Excerpt from The New Gymnastics for Men, Women, and Children: With a Translation of Prof. Kloss's Dumb Bell Instructor and Prof. Schreber's Pangymnastikon I have nothing to say of the importance of Physical Education. He who has not seen in the imperfect growth, pale faces, distorted forms and painful nervousness of the American People,2 enough to justify any and all efforts to Elevate our physical tone, would not be awakened by words, written or spoken. Presuming that all who read this work are fully cognizant of the imperative need which calls it forth, I shall enter at once upon my task. 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.