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Today's podcast was edited and adapted from the book Vitality Supreme by Bernard McFadden published in 1915.

The great need of today is the same as it ever was.

We need stronger, more capable men, healthier, superior women.

Force is supreme, the driver of all humankind. And it is force that stands back of efficiency,

for efficiency, first of all, means power.

It comes from power, and power either comes directly from inheritance or is developed

by an intelligent application of the laws that control the culture of the physical body.

The value of efficiency is everywhere recognized.

The great prizes of life come only to those who are efficient.

Those who desire capacities of this sort must recognize the importance of a strong, enduring physique.

The body must be developed completely, splendidly.

The buoyancy, vivacity, energy, enthusiasm, and ambition, ordinarily associated with youth, can be maintained through middle

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