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Excerpt from The Psychology of Health and Happiness The law of life is progress, never retrogression. The so-called degeneration (the doom of the non-selected) is really a process of growth. That which seems to our human experience infinity is but a momentary incident in the vast related whole Of life. In the great law of selection of the fittest, it is conceivable that the degen crate is potentially more fit than his surviving neighbor, and in the ascent of life that he may outstrip him. Every force, every form of energy works through law. No advance is possible but through conformity to it. The principles of psychology underlie all human growth. The natural world in growth responds to its highest possibilities unswervingly, eternally. The human growth follows the same process. The highest achievement of man, indubitably, is thought power; and this energy is, of all forms, most powerful because it is the culmination. Conformation to this law means for man not only mould ing but making power; not adjustment merely, but crea tive possibility. Aberration from this law is unbalance (disease). Disease, from this standpoint, therefore, has broad scope. It is contemporaneous with life's begin nings. A rational interpretation of those forces which make for this unbalance should lead far toward adjust ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.