Fletcherism : what it is or, how I became young at sixty / by Horace Fletcher.

  • Horace Fletcher
Date:
[1913?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fletcherism : what it is or, how I became young at sixty / by Horace Fletcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of health, comfort, and happiness came to my notice I was engaged in furnishing my publishers with a “ compact statement of the Gospel of Fletcherism,” as they call it, and hence the able assistance of Mr. Rockefeller was welcomed most cordially. Here it was in a nutshell, crystallized, compact, refined, monopolized as to brevity of description, masterly, and practically leaving little more to be said. The Grand Old Man of Democracy in England, William Ewart Gladstone, had had his say on the same subject some years before, and will be known to the future of physiological fitness more permanently on account of his glorification of Head Digestion of food than for his Liberal Statesmanship. In like manner, Mr. Rockefeller will deserve more gratitude from posterity for having pre¬ scribed the secret of highest mental and physical efficiency in thirty-three words, than for the multiple millions he is dedicating to Science and Sociological Betterment. It will be interesting, however, to seekers after supermanish health and strength to know how the author took the “ straight tip ” of Mr.
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