We create the evil as well as the good. Nature is impersonal. To an increasing degree man determines.
Carl Kelsey.
The only certain remedy for any disease is man’s own vital power.
Today only an exceptional man, almost a genius, learns to modify his habits and his life to his environment and to triumph over his surroundings, his appetites, and the absurd dictates of fashion.
Richard Cole Newton, M.D., How Shall the Destructive
Tendencies of Modern Life Be Met and Overcome?
We have certain inherent capacities as to bodily strength, length of life, etc., but it lies largely with ourselves to adopt a mode of life which may make an actual difference in height, weight, and physical strength and intellectual capacity.
E. H. Richards, Sanitation in Daily Life.
There are two recognized ways of improving the quality of human beings: one by giving them a better heredity—starting them in life with a stronger heart, better digestion, steadier nerves; the other by so combining the factors of daily life that even a weak heart may grow strong, a poor digestion may become good, and frayed nerves gain steadiness.
E. H. Richards, The Art of Right Living.