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preventible; there is not one that does not 

 arise from folly or negligence. All accidents 

 are crimes. It is perfectly certain that all 

 human beings are capable of physical happi- 

 nesss. It is absolutely incontrovertible that 

 the ideal shape of the human being is attain- 

 able to the exclusion of deformities. It is in- 

 controvertible that there is no necessity for 

 any man to die but of old age, and that if 

 death cannot be prevented life can be prolonged 

 far beyond the farthest now known. It is in- 

 controvertible that at the present time no one 

 ever dies of old age. Not one single person 

 ever dies of old age, or of natural causes, for 

 there is no such thing as a natural cause of 

 death. They die of disease or weakness which 

 is the result of disease, either in themselves or in 

 their ancestors. No such thing as old ageis known 

 to us. We do not even know what old age 

 would be like, because no one ever lives to it." 



This remarkable book is a record almost, if 

 not quite, unique. The writer is not a man 

 of science; he has not been trained in logic 

 and dialectics, he is not a scholar, though he 



