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The following rules and receipts are not given as a perfect standard of diet. The rules were hastily sketched by Mr. Graham, rather as a starting point to be enlarged and improved as practice might suggest; and a thorough experiment upon hundreds have demonstrated, beyond a doubt, that they are built on the broad basis of truth–truth founded on the immutable laws of nature by God himself. "O! that men were wise, that they would consider;" that they would turn their eyes inwardly and outwardly, and survey the beautiful machinery in which the soul is encased—the perfect adaptation of every part to the uses and happiness of life–all in exact accordance with definite laws, which, if never infringed, would keep one harmonious perpetual motion till the machinery should decay.

"But man has sought out many inventions." "The lusts of the flesh, the pride of life" have so predominated, that the beautiful symmetry, both of body and

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