How to make the best of life / by J. Mortimer Granville.

  • Granville, J. Mortimer (Joseph Mortimer), 1833-1900.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to make the best of life / by J. Mortimer Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    muscles brought 6ut and strengthened, and the animal appetites and propensities disciplined and subordinated in their proper place. The whole being of man is worthy of the utmost endeavour to perfect that which has been entrusted to his guardianship. It is a mistake to neglect any of the gifts bestowed on us. Every element of the physico-mental constitution should receive the consideration and training due to it. The net result gained will be greater if all parts of the nature are developed than if only a few are cul- tivated, however high the point of excellence reached by special training may seem to be. This is a matter of practical economy which needs to be pressed on the consideration of the reputably wise. It is too often forgotten or, which is the same thing in the end, disregarded in the education of the young and in the training of the stripling and adolescent. There must come a time in every experience when the prolongation of life will be a matter of life-strength ; and then it will be found that, unless special precautions have been taken, the needed supply can be obtained only from one source, or centre, through a channel which it may be too late to deepen or extend. It will however be something to know where this source of vital energy lies, what it is, and how to reach it. With the purpose of showing that this know- ledge may, and ought to, be gained before the hour