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tion, and abilities to affect beneficially their incidence, in 

 the everyday life, health, and death, of man, will enable 

 us to achieve, must be diligently sought after, or out, and 

 perfected, along these essential, determining, and limiting 

 lines. Roughly speaking, the life of man has not mate- 

 rially changed, in length or duration, since we have any 

 consistent, or definite, statements, on the subject, left us 

 the " patriarchal " lives, reckonable on a lunar basis, being 

 no exception to the rule. It is doubtful, therefore, whether 

 even science, the most modern, will be able to satisfy 

 man to a much greater extent, than have the many futile 

 attempts of the searchers after the elixir vit<e, and 

 other " will o' the wisps," resulted in. While science 

 must have its limitations, as the greatest human factor, 

 in the great philanthropic work of prolonging the span, 

 and making more perfect the conditions, of the life, 

 vouchsafed to the race, it, nevertheless, behoves every 

 thinking man, to "leave not a stone unturned " to secure, 

 as far as possible, all that is attainable in this direction, 

 so that, at the least, the rate of progress of true civilisa- 

 tion, may be given fresh impetus, and increased volume, 

 of forward movement. 



The life of man being the outcome of the dual 

 working of the two great nervous systems, in which the 

 vital energies reside, and of which life, so called, is 

 dynamically composed, in which they are generated, and 

 by which they are distributed, it behoves, that the reason, 

 and other mental faculties, dominating the systemic ner- 

 vous system, should be properly used, in conjunction 

 with the automatically acting, sympathetically inspired 

 nervous system, in order that the vital output should 

 reach its highest possible limit. Reason, instinct, and the 

 so-called innate directing faculties, of the living human 

 organism, must be trained to combined action, and must 

 be controlled, on lines consistent with the maintenance 

 of life at its highest level of attainment, in order that the 

 greatest perfection of working, and the highest condition 

 of health, should result. 



Dual control may, thus, result in the highest possible 

 form of corporeal, material, and functional, health, and 

 the accomplishment of the greatest amount of work, with 



