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very wise physician has said that "every illness has two parts--what it is, and what the patient thinks about it." What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life, what life means to him is also of great importance and may be the bar that shuts out all real health and happiness. The following pages are devoted to certain ideals of life which I would like to give to my patients, the long-time patients who have especially fallen to my lot | The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall 1 THE UNTROUBLED MIND HERBERT J. HALL The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Untroubled Mind Author Herbert J. Hall Release Date July 19 2007 EBook 22108 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE UNTROUBLED MIND Produced by Peter Vachuska Dave Morgan Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http THE UNTROUBLED MIND BY The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall HERBERT J. HALL . 2 BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT 1915 BY HERBERT J. HALL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published May 1915 PREFACE A very wise physician has said that every illness has two parts--what it is and what the patient thinks about it. What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life what life means to him is also of great importance and may be the bar that shuts out all real health and happiness. The following pages are devoted to certain ideals of life which I would like to give to my patients the long-time patients who have especially fallen to my lot. They are not all here the steps to health and happiness. The reader may even be annoyed and baffled by my indirectness and unwillingness to be specific. That I cannot help--it is a personal peculiarity I cannot ask any one to live by rule because I do not believe that rules are binding and final. There must be character behind the rule and then the rule is unnecessary. All that I have written has doubtless been presented before in better ways by wiser men but I believe that each .