Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

The impression that work is degrading to
fashionable life has laid thousands in the grave
who might have lived. Those who perform only
manual labor, frequently work to excess without
giving themselves periods of rest; while the
intellectual class overwork the brain and suffer for
want of the healthful vigor that physical labor
gives. If the intellectual would to some extent share
the burden of the laboring class and thus strengthen
the muscles, the laboring class might do less and
devote a portion of their time to mental and moral
culture. Those of sedentary and literary habits
should take physical exercise, even if they have no
need to labor so far as means are concerned. Health
should be a sufficient inducement to lead them to
unite physical with mental labor.
Moral, intellectual, and physical culture should
be combined in order to have well-developed, wellbalanced
men and women. Some are qualified to
exercise greater intellectual strength than others,
while others are inclined to love and enjoy physical
labor. Both of these classes should seek to improve
where they are deficient....
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