EXPLANATION
This is a condensed presentment of a subject of basic importance to everyone, supported by numerous appendices of great scientific weight.
The special object of such brevity and elementary treatment of the subject is:
1. To accentuate the facts showing how little we really have to know and do in connection with our sustenance in order to have the Natural Automatic Processes done rightly and healthfully.
2. To permit busy persons who will take our dictum as gospel and our advice as sound to learn their necessary share in their own nutrition in the least possible time, leaving the less credulous and more curious to study the appendices at leisure and at will.
3. For some ten years it has been the ambition and the aim of the older and non-professional author to embody the fundamental essentials of human responsibility in self-understanding and self-management in not more than ten pages of coarse print that a child could understand and that mothers and teachers might commit to memory and never forget.
This is only a first trial-attempt to fulfil the ambition and the aim; but the appendices show the assembling and concentration of scientific and militant forces which will not allow this subject of primal human interest to remain longer the most neglected of educational departments.