You have stated the consequences as they _may_ affect the mind.

I can state the consequences as they _do_ affect the body." "From your own experience ?" "From my own experience.

I can tell you, as a medical man, that a proportion, and not by any means a small one, of the young men who are now putting themselves to violent athletic tests of their strength and endurance, are taking that course to the serious and permanent injury of their own health.

The public who attend rowing-matches, foot-races, and other exhibitions of that sort, see nothing but the successful results of muscular training.

Fathers and mothers at home see the failures.
There are households in England--miserable households, to be counted, Sir Patrick, by more than ones and twos--in which there are young men who have to thank the strain laid on their constitutions by the popular physical displays of the present time, for being broken men, and invalided men, for the rest of their lives." "Do you hear that ?" said Sir Patrick, looking at Geoffrey.
Geoffrey carelessly nodded his head.