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by such reasonable help as man's intelligence can afford,
to second nature's effort to that end; and further, that, in order to
achieve success, it is useless to attack, suppress or remove the
symptoms of disease by force of drugging or the knife, whilst the cause
of the evil is left untouched, unthought of, and, too frequently,
unknown. Truth and reason alike proclaim: remove the cause and the
symptom must disappear.
To all, then, to whom the ever blessed triad of health, hope, and
happiness on earth, are dear, the sanctity of child-life and the
improvement of the race; and especially to those whose clearer mental
vision can grasp the stupendous fact of eternal Universal Unity--the
oneness with that mighty Primal Cause, the great Life Principle,
immanent and active throughout all nature; can grasp and assimilate the
idea that everything that has life is, each in its separate form and degree,
but a medium through which the Infinite Universal Source of Life--that
vast, ineffable power which we, blindly, designate as God--or
Good--seeks expression in the scheme of evolution whose aim sublime
is pure perfection, as its ultimate, attainable, though far off goal.
Directed and attracted by an intelligence we call divine, it is a hope,
instinct with ability, implanted by that Power in the soul of man, as
patent in his ceaseless struggle upward toward the light of fuller
knowledge; it is a power, restricted, only in degree, by that individual
sense of human limitations fostered by false prophets and grounded in
the vitals of the race.

To you all, this brief precis is presented, as a guide, with the author's
benediction, coupled with the fervent hope that, reading the scientific
deductions and precepts therein contained you, too, may see
Regeneration's Light and seeing, may
"Dare to be Healthy."
LOUIS DECHMANN,
Christmas, 1918. Seattle, Wash.

"Dare to be Healthy"

FORE-WORD
To the Reader:
The volume, shortly to be published, and to which the ensuing pages
are designed to serve the purpose of stepping-stone or forecast, has
been compiled for the purpose of placing before the public the
experiences of thirty-five full years of my life as a biologist and
physiological chemist, devoted to the sifting and solution of vital
problems of health and eugenics and in the practice of the resultant
knowledge of the laws of life discovered in the course of my research.
I would beseech you, in your own vital interest, to peruse these pages
thoughtfully and with an open mind. There are throughout America
already, thousands of steadfast disciples who are daily reaping the
benefits of the teachings contained therein; and I would that you also
may be added to that goodly multitude, to enjoy together with them the
best advantages emanating from systematic study along the most
advanced lines of modern thought and science. The facts are correlated
and simply expressed with the earnest desire to bring within the scope
of the layman the good that may accrue. It is, however, not for the
laymen alone that this work is undertaken, but for unprofessional and

professional alike, be he medical student or practitioner or other
interested person; for to each and all I present herein the best that a
lifetime of research has enabled me to wring from nature's secret store
for the betterment and conservation of human life and the help of
human kind.
In the development of my movement I have formulated a system under
which all may participate in the benefits of my message, though
possibly prevented by circumstances in some cases from coming within
direct personal contact with myself.
This system comprises the following:
The "Dare to be Healthy" Club.
The "Dare to be Healthy" Lecture Course.
The "Dare to be Healthy" Hygienic Dietetic Course.
Full particulars regarding these will appear at a subsequent point in this
prospectus.
LOUIS DECHMANN.

INTRODUCTION
"... Argentea proles, Auro deterior, fulvo pretiosior aere."
(Ovid)
Succeeding times a silver age behold Excelling brass, but more
excelled by Gold.
Hessiod, in his celebrated distribution of mankind, divides the species
into three orders of intellect.
"The first place," says he, "belongs to him who can, by his own powers,

discern what is fit and right, and penetrate to the remoter motives of
action.
"The second place is claimed by him who is willing to hear instruction
and can perceive right and wrong when they are shown to him by
another;--but he who hath neither acuteness nor docility--who can
neither find the way by himself, nor will be led by others, is a wretch
without use or value."
"You are seeking truth," quoth Adalbert von Chamisso, "Remember
that the world clings more firmly to superstition than to faith,"--or, to
borrow expression from an equally inspired source,--remember that
perverse humanity rarely fails to favour, rather, what Shakespeare
terms "The seeming truth