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PREFACE
“On a natural system of diet, old age would be
our last and our only malady; he term of our existence
would be protracted; we should enjoy life and no longer
preclude others from the enjoyment of it.”
-Poet Shelly in "A Vindication of Natural Diet”
The following second large work of mine (my first large work being "The Life and Times of St Manickavachakar) in Tamil embodies the results of my careful study of Long Life problems, of my observations of symptoms in myself and in others in health and in disease, and of my experimental modes of living an dmethods of healing pursued continually for more than thirty years. Nothing but what has been found in all these thirty years to benefit others and myself is set down in the following pages. Before recommending to others what I read and thought about how to maintain a healthy life and how to restore it in cases where it was impaired, I tried them all on myself and on my people undergoing of course considerable trouble and expending large sums of money all through, until I came to hit upon the very simple, natural, correct, inexpensive modes of leading and maintaining a healthy long life. Although it took me twenty four years to complete this treatise owing to interruptions occasioned by my other literary, religious and historical works, yet it has gained - much in my long varied experince, wide study and progressive thinking.
Here in India as elsewhere, it is generally believed at living long does not lie within the power of man. Most of the people in India attribute to the power of late both a short life and a long one.
