EMANCIPATION
MENTICULTURE
OR
THE A-B-C OF TRUE LIVING
BY
HORACE FLETCHER
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & COMPANY
1895
Copyright, 1895
By HORACE FLETCHER
CONTENTS
| Theory | 13 |
| A Personal Experience | 25 |
| A Discussion | 47 |
| Plymouth Church Club and Armour Institute | 59 |
| Diagnosis and Remedy | 65 |
| A Prescription | 73 |
| Scraps of Evidence | 77 |
| First Principles Overlooked | 113 |
| Slaves or Freemen—Which? | 123 |
| Organization | 139 |
| Hope | 145 |
This little paper; being a Kindergarten presentation of a theoryof menticulture through the elimination of the germs of the evilpassions; proven to be of practical benefit by a personal experiencein every-day life; was read before a gathering of Mental Scientists atNew Orleans. At the request of a number of my friends I have had itput into printed form for them.
I have added the substance of a discussion which followed thereading of the paper, a diagnosis, a prescription, some scraps ofevidence from influential sources which have come to me, somesuggestions relative to the tendency to far-away search for happiness,and a ray of hope that it can be found near at hand, throughEmancipation.
PREFACE
Medical science had struggled for centuries with the repression andamelioration of physical disease before it discovered the possibilityof prevention by killing the germ.
Mental science pursued the same course of attempted repression in thiscountry until quite recently it was found that mental afflictions havegerms also, and it naturally follows that any who are interested inthe subject should try to discover, not only the germs themselves, butmethods of getting rid of them.
The discovery that I have made is not new, as Christ, Buddha,Aristotle, Omar Khayyam and many others, have all suggested that theelimination of the evil passions is entirely possible; but my specialanalysis of them, and the easy method of defeat that I have foundpossible to myself, have excited such interest, that I have beeninduced to publish them, without attempting to follow the subjectbeyond the elementary stage.
The theory that I have built up is based on a proper estimation of thelimitations of