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Strength and How to Obtain It

In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by strength I mean health, vitality, and a general sense of physical well-being—life is but a gloomy business. Wealth, talent, ambition, the love and affection of friends, the pleasure derived from doing good to those about one, all these things may afford some consolation for being deprived of life’s chief blessing, but they can never make up for it. “But,” I am constantly being asked, “it is all very well for you to say this, and everyone of sense agrees with you; the point is, can we obtain this much-prized blessing?” In the vast majority of cases I can say unhesitatingly “Yes.” You can all be strong, all enjoy the heritage which was intended for you. - Summary by Eugen Sandow

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INTRODUCTION and NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION. (Dyefferson Azevedo)
PART I. CHAPTER I. CONCERNING PHYSICAL CULTURE. (Shirisha Amatya)
PART I. CHAPTER II. THE PROGRESS OF THE SYSTEM. (Shirisha Amatya)
PART I. CHAPTER III. THE STUPIDITY OF ENVY. (Shirisha Amatya)
PART I. CHAPTER IV. HOW TO EXERCISE. (Rolga)
PART I. CHAPTER V. MY “GRIP” DUMB-BELL. (Rolga)
PART I. CHAPTER VI. THE MAGIC COLD BATH (J Korth)
PART I. CHAPTER VII. PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED (Marie Christian)
PART I. CHAPTER VIII. PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR WOMEN (Marie Christian)
PART I. CHAPTER IX. THE TABLES OF AGES. (Bev J Stevens)
PART I. CHAPTER X. MY SCHOOLS OF PHYSICAL CULTURE. (Chuck Williamson)
PART I. CHAPTER XI. INSTRUCTION BY CORRESPONDENCE (Dyefferson Azevedo)
PART I. CHAPTER XII. SANDOW’S CHART OF MEASUREMENTS (Dyefferson Azevedo)
PART I. CHAPTER XIII. THE COMBINED DEVELOPER (bmitchell062003)
PART I. CHAPTER XIV. HEAVY WEIGHT-LIFTING (Christine Rottger)
A PLEASING TRIBUTE (Kerry Adams)
LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF PUPILS (Marie Christian)
PART II. CHAPTER I. MY CHILDHOOD AND BOYHOOD (bmitchell062003)
PART II.CHAPTER II. HOW I CAME TO LONDON AND DEFEATED SAMSON (Bev J Stevens)
PART II. CHAPTER III. I MEET GOLIATH (bmitchell062003)
PART II.CHAPTER IV.A PRESENTATION UNDER CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES (Amy Gramour)
PART II. CHAPTER V. THE LIVING WEIGHTS (Dar'Keith Lofton)
PART II. CHAPTER VI. ON THE “ELBE”: BOUND FOR NEW YORK (Kerry Adams)
PART II.CHAPTER VII.MY FIRST HOUR IN AMERICA (john warren hart)
PART II. CHAPTER VIII. INCIDENTS OF THE AMERICAN TOUR (Chuck Williamson)
PART II. CHAPTER IX. MY LION FIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO (john warren hart)
PART II. CHAPTER X. FURTHER INCIDENTS OF THE TOUR (Wallace Morgan)
PART II.CHAPTER XI.MY DOG SULTAN. END OF THE TOUR (Shaef)
PART II. CHAPTER XII.MY PERFORMANCE AT THE PRESENT TIME (Larry Wilson)
PART II.CHAPTER XIII. MY MEASUREMENTS (Larry Wilson)
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