The organic laws, or, The laws which govern the human organism / by J. Bradford Sax.

  • Sax, J. Bradford.
Date:
1851
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    $0M r(70Vf3T PREFACE, The following work was undertaken to supply what I regard as a real want or necessity, and therefore no apology is needed for its publication. Not that any great originality> claimed, or that there are not works enough already upon the same general subject. But there is no book, with which I am acquainted, advocating the doctrines which this does, and which I believe to be the only correct one upon the subject—which is sufficiently brief, and comprehensive, and plain, and popular in its style, to meet the wants and tastes of the class of readers for which this is designed. Graham's Lectures on the Science of Human Life, to which we are largely indebted for the matter of this work, is, perhaps, the most comprehensive, thorough, and complete work on the subject ever published, or which is likely to be published for an hundred years to come. But it is too long, and not plain and popular enough in its style, ever to be read by the great body of the people. Those who desire to see the subject nearly exhausted, should not fail to read it carefully. But the mass have not, and~will not read it. To such I would recommend an unpretending substitute, in the present humble volume. The works of Dr. Alcott, and Mr. Fowler, and others, treat many particulars much more fully and ably than I could hope to do ; but with deference, I would suggest that no one of them is so comprehensive as mine. I have aimed briefly to present the substance, or results, of them all—to embody the whole subject. I wished to furnish a brief and comprehensive guide to health and happiness, by the help of which any one, even though he had but little leisure, might regulate all his voluntary habits in accordance with the laws of life, so as to rescue and preserve the highest