But meantime, while we are trying to change the world's ideas, we have to live, and we can do our work better if we keep as well as possible. I have tried to point out the way; it is, as you can see, a matter in part of the body and in part of the mind. All the bodily régime here laid out has its basis in mental habits; all wise and wholesome ways of life can, at the age when our minds are plastic, be made into "second nature"—things which we do automatically, without effort or temptation to do otherwise. This is the real secret of true happiness in the conduct of our personal lives; to acquire self-control, to rule our desires and our passions, not harshly and spasmodically, but serenely, as one drives a car which he thoroughly understands. It is in vain that we preach freedom to men who have not this self-mastery; as the poet tell us: "The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, slaves of their own compulsion." And of all the personal possessions which man can attain on this earth, the most precious is the one of a sound mind controlling a sound body. I close this book by quoting some verses written by Sir Henry Wotton three hundred years ago, which I have all my life considered one of the noblest pieces of poetry in our heritage:
INDEX
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Y]
Abrams, Dr., 1[90]
Adultery, [33]
Adventist, [99]
Agriculture, [25]
Alcohol, [151]
Anti-bodies, [188]
Antinomies, [58]
Appendix, [186]
Arnold, [42]
Arrhenius, [101]
Automatic writing, [67]
Bairnsfather, [29]
Bathing, [162]
Battle Creek Sanitarium, [118]
Beauchamp, [70], [85], [89]
Beethoven, [47]
Bergson, [17]
Beri-beri, [128]
Bible, [77]
Bio-chemist, [59]
Black bread, [128]
Blood, [106]
Body, [53], [105]
Booth, [58]
Bourne, [69]
Bruce, [71]
Bury, [15]
Caffein, [150]
Calories, [135]
Candy, [137]
Capitalist, [100]
Carbohydrates, [124]
Carbon monoxide, [157]
Children, [140], [180]
Chiropractors, [174], [184]
Chittenden, [136]
Christian Scientists, [5], [65], [105]
Clothing, [160]
Coffee, [151]
Colds, [183]
Commandments, [32]
Communist, [99]
Complete fast, [172]
Comstock, [25]
Conduct, [42]
Consciousness, [56]
Constipation, [185]
Cooking, [129], [142]
Crawford, [88]
Cyrus, [164]
Dandruff, [109]
Dante, [77]
Darwin, [17], [46]
Dentistry, [126], [190]
Determinists, [57]
Diet, [131]
Diet Standards, [135]
Digestion, [145]
Diphtheria, [188]
Diseases, [107], [117]
Dogs, [17]
Draft, [182]
Drugs, [118], [150], [185], [189]
Dubb, [63]
Duncan, [102]
Dyspepsia, [117]
Eddy, [65]
Edison, [45], [86]
Einstein, [101]
Elberfeld horses, [68]
Evolution, [8], [17]
Exercise, [163]
Faith, [9]
Faith curists, [65]
Fast cure, [171]
Fatness, [139]
Fats, [124]
Fever, [108]
Fireless cooker, [142]
Fireplace, [157]
Fisher, [136]
Fletcher, [119], [145]
Food filter, [145]
Fourth dimension, [5]
Free thinker, [15]
Freud, 71
Fruit fast, [175]
Frugality, [38]
Frying-pan, [129]
Furnace, [157]
Gargles, [184]
Gastronomic art, [148]
Genius, [49], [60]
George, [18]
Germs, [183]
God, [22], [50]
Goethe, [47]
Golden rule, [51]
Greens, [132]
Gymnastic work, [166]
Hair, [109]
Hallucinations, [75]
Hamlet, [48]
Happiness, [9]
Harrison, [6]
Hats, [110]
Headache, [122], [150], [184]
Health cranks, [182]
Heart, [108]
Houdin, [93]
Hugo, [48]
Huxley, [17], [62]
Hyslop, [82]
Iceberg, [61]
Infanticide, [28]
Instincts, [134]
Intelligence, [22]
Immortality, [79]
Irwin, Will, [86]
James, [30], [59], [60]
Jesus, [47], [48], [50], [51], [76]
John Barleycorn, [152]
Johnson, [58]
Jonson, [44]
Kant, Immanuel, [4], [47], [51], [58]
Kellogg, Doctor, [118], [164], [186]
Kilmer, Joyce, [44]
Knowledge, [94]
Kropotkin, [18], [26]
Langley, [74]
Lankester, Prof. E. Ray, [23]
Laxatives, [175], [185]
Leanness, [139]
Leonardo, [47]
Liébault, [64]
Life, [3]
Lily Dale, [86], [90]
Lincoln, [47]
Locomotor ataxia, [180]
Lodge, Sir Oliver, [83]
Lodge, Raymond, [87]
London, Jack, [152]
Macaulay, [39]
MacDowell, Edward, [56]
MacFadden, [178], [186]
MacSwiney, [170]
Maeterlinck, Maurice, [68]
Malaria, [189]
Malthusian law, [25]
Marquesans, [113]
Materializations, [88]
Matter, [3]
Meal-hour, [147]
Measurement of Intelligence, Terman's, [95]
Meat, [121]
Medical science, [105]
Mesmer, [63]
Messina earthquake, [170]
Metaphysics, [4]
Metchnikoff, [138]
Milk diet, [128]
Moderation, [39]
Monism, [3]
Morality, [21], [31], [34], [50]
Morgan, [45]
Mormon, [99]
Mozart, [68]
Multiple personality, [69]
Mutation, [17]
Myers, [49]
Nature, [21], [24], [29]
Nature cure, [160]
Nature Woman, [176]
Neighbor, [50]
Newcomb, Simon, [101]
Newton, 47
New York Times, [169]
Nicotine, [154]
Nietzsche, [17]
Novels, [164]
Nutrition of Man, [136]
Oil stoves, [158]
Opsonins, [112]
Optimism, [42]
Osteopaths, [184]
Ouija, [67]
Overeating, [134]
Oxygen, [156]
Patrick, Dr., [167]
Pavlov, [148]
Phantasms, [75]
Phillips, David Graham, [180]
Piper, Mrs., [68]
Play, [165]
Poisons, [146]
Pork, [142]
Porter, Dr., [178]
Positivists, [6]
Poverty, [194]
Prices of food, [141]
Prince, Dr. Morton, [70], [89]
Profits of Religion, [78], [99]
Proteins, [123]
Prunes, [127]
Psychology, [96]
Psychotherapy, [64]
Puritans, [39]
Quackenbos, [64]
Quinine, [188]
Quixote, [48]
Raisins, [127]
Raw food, [119]
Read, Alfred Baker, [28]
Reason, [13]
Refined foods, [126]
Relaxation, [167]
Religion, [32]
Reincarnation, [76]
Rest, [146]
Revelation, [12]
Rheumatism, [193]
Rice, [128]
Rockefeller, [45]
Roosevelt, Theodore, [25], [45]
Rugs, [159]
Rupture, [187]
Sabbath, [99]
Salisbury, [120]
Sally, [70], [85]
Salt, [143]
Meats, salted, [143]
Salts, [124]
Salvarsan, [189]
Savages, [135]
Savage, Rev. Minot J., [74]
Schrenck-Notzing, [88]
Scurvy, [128]
Seneca, [98]
Shakespeare, [47]
Shelley, [45], [48]
Sleep, [162]
Sleeping sickness, [113], [173]
Smokers, [153]
Socialism, [167]
Sophocles, [87]
Sore throat, [183]
Spencer, [8]
Spinoza, [79]
Spirits, [82]
Spiritualists, [86]
Starch, [122], [124]
Stealing, [33]
Steam heat, [158]
Stimulant, [149]
Stock Exchange, [158]
Stomach, [105], [138], [148]
Style, [161]
Subconscious mind, [61]
Sunday code, [40]
Sugar, [126]
Surgery, [186]
Survival, [81]
Survival of the fittest, [22]
Syndicalism, [15]
Syphilis, [189]
Tanner, Dr., [169]
Tariff, [37]
Tea, [151]
Teeth, [127], [193]
Telepathy, [67], [75]
Theosophists, 76
Tight shoes, [161]
Tobacco, [153]
Tolstoi, [49]
Tonsilitis, [107]
Trance, [63]
Tropism, [54]
Tuberculosis, [112], [120], [179], [194], [195]
Twain, Mark, [93]
Typhoid, [112], [188], [192]
Uranus, [92]
Uric acid, [193]
Vaccination, [187], [189]
Vaccines, [188]
Vegetarian, [121]
Vitamines, [127], [142]
Wallace, [46]
Wells, H. G., [22]
Williams, Dr. Henry Smith, [102]
Worth, Patience, [84]
Yellow fever, [188]
Yogis, [90]