lo The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



But not alone the mass of humanity have been 

 thus apathetic. Until the beneficial cult of deep 

 breathing, a growth in rational doing and 

 thinking of the present generation only, the 

 man of science whose life work is to relieve human 

 suffering equally ignored this flaring torch 

 "BREATH IS LIFE," pointing unerringly to 

 fundamental truths of being, but which through- 

 out the centuries of Western civilization might 

 as well have been a dark lantern. It is my grate- 

 ful task nay, happy opportunity to prove to 

 you that it is a torch of such wonderful il- 

 luminating power that man's electric searchlights 

 should pale before it. It was a gain, a stalwart 

 stride in the right direction, to call attention to the 

 error of commonly fixed habits; but all that has 

 yet been accomplished is little more than one drop 

 of purity in a swamp of miasma. Busy people 

 think they have too much to do to give attention 

 to a function they have always supposed auto- 

 matic, never dreaming of the subtle sources of dis- 

 order affecting its normal activity, and as subtly 

 feeding and sowing disease. Also, to make a 

 bad matter worse, in all the so-called " systems " 

 of breathing taught, good, bad, and indifferent, 

 the fundamental principle of rhythmic harmony 

 has attracted little attention, and is rarely under- 

 stood. 



Most persons who are interested in any system 



