The new menticulture, or, The A-B-C of true living / by Horace Fletcher.

  • Fletcher, Horace, 1849-1919.
Date:
1905
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Credit: The new menticulture, or, The A-B-C of true living / by Horace Fletcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    XVlll PREFACE when friend Fletcher and I walked on the sands of Pass Christian arm in arm and discussed the potency of a cultivated appreciation. I was losing my grip on life then and was paving the way to a severe illness, but the suggestions of menticulture and the optimism of its author have set me on a throne in the center of any horizon I happen to be in and has placed in my hand a scep- ter called appreciation, and by these titles and possessions I am master of my happiness. Yes; Death, and a whole lot of ene- mies of mankind have come along with their threats and have tried to pick a quarrel with me since I got possession of the right end of the point-of-view, but have turned away smiling at my complacence and confidence. I mentioned Death as one of the enemies of mankind without due con- sideration. I do not so consider death. I certainly do not want to live forever, and who does ? I 'm too curious about