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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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We must again see the importance of bodily
exercise. Painful experiences have taught us
to prevent the consequences of overstrain,
over-exertion in competitive imbecility, and
mania for sport. Such results have specially
shown themselves to be harmful for women
in respect to motherhood. Sport and play,
gymnastics and pedestrianism, life in nature
and in the open air, a regenerated system of
dancing, after the model of the Swedish peasant
dances, will be most excellent bases for
the physical and psychical renewal of the new
generation.

In plans concerning this renewal, people
have pointed to the influence of art; it has
been shown how Burne-Jones created the new
English type of woman. It was formed by
an adaption to the quiet, distinguished style,
by a process that went slowly on. This was
the type regarded by him as the model one.
It is maintained that we only need to see a
pair of young English girls in front of one
of his pictures, in order to notice how not
only the faces but the expressions show a
resemblance. The artist has impressed his
trait on youth before it was conscious of it.
Before these forms they grew up, they have
seen them in their picture books, they have

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