Bøger af William A. Alcott

"The Young Woman's Guide" thru William A. Alcott is an undying art work that serves as a complete and insightful guide for younger ladies navigating the demanding situations and duties of existence. Originally posted within the 19th century, Alcott, a distinguished American educator and writer, addresses a large sort of topics pertinent to the development and well-being of more youthful ladies in a hastily changing society. This guide is a thoughtful exploration of severa elements of a female's life, encompassing recommendation on schooling, health, morality, and private behavior. Alcott imparts sensible awareness with a focal point on cultivating distinctive feature, emphasizing the significance of character improvement, and offering steering on the pursuit of statistics. In "The Young Woman's Guide," Alcott encourages young ladies to interact in highbrow hobbies, keep physical properly-being, and uphold ethical standards. His writing displays a deep information of the societal expectancies and demanding situations confronted through women of his time, supplying valuable insights which can be each applicable and timeless. As an educator, Alcott's method is marked thru a mixture of moral steering and realistic advice, making this artwork not simplest instructive however additionally a reflection of the cultural and academic ideals of the 19th century.

There is a prejudice abroad, to some extent, against agitating the "What shall we eat? What shall we drink? and Wherewithal shall we be clothed" not so much because the Scriptures have charged us not to be over "anxious" on the subject, as because those who pay the least attention to what they eat and drink, are supposed to be, after all, the most healthy. It is not difficult to ascertain how this opinion originated. There are a few individuals who are perpetually thinking and talking on this subject, and who would fain comply with appropriate rules, if they knew what they were, and if a certain definite course, pursued a few days only, would change their whole condition, and completely restore a shattered or ruined constitution. But their ignorance of the laws which govern the human frame, both in sickness and in health, and their indisposition to pursue any proposed plan for their improvement long enough to receive much permanent benefit from it, keep them, notwithstanding all they say or do, always deteriorating.

The following volume embraces the testimony, direct or indirect, of more than a HUNDRED individuals-besides that of societies and communities-on the subject of vegetable diet. Most of this one hundred persons are, or were, persons of considerable distinction in society; and more than FIFTY of them were either medical men, or such as have made physiology, hygiene, anatomy, pathology, medicine, or surgery a leading or favorite study. When I commenced putting together the materials of this little treatise on diet-thirteen years ago-it was my intention simply to show the SAFETY of a vegetable and fruit diet, both for those who are afflicted with many forms of chronic disease, and for the healthy. But I soon became convinced that I ought to go farther, and show its SUPERIORITY over every other. This I have attempted to do-with what success, the reader must and will judge for himself. I have said, it was not my original intention to prove a vegetable and fruit diet to be any thing more than safe. But I wish not to be understood as entertaining, even at that time, any doubts in regard to the superiority of such a diet: the only questions with me were, Whether the public mind was ready to hear and weigh the proofs, and whether this volume was the place in which to present them. Both these questions, however, as I went on, were settled, in the affirmative. I believed, and still believe, that the public mind, in this country, is prepared for the free discussion of all topics, provided they are discussed candidly, which have a manifest bearing on the well-being of man; and I have governed myself accordingly.

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