Mentor by Philbert Leo

Author:Philbert, Leo. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conduct of life
Publisher: New York, Washington [etc.] Broadway publishing co
Published: 1912-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

RELATIVE USEFULNESS OF THE OBJECTS OF KNOWL-

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The usefulness of an object of knowledge is measured by the bearing it has upon man's welfare. Now, man's welfare is more directly and immediately connected with and dependent upon, the knowledge of health, of making a living, of morals and of the world in general.

[s it not natural that the first object which must call man's attention for study should be himself— that individualized mass of matter or body in and through which the cosmic force operating constitutes a living being? The component parts of his body and the body as a whole—an organism or machine for the process of life; the conditions required for this process to be carried on normally in the body, so that from the normal process a state of health ensue—disease being no other than an interference, from any cause, with the normal process of life, how interference from certain causes with the life process may be prevented and disease warded off, or disease having taken hold of the body how it may be removed, and, the normal process being reestablished, health restored; how, the principal causes of interference with the process of life and consequently of disease being in the quality of the food eaten, of the water drunk, and of the air

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