The path of safety in the moral as in the physical realm is not so much
the avoidance of risks as the training of the faculties to resist.
It is a question well worth considering what it is that makes
the savage so hardy. He lives nearer to nature than does the
civilized man, and that is the reason he is hardier, tougher,
and more enduring. Civilized men have departed far from the
natural order of life, and they are suffering the penalty--a
shortened and a feeble life.
Unfortunately, the majority of civilized human beings subject
themselves to a hothouse regimen, apparently thinking that the
most important thing in winter is to keep away the cold. A
cold day is a dangerous thing to one who is not ready for it.
January and February are deadly months to those who are not
prepared for them. During these months many people are carried
off by pneumonia. After people have reached the age of forty or
fifty years, they are particularly susceptible to this disease,
because of the lowered power of resistance. Toughness is the
result of the body’s power of resistance. (Text.)--Dr. J. H.
KELLOGG, _Good Health_.
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=Trades Exempt from Disease=--See DISEASE, EXEMPTION FROM.