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form a prayerful self-analysis? if there be no water near him, 

 let him perform his ablutions with sand, in manner and form 

 prescribed by the Koran; his Mother Nature, great benevolent 

 cow, for him the rebel, has dry dugs, hollow horn, and wolf in 

 the tail; grass, fresh grass, salvation through grass'; if a run 

 at grass won't cure him, you need try nothing else, (see N. M. 

 on diseased and worn-out horses) ; right about, face, oh dragon- 

 torn sinner; must leave the cauldrons in which you boil, leave 

 your hot-beds of vice and luxury, towns and cities ; dream no 

 more of the flesh-pots of Egypt, or the delicious leeks of the 

 Nile; with muffled drum and trailing arms, forward, march! 

 TOWARD God; too long wandering from Paradise; flaming 

 sword extinguished ; may re-enter the hallowed haunts of 

 sound digestion and perennial youth ; longevity; golden rules 

 of health; may stay in the body a hundred, possibly a thou- 

 sand years "CERTAINLY A FEW BAYS ;" body of man a divine 

 crucible; universe the ore of gold; fire up, but beware; modern 

 physical degeneracy ; clear case ; comparative longevity of an- 

 cient and modern man; Methuselah ; views of Haller and Buffbn 

 on the long life ; their explanation ; Hufeland on Methuselah ; 

 Hensler's views ; the extreme ancient year ; present, year of 

 Eastern nations; the patriarchs; Methuselah reduced to near 

 200 years ; period of Abraham ; lives of patriarchs ; Hebrew 

 record ; Hufeland's tables ; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, etc ; 

 Egyptians, ages of; Chinese; Greeks; Romans; catalogues 

 of ancient worthies; of Roman women; actresses; records of 

 Pliny; census, time of Vespasian; Ulpian bills of mortality; 

 Rome compared with London ; duration of life the same in 

 time of Moses, Greeks, and Romans ; probably men live as 

 long as ever ; views of Flourens ; ordinary, extraordinary 

 life ; Buffon's views life 100 years ; Mailer's views life 200 

 years ; Thomas Parr, Hufeland's account of him; Henry Jen- 

 kins; Bacon and Hufeland's list of veterans; ages; vocations 

 of the same ; facts of life of same ; habits of life ; Anglo- 

 Americans, can they be acclimatized ? the negro race, Dungli- 

 son and Prichard on ; Hnmboldt on Indians; Hufeland's con- 

 clusions on duration of human life ; Haller's conclusions ; 

 general formula; classes of mankind who live longest; em- 

 perors, popes, monks, and hermits; doctors shortest livers; 

 table of Wilson; countries most favorable to longevity; gen- 

 eral conclusions synopsized ; who, how, when, where ? all 

 facts of long life; longest livers always followers of nature; 

 conditions of long life; country life; city and town life; 

 tables of Haller and Hufeland ; Haller and Buffon on laws of 

 longevity; formulae; Hufeland on same; life should be 200 

 years; Flourens on the physiological law; ages of animals; 

 laws of growth; gestation; duration of; will live eight, or 

 seven, or five times as long as they grow; why the rarity of 

 patriarchs; death's regular harvest; is man the giant Antseus? 

 the doctrine of attainability of great age demonstrable ; agree- 

 able hope inspired ; everybody may live to be as old as Methu- 

 selah ; historical side of subject; scientific and physiological 

 side; live 200 years if you wish; history, science; means of 



