The Book of LifeUpton Sinclair, one of America's foremost and most prolific authors, addresses the cultivation of the mind and the body in this 1922 volume. Sinclair's goal was to attempt to tell the reader how to live, how to find health, happiness and success, and how to develop fully both the mind and the body. Part One: The Book of the Mind covers such subjects as faith, reason, morality, and the subconscious. Part Two: The Book of the Body develops such subjects as errors in diet, the fasting cure, food and poisons, work and play, and diseases and their cures . |
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... millions of dollars in a process , and never once reflect that he is putting too much trust in the permanence of nature . In many departments of thought great specialists are now working , experimenting and observing by the methods of ...
... millions of dollars in a process , and never once reflect that he is putting too much trust in the permanence of nature . In many departments of thought great specialists are now working , experimenting and observing by the methods of ...
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... million acts of your life whereby your life is preserved and developed . And if anybody suggested that the fallibility of your reason should cause you to delay in front of an automobile , you would apply your reason to the problem of ...
... million acts of your life whereby your life is preserved and developed . And if anybody suggested that the fallibility of your reason should cause you to delay in front of an automobile , you would apply your reason to the problem of ...
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... million people ; while to those outside the tribe it still preserves the attitude of the wolf . How came it that a mind so acute as Huxley's went so far astray on the question of the evolution of morality ? The answer is that this was ...
... million people ; while to those outside the tribe it still preserves the attitude of the wolf . How came it that a mind so acute as Huxley's went so far astray on the question of the evolution of morality ? The answer is that this was ...
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... millions of ants and bees for every hawk or eagle , and certainly in the state of nature there were thousands of deer for every lion or tiger that preyed upon them . And all these social creatures have their ways of being , which it ...
... millions of ants and bees for every hawk or eagle , and certainly in the state of nature there were thousands of deer for every lion or tiger that preyed upon them . And all these social creatures have their ways of being , which it ...
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... million eggs in order to give life to one salmon , she produces countless millions of salmon to be devoured by other fish apparently no better than salmon . Poets may take up the doctrine of evolution and dress it out in theological ...
... million eggs in order to give life to one salmon , she produces countless millions of salmon to be devoured by other fish apparently no better than salmon . Poets may take up the doctrine of evolution and dress it out in theological ...
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