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"To study single departments of man's complicated nature--as his anatomy, or physiology, or phrenology--separately, furnishes a partial and often erroneous view of it as a whole. To obtain anything like a complete knowledge of him requires that his constitution be studied in its COLLECTIVE capacity. He must be known not by sections, but as a UNIT; for in no other way can the reciprocal bearings and complex inter-relations of the multifarious laws of his being be understood. As our subject is naturally subdivided into three departments, it has been divided into three volumes--the first, devoted to the preservation and restoration of of health, the inter-relations of body and mind, and the improvement of the mentality by improving the physiology; the second, to the regulation of the feelings and perfection of the moral character; and the third, to intellectual cultivation. A system of numbering the paragraphs or heads of the subjects treated, and a reference to them in the text by raised figures, called superiors, renders a reference from each to all perfectly easy and expeditious, so that, after a point has been once presented, it can be referred to specifically, without circumlocution, or repetition, or disfiguring the page. Yet each volume, being complete in itself, can be read separately"--

Health behavior. --- Vegetarianism.