1887 Martin Luther Holbrook, Vegetarian and Health Reformer, Autograph Manuscript Quotation Signed.

This 1887 Manuscript ponders the question “What is Wisdom?”

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Martin Luther Holbrook (1831–1902) was a 19th-century physician, health reformer, and advocate of vegetarianism who warned against unhealthy “flesh-eaters.” He authored and published numerous medical works under his own name. These titles represent only a small sample of his output: Parturition without pain; a code of directions for escaping from the primal curse (1871); Dr. Holbrook’s American Cookery (1881); Homo-culture; or, The improvement of offspring through wiser generation (1899); and Hygiene of the Brain and Nerves and the Cure of Nervousness ... (1878), among others.

This 1887 AMQS finds Holbrook addressing the question, “What is Wisdom?” His answer is to “... go along the lines which Nature has worked out,” invoking Ralph Waldo Emerson and the well-known phrase about “hitching your load to a star.” For Holbrook, those who accept Nature’s forces help themselves by allowing themselves to be helped, naturally. He concludes, “To seek wisdom then is to see to use wisely nature’s forces.”

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