Digital heart book

Darkness was driven out by more improved
methods of lighting, and houses and streets were brilliant the whole night
long; and it finally became the fashion in both society and business
circles literally to turn night into day. For a time that remained the
universal custom, strange as it seems to us now, but the practice of
sleeping in the day-time never became natural. This means that the whole
world was living on from year to year without the amount of rest required
to keep the race alive. There could be but one result. A brood of nervous
troubles fell upon us; life began to shorten, and we became aware that a
serious crisis was before us. As soon as we were convinced that we were
bringing all this evil upon ourselves by our disregard of the laws of
nature, there was a change; and it is well for us that there was still
virility enough left in the race to make a change possible. A gradual
reform was instituted which, overcoming many difficulties and delays but
with no serious set-backs, brought us, after long years, to our present
happy way.


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