[140] Natural History, xxix.
[141] Republic, b. iii.
[142] Ibid.
[143] This policy is inculcated in the “Institutes of Menu.” The incurable Hindu is directed to proceed toward the invincible northeast, living on air and water. Exposure in battle is also advised.
[144] Herodicus introduced the new practice. He was a sickly trainer, and did what he could to keep well; “and so,” says Plato, “dying hard by the help of science, he struggled on to old age.” Republic, b. iii.
[145] Pythian Ode, iii.
[146] History of Greece, vol. i, p. 159.
[147] Pindar and various tragedians.
[148] Republic.
[149] Says Ahura-Mazda: “The man who has a wife is far above him who begets no son; he who keeps a house is far above him who has none; he who has children is far above the childless man.” Zend Avesta.