2 OUR BODIES AND HOW WE LIVE 



we may, for they seem endowed with life. But in the 

 human body we find not simply a most perfect and delicate 

 machine, but one endowed with life, a mind, a soul. 



Indeed, the longer we live, the more we study and 

 reflect, the more we shall realize the great fact that the 

 all-wise Creator, in his goodness and wisdom, has provided 

 us with bodies which, in the words of the Psalmist, are 

 "fearfully and wonderfully made." 



3. Questions often asked by Thoughtful Persons. We 

 must indeed be very dull if we have not at some time or 

 other in our lives asked ourselves many curious questions 

 about "the house in which we live." 



Why are we warm ? How are we able to move our 

 limbs ? How often does the heart beat ? Why do we feel 

 warmer after running or exercising with dumb-bells ? 



By what strange magic are the milk, beefsteak, and eggs 

 we eat changed into bone, teeth, and muscle ? Why does 

 the doctor feel our pulse and put a thermometer under our 

 tongue when we are ill ? Why is it so hard to see for a 

 few moments after coming into a darkened room from the 

 sunlight? 



These and hundreds of other questions, both curious 

 and important, can be answered by those who have 

 mastered the simple principles of the subject as told you 

 in this book. 



4. Animals are in Motion. We need not be told that 

 some part of our bodies, as the heart, is always in motion. 

 Even in sleep, when the eyes, the hands, and the feet may 

 be still, the rise and fall of the chest in breathing and 

 the beating of the heart never stop. 



We also know that we can move from one place to 

 another. We need not wait, like the trees in the woods, 



