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Healthful Living
While the schools we have established have taken up the study of phys-
iology, they have not taken hold with the decided energy they should.
They have not practised intelligently that which they have received in
knowledge, and do not realize that unless it is practised, the body will
decay.... This living machinery should be understood. Every part of
its wonderful mechanism should be carefully studied.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, May 19, 1897
.
24. Physical life cannot be treated in a haphazard manner. Awaken
to your responsibilities.—
Unpublished Testimonies, August 25, 1897
.
25. Ignorance of physiology and neglect to observe the laws of
health have brought many to the grave who might have lived to labor
and study intelligently.—
Special Testimonies On Education, 98
.
26. To become acquainted with the wonderful human organism,—
the bones, muscles, stomach, liver, bowels, heart, and pores of the
skin,—and to understand the dependence of one organ upon another
for the healthful action of all, is a study in which most mothers take
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no interest.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:136
.
27. Study that marvelous organism, the human system, and the
laws by which it is governed.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hy-
giene, 120
.
How to Reduce Mortality
28. If people would reason from cause to effect, and would follow
the light which shines upon them, they would pursue a course which
would insure health, and the mortality would be far less.... All who
possess common capabilities should understand the wants of their own
system.—
How to Live, 51
.
Learn in Youth
29. It is of the highest importance that men and women be in-
structed in the science of human life, and in the best means of preserv-
ing and acquiring physical health. Especially is youth the time to lay
up a stock of knowledge to be put in daily practise through life.—
The
Health Reformer, November 1, 1877
.
30. Those who have occupied positions of influence have not ap-
preciated the work which has been so long neglected.... They consider