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Excerpt from The Battle Creek Idea The Battle Creek Sanitarium is everywhere recog nized as the leading representative of physiotherapy, or healing by natural means, because here first of all were gathered together and organized into a scientific system the various natural healing agencies which previously had been employed separately and empirically. But the principles and methods embodied in what is known as the Battle Creek Idea did not originate in Battle Creek. They are old as the race, older even than civilization as we know it; for untutored savages of prehistoric times knew and made use of the healing resources of nature. So, indeed, have the wild animals for untold ages. Civi lized man, unfortunately, has wandered so far away from the straight path of simple, healthful life for which he was intended that he has largely lost sight of the value of the kindly forces of Nature, and in his blindness and ignorance has come to trust too implicitly in the artificial methods of his own devising. The wiser minds of every epoch have regretted this, and many have been the efforts to recover the lost companionship with Nature. Two of these efforts, one in the life of old Greece, the other in our own America of a recent generation, are worth noting as precursors of the Battle Creek movement. 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.