Excerpt from The Efficient Life A man of national reputation, died at the age of forty-six. It was said that his death was the result of overwork, and that the ultimate cause was failure of the kidneys. I knew his habits of work intimately, and I do not believe that the work alone could account for the sad result, which took him away in the prime Of life and at a time when all his experiences qualified him to do better work than he had ever done before. I think the fundamental trouble was that he did not know how to run his physical machinery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.