INDEX 



Desire, the universal incentive 

 to action, p. 5; of the individ- 

 ual must be subordinated to 

 needs of the many, p. 17; to 

 succeed is often the determin- 

 ing factor in success; some 

 people fail to get on because 

 they do not really try, p. 137. 



Diet, should be varied to meet 

 changed modes of life, p. 23; 

 meat is wholesome, if not in 

 excess, p. 24; the dessert 

 course a menace to the corpu- 

 lent, p. 25; national differ- 

 ences of taste and custom as 

 to diet, p. 26; pie, the "crown- 

 ing gastronomic gift" of New 

 England, p. 26; lavish use of 

 delicacies by Americans as 

 contrasted with relative ab- 

 stemiousness of Latin races, 

 p. 27; American versatility as 

 to changed diet, p. 27. 



Dietary, of the nervous child 

 should have especial atten- 

 tion, p. 238. 



"Different food is pleasant and 

 nutritious," etc. Lucretius, 

 p. 20. 



Digestive organs, may furnish 

 the stimuli that disturb the 

 brain during sleep and cause 

 dreams, p. 67; proper attention 

 to, as an aid to development of 

 good habits of sleeping, p. 76. 



Diodorus, the Sicilian (2nd half 

 of ist Century B.C.), spent 

 thirty years in collecting ma- 

 terial for his history of the 

 world, p. 156. 



Dion Halicarnassus quoted to 

 the effect that generous 

 thoughts do not attend mis- 

 ery, p. 190. 



Dionysius, Tyrant of Syracuse, 

 composed odes and tragedies 

 that were famous in antiquity 

 in the time which his associ- 

 ates devoted to drinking and 

 play, p. 156. 



Discontent, the master-builder 

 of civilization, but not the 

 arbiter of individual happi- 

 ness, p. 139 seq. 



Disrepair of average muscular 

 system, p. 41. 



"Do nothing for ostentation," 

 etc., quotation from Pliny the 

 younger, p. 164. 



"Do nothing unknowingly," etc. 

 Pythagoras, p. 39. 



Dozing in the morning an unde- 

 siraole habit, tending to pro- 

 duce mental languor, p. 79. 



Dreams, why so realistic-seem- 

 ing, p. 66; the result of inco- 

 ordinate activity of the brain, 

 coming in response to external 

 stimuli, p. 67; most frequent 

 during early morning hours, 

 when sleep is lightest, p. 68; 

 the habitual dreamer is not 

 sleeping to best advantage, p. 

 68. 



Dream-state, the, p. 66. 



Dullard, the, how he may some- 

 times outstrip his brilliant 

 competitors, p. 129. 



Dying, a pleasant experience, 

 according to William Hunter, 

 p. 269. 



Dying happily is dependent on 

 having lived happily, p. 258. 



Dyspepsia, the goal of food-fad- 

 dists, p. 21. 



"Early to bed and early to rise," 

 an obsolete dictum under 

 modern conditions, p. 71. 



Eating, the function of, how 

 abused, p. 13; time for, and 

 racial customs concerning, pp. 

 2728; regularity of habit as 

 to meal hours very desirable, 

 p. 28. 



Education, its two branches, ac- 

 cording to Plato, p. c8; its 

 ultimate aim should be the 

 development of stable wills, 

 p. 129 scq.; of the child, some 

 practical suggestions, p. 235 

 seq. 



Educational value of physical 

 sports, p. 52. 



Effort, assiduous, as the road to 

 great accomplishment, exam- 

 ples cited in corroboration, 

 P- 55 "9- 



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