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Wallace Wattles

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Wallace D. Wattles's

The Science of Being Well

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Preface - The Principle of Health - The Foundation of Faith - Life and Its Organisms - What to Think - Faith - Use of the Will - Health from God - Summary of the Mental Actions - When to Eat - What to Eat - How to Eat - Hunger and Appetites - In a Nutshell - Breathing - Sleep - Supplementary Instructions - A Summary of the Science of Being Well - Contents -


Chapter 3 - Life and Its Organisms - p. 27

The human body is the abiding place of an energy which renews it when worn; which eliminates waste or poisonous matter, and which re- pairs the body when broken or injured. This energy we call life. Life is not generated or produced within the body; it produces the body.

The seed which has been kept in the storehouse for years will grow when planted in .the soil ; it will produce a plant. But the life in the plant is not generated by its growing; it is the life which makes the plant grow.

The performance of function does not cause life; it is life which causes function to be performed. Life is first; function afterward.

It is life which distinguishes organic

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