Excerpt from Nature and Health: A Popular Treatise on the Hygiene of the Person and the HomeMan is master by reason of his intellect. Having tasted of the tree of knowledge, he should so order his life that it may yield its full fruition. And with ever-widening enlighten ment come larger possibilities of such ordering possibilities of culling from every experience, civilized or savage, ways that are wise, and of casting forth, no matter when or whence derived, those that are mischievous.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.