The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-23
HAVEN MORNING THURSDAY AUGUST 2s 1906

no useless words, no gropings, no an ger; the calmness of two certainties that know what lies before them. The athletic attitude of the guard, one of the finest of the male body, logically exhibits all the muscles of the organism to the best advantage, From head tc foot no particle of strength can now go astray each single one has it's pole | in one or other of the two massive fists charged to the full with energy. Three blows, no more, the fruits of secular ex- perience, mathematically exhaust the thousand useless possibilities hazard ed by the uninitiated. Three synthetic unimproyable blows.
 As soon as one of them frankly touch es the adversary, the fight is ended, to the complete satisfaction of the con- queror, who triumphs so incontestably that he has no wish to abuse victory and with no dangerous hurt to the con- quored, who is simply reduced to i'm potence and inconsistencies during the time needed for all i'll will to eva porate. Soon after, the beaten man vii rise to his feet with no lasting damage because the residence of his bones and his organs is strictly and naturally pro- portioned to the power of the human weapon that has struck him and brought him down
 It may seem paradoxical, but the fact neil ct INl lfc1, ,t boxing, in those countries where 1t is generally practised and cultivated, be- comes q pledge of peace and gentleness Our aggressive nervousness, our watch full susceptibility, that sort of perpetual state of alarm in which our jealous vanity moves, all these arise, at bottom, from the sense of our weakness and ot our physical inferiority, which toll as best they may to overawe, by a proud and irritable mask, the men often chur- fish, unjust and malevolent, that sur round us.
 The more that we feel ourselves dis armed in the face of attack, the more are we tortured by the longing to prove to others and to persuade ourselves that no one attacks us with impunity Courage becomes the more fretful, the more intractable, in proportion as our anxiously terrified instinct covering within the body that is to receive the blows, asks itself how the bout will end what will this poor, prudent instinct do should the crisis go badly?
 It is upon our instinct that we rely in fountains of fire vii shoot to the center the hour of danger, Upon our instinct devolves the anxiety of the attack, the care of the defence We have so often in daily fife dismissed it from the con- trol of affairs and from the supreme council that, when it's name is called it comes forth from its retreat like one grown old in captivity and suddenly dazzled by the light of day. What res olution will it take? Where is it to strike? At the eyes, the stomach, the nose, the temples, the throat? What weapon is it to choose? The feet, the teeth, the hand, the elbow, or the nails?
 It no longer knows; 1t wanders about it's poor dwelling which Is about to be defaced; and, while it dotingly pulls them by the sleeve, courage, pride, van- ity spirit, self esteem, all the great and splendid but irresponsible lords, en- venom the stubborn quarrel, which at last, after numberless and grotesque evasions, ends in an unskilful exchange of clamorous, blind, ataxic thumps, hy- brid and plaintive, piteous and puerlle and indefinitely impotent,
 He, on the contrary, who knows the source of justice which he holds in his two closed fists has no need for self persuasion. Once and for all, he knows: longanimity emanates like a peaceful flower from his ideal but certain vic- tory. The grossest insult cannot impair his indulgent smile. Peaceably he awaits the first act of violence, and is able to say to all that offends him: Thus far shall you go and no further" A single magic movement stops the in- science Why make this movement? He ceases even to think of it, so certain is it's efficacy.
 It is with sense of shame, as of one striking defenceless child, that in the last extremity he at length resolves to raise against the most powerful brute the sovereign hand that regrets before- hand its too easy victory.