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The New Glutton or Epicure · Horace Fletcher — chapter 19 of 35 · ~457 words · public domain

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Engine. Heart.

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Dynamo, with its numerous Brain, with its complex coils and extensive convolutions in constant friction surfaces. frictional activity.

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Volt Gauge, indicating Strength, indicating the the power available. available energy.

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Electricity. Mind. Energy. Nervous Force.

AUXILIARY OPERATING MOTORS

Electric motors attached Nerve-cell motors attached to the separate to glands and parts or machines of the muscles, connected with plant, connected by wires the brain by nerve-fibres and drawing power from and drawing on the mental the dynamos. or nervous energy for power.

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Automatic switches Sensitive nerve ends regulating the transmission terminating in each cell of of power to the motors the body and penetrating in response to their each gland, signalling, on fluctuating requirements. being touched, for power to eject digestive secretions or oily mucus as demanded by the needs of digestion, also, supplying automatic power to muscles employed in exterior work or in moving the food substance on through the process of digestion and afterward disposing of the excreta--ashes and clinkers, as it were. The ganglions are the switch boards of the body.

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Automatic demand for Appetite, indicating fuel as required in the requirements of the Mind progress of combustion Power-Plant for replacing to supply the waste or the constant waste of useful consumption of the tissue consumed in running electricity. the machine.

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Good Draught, forced Optimistic Thinking, if necessary. forced if necessary, for it is necessary to health.

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PROFITABLE MANAGEMENT

Intelligent Engineering. Intelligent Self-Knowledge and Self-Care, assisting Nature in her good intentions.

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Economic stoking. Feeding only what is actually required for sustenance.

UNPROFITABLE MANAGEMENT

Overloading and choking Overloading and choking the furnace with irregular the stomach with and dirty coal. unmasticated, unsolved, unconverted, and, therefore indigestible food.

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Neglect of cleaning, Nature is not neglectful; oiling and repairs. she does well and quickly all the lubricating and repairing of the Mind Power-Plant whenever strain is removed and she is given the required rest, or time to accomplish the work between meals.

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Unnecessary ashes and Unnecessary fermenting clinkers, encumbering the excreta, resulting from plant, depositing dust in unfiltered and unprepared the journals of the machines food, depositing and requiring poisonous sediment in the much power to handle blood channels, straining and remove. the intestines, ossifying the cartilages, crystallising in the kidneys and bladder and drawing excessively upon the available energy of the nervous centres and the available brain energy for power to handle and discharge.

PROFITABLE DIRECTION AND USE OF ENERGY

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