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Excerpt from The House I Live in a Guide to the Preservation of Health and the Attainment of Longevity: Being a Condensed Treatise on the Importance of Physical Education, and on the Subject of Bathing The all-wise Creator has established certain fixed laws for the regulation of man's physical, as well as for his moral system - and he can no more transgress those laws with impunity in One case than he can: in the other - and until a knowledge of those laws be comes more general, and their requirements are more strictly complied with, it must be expected that phys ical evils will artist, and that man will continue to be the subject of all the ills that flesh is heir to, grow ing as most of them do, out of his violation of these unvarying laws. Man may justly be said to be the author of his own troubles; and in a vast majority of cases he is the creator of his own diseases, whether physical, moral, or intellectual; the whole scheme of his animal economy is, arranged in harmony, With the first principles of his nature, so that enjoyment flows upon the individual When his conduct is in conformity 'with them, and evil overtakes him when he depaits from them. 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.