The new menticulture, or, The A-B-C of true living / by Horace Fletcher.
- Horace Fletcher
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![and the social, in attaining a complete mastery of the subject. The author of the A. B. C. Life Series has pursued his study of the philosophy of life in experiences which have covered a great variety of occupa- tions in many different parts of the world and among peoples of many different nations and races. His first book, Men- ticulture, dealt with purging the mind and habits of sundry weaknesses and de- terrents which have possession of people in general in some degree. He recog- nised the depressing effect of anger and worry and other phases of fearthought. In the book Happiness, which followed next in order fearthoughtwas shown to be the unprofitable element of forethought. The influence of environment on each individual was revealed as an important factor of happiness, or the reverse, by means of an accidental encounter with a neglected waif in the busy streets of Chicago during a period of intense national excitement incident to the war with Spain, and this led to the publication [/]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174222_0320.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
