New Light on Living

New Light on Living by Dr. Axel Emil Gibson was published in Los Angeles in 1922. Dr Gibson is also the author of; "Prolonging Life Through Diet," "Sugar and Salt — Foods or Poisons (1914)" "Life and Death of Diet" "Psychology of Child-life," "Individuality in Diet," "Facts and Fancies in Health Foods (1921)" "Destructive and Constructive Food Mixtures (1914)" etc. All of these books contain a lot of good information about eating the proper foods, and good health. (115 pages)

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Index

1. Up-to-Nature not "Back-to-Nature." — 2. The Difference Between Looking at Nature or into Nature. — 3. Historical "Back-to-Nature-Men." — 4. An Analysis of Forced Water Drinking. — 5. The "Unfired" Food Theory. — 6. Salt and Pepper in the Vital Economy of Man — 7. Salt-Treatment as a Cure for Cancer and Tuberculosis. — 8. The Great Fruit Indiscrimination. — 9. The Problem of Quantity in Feeding. — 10. The Einstein Theory Applied to Life. — 11. Self-Directed Evolution. — 12. "Lest we Forget."

Forword:

.....Plato was right; no man turns his back to the light — knowingly. We sin in ignorance, and often in innocence. Yet the great laws of life do not change their courses or suspend their operations because of the failure of the individual to realize the nature of the forces his attitude brings into action. For whatever we sow, we must reap; and if we sow weed in place of seed, nature cannot stop her world-embracing, biologic advance for the sake of correcting individual mistakes.
.....Yet as long as we have eyes, with which to see, and ears to hear, we have no more right to find fault with nature, than if we should be drenched by a rainstorm after having neglected to bring with us our umbrella or raincoat
.....Knowledge is needed at any cost, — knowledge and judgment; and the laws of life are the teachers which, with unerring certainty, at once protect and guide us in the right direction, no matter how circuitous and obscure the course may appear.
.....In a universe, governed by constructive and sustaining laws, where every aspect of life works for harmony, health and power, it is not only our right, but our duty to be well. Sickness stands for friction and discord, due to the attitude an individual takes to his environment in terms of thought or act. Nature stamps the mark of disease on the brow of disloyalty, when we allow our desires and appetites to menace our health by life-sapping indulgences. For any indulgence which violates the laws of health, and impairs our usefulness, is an attack upon life itself, impeding not only our own career, but strikes discord and chaos into the very heart-life of an interrelated and reciprocal humanity.
.....A diseased individual is a side-tracked engine, derailed by obstructions thrown in his way by his own mistakes. And while medicine may succeed in pushing him onwards over the rough and un-paved route of chronic ailment, it is only loyalty to life, in terms of natural living, that can ever bring him back on his native tracks, where life again asserts its smooth, frictionless and self-regenerating power. To know the method of living which brings about this restoration of natural health and power, should be the duty of every human being. And it is the mission of this book to shed such light upon the science and philosophy of living, that the individual may not only see the truth, but also realize the supreme reason and logic back of the things that happen.