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EVILS OF MODERN HUSTLE. ■London, June 3. “The tragedy of modern life is that all our best citizens and our greatest men are killing themselves before their time,” said Dr. William Peck, organiser of the American medical men’s tour, in endorsing Sir Thomas Horder’s theory that the speed and hustle of modern life and the mania for overwork and overpay were straining men’s hearts and. nerves and damaging the whole bodily mechanism. “It is the men highest up—bankers and business men with ideas and energy —who die,” Dr. Peck said. “They rush through life at top speed, and inevitably pay the price for defying Nature.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1925, Page 5
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