Excerpt from Hygiene of the Brain and Nerves and the Cure of Nervousness: With Twenty-Eight Original Letters From Leading Thinkers and Writers Concerning Their Physical and Intellectual Habits
During a month's sojourn, many years ago, in near proximity to a settlement of Indians, where I had frequent opportunity to observe their habits and mental characteristics, I came to the conclusion that, whatever their defects of development might be, they were certainly not subject to nervousness. There are abundant examples among our own race of people who were born before nerves were invented. But, on the other hand, the greater strain put on the nervous system by our unnatural methods of culture, and by the sharp conflict which competition compels, has caused a remarkable increase in nervous maladies. A true civilization would seek to prevent them, and that can only be done by a correct knowledge of the functions and uses of the nervous system.
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