON'T
FORGET THAT HIS GREATNESS WAS ALSO A WRECK AT THAT TIME.