Excerpt from Etiopathy, or Way of Life: Being an Exposition of Ontology, Physiology Therapeutics; A Religious Science Scientific Religion The author of these pages was born in Royalton, Wind sor County, Vt., March 25, 1830. He is the tenth child and fourth son of John G. Dutton and Abigail Morrill. There are few incidents of his youth of sufficient interest to his readers to be mentioned here. He was fond of books at an early age and generally won the approbation of his teach ers. He remembers reciting Peter Parley's Geography en tire, at two recitations, on the last day of a term of school when he was only eight years of age. His sister Mary, afterwards preceptress of the High School at Rutland, Vt, formed with her brother the entire class. He does not men tion this as evidence of precocity, to which he lays no claim, but, thanks to the industrious and frugal habits of his parents, he had a tenacious memory. For the benefit of those who believe in dreams and signs, two other incidents of his childhood are here truthfully related. He dreamed one night of finding a hen's nest at the barn with seventeen eggs. Relating his dream in the morning, he told his sis ter Mary, next older than himself, that if she would go with. 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.