Excerpt from Physical Education: Or the Health-Laws of Nature
"Audendum est, ut illustrata Veritas pateat, multique a perjurio liberentur." - Lactajsttius.
"If the right theory should ever be discovered, we shall know it by this token: that it will solve all riddles." - Emerson.
Since the dawn of the Germanic Reformation, the history of science has been the history of a triumphant progress. The spell of supernaturalism is broken. The nations of the Caucasian race have awakened to a recognition of the fact that this world of ours is not governed by capricious ghosts, but by consistent laws, and that the study of those laws is a path to all the knowledge and happiness our nature is capable of attaining. A spirit of free inquiry is abroad; we have found that the sun of nature will ripen more truth in a single year than the light of mysticism in a century; branches of science which had withered to the core have again put forth leaves and flowers, and begin to yield abundant fruit.
With one strange exception. The science of health is still a barren tree. Our wealthy minds dwell in poorly tabernacles; the right method of promoting mans physical welfare seems to be one of the utterly lost arts.
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