Interesting quotes from a 60+ year old book. 0. Preface

4. Since Natural Hygiene is by no means – and is not likely to become – popular, not because of any shortcomings of this Science, but because of the general decline of mental health and character due to the growth of western civilisation, it hap...

3. The Natural Hygiene is not alone concerned with the cure of diseases and the maintenance of health, but extends further into a great many departments of life’s activities, such as Agriculture and Horticulture, and particularly into Psychology, thereby giving release f...

No conscientious, cultured man can be complacent, so long as these tyrannical and unconstitutional infractions of our fundamental rights continue in the name of the false and hypocritical claim that our State is going to be a “Welfare State.” The kind of ...

6. A special feature of this book is the insistence on Self-Reliance for followers ultimately, if not at once. The professional Nature-Curists are not as reliable as they profess to be, and safety lies in being one’s own doctor. (1/2)

..., chiefly chronics, who owe their ruined health to the brutally violent suppression of their earlier and lighter ailments, and to the symptomatic treatments for temporary relief, consisting of further poisoning, leaving the chronic ill-health to worsen with ti...

7. Many are hankering for State recognition and patronage. But there is a heavy price to be paid for this. For state patronage is usually both blind and perverse, and it would lead to the demoralisation of the movement, and to a falsification of the scien...

5. A great deal of space has been devoted to the condemnation of filth-medication – vaccination and inoculation. A knowledge of the true character of medical practice is an integral part of Natural Hygiene. (..) Besides this is a political questi...

It may be thought that this evil can be remedied by establishing Colleges. But there is no guarantee that the Colleges will not be started by some opulent, but ignorant men, employing equally ignorant ones as professors, so that only ignorant and incapable professionals will be turned out. (2/2)