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of health must be left mainly to individual judgment and experience. Here, as elsewhere, while the suffering imposed by the disobedience of law is often vicarious, there is no vicarious Each one must work out his own

atonement.

salvation.

We all are explorers on the Sea of Life. Given "life and heart," as well as "health and a day," we also crave a compass and a chart. Like Columbus, however, we seek an undiscovered continent the land of the Ideal. Like him, each one of us must make his own chart, as the ideal actualizes itself in his experience. With rational ideals for our Polar Star, and a scientific method for our compass, we may yet speed right onward without fear.

Experience under the guidance of a sound method and true aims is a far more reliable criterion of judgment than the prevailing thoughtless empiricism in the search for health, which ignores both chart and compass. To inspire such wiser and safer guidance is

the author's earnest wish. To live so inspired and guided is the secret of health - the Art of Life.

'Tis the privilege of Art

Thus to play its cheerful part,
Man on earth to acclimate,
And bend the exile to his fate;
And, molded of one element
With the days and firmament,
Teach him on these stairs to climb,

And live on even terms with Time."

Index

ANIMAL food, effects of on health, 63.
Architecture, a democratic art, 149–150.

ART AND LIFE, 145-161.

Art, hygienic value of, 147; democratic tendencies in, 148-
150; as related to life, 145-161, 175.

ASPIRATION AND INSPIRATION, 95-104.

Aspiration, as related to bodily exercise, 33; its physical
and spiritual analogies, 97-104.

Athleticism, evil effects of, 30.

BATHING, as related to health, 42-43; general directions
for, 42-43.

Birds, their kinship to man, 100; their extermination for
sport or gain an evil, 101.

Body, the, and the soul, 15; sacredness of, 25; reality of, 26;

symmetrical development of, essential to health, 27–30;
relations to mind, 28; exercise for, 29-33, 101; influ-
ence of food on, 61-66; of stimulants, 66-67; educa-
tion of, 77-79; avocation as related to, 93-94; influ-
ence of pain on, 131-132.

Brain, health of, as related to the body, 29.

Breathing, regular practice of, essential to health, 31-32, 34.
Browning, Robert, quoted, 147.

Bryant, William Cullen, quoted, 96.

Buddha, quoted, 147.

CARLYLE, THOMAS, quoted, 86, 151, 164.

Causation, is it always mental? 20, 35.

Cellular tissue, how to promote the health of, 31.

Chadwick, John White, quoted, 86.

Chastity, as related to health, 47–48.

Chemistry of foods, 62-65.

Chronic ailments, how induced, 34-35.
CLEANLINESS AND GODLINESS, 37-48.

Clubs, 66.

Collins, Mortimer, quoted, 60.

Communism, 83, 158.

Confucius, quoted, 38, 150; his Golden Rule, 114.

Contagious diseases, 39, 41.

Contents, 9.

Cope, Prof. Edward D., quoted, 121.

DARWIN, CHARLES, 160, 161.

Days, their significance, 165-168.

Dedication, 5.

Democracy, errors in our conception of, 82-83.

Disease, the nature of, 21; as related to cleanliness, 39;

chronic, 34-35; contagious, 39, 41.

Domestic servants, their place in the home, 57, 90.

Dorr, Mrs. Julia C., quoted, 170.

Du Bois, Professor, quoted, 120.

Dwight, John S., quoted, 86.

EDUCATION AND HEALTH, 73-83.

Education, wholesale, 81-83; a fatal defect in, 89.

Eliot, George, quoted, 50.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted, 3, 12, 17-18, 60, 100, 110,
116, 117, 140, 156, 166, 167, 168, 175.

Environment, 15, 19, 39–40, 42, 75; for the home, 56; as
related to character, 138.

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