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Menticulture; or, the A-B-C of True Living

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Menticulture; or, the A-B-C of True Living

Horace Fletcher

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Two weeds choke every mind, Fletcher says: anger and worry. Menticulture is his A-B-C of true living, a personal experiment in rooting them out completely, with diagnosis, prescription, directions, and scraps of evidence from converts. The little volume that helped launch a national appetite for self-culture. Pull the weeds and see what grows.

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29 chapters

  1. 1MENTICULTURE OR THE A-B-C OF TRUE LIVING
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3PREFACE
  4. 4THEORY
  5. 5A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
  6. 6A DISCUSSION WHICH FOLLOWED THE READING OF THE FOREGOING PAPER
  7. 7PLYMOUTH CHURCH CLUB AND ARMOUR INSTITUTE
  8. 8DIAGNOSIS AND REMEDY
  9. 9PRESCRIPTION
  10. 10DIRECTIONS
  11. 11SCRAPS OF EVIDENCE
  12. 12A PHYSICIAN
  13. 13A MANUFACTURER
  14. 14A MADMAN
  15. 15MR. DANA
  16. 16AN AUTHOR
  17. 17A GENERAL MANAGER
  18. 18AN AUTHORESS

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