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 THE SIXTH LAW OF NATURE 
 
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 Responsive Sixth Sense in Man : 
 
 AS A MEANS OF HEALTH. 
 
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 MANLEY HALL. 
 
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PREFACE, 
 
 It was originally the author's purpose to write 
 a book commencing perhaps with astronomy and 
 gradually proceeding through the various correl- 
 ative scientific subjects culminating in a solution 
 of the great problem of all time, — "What is Life?" 
 that favorite theme of elevated intellects, known 
 under such expressions as— "The Unknown: The 
 Unconditioned: The First Cause: The Absolute: 
 The Eternal: The Supreme: The Infinite:" etc. 
 
 But realizing the immense length of time neces- 
 sary to the completion of such a work and the 
 precariousness of individual physical existence, he 
 has finally decided to write and publish a succes- 
 sion of smaller books similar probably to the 
 present one, each limited to and expounding a 
 distinct and separate idea in connection with the 
 whole. 
 
 The contents of the first of possibly five books, 
 are now respectfully submitted to the reader. 
 
 Pawtucket, R. I., October, 1901. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Introduction. i 
 
 The purpose of the senses is to preserve the 
 human. If an individual and particular ac- 
 quaintance between man and the necessary- 
 utility of his senses were indispensable, his 
 "education" would have caused him to be 
 annihilated years ago. His senses provide 
 for and protect him, and are his best friends. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Sense in the Human is a Continuation of Law in 
 
 Nature. i 2 
 
 Internal, invisible, and immaterial laws, the 
 study of which, though neglected in the past, 
 will be the highest mental occupation of the 
 future. Philosophy fondles where science 
 fears. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 The Sixth Sense in Man Harmonizes Him With 
 His Remaining Senses, and With His Sur- 
 roundings. 1 6 
 
ii CONTENTS. 
 
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 Harmony is man's constant companion, daily and 
 nightly, ever by his side as a faithful servant. 
 Man's unacquaintance with Harmony binds 
 him to its constantly operative power; when 
 he comprehends the law of Harmony, he will 
 adjust its power to his service. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Man's Every Permanent Characteristic and Capa- 
 bility Originates In, and Remains Subject To, 
 Natural Law. 20 
 
 Each different and particular location has its 
 peculiar habits of speech. "The scenes of 
 our childhood" proclaim themselves in our 
 speech all our lives. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 The Origin of the Different Races of Mankind is 
 
 an Eternal Sequence of Natural Laws. 26 
 
 Each country forms its own race of people by 
 nature's silent and persistent operations, after 
 discovering the tendency we may rely upon 
 the ultimate. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Our Characteristic Inclinations are Formed Be- 
 fore we are Personally Responsible, and 
 when we Become Responsible it is Sometimes 
 Wise to Reform Them. 35 
 
 "Original Sin" is with our ancestry: which fact 
 will be nullified as parental responsibility is 
 
CONTENTS, iii 
 
 ?AGE 
 
 recognized and appreciated. The greatest 
 "honor" we can confer on our "father and 
 mother" is, persistently endeavoring to out- 
 live their transmitted weaknesses. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Medical Theories are not in Line With Nature's 
 
 Laws. 43 
 
 There is a strong anti-medical tendency abroad 
 among the people, and among the intelligent 
 of medical practitioners. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Man may Cultivate Gradually and Enslave Him- 
 self Finally to any Habit, Good, Bad, or In- 
 different, AND BY THE SAME PROCESS REVERSED, 
 
 Liberate Himself. 5 2 
 
 As the parents may be seen in the child, the boy 
 may be seen in the man; the one is* the seed- 
 time, the other is the harvest. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 The Ultimate Harmonization of Humanity, as felt 
 and Foreseen by Great Souls of the Ages, 
 Has Been Aped by Many; "Christian Science" 
 Is One of the Apers. 58 
 
 "Many shall run to and fro, saying, lo ! here, and 
 lo ! there;" but the fulfillment of this prom- 
 ise "shall come as a thief in the night." 
 
i? CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Every Human Experience is Enclosed in the 
 
 Duality, — Body and Soul. 66 
 
 All external possibilities are encompassed by Life 
 and Harmony. Every other term is reduci- 
 ble or traceable to the Quadrinity, — Body, 
 Soul, Harmony, and Life. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 Electricity is Positive to Material and Negative 
 to the Human: Hence, Individual Contact 
 with Electricity is Injurious. 70 
 
 Man expresses the constructive principle, and 
 electricity expresses the opposite. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Hypnotism is Positive to Animal and Negative to 
 Human: Therefore, the Practise of Hynotism 
 is Retrograding. ' 75 
 
 The animal possessing the power the strongest is 
 the conquering animal; the man possessing it 
 the weakest is the intelligent man. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 The Method of Healing by "Laying-On of Hands" 
 
 is both Ancient and Modern. 79 
 
 The "power of healing" by this system is limited 
 to super-abundant health in the "healer." 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 To Say That "Faith" Will "Cure" Physical 
 Disease, is Equivalent to Saying That Word 
 
CONTENTS. v 
 
 TAGE 
 
 is Deed: That Imagination is Fact: That Men- 
 tal Weakness is Mental Strength: That the 
 4 'M i nd" is Independent of Physical Conditions, 
 Environments, and Necessities: and Thus, 
 Equal With (Though in Fact Only an Un- 
 speakably Infinitesimal Fraction of the Eter- 
 nal Fruit of) the First Cause. 85 
 
 Humanly speaking-, "he who runs may read" that 
 mind and body are mutually co-ordinate: 
 that the mind expresses the moods of the 
 soul, and the body expresses the motions of 
 the soul: that both body and mind are subject 
 to the necessities and desires of the soul: and 
 that the soul cannot change "one jot or 
 tittle" in reference to either body or mind, 
 except in absolute accord with nature's laws 
 and nature's fruits. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 Spiritual Things are a Continuation of Natural 
 Things, and to Speak of "Super-Nature" is 
 Absurd. 91 
 
 Great reflective intellects have "compared heaven- 
 ly things with earthly things," and vice versa, 
 because they are comparable; the one is em- 
 braced by the other, in the great circle of 
 universal perfection. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 "Spiritual Healing" is a Continuation Under 
 
 Another Name of "Laying-On of Hands." 99 
 
vi CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 As in everything else so in this, man generally 
 names a thing as he comprehends it; hence, 
 the various names of the art of healing, 
 
 CONCLUSION. 104 
 
 The only object in publishing the ideas contained 
 in this book is, to remind the strong that they 
 have the power to assist the weak, and to re- 
 mind the weak of their duty to be strong; 
 that all may be happy in Universal Harmony, 
 each as his brother's keeper. 
 
The Sixth Law of Nature and Responsive 
 Sixth Sense in Man. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 Introduction. 
 
 All faculties, senses, instincts or capabilities 
 known to man, and in nature, are a continuation of 
 the same number of eternally established natural 
 laws, concentrated and totalized in man. The fact 
 that he is the ultimate,the climax or consummation 
 of each and every law of nature, in the universal 
 circle of life, constitutes his differentiation from, and 
 inclusion of, infinite mundane precedence. 
 
 Man as "king of nature all," is in absolute sub- 
 jection to every subject of his kingdom. As the 
 prosequence of nature, he is dependent upon all 
 natural laws for his very existence and general 
 well-being. Thus, we gain from nature the ideal 
 of constitutional unity. Our King, Lords and 
 Commons; President, Senate and Congress; — in 
 man as King or President; the principal or higher 
 laws, — Light, Air and Water as Lords or Sena- 
 tors; Food, Cleanliness and Climate, — the compara- 
 
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2 NATURE IS CAUSE: HER FRUIT IS EFFECT. 
 
 tive lower laws, — as Commoners or Congressional. 
 
 Man naturally reaches out for this ideal be- 
 cause it is a component part of his being from 
 nature, where it reigns unusurpedly supreme. 
 Hence, we shall derive from nature the ''model 
 government/' — when the King comprehends his 
 subjects as his subjects support their King; then 
 the "smart politician" will be a possibility of the 
 past. 
 
 Not until man estimates the laws governing 
 the fruits of the earth which sustain him, can he 
 truly have the "dominion" which is eternally se- 
 quenced. It is vain for him to attempt and expect 
 /to succeed in anything which he has not derived 
 directly through, by and from nature, physically, 
 mentally or spiritually: morally , there are things 
 of value which he may learn. 
 
 Man can only appreciate and enjoy the beau- 
 ties of the fruits of nature by and through his birth 
 from nature. He could not recognize any beauty 
 in any human being, for instance, except by the 
 correlative ability of such recognition from natural 
 law, in his own composition and disposition, — 
 "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." 
 
 The more developed and advanced the indi- 
 vidual, the sooner he recognizes and appreciates 
 corresponding development and advancement in 
 others. An undeveloped person, on the other hand, 
 is apt to be blind to the greater advancement of 
 his fellows, and content with comparative undevel- 
 opment of thought, word, action and association 
 
' 'GENIUS IS COURAGEOUS SELF-SACRIFICE. 3 
 
 The Artist must be satisfied with the appre- 
 ciation and patronage of the artistically disposed; 
 the Musician with the musical; the Poet with the 
 poetical; the Thinker with the thoughtful; and they 
 are in direct harmony with a natural law, — "Birds 
 of a feather flock together." 
 
 The real signification of the appellation or 
 epithet "genius," is one who would not under any 
 pressure, stress or suffering, cater to a lower order 
 than himself; the one who does so because of 
 "necessity," is not a good and safe human speci- 
 men; but the one who will cater to a lower taste 
 for mere gain of any kind or degree is a clog and 
 an injury to human progress, — he who would be 
 greatest among men let him serve his fellows the 
 most, and expecting no "reward," he will not be 
 disappointed. 
 
 Man, in his birthright from natural laws, has 
 in him by practise and cultivation or under stress 
 of sudden emergency, the nobleness of the horse 
 and the meaness of the snake; the courage of the 
 lion and the cowardice of the gorilla; the cun- 
 ning of the fox and the simplicity of the lamb; the 
 stamina of the elephant and the laxity of the cow ; 
 the hastiness of the dog and the patience of the 
 donkey; the music of birds, the poetry of seasons, 
 the provision of bees, the engineering of moles, the 
 industry of ants, etc., ad libitum. 
 
 If man had not climaxed in himself the princi- 
 ples and essences of each and every species of vege- 
 tation, fruit and animal, light, air, water, and every 
 
4 NATURE, NATURE S FRUITS, AND MAN, ARE CORRELATED. 
 
 possible product of the earth, including the earth 
 itself, neither the earth nor any of its fruits could 
 have any influence upon nor any sustenance or 
 nourishment for him. The principle and essence 
 of the sun's light and heat, the products of the soil, 
 mineral, vegetable and animal divisions of mundane 
 existence, are each and all daily human materiali- 
 zation by which only is human existence possible. 
 
 Man enjoys the light of day because he is im- 
 mediately connected by law with that light; he en- 
 joys his night's repose because he has obeyed the 
 law of daily activity, and is still in accord with 
 natural law during sleep. He enjoys his breakfast 
 of ham and eggs only because the same law which 
 produced the ham and eggs is continued and re- 
 peated in him. He enjoys his vegetable dinner be- 
 cause the same law which caused the cabbage, 
 potatoes and onions is the source of him. He en- 
 joys his evening meal of fruit, bread and butter for 
 the same reason. 
 
 There is nothing known to man, nor ever can 
 be known, which will nourish and sustain him in 
 health or heal him in sickness, except the sequen- 
 tial principles and essences of his naturo-human 
 correlation. 
 
 Every human possibility physically, mentally 
 and spiritually is somewhere and somehow pre-ex- 
 istent in nature, which alone makes it possible in 
 man. 
 
 All beyond is centralized here, and all here is 
 emanation of beyond. 
 
The Five Senses* — Their Uses, Abuses, and 
 Simple Methods of Preservation* 
 
 Everyone knows of five senses in the human; 
 this knowledge is imparted in public schools; hence 
 even children are acquainted with it. However, 
 it is one thing to impart knowledge of existent 
 fact, and another to teach its utility. The senses 
 will be of far more value to us when we are fully 
 aware of the vital importance of their constant nur- 
 ture and cultivation. 
 
 We may take as instances any or all of our 
 senses, and we shall find upon examination of our 
 habits, how really careless we are of the impor- 
 tance of their preservation and vigor. The im- 
 mediate advantages accruing from the full posses- 
 sion of our senses are self-protection and self-pres- 
 ervation: — to know what will benefit and what will 
 injure us; to be ever conscious of friends and of 
 foes; — when fully comprehending them they are 
 guides to our necessities and our comforts. 
 
 If the reader will allow the premise that ex- 
 cept by a voluntary or involuntary exercise of our 
 physical senses we would not be conscious of a 
 physical existence, he will at once see the impor- 
 tance of a very definite degree of development and 
 preservation of these natural connections with uni- 
 versal laws; will see the misfortune of the decay or 
 loss or partial loss of even one of our senses, and 
 will wisely turn his attention to the fact that they 
 are indispensable, true and life-abiding friends. 
 
 First in order take the sense of Sight, — per- 
 
THE FOUNDATION OF GOOD EYE-SIGHT IS PURE BLOOD. 
 
 haps the most valuable one we possess: how often, 
 sometimes unconsciously and sometimes care- 
 lessly, do we assist in its destruction ! Sudden 
 changes of eye-exposure from heat to cold 
 and from cold to heat; allowing ourselves to re- 
 ceive blows on the eyes; straining the sight by too ' 
 much exposure to glaring light or sudden changes 
 often repeated from extreme light to extreme dark- 
 ness. The foregoing are the simplest and princi- 
 pal tendencies to injury of the eye and sight, and of 
 course conversely, their opposites tend to the pres- 
 ervation of both. One essential to good eye-sight 
 should never be forgotten, and that is, pure blood. 
 It may seem circuitous to say that what we 
 breathe, eat and drink, and our health generally, 
 have a direct influence upon our eyes and sight, 
 yet it is none the less common every-day fact. 
 Good, plain nourishing food, good air and water, 
 all these things have a positive and direct 
 bearing upon the general physical health, and the 
 general physical health has a direct influence upon 
 the eye-sight. Those who know the secret of good 
 general health know the secret of good eye-sight. 
 Poor health, tired, dark and poisoned blood and 
 an occupation in a glaring light or heat, to which 
 the eyes are constantly exposed, are the principal 
 and surest enemies of good eye-sight; while good 
 general health, blood which is the genetic of good 
 plain food, fresh air and pure water and a vig- 
 orous circulation, (which latter is the fruit of 
 regular rest and exercise) no more light than is 
 
COLD PARALYZES, WARMTH REVIVES. 7 
 
 necessary for that we may happen to be employed 
 with, and that light coming from behind, are eye- 
 sight's best friends. Again, what a true friend is 
 good Hearing, and how neglected and sometimes 
 abused are the organs of this sense. To sit near 
 a hot fire and dry the very nature and life out of 
 the ear or ears, then going out into a cold frosty 
 atmosphere, — a change perhaps ol a considerable 
 number of degrees colder, — the, ear or ears hav- 
 ing lost their strength in the previous heating, and 
 become in a degree paralyzed, stagnation of circu- 
 lation being the consequence of such partial paral- 
 ysis, disease the consequence of stagnation and 
 "catarrh" progressively resulting; too proud to 
 cover the ears in winter's cold, sleeping with the 
 head exposed to a draft at night or any other time, 
 near a window or outside wall, where the cold and 
 frost come in from one to four or five feet in win- 
 ter; all these are primary causes of deafness. 
 
 The fact may be patent to all that a healthy 
 person with vigorous circulation can do things 
 which another not so blessed would be unable to 
 do; — but no matter how strong and vigorous the 
 individual, if he is not careful he will find by ex- 
 perience that we do not value health so much as 
 when we have lost it. 
 
 It is at best but a very weak and unprofitable 
 excuse to say, — "We have inherited such and such 
 bodily weaknesses from our parents;" let us out- 
 grow these physical shortcomings, and thus truly 
 "Honor our father and our mother." 
 
8 BACTERIA AND IMPURE ATMOSPHERE ARE ONE. 
 
 The sense of Smell, how valuable, and yet how 
 little valued comparatively. The great Pasteur 
 of France demonstrated the possibility of every 
 bad smell consisting of myriads of living ravenous 
 animals, invisible to the natural eye; hence, every 
 time we find a bad smell it is vitiation in some 
 degree, detrimental to health, and should be 
 avoided as much as possible. The sense of Smell 
 is so valuable in this respect that every one should 
 obey its warnings constantly, rather than be proud 
 of the fact that, u A smell does not trouble them/' 
 
 We may accustom ourselves to clear atmos- 
 phere until we can detect the slightest wrong, and 
 on the other hand, we may accustom ourselves to 
 wrong smells until they are scarcely objectionable. 
 But what about the loss or gain in real lasting 
 health ? Just think that our blood is made directly 
 from what we breathe, or at least, this is nature's 
 finishing touch in the process. What kind of 
 blood, therefore, must we necessarily have, if we 
 do not obey our sense of Smell and change, or 
 move out of objectional atmospheres? 
 
 The sense of Taste, — how little some seem to 
 respect it. If their food is properly cooked it is 
 not sufficient, they are not content to indulge and 
 enjoy the natural appetite for food, — hunger, neces- 
 sity or healthful desire; they must add all kinds of 
 condiments, until really the food itself has no indi- 
 vidual taste which they can either appreciate or 
 relish. 
 
 First, this "seasoning" causes a false appetite, 
 
LUXURY IS THE FATHER OF NECESSITY. 9 
 
 the indulgence of which crowds the system, even- 
 tually terminating in disease; second, "use becom- 
 ing second nature," these forcing stimulants grad- 
 ually lose their intended energy; hence, luxuries 
 are only such for a limited period, after which 
 they become necessities. 
 
 We have been accustomed to hear and repeat 
 to anyone who may happen to be sick with certain 
 troubles, "Take care you do not get cold;" and it 
 may seem strange to adopt just the opposite rule 
 of advice; nevertheless, there is more benefit to be 
 derived from — "Take care you do not get heat" 
 than from its opposite. It is after heating we take 
 cold, and on returning to heat we are conscious of 
 having taken cold. 
 
 Take, for instance, a piece of flesh meat; how 
 tough and tenacious it is before it has been heated. 
 We can allow it to freeze whole days and even 
 weeks and it retains almost all its vitality, — but 
 once cook or only half cook it, and keep it some- 
 time even moderately warm, how soon it becomes 
 bad, every careful housewife knows. 
 
 In the Australian and London meat trade, the 
 animals are killed in Australia, prepared and 
 shipped to London, and although they require 
 to pass through the hottest place on earth — the 
 tropics — the meat is sold in London and enjoyed as 
 good, six or seven weeks after killing, and after 
 passing through the most trying conditions 
 possible, excepting the fact that it is kept at a very 
 low temperature by refrigeration. 
 
10 FROST PRESERVES, HEAT DESTROYS. 
 
 "The lowest forms of germ life — bacteria— are 
 able to survive the most intense cold. Tempera- 
 tures of over three hundred degrees below zero do 
 not kill them. After exposure to such cold they 
 begin to multiply again as soon as placed under 
 favorable conditions." 
 
 If cold were the thing principally to avoid, 
 then winter might be "death" instead of a time of 
 recuperation for returning spring. All this goes 
 to prove that in cold we retain our vital tenacity 
 and in heat we lose it; so, in future let us rather 
 advise "beware of taking heat " 
 
 Last, but not by any means least, comes the 
 sense of Touch: — that sense which informs us of 
 too much heat or too much cold, when any part 
 of our wearing apparel is preventing free circula- 
 tion, how much work to do and corresponding rest 
 to have, when so-called enjoyments are beneficial 
 and when not. All these things and more belong 
 to a proper guarding of this valuable sense It is 
 sometimes surprising, however, how much it is 
 neglected, and how comparatively little we suffer 
 even after such protracted negligence. 
 
 We have the wonderful construction of our 
 physical systems to thank for not having to suffer 
 sooner for our ignorance or carelessness. Just as 
 surely, however, as our bodies endure a large 
 amount of neglect before they succumb, so surely, 
 when once down, do they require a correspond- 
 ingly great amount of care and nursing before 
 recuperation. 
 
MAN IS ABSOLUTELY REDUCIBLE AND TRACEABLE I T 
 
 TO SENSE OR LAW. 
 
 As the management, cultivation and preserva- 
 tion of our senses constitute our totality, it is ex- 
 tremely important that we guard and value the 
 vigor of these things; — "An ounce of prevention is 
 worth a pound of cure." 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 Definition of the Term Sense and its Relation 
 to Nature* 
 
 We now approach the principal object of this 
 work; — the Sixth Sense in Man. But previous to 
 enlarging upon the subject, it is perhaps best to 
 devote some time and space to imparting a clear 
 comprehension of the abstract signification of the 
 term "Sense/' necessarily mentioned so often. 
 
 In the natural operation of our senses, three 
 things require considqration and specific defini- 
 tion, — sense, channel of sense, and that which 
 senses; — law, medium of law, and that which is 
 cognizant of law. Any one sense will be found 
 sufficient to instance, and so we will take the sense 
 of Sight. Sight is a continuation of one of the laws 
 of nature eternally established — Light: the channel 
 of sight is the human Eye with its wonderfully in- 
 intricate mechanism, and that which sees or be- 
 comes cognizant of such fact, is the inner Self or 
 Soul. 
 
 Sight as a faculty, instinct or attribute of the 
 inner self or soul, is no more a ^'material sens^" 
 than is the inner self or soul material The body 
 is the shell or house of the inner and more real 
 
THE TERMS LAW AND SENSE ARE SYNONYMOUS. I 3 
 
 self, — the soul, and it is through and by the 
 appointed physical organs or channels of the 
 senses that the soul becomes cognizant of external 
 things. Considering the word Sense to be synon- 
 ymous with the word Law, we acquire the truest 
 conception of its signification. 
 
 The highest example we can have of the intrin- 
 sic definition of the word law is that expressed in 
 space. There, an endless number of bodies, no 
 two of them the same, are held in position and 
 controlled in their axial and orbital revolutions by 
 Law. These bodies are the sequence, fruit or ef- 
 fect of the self-same absolute law which now con- 
 trols them, in their indescribably perfect and beau- 
 tiful revolutions and evolutions. 
 
 According to a scientific calculation this planet 
 upon which we live weighs ''sixty sextillion tons;" 
 the planet Jupiter is fourteen hundred times as 
 large as our earth; there are about one hundred 
 and fifty-six bodies revolving around the centre 
 of our system, — the Sun; the Sun is seven hundred 
 times as large as all of them combined, and the 
 great steller sun Sirius is twelve hundred times 
 larger than our Sun. 
 
 Reader, study x^stronomy and bow your soul 
 in silent admiration of eternal, infinite, absolute 
 and supreme Law, and from that soul-posture rise 
 to your responsibility as part and parcel of the un- 
 speakably great and limitless effect: which is the 
 best means of acquiring an idea of the immense 
 power of the First Cause. We can contemplate 
 
14 LAW IS ABSOLUTE AND INDEPENDENT OF MATERIAL. 
 
 Law in the abstract and experiment with it con- 
 cretely, and yet there are those who cannot see 
 beyond the material even after such demonstrative 
 experimentation. All we may expect to do with 
 these individuals is to lead them gently as far as 
 we can and leave the remainder to natural 
 growth. Law is the food and nourishment of the 
 intellect, as material is the food and nutriment of 
 the bodv, and both are traceable or reducible to 
 the same thing, — Life. 
 
 After placing a kettle of water over a hot fire, 
 the water gradually becomes heated, not because 
 the coal in itself is hot, but because, under proper 
 conditions, a law has been connected between the 
 fire and the water ; and if the fire should be 
 extinguished, it is reproducible at any other time 
 under similar conditions ; proving that the same 
 law is still absolutely potent. While the fire is 
 aglow we see and know that there is physical life 
 expressed ; but when the fire is "out" we have not 
 this concrete opportunity; yet having once 
 experienced light and heat through our sense of 
 Touch from this source, we thereafter have a 
 definite knowledge of their abstract existence. 
 We derive our light and heat from the Sun not 
 because that body is hot, but because light and 
 heat are effects of absolute motion ; motion being 
 the sequence of a greater law. 
 
 Our electric cars carry us to our business or 
 pleasure, not because they are hauled along by 
 some material connection, but because they reply 
 to the expression of a natural law. 
 
SENSE IN MAN IS LAW IN NATURE. I 5 
 
 The word Sense may therefore be defined as the 
 operation of those natural laws whereby we are 
 cognizant of an existence, and our benefits or 
 injuries therefrom. 
 
 The loss of any particular one of the senses is 
 always more or less compensated for in an intensi- 
 fied action of the remainder; thus, we have the 
 secret of the best advantage of the full possession 
 of our senses by well-regulated exercise of them in 
 totality. 
 
 The sense of Sight is a continuation of our day- 
 light and darkness — our night and day in nature. 
 The sense of Smell is the same with reference to 
 the refulgent circulations of nature's vegetation, 
 and safeguard from her temporary stagnations. 
 Likewise w r ith the sense of Touch, which is a 
 repetition of our frigid, torrid and temperate 
 zones: of which "birds of passage" have the best 
 advantage. The sense of Taste is the human 
 continuation of the sweets, bitters and palatables 
 of natural foods, and Hearing a continuation ot 
 the stillness, disturbance and thunderings of 
 nature in her searching for perfect harmony, which 
 to her is only possible in constant change. 
 
 In addition to being the consummation of all 
 preceding laws in nature, man, as in the case of 
 every other species in the onward evolutionarv 
 scale, has added to him one more faculty or 
 capability, in continued advance from the others: 
 he is the only individual of mundane existence 
 capable of abstract thought, and in this particular 
 is he the ultinicite, the climax of nature's fruits. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 The Sixth Law of Nature and Responsive Sixth 
 Sense in Man is Harmony* 
 
 Man's subserviency, centralization and control 
 of all preceding laws of nature are best unified in 
 the word Harmony. It is the Sense or Law 
 which, causing a modification of the other five 
 senses or laws, acclimatizes him to new atmos- 
 pheres, temperatures, conditions and countries. 
 It is the expression of that Law which alone en- 
 ables us to live and thrive in our North American 
 climate; — the "getting used to" either one or the 
 other as the seasons come and go. It is the law 
 which is the mainstay of the boy while learning 
 his unprofitable habits. At first attempts they 
 make him sick, but after considerable practise, he 
 becomes harmonized to them, often so thoroughly • 
 that he cannot leave them off in later life without 
 at least as much difficulty as he had in acquiring 
 these habits in his youth. 
 
 It is the sequence of this law which makes it 
 possible to "tell me your company and I will tell 
 you who you are," and "show me your books and 
 I will see your mentality," etc. It is the silent 
 and constant operation of this law which causes 
 
"USE IS SECOND NATURE," HARMONY. I 7 
 
 people who have lived together as husband and 
 wife so long under its immediate influence, some- 
 times to be mistaken for brother and sister. 
 
 It it the Law which causes a thing at first 
 repugnant, to be eventually accepted and finally 
 absorbed. 
 
 Should you leave a clear atmosphere and enter 
 a vitiated one, the smell would at first be offensive; 
 but as you remained in it, you would by the 
 gradual operation of this Law, become eventually 
 harmonized to it, and if you made it your perma- 
 nent abode, it would by almost unconscious 
 degrees finally cease to be objectionable. On the 
 other hand, you could stay in a comparatively 
 closed up and stifled atmosphere all day until 
 evening, and entering the fresh clear air you 
 would begin to cough, expectorate, run at the 
 nose and eyes, and clear yourself generally, until 
 this Law of Harmony readjusted you to the 
 change. 
 
 If you were accustomed to a very dark room 
 and changed suddenly to a brilliantly lighted one, 
 you would at first experience very considerable 
 pain ; but this Law would immediately operate 
 and soon conform you to the new condition. If 
 you were to leave a brilliantly lighted room and 
 immediately enter a dark one, how densely dark 
 for a short time it would seem to you, until this 
 sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense 
 in man asserted itself, and you gradually saw more 
 and more of the room and its contents; and if you 
 
I 5 NATURE LEADS IN LINES OF USE. 
 
 stayed long enough you would almost forget the 
 change. 
 
 By the operation of this natural Law you can 
 change from extreme heat to sudden cold, and at 
 first it is very trying to your strength ; but the 
 same Law of Harmony is again your support, and 
 you gradually . feel the cold less and less, until 
 finally you cease to notice this also. The same 
 with the change from cold to heat ; how at first 
 you perspire, until a little later you may even be 
 surprised at your previous warmth. 
 
 If you were accustomed to live on a quiet street 
 and moved to a very noisy one, it would at first 
 be very unpleasant; but after the Law of Harmony 
 had done its work, you would notice it so little that 
 remaining long enough and returning to your 
 former quiet street, it is just possible that you 
 might find the quietness unbearable. 
 
 As the ideal of every natural law is utilitarian, 
 and as they gradually ascend the scale of impor- 
 tance, they become more and more useful to us 
 when we comprehensively employ them to our 
 advantage ; they may at the same time become our 
 direst enemies if we misapply them or employ them 
 ignorantly. We may by their assistance deny 
 ourselves many essentials of physical existence for 
 a surprising length of time; but what are the 
 consequences? It is wise, therefore, and becoming 
 in us all to be well-informed, and practise the things 
 of benefit, and cease to practise and carefully 
 guard against those things which are detrimental. 
 
19 HARMONY ENCIRCLES EVERY NATURAL POSTURE. 
 
 The signification of the word Harmony includes 
 the ideas expressed in Equipoise, Equilibrium and 
 Equanimity, but none of these embraces or en- 
 circles the complete ideal encompassed and cir- 
 cumscribed by Harmony. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Origin of Peculiarities and Idiosyncrasies of 
 Speech* — Dialects and Languages* 
 
 The sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
 Sense in man is undoubtedly the source of diver- 
 sities in human speech. Each comparatively 
 limited locality has its hard, fast and definite pecu- 
 liarity as distinct and singular from every other 
 locality, and as pronounced, as that existing in a 
 more extended form between separate and distinct 
 countries, races and nations. Differences of speech 
 as recognized in different dialects, are absolutely 
 the same essentially and in principle as those ex- 
 isting between different languages. 
 
 Language may be defined as, the means of 
 communicating thoughts, ideas, notions and prin- 
 ciples from mentality to mentality, through the 
 media of vowels, consonants, punctuation and 
 enunciation. Dialect, may be defined as the nat- 
 ural local habit of changing the scholastically 
 recognized and accepted sounds of vowels by 
 lengthening, shortening or duplicating: omission 
 augmentation or diminution of consonants: pecu- 
 liarities of ejaculation and combination of words, 
 which is essentially punctuation, and local char- 
 
DIALECTS ARE LOCALIZED AND INCIPIENT LANGUAGES. 2 1 
 
 acteristical word-stress or emphasis, which is in 
 principle enunciation. 
 
 As such differences of articulation of consonants 
 and sounding- of vowels, consciously or uncon- 
 sciously employed in diverging- dialects, constitute 
 a sufficient barrier to the free communication of 
 thoughts, ideas, notions, opinions and principles 
 between the permanent inhabitants of separate 
 localities; so, in ages past, when people inter- 
 mingled even less, and these differences conse- 
 quently became more emphasized; they were the 
 immediate cause of the difficulties known now as 
 languages. And as men extended the circumfer- 
 ence of their abodes from the central grouping, 
 taking their locally acquired modes or habits of 
 speech with them, which, by the Law of harmoni- 
 zation of the human with his environments were 
 continually modified, — according to the extent and 
 direction of such change of habitation; we have to- 
 day — "The Science of Philology, '* — more or less 
 a trace of similarity or connection between some, 
 most or all languages. We have in the English 
 language, words from a number of other lan- 
 guages, — yet we generally give them the English 
 pronunciation and dialect twistings, which, to the 
 student of hard and fast rules of speech, are often 
 incomprehensible. Take as an instance the word 
 "neither;" it gets the sounds in different localities of 
 "neether," 'mother/' "nather," "nawther," "nyther," 
 "nuther'' and "noother;" changes in its first syllable 
 not mentioning the changes of its final syllable ac- 
 
2 2 NATURAL LAWS ARE IRRESISTIBLE. 
 
 cording to the locality in which it may be used, 
 which of course means among the common, un- 
 educated, every-day people. 
 
 Although the word ''neither" has been selected 
 at random, and may not be the best; yet it suffices 
 io indicate the difficulties possible in imparting or 
 receiving thought through the channels of human 
 speech, when so many diversifications are possible 
 around each word. 
 
 The sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
 Sense in man is of course continued into and 
 through the realm of sound. We unconsciously 
 become harmonized to sounds which we are con- 
 stantly hearing, and even if we intentionally and 
 carefully guard against this tendency, the Law 
 will to a measurable extent defy our best efforts. 
 And, as in every other thing in line with this Law, 
 the more striking or startling the change, the 
 deeper and more lasting the impression. By the 
 Law of unconscious sound-imitation, the child's 
 organs of speech form to the sounds which he imi- 
 tates, and gradually become, as he matures, so 
 thoroughly harmonized to them in formal con- 
 struction, that even after extensive travel and in- 
 termingling with other people and languages, the 
 place of his youth may be distinctly discerned 
 through his utmost efforts to the contrary. 
 
 Among the uneducated of fifty years ago, it is a 
 remarkable fact that people residing the compara- 
 tively short distance of five or six miles apart could 
 not comprehend each other's speech without 
 
ASSOCIATION TENDS TO UNIFY HUMAN SPEECH, 23 
 
 mutual effort and concession whenever it became 
 necessary to converse together. 
 
 The writer well remembers a football game be- 
 tween two rival villages separated a distance of 
 four miles, played by boys whose ages averaged 
 about fourteen years. One of the desired bounda- 
 ries in the game was a stone wall. An interpreter 
 in the person of a man who had lived in both 
 places was necessary, not only upon the pronuncia- 
 tion of stone wall, but generally throughout the 
 whole game; the boys of one village pronouncing 
 Stone Wall "Stonn Wa," while the boys of the 
 other village had it "Steuon Wo." There were 
 unintentional difficulties occurring throughout the 
 game which were unavoidable, because of the 
 diversities of speech between the two villages. 
 
 In conjunction with the foregoing, take the 
 instance of a woman in one part of Scotland buy- 
 ing wool for stockings; — enquiring of the sales- 
 man,— "Aw Oo ?" (All Wool?) he replies, "Ah, 
 Aw Oo:" (Yes, All Wool:) "Aw Ae Oo?" (All One 
 W ool ?) "Ah, Aw Ae Oo:" (Yes, All One Wool:") 
 and the business transaction is completed. 
 
 The reader may be sure that as Edinburgh is 
 famous for the purest English, this did not occur 
 in Edinburgh; and he may also rest assured that 
 this being the purchaser's only mode of speech, 
 she would experience considerable difficulty in 
 buying wool in a first-class store in Edinburgh. 
 
 Establishment of schools and "chairs" of lan- 
 guage have undoubtedly arrested the progress of 
 
 s 
 
24 EDUCATION ASSISTS THE UNIFICATION OF SPEECH. 
 
 dialects into persistent stumbling-blocks to the 
 free transfer of thought. It is also logical to con- 
 clude that if schools of language had been popu- 
 larly instituted ages ago in India, for instance, we 
 should not hear of so many languages as have 
 developed in that country. 
 
 Establishment of popular institutions in the art 
 of speech may be sufficient to ready communica- 
 tion of thought, but they can never be sufficient to 
 annul the tendency to nation, state, province, 
 shire, county, district, hamlet and village diversi- 
 fication of speech. 
 
 The constant tendency to differentiation of 
 speech, constituting a consequent difficulty in 
 transmission of thoughts, ideas, notions, opinions 
 and principles, will ever remain operative; yet, as 
 schools of speech become and remain common, 
 there will be such a mutual effort between people 
 of separated localities readily to comprehend and 
 converse with each other, that the difficulties of 
 the past will not extend with the same persistence 
 into the future. Rapid, easy and cheap modes of 
 travel will also assist in the same direction; so that, 
 eventually, there will be one language on the earth, 
 and that the best from all the past and present. 
 
 Undoubtedly man's first language was the 
 vowel, which being the musical part of the word, 
 would naturally have his preference. As time 
 rolled apace and his numbers increasing, it became 
 necessary to consider other things than merely the 
 affections of his fellows, he began to add the intel- 
 
THOUGHT AND SPEECH ARE CO-ORDINATE. 25 
 
 lig-ible part of speech, — the consonant. For a long 
 number of years words of one syllable were suffi- 
 cient, as for instance, the majority of words in the 
 ancient Chinese language. As men and races vied 
 with each other in intelligence, two, three, lour 
 and more syllables constituted a word. 
 
 It would be as impossible to transmit the 
 thoughts of to-day in the speech of the past, as it 
 would for our ancestry of the grunting age — satis- 
 fied with a kiss and a cabbage — to comprehend* the 
 signification of our words, much more the 
 thoughts which they clothe. The time-producing 
 tendency to abstract thought and multiplicity of 
 syllabic pronunciation, are mutually co-ordinate. 
 
 The writer does not attempt to indicate any 
 specific or approximate time for man's mundane 
 existence: this may be left to the education, study, 
 "discovery," or imagination of the reader. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 The Source of the Differences in Races of Men, 
 
 Species of Animals, Plants, Degrees of 
 
 Minerals, and Qualities of Soil* 
 
 The law of associative and assimilative Har- 
 mony is so definitely expressed in the human, 
 that every part of the earth has produced origi- 
 nallv and forms constantly, its own characteristics 
 in its permanent residents, each particular part 
 maintaining its own peculiar individuality in this 
 respect. This Law of human harmonization to 
 permanent residential localities is not only opera- 
 tive between nations, countries and separate races 
 of men; but it also continues between people of the 
 same nation, country or race. Permanent resi- 
 dents of each and every province, state, shire, 
 county, etc., having their own particular build, 
 carriage, manner, idiosyncrasy of speech, etc., dis- 
 tinct and peculiar from each other. In the United 
 States, we have our "Down Easter," " Westerner," 
 "S'therner," "Bostonian," "New Yorker," etc., 
 each having his own individual manner and 
 peculiar speech; which distinctly proclaim him to 
 the initiated as hailing from the extended "Ranch" 
 or confined "Hub." 
 
EACH MUNDANE DIVISION FORMS ITS OWN SPECIES. 2J 
 
 The sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
 Sense in man, having already, in such a compara- 
 tively short space of time, expressed itself as 
 distinctly irresistible in so young a country as the 
 United States, how much more emphasized must 
 it be in older and longer-settled countries ! The 
 African is the African, for instance, wherever we 
 find him; the Englishman the Englishman, and so 
 on with the remainder, whoever have been in their 
 particular latitudes and longitudes the longest. 
 Place an Englishman in Africa a sufficient number 
 of generations, and he and his progeny would 
 gradually and measurably change and assume 
 more and more of the characteristics of the African, 
 and eventually lose all semblance of the originally 
 transmigrated Englishman, becoming, as the years 
 rolled on, African pure and simple. Of course the 
 same rule would be conversely true on the part of 
 an African trans-acclimatized to England. 
 
 Different countries, states, counties, shires, and 
 even small towns and villages considerable dis- 
 tances apart, have had their own particular 
 pastime tendencies: Germany to instrumental 
 music, Italy to vocal music, and France to the 
 Drama. London in England was noted for its 
 good singers, while Manchester remained content 
 with its instrumental performers. 
 
 It will not be a great stretch of imagination on 
 the part of the reader to mentally scan the United 
 States and discover and prove the permanent 
 operation of the sixth Law of nature and respon- 
 
2 8 THE ENVIRONMENTS OF ATHENS FORMED ITS THOUGHT. 
 
 sive sixth Sense in man, in our various centres of 
 habitation. He can take as a general rule, the 
 fact, that places of extensive levels form people of 
 even tempered, comparatively slow and agreeable 
 dispositions, not exactly sickly but nothing 
 specially strong about them in any particular. On 
 the other hand, he will find places of alternations 
 of hills, hollows, valleys, vales and flowing streams, 
 forming their permanent residents into a collection 
 or accumulation of various dispositions; the people 
 from the hills cheering the valley folks and the 
 people of the valley returning quietness to those 
 of the hills and as a consequence, a generally 
 steady and moderately progressive people. 
 
 When we find places like ancient Athens, for 
 example, high, round, conical and withal of a dry 
 and healthful atmosphere, we find the people cor- 
 responding to the formation of such a place, 
 towering physically, mentally, morally and spirit- 
 ually above their surroundings, when not bound 
 down by outside, foreign creeds and dogmas. 
 
 Sometimes we find in history people who have 
 been sufficiently great and progressive travelling 
 to and superseding in art, science, philosophy and 
 general learning, the people of some other place, 
 but this has only continued a comparatively short 
 space of time, until they have by the operation of 
 the sixth Law of nature, degenerated to the con- 
 dition of those they originally influenced. 
 
 The sixth Law of nature changes man's physical 
 appearance in addition to his speech, music and 
 
MOUNTAIN'S AND COURAGE ARE CORRELATED. 29 
 
 pastime pleasures. The Highlanders of any coun- 
 try are distinct and singular from the lovvlanders 
 of the same country. There is a length and 
 density to the limb, a spring to the step, a vigor in 
 the speech, and a sprightliness in the music of the 
 inhabitants ot the highlands which are entirely 
 absent from the inhabitants of the lowlands; with 
 their rounded forms, settled easy stride, calm, 
 comparatively melancholy speech and musical 
 minor scale; — all of which are caused by the same 
 Law of harmonization with their environments. 
 
 The writer well remembers of the country in 
 which he passed his youth, that people living at a 
 distance of not more than twelve miles apart, 
 experienced positive difficulty in understanding 
 each other's speech and were remarkably unlike 
 even in their personal appearance: one hilly, 
 irregular town forming its permanent residents 
 into short, stubby, stout, rugged people, noted for 
 their wrestling and rough-and-tumble fighting pro- 
 pensities; while in the next town, forming part of a 
 level district, the people were measurably taller, 
 straighter, less contentious in their dispositions 
 and generally a more even-tempered people; as 
 if answering to the very formation of the varying 
 parts to which they were congenial. The writer 
 has also met Chinamen from different parts of 
 China, who, after the completest mutual efforts, 
 could not understand each other's speech, not- 
 withstanding the fact that they were both educated 
 in the same language/ in the same country, at 
 about the same time. 
 
30 NATURE IS XO RESPECTER OF COMERS OR GOERS. 
 
 As each and every country, by the operations 
 of the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
 Sense in man, has a natural aptitude to repeat in 
 new-comers the characteristic tendencies of the 
 aboriginals of that particular country; the white 
 man of the United States may expect that just as 
 the Red Men were when he made his appearance 
 among them, large, strong, and stolid: hating 
 oppression and oppressors: loving freedom as their 
 birthright, and delighting in a ki good time" gener- 
 ally, so he will find himself in course of time, go- 
 ing even so far as having the same notions of 
 "The great spirit and happy hunting-grounds;" in 
 fact, the careful observer ma)' already notice a 
 disposition in that direction. 
 
 The finest specimen of aboriginals in the writer's 
 observation are those of New Zealand. In per- 
 sonal appearance they are strong, evenly-propor- 
 tioned, and intelligent. They are successful in 
 most of the arts and callings of white men: farm- 
 ing, cattle and sheep-raising; doctors, teachers, and 
 members of the people's house of law-making rep- 
 resentation. If the aboriginals of New Zealand 
 are specially intelligent and the writer's claim of 
 the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
 Sense in man is correct, in this instance, then, 
 must the new-comers in those Islands be corre- 
 spondingly clever. Clever they now are. There are 
 in New Zealand some of the most intelligent people 
 and laws in the world, which for lack of space can- 
 not be here quoted. The fact may be mentioned, 
 
LAW IS THE WISE MAN S FRIEND. 3 I 
 
 however, that every man, woman and child re- 
 siding there is a joint and equal owner of the 
 whole of the land: one of the brightest and most 
 successful laws ever formulated anywhere in the 
 line of "Land Laws." 
 
 Man being the ultimate, the climax of nature, 
 every principle of nature is repeated in him, and 
 of course as he is the product of natural laws, 
 everything in him is correlatively in nature, We 
 find the same Sense of Harmony with environ- 
 ments in rocks, animals and plants; — the Western 
 horse, Arab steed, Ayrshire cattle, Leicester sheep, 
 etc., are each and all familiar instances; and yet, 
 observe that when these things have transmigrated 
 to any part foreign to them, the original purity of 
 their kinds and breeds can only be permanently 
 maintained by repeated re-stocking at frequent 
 periods; — this is of course dependent upon the fact 
 that they re-harmonize with their new places. 
 
 This sixth Sense, this Law of Harmony in man 
 with his environments, is so hard and fast, per- 
 manent and irresistible, that, if he is unacquainted 
 with it he becomes its subject, but being conver- 
 sant with it he has therein a servant good and true. 
 
 A farm, a house, a certain room in that house, a 
 particular place at table, the conversation, the eve- 
 ning caller, each and all of which we must con- 
 sciously or unconsciously become harmonized to 
 if they are the best we are improved, if they are 
 the worst we are influenced accordingly. Every- 
 thing, every person and occurrence in life, have an 
 
$2 ENVIRONMENTS INFLUENCE HABIT. 
 
 immediate and direct bearing upon us. Select 
 well your associations physically, mentally, mor- 
 ally and spiritually, must be the finest advice. 
 
 Observe the face of the child or youth of the 
 country place, how well harmonized it is to its sur- 
 roundings; and on the other hand, observe the 
 face of the city youth and notice what a difference; 
 — the country face is open, clear, free, and lacks 
 the suggestion of ''smartness" of the city face. 
 Notice, also, how the human countenance changes 
 to each occupation, each trade, business and pro- 
 fession proclaiming itself in the face; this some- 
 times following "to the third and fourth genera- 
 tion." 
 
 What kind of individual each particular locality 
 forms, or what kind of person to expect from each 
 and every division and sub-division of the earth, 
 would no doubt be interesting study; but it is not 
 the object of the present work, and the writer 
 leaves it for others to indulge; deeming it sufficient 
 to record the fact that man changes to his environ- 
 ments because he harmonizes with them, making 
 the remainder comparatively easy. 
 
 Exactly on the same lines as the young lady 
 leaving the vitiated atmosphere of her dress-mak- 
 ing parlors, in company with the consequent slug- 
 gishness of her internal organs, and proceeding 
 to the mountains, where the conditions are clear 
 and invigorating, and by lightness of mind, climb- 
 ing, and other things part and parcel of mountain 
 ife; she gradually loses her sallowness and assumes 
 
NATURAL LAW IS THE SOURCE OF RACES OF MAN. 33 
 
 a ruddiness of health, which she could not possess 
 in her closed rooms and comparatively quiet 
 habits. By the operations of the self-same Law of 
 human harmonization to environments, have been 
 formed on the earth, during the ages gone by, the 
 five distinct and separate races of men as we 
 know them to-day, the white European, the black 
 African, the yellow Chinese, the red man of 
 America, and the brown man of India. 
 
 As the young lady changed with her mountain 
 experience, and re-changed upon her return, even 
 so, has every race of man the same tendency to 
 change by travel and intermingling, and re-change 
 upon returning to their original abodes. All this 
 is of course attributable to the eternal and infinite 
 persistence of the sixth Law of nature and respon- 
 sive sixth Sense in man. The greatest nations and 
 peoples of history have been those who have had the 
 most varied admixtures and blendings of different 
 races, conjointly with the greatest diversifications 
 of hills and hollows, valleys and vales, plantations 
 and plains, seacoasts and seasons, islands and in- 
 lets, rocks and ravines, showers and sunshines. 
 
 Such a place is Great Britain, a heterogeneous 
 conglomeration of ancient Briton, Roman, Dane, 
 Saxon, Norman, Scotch, and Irish, who have at 
 different periods settled on her shores for one rea- 
 son or another. This in combination with the 
 almost limitless varieties in the British Empire, 
 makes and keeps her a great and progressive 
 people. 
 
34 VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF NATIONAL HEALTH. 
 
 All these things being- so much more empha- 
 sized in America, — so many separate races on, and 
 coming to these shores, our mountains and 
 meadows, prairies and plains, landscapes and 
 lakes, being diversified on so large a scale com- 
 pared with anything known to history; we may 
 expect to see on this continent the greatest people 
 the world has hitherto known: this people to re- 
 main in unified power until that day when, as a 
 consequence of extensive increase of travelling 
 facilities and better understanding, the whole earth 
 will be united under one language and one law, — 
 the brotherhood of man and personal responsi- 
 bility: and this nation shall never be destroyed: it 
 shall stand forever. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The Sixth Law of Nature has a Pre-Natal 
 Influence Upon Man* 
 
 The Law of humanity succumbing to sudden 
 changes, physically, mentally, morally and spirit- 
 ually, and, approaching them gradually, becoming 
 harmonized to them, is strongly emphasized dur- 
 ing pregnancy. 
 
 One well-known instance of this fact is that of 
 the woman going to answer a knock on her house 
 door, and there meeting, and being startled by, a 
 one-armed soldier; when her child was born he 
 was minus an arm; the missing limb corresponding 
 to the lost one of the soldier. 
 
 If this woman had been a nurse in a soldiers' 
 hospital, where she would have had the oppor- 
 tunity of becoming harmonized to battle-field 
 events, she could have brought forth children 
 without such deformity; it was the suddenness of 
 meeting the disabled soldier, before the sixth Law 
 of nature had time to operate, w r hich caused the 
 malformation. 
 
 Many readers will remember instances of chil- 
 dren born with "birth-marks;'' which marks, indi- 
 cate the absolute closeness of the prospective 
 
$6 A PARENT MAY PRE-NATALLY SELECT HIS CHILD. 
 
 parent and the child she is bearing. Marks have 
 been placed on different parts of unborn children, 
 simply because mothers have touched those par- 
 ticular parts of their own bodies in conjunction - 
 with there mental desires; thus clearly demon- 
 strating the fact that the younger we are, the more 
 are we subject to the Law of harmonization with 
 environments and passing events. Instances 
 have also been known of mothers desiring certain 
 things to eat or to drink which they have not 
 been able to procure at the desired time; and as a 
 consequence their children have had strong han- 
 kerings for those things all their lives. 
 
 Students of human nature have consciously or 
 unconsciously observed the potency of the Law of 
 early association so closely that they have boldly 
 and conclusively asserted, — "Train up a child in 
 the way he should go: and when he is old, he will 
 not depart from it," The same people, however, 
 might have struck deeper soundings, and said, — 
 "Parents, train yourselves in the way you wish 
 your children to go: and when they are born, they 
 will not depart therefrom. " 
 
 It has been said that— "A good son is a joy to 
 his father's heart: and a bad son, a shame to his 
 mother/' And so must it ever be; we shall ever 
 give birth to our inbred natures and cultivation: 
 it is a case of "cat after kind;" we are absolutely 
 subject to hereditary laws, no matter what our 
 theories may be. Instances are in memory of even 
 ministers of the gospel becoming the parents of 
 
THE SIXTH LAW OF NATURE IS THE MOLD OF HEREDITY. 37 
 
 scoundrels; when the spirituality of such indivi- 
 duals is truly awakened, they will understand and 
 see that their children can only express the secret 
 desires and lives of their parents. We cannot 
 give birth to the child of another: it must of neces- 
 sity be our own child; it is a question of "thy 
 Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee 
 openly " In the instance of a good son, let the 
 parent take an honest pride: and in that of a bad 
 one, let him bow his head in shame. Let the son 
 practise and cultivate the good qualities of his 
 parents, and let him struggle manfully against 
 their transmitted weaknesses, and thus truly 
 "honor" them. 
 
 Instances often occur in which the characteristic 
 dispositions of a grandparent are principally 
 prominent in the child. This is because tbe 
 parents, sometime at least, previous to conception, 
 and during pregnancy, were cultivating nothing 
 in particular, but living, so to speak, the life of 
 their own individual birth: i. e., allowing those 
 things to develop which they themselves had 
 immediately inherited from their parents. This 
 being for the time specified, their secret or deeper 
 selves, John, Thomas or Susannah often "takes 
 after" his or her grandfather or grandmother: 
 sometimes distinctly indicating the characteristic 
 inclinations of both. Thus nature demonstrates 
 her power of self-preservation, and binds her 
 "king" in an indissoluble matrimonial whole. 
 
 "The king of nature" by right of kingship can 
 
38 CHILDREN ACQUIRE THE HABITS OF PARENTS. 
 
 frame and pass his own laws: but nature by right 
 of constituency compels his obedience to her will. 
 Man has himself to credit or discredit for 
 obedience or disobedience of nature's laws, and 
 nature reposes in exacting subjection, allowing no 
 excuse tor ignorance. She also allows her "king" 
 the offspring he deserves, and only the offspring 
 he desires when he is in Harmony with her 
 honesty. 
 
 What a judgment upon the father of the young 
 and otherwise promising bank manager, who was 
 transported for robbing his employers of a large 
 sum of money. While the father strove to give 
 the son a good education, he was unconsciously 
 giving him another education. Among other 
 things, while keeping a grocery store, the father 
 taught him to place good apples in the bottoms of 
 the barrels, and good ones at the top, so that at 
 whichever end the purchaser opened he would 
 not be apt to find bad ones; which were placed in 
 the middle of the barrels. Thus the son not only 
 inherited the possibility, but gained the experience, 
 from practical example, which made it natural to 
 rob the bank. 
 
 The deeper parts of humanity are so subjective 
 to this law of harmonization with surroundings 
 that instances have been known in which pregnant 
 women have seen daily, men, entirely different 
 from and singularly better looking than their own 
 husbands, and whose appearance they have 
 naturally appreciated, and these impressions of 
 
GOOD INFLUENCES ARE PKE-NATALLY ESSENTIAL. 39 
 
 admiration have been so strongly engraved on 
 their mentalities that when their children have 
 been born they have been pictures of the very 
 men the mothers have consciously or unconscious- 
 lv admired, 
 
 Volumes might be written demonstrative of the 
 law of harmonization with environments during 
 pregnancy, all illustrating the importance of the 
 mother having pleasant sights, sounds, smells, 
 touches and tastes at such times; as all the five 
 senses are centred in and directly modified by the 
 sixth sense — Harmony. Let the prospective 
 mother live in sight of harmonious and ennobling 
 pictures, "scenes that are brightest," and land- 
 scapes that are beautiful: the music of the finest 
 expressed ideals: the unadulterated fruits of nature: 
 with unvitiated breathings of the earth's atmos- 
 phere: with even temperatures of the body, properly 
 prepared food, well-regulated exercise and corre- 
 sponding rest; and, above all, a harmonization to 
 happy contentment; allowing no irritation to 
 disturb her. 
 
 Prior to the marriage of the late Dowager 
 Empress Fredrick of Germany, she burned her 
 right arm "from the elbow to the shoulder:" and 
 after her marriage, and during her bearing of the 
 present "Kaiser Wilhelm," she guarded the wen 
 from human gaze more than she used the arm; as 
 a consequence, these habits were pre-natally 
 communicated to her son with such genetical 
 effect that he correspondingly guards an almost 
 useless or "withered arm" all his earth-life. 
 
40 PEASANT AND PRINCE ARE TO NATURE THE SAME. 
 
 U A physician who attended the Empress 
 previous to her marriage to the Crown Prince of 
 Germany, afterwards Emperor, advances a curious 
 theory to account for that withered arm. One 
 day the Princess, while sealing a letter, set fire to 
 her right sleeve, which burned to the shoulder 
 before assistance came. 
 
 There was left a permanent scar from the elbow 
 to the shoulder, which the Empress always tried 
 to conceal, just as her son does his withered arm." 
 
 Because the mother did not use her arm, the 
 same arm of her unborn child was "withered," and 
 as she carefully guarded the "scar," the habit in 
 force was transmitted to her son. 
 
 One more instance, in confirmation of the 
 importance of the foregoing, is that of the woman 
 living near a very disagreeable neighbor with 
 whom she finally exchanged physical blows; when 
 her child was born the little vixen was only happy 
 when she was miserable, and miserable when she 
 was happy. Growing into womanhood, her whole 
 life and conversation were in direct line with 
 contention: she harbored imaginary wranglings, 
 past, present and to come; so generally discon- 
 tented was she that when she could not find 
 unhappiness of any other kind, her resource was 
 to speak of dead people and their buried troubles. 
 If the woman who gave birth to such a child, as a 
 consequence of these unhappy circumstances, had 
 been accustomed or harmonized to similar dis- 
 turbances, an extraordinary occurrence of the 
 
CHRIST DEMONSTRATED PRE-NATAL INFLUENCE. 4 I 
 
 above description could not have happened. It 
 was because she was constitutionally agreeable 
 that the affair had so startling an effect upon her 
 as to be the cause of so disagreeable an offspring. 
 The same woman bore and gave birth to her 
 next child in happy surroundings; and as a con- 
 sequence, this second individual was extremely 
 harmonious in his whole life and conduct, making 
 friends so rapidly that he ceased to regard 
 friendships as accomplishments, living a cheerful 
 and generous life. 
 
 The very pink of perfection of the power of the 
 sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense in 
 man is seen in the circumstances surrounding the 
 parentage, bearing and birth of Christ. Joseph, 
 his father, and Mary, his mother, both naturally 
 developed, fully informed, and comfortably 
 situated, had their physical, mental and moral 
 natures refined to such a degree of human per- 
 fection that their Son was generically natural; the 
 fruit of generations of regular physical habits and 
 conditions: regular and healthful food, regular 
 exercise in their daily duties and corresponding 
 periodic nightly repose transmitted through the 
 years, in a very healthful climate: the regular 
 nursery education and habits of thinking of people 
 in the middle station of life; regular moral intention 
 and conduct, which was a consequence of expect- 
 ance of reward for right living, and immediate pun- 
 ishment for wrong-doing; one of the most spiritual 
 atmospheres of the ages, during which it became a 
 
42 CHRIST WAS THE RIPE FRUIT OF NATURE. 
 
 common habit to give "the first-born" or very best, 
 to a soul-ideal beyond themselves. These were 
 the environments to which Joseph and Mary 
 became harmonized, and which made Christ 
 possible. The mother's heart being so persistently 
 aspiring, she could afford to give her Son the 
 clean, pure, "immaculate" bearing and birth we 
 read of; a naturally inherited tendency to things 
 of the soul, with no bodily inclinations except in 
 service of the soul. 
 
 The harmonization to internal and external 
 circumstances and conditions as expressed in the 
 parentage, bearing, nativity and life of Christ, is 
 one of the very finest expressions of the perfecting 
 power of natural Law: and a great lesson to 
 prospective parents, before conception, during 
 pregnancy, childhood's training and full-grown, 
 generous manhood. 
 
 When parents fully comprehend the importance 
 of the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
 Sense in man, they will be especially careful 
 during these periods; and when they realize 
 that a child is a replicate of their sub-surface 
 selves, they will appreciate the momentous respon- 
 sibility of parentage. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 So-Called "Medical Science" is not in Accord 
 
 with Natural Laws t and this is the 
 
 Source of its Failure* 
 
 As the intrinsic signification of the word 
 "science" is, definitely arranged and systematized 
 knowledge: and as medical men have not a single 
 medicine that can be guaranteed to cure a single 
 disease, absolutely without failure; so-called 
 "medical science" is a misapplication of terms. 
 
 The word science is synonymous with the word 
 measure; i. e., ascertained fact, analytically and 
 experimentally demonstrated, and classified in 
 detail and limitation. 
 
 A certain number of inches are proved and 
 universally accepted as constituting one foot, a 
 certain number of feet one yard, and a certain 
 number of yards one mile; this is science of 
 measure, and it never fails. A certain number of 
 ounces one pound, a certain number of pounds 
 one-hundred-weight, and a certain number of 
 hundred- weights one ton; this is science of weight, 
 and it never fails. A certain number of seconds 
 one minute, a certain number of minutes one hour, 
 and a certain number of hours one day; this is 
 
44 UNCERTAINTY IS THE ONLY MEDICAL CERTAINTY. 
 
 science of time. By the triple science of measure, 
 weight and time, we have a regular recurrence of 
 night and day, spring, summer, autumn and 
 winter; each spacial body maintaining its measured 
 distance from every other body, each maintaining 
 its own specific weight with reference to every 
 other, and each performing its own particular 
 revolutions in its own apportioned time. 
 
 In medicine, however, nothing is so certain as 
 uncertainty, and as a "science" it must ever fail; 
 it has been weighed in the balance by its most 
 eminent, scholarly and experienced professors and 
 found wanting. John Mason Good, M D , F.R.S., 
 •says: "The science of medicine is a barbarous 
 jargon." Prof. Valentine Mott, the great surgeon, 
 says: "Of all sciences medicine is the most un- 
 certain." Dr. Abercrombie, Fellow of the Royal 
 College of Physicians of Edinburgh, says: 
 "Medicine has been called by Philosophers the 
 art of conjecturing, the science of guessing." 
 
 When the young man graduates from the 
 "medical college, v he finds himself armed with a 
 certificate to "practise," and a warrant of protection 
 so long as "he keeps his head," and observes the 
 tenets of his "education," which are, that so many 
 diseases are "incurable," and all the rest are very 
 doubtful. And no matter how great his failure, 
 or what his "mistake," to repeat the words of Sir 
 Astlby Cooper, the famous English surgeon: his 
 "Science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and 
 improved by murder." Also to quote Dr. Mar- 
 
EXPERIENCE ABANDONS MEDICINE. 45 
 
 shall Hall, F. R. S., ''Thousands are annually 
 slaughtered in the quiet sick room." 
 
 As the graduate grows in years and experience, 
 his confidence in drugs correspondingly weakens, 
 and he subscribes more and more to the fruits of 
 nature; while of natural Law his whole practise 
 proves that he knows absolutely nothing. To 
 agree with Dr. Benjamin Bush: he finds "The art of 
 healing is like an unroofed temple — uncovered at 
 the top, and cracked at the foundation." If the 
 physician be strong-minded and honest, after he 
 finds himself comfortably provided for, from his 
 "long practise" or acquired position; in literature 
 and in lecture he boldly proclaims the failures of 
 medicine, and coincides with Dr. Talmage, F.R 0., 
 who says: "I fearlessly assert that in most cases 
 our patients would be safer without a physician 
 than with one." Let us also hear Prof. Henle, the 
 great pathologist and teacher, who says: "Medical 
 science at all times has been a medley of empirically 
 acquired facts and theoretical observations, and 
 such it is likely to remain," 
 
 The sixth Sense in man of becoming harmonized 
 to external environments and internal conditions 
 constitutes one of the insurmountable difficulties 
 of "medical science." 
 
 The patient's medicine is changed, not because 
 the disease in itself requires such change, but 
 because the patient has become harmonized to the 
 first medicine. If, according to the doctor's 
 theories, the first medicine is the proper thing for 
 
46 DOCTORS ARE INNOCENT OF NATURAL KNOWLEDGE. 
 
 the disease, and does not in itself require the 
 second one, and if the second one is antagonistic 
 to the first, which it must necessarily be to coun- 
 teract it, it is verily a vital difficulty; especially as 
 it is caused by the operation of a natural law 
 which cannot be changed nor resisted. Little won- 
 der that Dr. VVakely says in the London Lancet: 
 "A system of routine or empirical practise has 
 grown up vacillating, uncertain, and often pilot- 
 less in the treatment of disease." 
 
 Owing to lack of acquaintance with natural 
 laws, and their relation to man, the doctor makes 
 the first mistake directly he is called to a case of 
 sickness. By ordering the sufferer to bed, and 
 placing him under the care of medicine, he first 
 deprives him of one of his advantages in the sixth 
 Law of nature,-nursing: second, the patient is gen- 
 erally confined to a room which is insufficiently 
 ventilated; and third, whatever will-force he 
 might otherwise possess, to throw off the trouble, 
 the sufferer is made to feel that "he is confined to 
 his room and bed/' Next mistake is the "profes- 
 sional nurse:" who stands between the sick one 
 and many natural benefits; simply keeping the 
 sick clean and regularly supplied with medicine. 
 Thousands of cases, especially children, have been 
 lost in this manner; being deprived of natural 
 nursing, and the advantages generally, of the sixth 
 Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense in man. 
 
 In substantiation of the foregoing, how many 
 mothers have taken their children and nourished 
 
REASON SHOULD BE THE AIM OF EDUCATION. 47 
 
 them back to health, and to strength, after the 
 doctors have completely and hopelessly tailed ! 
 The. same between friends: and often by a renewal 
 of the force of will and determination in the indi- 
 vidual to be well; by striking out for himself, he 
 has become re-connected with natural laws, from 
 which the doctor (unknowingly) disconnected and 
 temporarily deprived him. 
 
 If education principally consisted of knowing 
 how, and being able, to think, and medical 
 students were expected to graduate in these 
 methods; how much better it must be for a doctor 
 to give his whole attention to healing the sick, 
 than to give so much of it to politics, or any other 
 thing in which there may be money or social 
 aggrandizement. Surely there ought to be as 
 much satisfaction in being able to cure a so-called 
 "incurable disease," or even in the effort to arrest 
 its injurious progress, as there can be in laying up 
 dollars, in living in fine houses, or in being socially 
 or politically lionized. Prof. S. M. Goss, of the 
 Medical College of Louisville, Ky., says: "Of the 
 essence of disease very little is known: indeed, 
 nothing at all." And Prof. H. G. Wood, our dis- 
 tinguished American writer, asks: "What has 
 clinical therapeutics established permanently and 
 indisputably? Scarcely anything." 
 
 Notwithstanding the judgment of these men, as 
 soon as a young man graduates in "medical 
 science" he is open for almost any other remunera- 
 tive engagement. 
 
48 DOCTORS ARE MORE MANNERLY THAN ABLE. 
 
 "Society" has itself to thank for much of the un- 
 soundness and inability of public men; there are 
 many people so weak that if a doctor does not 
 "recognize" them as they pass on the street, his 
 professional ability is correspondingly lowered in 
 their conscious or unconscious estimation. On 
 the other hand, if he "salutes" carefully as he pro- 
 ceeds, he is apt to be accepted as a "very nice 
 gentleman," and to receive their highest approba- 
 tion and recommendation as a physician. 
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that a physician — in 
 his working hours, at least — should live the most 
 secluded mental life possible, the majority of them 
 find it necessary to bow away all mental problems 
 in street "recognitions," and all private abstract 
 solutions in "social circles." These child-like 
 notions of people make it impossible for weak- 
 minded doctors to give their "failures" the mental 
 attention necessary, as they pass from case to case, 
 or to study in their private leisure, arrest of 
 disease or permanent relief to "incurables." So 
 long as doctors are aware of the habitual fancies 
 of people in the above respects, we may expect 
 "very fine gentlemen" in destitution of very clever 
 physicians. There are remarkable exceptions to 
 general rules which only assist in their establish- 
 ment. One of these exceptions is Dr. Abernethy 
 of London, who says: "Ther,e has been a great in- 
 crease in the number of medical men of late, but 
 upon my life, diseases have increased in propor- 
 tion." 
 
49 THE CLEVEREST MEN CRITICISE MEDICINE MOST. 
 
 Yet another difficulty between medical men and 
 success in healing is in the fact thai they flit in 
 and out from patient to patient, which is in direct 
 line with the probability of carrying disease from 
 one to another. Often we hear of a "complication 
 of diseases having set in" with one or more of a 
 doctor's patients: how did this originate? Has he 
 not visited several kinds of disease that morning, 
 in the sum-total of his "many patients," which in 
 the aggregate would be a "complication!" Is it 
 not feasible to conclude that the doctor is uncon- 
 sciously responsible for the complication, and al- 
 so, for the conveyance by the same means of much 
 disease ? 
 
 The most brilliant men have seen the hopeless- 
 ness of medicine the clearest, and lamented the 
 fact the most. Nevertheless, the completest con- 
 fidence is placed in "the doctor," without refer- 
 ence to his pedigree or antecedents, or even in- 
 quiry as to the particular school of medicine of 
 which he may be a graduate. 
 
 Still another difficulty defying "medical skill" 
 is in the fact that all medicine requires to enter 
 the patient's stomach, and to pass from the 
 stomach to blood, lungs and nerves. If, for in- 
 stance, the drug intended to kill the disease in the 
 kidneys only went straight to the kidneys, it 
 might be logical to conclude that it would heal 
 the kidneys; but when we know that it is neces- 
 sary by the laws of digestion and assimilation for 
 it to spread over and through every part of the 
 
50 DRUGS FAIL THROUGH ESTRANGEMENT FROM NATURE, 
 
 vital organism, and only a proportional fraction 
 finds its way to the kidneys, we know that it is at 
 best but one more impediment in the way of 
 "medical success/' If, according to medical 
 theory, it is necessary to send to the kidneys an 
 otherwise poisonous drug 1 , to allay the trouble in 
 the kidneys; what effect has the major portion of 
 that drug on the other divisions of the constitution, 
 which it must assimilatively visit? If the legend 
 that "medicine will make the sick well, and the 
 well sick," be true, then the drug intended for the 
 kidneys must make the well organs of the body 
 sick. In fact, this is generally very evident in 
 those under "medical treatment." 
 
 Medicine was commenced in the time of Hip- 
 pocrates, the Greek, more than two thousand years 
 ago; and a great body of hypocrites have been 
 "practising" it ever since. As it began on a false 
 foundation, its difficulties have increased in conse- 
 quence. It is only the minority who speak out as 
 Sir William Knighton, when he says: "Medicine 
 seems one of those ill-fated arts whose improve- 
 ment bears no proportion to its antiquity." 
 
 Man has suffered and lost in physical vigor in 
 exact proportion to his encouragement and patron- 
 age of medicine, and will recover as he ceases to 
 encourage and patronize it. There is already a 
 strong tendency in the direction and advocacy of 
 natural health. 
 
 The etymology of the word physician is to in- 
 struct the sick as to the cause, cure, and preven- 
 
MEDICAL MEN ARE NOT LONG-LIVED. 5 I 
 
 tion of their troubles: and that of the word doctor, 
 to be licensed by the nation, state, or municipality 
 to ''practise" medicine. There are many doctors; 
 where are the physicians? 
 
 It is a remarkable fact that no matter how vig- 
 orous young doctors are, none of them maintains 
 vigor to old-age. The medical stimulations in 
 which they indulge are very evident while they 
 are young, but the reaction is none the less sure as 
 time rolls on and they advance in years. Dr. 
 Hufeland, a great German physician, says: "The 
 greatest mortality of any of the professions is that 
 of the doctors themselves/' And Dr. Bigelow, 
 formerly President of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society, says: "The premature death of medical 
 men brings with it the humiliating conclusion 
 that medicine is still an ineffectual speculation." 
 
 Nature is mentioned in connection with medi- 
 cine, and nothing known of the relation; to speak 
 of "medicine assisting nature" is absurd; how can 
 it be possible or necessar} 7 to "assist" that which 
 is "eternally fixed" and perfect in its every pos- 
 ture! If the physician's education cannot inform 
 him as to what disease is in the abstract, how can 
 he be expected to know what nature is, which 
 includes life and death? 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Man may Habituate Himself to any Stimulant^ 
 Medicine, or Poison, and Becoming Har- 
 monized to its Conditions, It may be 
 Thereafter Necessary to His 
 Existence, 
 
 In further illustration of the fact that man is 
 governed by otherwise unseen laws and environ- 
 ments of life, take the instance of a strong man 
 suddenly entering wrong conditions, say, from the 
 clear external atmosphere to a room full of the 
 odors of offensive chemicals* Although other 
 men, constantly employed in that place, may be re- 
 ceiving little or no apparent injury from the sur- 
 roundings, yet, as soon as this strong, healthy man 
 enters, he at once recognizes the smell, and is some- 
 times made instantly sick. The same man, by ex- 
 tending the length of his periodical visits, could 
 finally accept employment among the other men, 
 with nothing remaining of the initial offence but 
 the remembrance. This demonstrates the fact 
 that it is better to obey law than to place com- 
 plete reliance on brawn, limb or muscle. 
 
 There is not a medicine, drug, stimulant, or 
 poison in existence, to the conditions of which 
 
SUFFICIENT INOCULATIONS GUARANTEE IMMUNITY. 53 
 
 man would not become harmonized if taken in 
 suitably-adjusted quantities. Neither is there one 
 of these agents which would not become a neces- 
 sity to him after a thoroughly assimilative har- 
 monization. A person in ordinary health and 
 strength taking a sufficiently large dose of alco- 
 hol, for instance, would undoubtedly succumb to 
 its effects if he were not previously accustomed 
 to it; and yet such a one gradually indulging in 
 alcoholic beverage, stimulation, or anaesthesia, 
 may ultimately become the slave of such concoc- 
 tion. It is also possible for anyone totally unac- 
 customed to the use of tobacco to take so much 
 the first time that it may be the direct means of 
 ending his physical life: and yet as before, the 
 same person cultivating the habit by degrees, 
 would eventually find it a necessity to his tem- 
 poral contentment. Of course, the way is always 
 open to the original condition, by the continued 
 operation of the same Law and reversed individual 
 action. 
 
 A man or an animal may be inoculated or vacci- 
 nated with the virus of any disease, and become 
 immune from its injurious effects if such inocula- 
 tion or vaccination be approached by degrees 
 sufficiently small; and if suitable periods of time 
 intervene between each injection to allow the 
 sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense in 
 man time to harmonize. This man or this animal 
 being finally harmonized to the particular disease 
 in question, other men and other animals may be 
 
54 THE HOUSE-FLY IS THE INVALID'S FRIEND. 
 
 inoculated or vaccinated from them, and becoming- 
 harmonized to their disease-proof conditions, re- 
 sistance to disease, in any of its stages, becomes 
 practically unlimited. 
 
 We screen our windows in summer to re- 
 sist the entrance of the "house %;" whereas, 
 if our homes were perfectly ventilated and 
 free of vitiation, screens would not be neces- 
 sary. The object of the fly in nature is to 
 absorb, and be sustained by, impure atmosphere. 
 It would not be an unnatural idea to allow the fly 
 free access, and ventilate according to the num- 
 bers entering. As small forms of life thrive upon 
 conditions which would destroy larger forms; it is 
 well to give the fly free entrance to assist in ven- 
 tilation of homes: and, as the conditions necessary 
 to the existence of large forms would starve and 
 annihilate smaller forms; it is as well to keep our 
 homes free from the vitiation upon which flies 
 exist; and then, we may be free of the fly also. 
 
 Nature asserts and protects her sphere by sim- 
 ple laws, which it is very profitable to understand 
 and utilize. 
 
 The mosquito, for example, is found in low-lying, 
 swampy, and malarial regions. Its first duty is 
 to absorb and enjoy the malarial conditions of 
 such places: second, to disturb and pester any 
 human being who may visit its domains, and thus, 
 to warn him of his danger: third, people living 
 within a reasonable radius of its abodes of stagna- 
 tion are periodically inoculated or vaccinated, to 
 
THE MOSQUITO IS THE FRIEND OF NOCTURNAL HEALTH. 55 
 
 Avhich they gradually harmonize; and by such 
 periodic harmonization, they eventually become 
 immune from the effects of both mosquito bites 
 and malaria. 
 
 New residents in malarial districts are most sub- 
 ject to the "mosquito pest," owing to their greater 
 danger of contracting malarial conditions: while 
 older residents, having become more acclimated 
 by harmonization with malarial conditions and 
 bites, will be troubled proportionately less; many 
 permanent residents in such surroundings being 
 absolutely immune from all discomfort. 
 
 As it is a mistake to destroy the "fly" rather 
 than the conditions which cause the fly; so is it 
 with the mosquito; if man could destroy the mos- 
 quito, instead of the malarial conditions which 
 directly cause the mosquito, the malarial condi- 
 tions would correspondingly increase in virulence; 
 and thus, man would be the loser. 
 
 As sunlight, circulation, and ventilation are the 
 mosquito's enemies; so, the mosquito is most ac- 
 tive and pestiferous at night, in swamps, and in 
 places where the rain falls and settles, but where 
 the sun's rays seldom or never penetrate: such as 
 under large growths of trees, etc., and these are 
 the places, and conditions, to which man should 
 attend; and then, the dreaded mosquito will re- 
 quire little attention. 
 
 The nearer to nature and nature's fruits or 
 products man allows himself to harmonize, the 
 better for him. In nature's evolutionary process 
 
56 EVOLUTIONARY PRODUCT IS HUMAN SUSTENANCE. 
 
 animal is next to man: therefore, animal food is the 
 most readily digested and most nourishing man can 
 have. Vegetable is next in evolutionary rotation: 
 and therefore, vegetables are man's next best food. 
 Fruit and water follow correlatively: these four 
 being man's natural food, nourishment and re- 
 freshment, the nearer he keeps to them; and the 
 farther away from drugs, the better for him. 
 
 Nothing but life can generate life. A chemist 
 can analyze the constituent parts of a hen's egg y 
 and formulate a recipe from which egg may be 
 manufactured; but when he tries to impart the life- 
 principle to the egg, so that live chickens may be 
 hatched therefrom, he fails; and just as completely 
 as he fails in this, he will fail in imparting that to 
 the manufactured egg which will nourish or 
 strengthen the human constitution, as will the 
 naturally-produced hen's egg. The life-principle 
 is not in the chemically manufactured egg: hence, 
 it cannot impart nourishment. Nature reserves 
 to herself this right; and no artificial substitute 
 can ever be discovered. 
 
 While nature's operations are infinite, she never 
 repeats herself. There are no two bodies in space 
 the same, although bodies are numerically limitless. 
 There are no two leaves alike on all the trees 
 growing on the earth. Of all the countless mil- 
 lions of flowers which have grown, are growing, 
 and shall yet grow on the earth, no two can possi- 
 bly be alike. The same with each and every form 
 or expression of life, continuing and culminating 
 
NATURE IS INFINITELY VARIABLE. 57 
 
 absolutely the same with reference to man. Of all 
 the men who have been on the earth, and all 
 who are now on the earth, and all yet to come, 
 no two can possibly be the replicate or fac-simile 
 of each other. Everything and everybody must 
 of necessity be varied from every other thing or 
 person. Man "by taking thought/' or in the 
 exercise of his utmost genius, can neither change 
 nor vary one single part or parcel of life, ex- 
 cept through and by natural laws. 
 
 Nature never repeats: is ever varying: and by 
 these laws alone, maintains the permanency of her 
 sphere. "Variety is the spice of life" If this 
 were not literally and intrinsically true, if nature 
 did not absolutely persist in the supremacy of 
 her domain, medical men in their shallow conclu- 
 sions, and general short-sightedness, would have 
 terminated human existence years ago. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Among the Many Innovations Consequent up- 
 on the Imbecility of Medicine may be Men- 
 tioned So-called "Christian Science;" that 
 Culmination of Un-Christlike Ideas and 
 Expressions* 
 
 While Christ had his "Father in Heaven/' the 
 instigator of ''Christian Science," Mrs. Eddy, has 
 her "Divine Mind;" while Christ laid his hands on 
 the sick and they recovered, Mrs. Eddy says, — 
 "There is no sickness," and they suffer and die; 
 while Christ lived among and suffered with the 
 poor, Mrs. Eddy is chiefly concerned with the rich; 
 while Christ's chief education was hi himself, Mrs. 
 Eddy has her ideas and her principal words from 
 another writer. 
 
 In a book written by Andrew Jackson Davis, 
 and published in the year 1861, entitled, — "Har- 
 binger of Health," we find expressions precisely 
 similar in import to the only intelligible words 
 in Mrs. Eddy's book, which was published about 
 fourteen years later. To the reader who has 
 perused the writings of A. J. Davis, the claim of 
 Mrs. Eddy to originality either in idea or in word, 
 
A. J. DAVIS MADE 'CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" POSSIBLE. 59 
 
 is, to say the least, a surprise to reading intelli- 
 gence. 
 
 In the above work by A. J. Davis, page 44, we 
 read, — "The truth is that, accidents excepted, the 
 great majority of human bodily diseases are of 
 mental origin." Mrs. Eddy has not equalled this; 
 she has only repeated it 
 
 In the chapter on "Mind and Matter" we read, 
 — All "life is real" bondage to matter. Individual 
 "life is earnest" in overcoming this bondage." 
 
 "Matter is the mind's jailer." 
 
 "The universe, with its beauties, and laws, and 
 harmonies, is nothing to the idiot mind caged in 
 matter." 
 
 "The gorgeous heavens, with unnumbered sys- 
 tems of suns and stars, are nothing to a soul bowed 
 down by the daily drag of material necessities." 
 
 "The fair sky of heavenly truth never covers the 
 earthly mind." 
 
 "The world of matter is the realm of discord." 
 
 "The myriad forms of evil originate in the realms 
 of matter " 
 
 "The Divine Mind, whose infinite powers and 
 principles fill all the temple of immensity, is seen 
 by spirits." 
 
 In the chapter on "Self-Healing Energies Better 
 Than Medicines" we read ? — "Earthly language 
 cannot embody all we have to impart under this 
 head, in regard to the perfect adaptation and com- 
 petency of man's vital energies, to self-repair and 
 harmonize the bodily organs." 
 
6o MRS. EDDY ORIGINALLY IMITATED A. J. DAVIS. 
 
 "As soul speaks to soul in the blissfulness and 
 breathings of magnetic attraction, so the powers 
 which live in all the cerebral centres and visceral 
 organs meet and mingle together, like the angels 
 in the garden of light, for the purpose of greatest 
 good to the mental proprietor." 
 
 "This fact, however, is of the highest signifi- 
 cance; it teaches that the soul (which is the foun- 
 tain offerees out of which the mind rises into en- 
 tity from an elemental state) contains the conquer- 
 ing and health-giving powers; from these energies, 
 and not from medicines, the sick may expect re- 
 lief." 
 
 "Sweet and grateful breathings from invisible 
 principles are cognizable only by means of the sen- 
 sitive energies of mind." Like all practised plagi- 
 arists, Mrs. Eddy has repeated the ideas ol A. J. 
 Davis by twisting the language somewhat, and 
 yet, the initiated may easily discern the copy. 
 
 In the above selections from the "Harbinger of 
 Health," it will be apparent that two things are 
 mentioned, — the dominancy of "mind over mat- 
 ter," and "The blissfulness and breathings of mag- 
 netic attractions." When Mrs. Eddy first began 
 to "heal" she adopted the example of A. J. Davis; 
 she employed the "magnetic method," or "laying- 
 on of hands." She informs us in her book, that 
 after some time, she discontinued the magnetic 
 method, and only employed "the mind cure." 
 Some time after A. J. Davis gave forth the words 
 contained in his books, he continued the practise 
 
EDDY PLAGIARIZED THE IDEAS OF DAVIS. 6 I 
 
 of "magnetic healing." He afterwards graduated 
 in medicine, and for some time practised "medi- 
 cal, mind, and magnetic healing," at 63 Warren 
 avenue, Boston, Mass. 
 
 The reader will see by comparing the writings 
 and work of A. J. Davis and Mrs. Eddy, that there 
 is an absolute similarity between their ideas and 
 words in writing: and that the only difference in 
 the two methods of working was that A. J. Davis 
 added medicine to his. 
 
 u In recounting her experience as the pioneer of 
 Christian Science, she states that she sought knowl- 
 edge concerning the physical side through the 
 different schools of Allopathy, Homeopathy and so 
 forth, without receiving an} 7 satisfaction. She 
 says that no ancient or modern philosophy gave her 
 any distinct statement of the science of mind-heal- 
 ing. She claims that no human reason has been 
 equal to the question.'' 
 
 If the reader will compare the last sentence with 
 the one by A. J. Davis, commencing, — ''Earthly 
 language cannot embody all we have to impart/' 
 etc., he will at once observe the expert plagiarism 
 of Mrs. Eddy, in twisting the words, while she 
 adroitly copies the idea. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy's success in duping the hypochon- 
 driacs depends principally upon two things. 
 First, she seems to non-readers of, but believers 
 in, the Bible, to be in line with its teachings: 
 second, her succcessful appearance of "originality" 
 is due to the fact that the people she has duped the 
 
6 2 MRS. EDDY AIMED AT THE CREDULOUS. 
 
 most are not likely to have read the works of A. 
 J. Davis. His first work, "Nature's Divine Reve- 
 lations and a Voice to Mankind/' was published so 
 long ago as 1846. His ideas were not considered 
 good and safe to peruse by the most conservative 
 people of that time,, and they are so regarded to- 
 day by many people. Mrs. Eddy seems to have 
 read them, however, and by their assistance and 
 people's confidence in, but unacquaintance with, 
 the Bible, concocted with ease her deception of 
 assumed originality. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy had very considerable experience in 
 writing prior to the publication of her book, and 
 in her selection of its title she indicated her 
 judicious discrimination in choice of words. The 
 first word in her ''Science and Health with Key to 
 the Scriptures, ,r seems to be intended to attract 
 that large body of humanity who pride themselves 
 on being "level-headed, " matter-of-fact people, 
 who are not easily changed from any one mental 
 position, but when once changed, do not easily 
 change again; people who are "hard-headed," intel- 
 lectually dull, and "set;" and who are ever proud 
 of being styled "scientists." The third word, 
 "health," seems to be designed to catch the men- 
 tally sick, the people who are ever looking for 
 "medical fads,"— the hypochondriacs — and the 
 final words — "Key to'the Scriptures," designed for 
 those people who cannot understand the plain 
 English of the Bible, but are continually on the 
 lookout for "keys." It also includes that great 
 
TRUE ETYMOLOGY IS A STRANGER TO MRS. EDDY. 6$ 
 
 bodv of good folks who stand ready upon test to 
 heartily endorse the whole of the Bible, but who 
 seldom or never read it. 
 
 The words "Christian Science," in the sense in 
 which Mrs. Eddy employs them, are simply mis- 
 leading Neither her work nor her ideas are 
 Christ-like, and, therefore, neither can be "Chris- 
 tian." Her information is not demonstrable, and, 
 therefore, cannot be "Science." Her application 
 of the words "Divine Mind" is also open to ques- 
 tion. The word "Divine" in its broadest and most 
 liberal sense, can only signify absolute knowledge, 
 and the word "Mind" is even less complete in the 
 signification assumed by Mrs. Eddy; taken in its 
 true sense, it can but indicate a centralization of 
 all the faculties of the brain. Neither absolute 
 knowledge, nor centralization of all the mental 
 faculties, includes, asserts, or suggests "The First 
 Cause," "The Universal Source," of these and all 
 things, which Mrs. Eddy would imply. 
 
 In a book published in the year 1899, by Septi- 
 mus J. Hanna, entitled, "Christian Science His* 
 tory," we read, — "It is well known to every intelli- 
 gent person in these days that Christian Scientists 
 rely upon God, or Divine Power, for their healing, 
 in every and any emergency, rather upon a human 
 physician. It is well for disinterested people, who 
 desire only to know the truth, to bear in mind this 
 fact, and consider the probabilities and non-proba- 
 bilities of the question in all its aspects." 
 
 "People who desire only to know the truth," and 
 
64 "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE^ FORMULAS ARE IMPOSSIBLE. 
 
 who always understood the Bible to contain the 
 "truth/' would at first glance, "decide" in favor of 
 "the probabilities of" Christian Science" being in 
 direct line with the truth, and to some of such r 
 this "decides the question in all its aspects." 
 
 Mrs Eddy is said to have started out with the 
 premise, — "All Causation is Mind, and every effect 
 a mental phenomenon." Pretty; is it not? It 
 might pass in dreamy, indefinite poetic effusion, 
 Mrs. Eddy, but it will not stand in plain prose. 
 "All causation" cannot be "mind,' r as mind itself 
 has a cause. "Every effect" cannot be "a mental 
 phenomenon/' as mentality is itself "a phe- 
 nomenon." 
 
 Abstract thought is subject to phenomena, even 
 for which there is a cause. 
 
 If Mrs Eddy's theories were what she would 
 imply, they would read about as follows: — "God is 
 a spirit: God being "Spirit," and "creating man in 
 His Own Image," He "created" man's "spirit." 
 In course of time, "man fell away from a true 
 knowledge of God," or as Mrs. Eddy would re- 
 peat with A. J. Davis, — The ''Divine Mind" — and 
 imagining in his degeneracy that he required a 
 body, he "created" one in his imagination. Of 
 course, after creating himself a body in imagina- 
 tion, he would quite naturally imagine that he re- 
 quired some terra firma to sustain him, and so he 
 created the earth in imagination. 
 
 If Mrs. Eddy had said thus and so she would 
 certainly have been "original" so far as Andrew 
 
"CHRISTIAN SCIENXe" DISAGREES WITH THE BIBLE. 65 
 
 Jackson Davis is concerned; but as regards the 
 Bible it could not have been true: for the same 
 source from which her "original" fabrication would 
 have been taken, reads, — "In the beginning, God 
 created the heavens and the earth," and so on, and in 
 another place, "God caused a deep sleep to fall 
 upon Adam, and taking a rib from his side, made 
 he a woman." The example, also, of Christ "car- 
 ing for the multitude" by feeding them with 
 material things, would certainly upset such con- 
 clusions. 
 
 Undoubtedly Mrs. Eddy saw this difficulty, and 
 as a consequence, she and her unread and short- 
 sighted followers ape something, which neither 
 they nor anyone else can intelligently define. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 All Existence is Expressed in Four Things, 
 — Body, Soul, Harmony, and Life* 
 
 For the benefit of people who are apt to be mis- 
 led by such as Mrs. Eddy, this chapter is written. 
 
 Life, and all expression of life, is a great infinite 
 Ouadrinity, — Body, Soul, Harmony, and First 
 Cause. To know Soul would be impossible except 
 through a knowledge of Body: to know the 
 First Cause would be impossible except by and 
 through a knowledge of Soul: and to know Uni- 
 versal Harmony, a knowledge of the First Cause 
 is necessary. 
 
 Body is visible and tangible to Body, but Body 
 cannot contemplatively encompass Soul. Soul is 
 visible and tangible to Soul, and Soul alone can 
 contemplate the First Cause. 
 
 As Soul is thought and experience of Body, so 
 Soul can grasp in contemplation the limitlessness 
 of the First Cause. Body is limited, and subject 
 to bodily environments; Soul is also limited, and 
 subject to its own environments; but as we ap- 
 proach Universal Harmony and more especially 
 the First Cause, limitation is impossible. 
 
 All bodies, expressions, or forms of life, are re- 
 
UNIVERSAL EXISTENCE IS A QUADRINITY. 67 
 
 ducible and traceable to absolutely the same First 
 Cause* 
 
 Everything is the same thing in essence and in 
 principle everywhere, differing only in degree, 
 form, condition, or name. 
 
 Body, Soul, Harmony, and First Cause, are 
 each and all absolutely indispensable to their indi- 
 vidual existence, and mutual knowledge and con- 
 sciousness. 
 
 In formulating this quadrinity of existence, one 
 of the commonest expressions of modern philoso- 
 phy has been used,— "The First Cause,"— but as 
 this term is not sufficiently definite and precise, 
 the word Life will be found more suitable. 
 The word Life inclusively and comprehensively 
 expresses abstract universal existence, encompass- 
 ing and absorbing every known signification or 
 attribute. The word "Absolute," signifying sepa- 
 rate, independent, or unconditioned, is simply one 
 of its attributes. The word "Supreme," as ex- 
 pressing the highest, the deepest, and broadest in 
 extent, is another attribute. The word "Eternal, " 
 as signifying illimitation of time, another; — all 
 Body and all Soul having limitation as such, Life 
 ever remaining the same, without beginning and 
 without ending. The word "Infinite," as express- 
 ing an endless variety in and of species, is but the 
 crystallized expression of its power of eternal 
 variety in unity. 
 
 Body, Soul, Harmony, and Life, being mutually 
 indispensable and inseparable existences, except as 
 
68 SOUL AND CENTRE ARE SYNONYMOUS TERMS. 
 
 comparatives; a full knowledge of one is absolutely 
 impossible without a complete knowledge of the 
 other. To absolutely comprehend a part is impos- 
 sible without a knowledge of the whole: a knowl- 
 edge of the whole necessitates a complete knowl- 
 edge of a part. 
 
 Body is expressed and encompassed by the 
 forms in space: this individual earth, of which we 
 naturally know most, its soil, in which we plant 
 our cereals, its minerals (corals and crystals,) its 
 vegetable and plant forms, its animal forms, and 
 the human form. All that the physical eye can 
 be cognizant of must necessarily have form, and 
 be limited to, and encompassed by, the foregoing 
 seven expressions or things. 
 
 Soul is the centre of gravity, moving force, or 
 ruling power, of each and every body or form in 
 space, earth, soil, rock, plant, animal, and human. 
 
 Life is the Absolute, Supreme, Eternal, Infinite 
 Principle, to which all Body, and Soul, and Har- 
 mony, are reducible or traceable, and which is the 
 source of all expression and existence; the same 
 Life- Principle in all Body, in all Soul, and in all 
 Harmony, differing only in degree, form, condi- 
 tion, or name; the same evolutionary and pro- 
 gressive connection existing between Sun and 
 Earth, Earth and Mineral, Mineral and Vegetable, 
 Vegetable and Animal, Animal and Man, Man and 
 Soul. The one is no more independent of the 
 other in Universal Economy nor any more able to 
 ignore or dispense with the other than can physi- 
 
HUMAN EXISTENCE IS DUAL AND INDIVIDUAL. 69 
 
 cal sight with the physical eye, or any faculty of 
 the Soul with the channels or limbs of the body. 
 The foot cannot say to the toe: "I have no need of 
 thee; thou dost exist only in my imagination;'' 
 neither can the leg say to the foot, "I can dispense 
 with thee;" nor the body to the leg, nor the brain to 
 the body, nor the "riiijid" ignore even the toenail; 
 all are mutually indispensable co-existences. 
 
 Man has two things in himself to guard and pro- 
 tect, — his body and his soul, — and two things out- 
 side of himself to contemplate and enjoy, — Life 
 and Harmony. These four things, — the individ- 
 ual duality and the general duality, — constitute 
 the Universal Quadrinity of Life, and embrace 
 man's whole study and comfort. He should not 
 allow either the ideas, the dreams, the opinions, 
 or the shallow imaginations of such as Mrs. 
 Eddy, nor the miserable conclusions of her blinded 
 followers, to change these hard-and-fast, every- 
 day facts and principles. 
 
 There is no longer any doubt as to the general 
 summary of existence, that every Body has a 
 Soul, and every Soul a Power within and superior 
 to itself, which Power is properly named Life; — 
 that which ever was, is, and ever will be. 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 
 Electricity* 
 
 Electricity has been another welcome innovation 
 in confirmation of the failure of ''medical science." 
 Especially is this evident when it is considered 
 that " Electrical-Therapeutics, " strongest advo- 
 cates are prominent members of the medical 
 fraternity. 
 
 The fact that electricity is employed in some 
 places to destroy human life should be in itself 
 sufficient warning to — "Be sure you are right, and 
 then go ahead/' If it were not so serious a mat- 
 ter, it might seem ridiculous to think that some 
 men will advertise and advise the self-same thing 
 for man's physical welfare that others are practis- 
 ing to his destruction. 
 
 This is the fact with reference to electricity. 
 
 The medical men who advertise and practise 
 electricity as a "therapeutic," try to persuade peo- 
 ple to its use by saying that fct if electricity is ap- 
 plied in a mild form, by an expert, there is no 
 harm, but benefit to the human frame." This can 
 only be "a mild form" of apology for its use, and 
 is such a common habit of medical men, that they 
 do not appear to notice how strange it must sound 
 
MEDICAL LANGUAGE IS OFTEN ABSURD. 7 I 
 
 to those unaccustomed to self-contradictory lan- 
 guage to hear — "Take this; it will do you good, 
 and it will not do you harm." If it does you 
 good, how can it be possible for it to do you 
 harm? If it is possible for it to do you harm, how 
 can it be safe to do you good? But such is 
 general medical language, and the medicine is 
 about as safe, and as definite, as the words em- 
 ployed in its advocacy. 
 
 The primary production of electricity expresses 
 the destructive principle; it originates in storms, 
 thunderings, lightnings and general destruction, 
 and as it originates it terminates. It is not a 
 product or fruit of nature, but a transitory discor- 
 dant searching of nature^ for permanent harmony. 
 Being essentially discordant in its action, it can 
 only have corresponding effect finally or primarily 
 upon man. Of course, it can make "a dead rat 
 jump," a street car move along, and it can also 
 place a force in a man's body, over which he has 
 no command or control, and to which, when thor- 
 oughly applied, he must be continually subject. 
 
 As man is the product of natural laws eternally 
 established, only similar things can come en 
 rapport with him for his permanent or tem- 
 porary benefit. 
 
 /Anything harmonious in nature generates cor- 
 responding harmony in man: anything discordant 
 in nature produces relative discord in him. Any- 
 thing discordant in nature is only transitory: any- 
 thing harmonious is continuous. That which is 
 
J2 ELECTRICITY EXPRESSES DESTRUCTION. 
 
 harmoniously continuous in nature is the cause 
 and propagation of man's mundane existence. 
 That which is transiently discordant in nature is 
 the propulsion of man's transformation to a 
 higher, deeper, broader, more advanced and bet- 
 ter condition of existence; which is a freeing 
 from physical coil, and an emergence into the life 
 of the Soul; this process being a continuation of 
 winter in nature, and its consequent spring and 
 summer. 
 
 The constructive and destructive principles are 
 diametrics, and can neither be paralleled nor re- 
 versed. 
 
 Whatever will ultimately injure the human 
 frame or constitution will have the same measur- 
 able effect primarily. If two thousand volts of 
 electricity applied to man will kill him, two hun- 
 dred volts will injure him, and two volts will harm 
 him. 
 
 If life is upward and onward, and death is 
 downward and backward, a single opposing grain 
 of one will arrest correspondingly the progress of 
 the other. 
 
 Some might advance the old thread-bare theory 
 that we can have "too much of a good thing," but 
 this is not true; for what is good is always good, 
 and what is bad remains bad. We cannot eat or 
 drink more than enough of good wholesome food 
 or beverage, any more than we can place more in 
 a vessel than it will hold. Quality, and conditions 
 under which food and beverage are absorbed, are 
 at fault in distress, and not quantity. 
 
ELECTRICITY IS EMPLOYED TO KILL AND TO CURE. 73 
 
 Just as electricity expresses the destructive 
 principle, nature expresses the opposite, — the con- 
 structive principle. The expression of these two 
 principles is easily discernible in our "electric 
 power-houses" on the one hand, and the centre of 
 our solar system — the Sun — on the other. The 
 expansion of coal into heat, and water into steam, 
 to produce friction, from which electric motion, 
 light, and heat are derived, simply expresses 
 the principle of destruction. On the other 
 hand, to produce or generate perfect motion, 
 light, and heat, the Sun requires neither coal nor 
 water, nor is friction necessary; the Sun being the 
 immediate and constant cause of the formation or 
 constructive possibility of these things. The one 
 is artificial motion, light, and heat, and neces- 
 sarily destroys to produce; while the other is 
 natural motion, light, and heat, and imparts 
 motion, light, heat, and life to more than one 
 hundred and fifty other bodies in its system. 
 
 Man's life would not be possible on the earth 
 without the life-imparting power of the Sun; while 
 electricity is by some employed to destroy his 
 earth-life. These facts alone, ought to be sufficient 
 to cause a halt, and a meditation, among the 
 medical advocates of "electrical-therapeutics." 
 
 It was once said that the Sun is "a great ball of 
 fire, originally placed in the heavens to give light 
 and heat to the earth," and that "it can only be a 
 matter of time when the Sun must burn itself out," 
 and leave us all in darkness: while the earth de- 
 
74 IN HIS DESIRE FOR FACTS MAN LOSES PRINCIPLES. 
 
 rived its motion from the theory that "it was origi- 
 nally set in motion." In fact, there is a book 
 written by one of the highest salaried and "most 
 eminent astronomers" of to-day, — Sir Robert 
 Ball, Astronomer Royal of England, — which 
 enunciates the above theory as to the source of 
 natural motion. The reader, however, may place 
 such conclusions and their framers in the infancy 
 of things, with the contentment that as these indi- 
 viduals gradually develop from comparative child- 
 hood of thought, they will correspondingly ap- 
 proach natural ideas. 
 
 Nature is ever producing, ever changing, but 
 never destroying, and is all-sufficient for human 
 health, strength and happiness. 
 
 The boy enjoys his repast of peaches, which 
 nourish and sustain him during the process, after 
 which he plants the peach-stones in his garden, 
 and long before he reaches manhood he has 
 peaches galore to give to all his playmates and 
 companions. Given sufficient space, and con- 
 tinuing to replant successive crops of peach- 
 stones, he may have peaches for each and all his 
 friends' enjoyment, some for sale, and even go so 
 far as to build each friend a house from the timber 
 of all his youthfully planted peach-stones; this is 
 but one of innumerable instances of natural or 
 constuctive law, in contradistinction to artificial or 
 destructive. 
 
 Electricity, like medicine, being an artificial and 
 not a natural product, cannot contain the Life- 
 Principle, which nature reserves to herself; and as 
 a consequence of artificiality, and disconnection with 
 nature, electricity cannot be of benefit to health. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Hypnotism will Heal Hypochondriasis, 
 
 Healing the sick by the sixth Law ot nature and 
 responsive sixth Sense in man, has been, and is, un- 
 consciously practised under such names as "lay- 
 ing-on of hands," "magnetic healing," human 
 magnetism," "massage," "vitapathy," etc., each 
 name being coined as the other became unpopular, 
 or as a consequence of different peoples's idea oi the 
 same thing; for instance, "mesmerism" and hypno- 
 tism," both the same in idea; the latter coming more 
 as a consequence of the unpopularity of the for- 
 mer, than as a necessity to change; Mesmerism, 
 taking its name from a German named Mesmer, 
 who practised it some length of time as a profes- 
 sion, and hypnotism, from the Greek word 
 "hypno" — sleep. Mesmerism, or as it is now gen- 
 erally named, hypnotism, is a harmonization of 
 two or more mentalities, and the influence pass- 
 ing through the mentalities to the physiques. For 
 convenience, we will suppose there are two per- 
 sons, and we will employ the terms in common 
 use. The "Subject," or the one to be hypnotized, 
 must be perfectly willing, and become completely 
 "passive" to the "Operator," or the one to place 
 him in the hypnotic state. This passivity of the 
 
76 WE ARE OFTEN UNCONSCIOUSLY SELF-HYPNOTIZED. 
 
 Subject to the will and desire of the Operator is 
 one of the essentials of success; and according to 
 the measure of abandonment of the Subject are 
 the degrees of success in the harmonization of the 
 two minds. 
 
 Although we may hypnotize ourselves to any 
 topic, environment, or individuality; yet, speaking 
 generally, we cannot be hypnotized contrary to 
 our desire. Still, along logical lines, it is only 
 correct to suppose that there being a much 
 stronger mentality or will-force, having a superior 
 knowledge of hynotism or harmonization of two 
 minds to one focus, and possessing sufficient de- 
 termination to succeed; we may be hypnotized or 
 brought to the same state of desire of such an in- 
 dividual, unconsciously, without our consent, and, 
 in this sense, against our will. 
 
 When the Operator has the Subject under con- 
 trol, it is natural to expect the Subject to do those 
 things readiest which are characteristic of him in 
 his normal or "waking state." Yet, in accordance 
 with the sixth sense in man, while the Operator 
 has the Subject under his influence, he may grad- 
 ually and by repeated "operations'' finally cause 
 the Subject to think, say, or do, things which in 
 his original, normal or "waking state" were offen- 
 sive to him; and having repeatedly thought, said, 
 or done them in the hypnotic state, he will finally 
 adhere to them in his natural state. 
 
 The same law which applies to the Subject 
 being most ready to think, say, or do, the things 
 
DANGER LURKS IN MISAPPLIED HYPNOTISM. 77 
 
 chiefly characteristic of him in his normal state, al- 
 so applies to the Operator. Being a well disposed 
 person, it is but natural to expect him to harmonize 
 the mental and physical temperaments of his Sub- 
 ject to good thoughts, words, and deeds. But 
 what if the Operator should not be a good person? 
 Herein lurks a danger in hypnotism. 
 
 The oft-repeated or long-continued subjections 
 to hypnotic operations are, in their very nature, to 
 the individuality of the Subject, retrograding; — 
 but very good practise for the Operator at the 
 Subject's expense. 
 
 We should be careful to what we hypnotize or 
 harmonize ourselves and by or to whom, we al- 
 low ourselves to be hypnotized or harmonized. 
 We should know in nature by a proper under- 
 standing and cultivation of our senses, to what we 
 are becoming harmonized or hypnotized, and we 
 should know in life to what mentality or mentali-J 
 ties we are becoming subject. 
 
 We should know without doubt that the Opera- 
 tor intends our weal, and not our woe; for verily, by 
 the sixth law of nature and responsive sixth sense 
 in man, we may gradually and unconsciously be- 
 come hypnotized to any environment, physically, 
 mentally, morally or spiritually. 
 
 As hypnotism is only another term for mental 
 harmonization (in contradistinction but not in dif- 
 ference of principle to physical harmonization) it 
 follows that hypnotism, as we know it to-day, is at 
 least as old as man, though perhaps only studied 
 
78 HYPKOTIC FORCE IS THE ANlMAt/s ERIEnD. 
 
 and treated as an abstract in recent years. In fact, 
 whoever will observe the animal in nature will 
 find that this particular faculty does not exist in 
 man as a part of, a distinct, separate, and superior 
 formation from, nature; but that it is in'man as 
 the climax of all animal and other faculties preced- 
 ing him in nature. Hypnotism, therefore, is not a 
 growth or development of human intellectuality, 
 but rather, a faculty of animal instinct, employed by 
 animals for defence and offence; and generally 
 speaking, the human being who may possess the 
 "hypnotic eye'' the strongest, has real intelligence 
 the least 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 "Laying-On of Hands" Will Heal Surface 
 Sickness* 
 
 The fundamental law of success in healing the 
 sick by "laying-on of hands" is dependent upon 
 the health and harmonious proportions, physically 
 and mentally, of the layer-on of hands; har- 
 mony, in the sense here intended, signifying per- 
 fect proportions of mental, motive, and vital tem- 
 peraments and health, that subtle-something 
 which is more an ultimate than a primate of the 
 quality, kind, and quantity of our food, air, and 
 beverage; indicated principally by a nut-brown 
 color of skin, which latter is more an evidence of 
 complete flow of life-force than of "sun-tanning" 
 or "paint." 
 
 We had a case in point recently here in the 
 United States, of a Scotch Presbyterian minister 
 who, while at home in Scotland, seeing his young 
 niece in the agonies of neuralgia, "placed his 
 hands upon her head and prayed that her pain 
 might leave her," and thus healed her. 
 
 Whatever may be said in advocacy of prayer, 
 of the privilege of which the writer commends 
 everyone to avail himself, it is not the object of 
 the present work to say that the young woman's 
 
SO PRAYER IS GOOD: PRACTISE IS BETTER. 
 
 pain left her because her uncle prayed, but because 
 he "placed his hands upon her head/' and kept 
 them there until the pain had gone. This was 
 comparatively easy, as Presbyterian ministers 
 are notably long prayers. 
 
 Of course, the minister and his friends believed 
 that the healing was in direct answer to the min- 
 ister's prayer; but place a man less harmonized in 
 his temperaments, and less healthy in his life-flow, 
 in the same position, and let him pray; or even 
 place this other man with his hands on the girl's 
 head, and let the minister pray as before; we can 
 only expect results not according to the sincerity 
 or strength of the prayer, but according to the 
 harmony and health of the other man. 
 
 This minister, unknown to himself, had naturally 
 two of the qualifications of a successful healer, by 
 "laying-on of hands;" harmony between his, 
 motive, mental, and vital temperaments, and super- 
 abundance of health-flow, which latter was a se- 
 quence of his previous good habits, healthful food, 
 air, and beverage, in regular quantities. 
 • Practising in Scotland, or in any other country, 
 on a small scale, this minister might have been a 
 success; but coming to the United States and pos- 
 ing publicly on a larger scale, he was a compara- 
 tive failure. The principal reason for this was in 
 the fact that in conjunction with his temperamen- 
 tal proportions and health, he lacked that power 
 which is centred in size, proportion, quality, and 
 skill- of the four essentials to a great healer he 
 
CHRIST WAS A NATURAL HEALER. 8 I 
 
 lacked two, — size and skill; being only of medium 
 build, and simply standing there with "his hands 
 on the young woman's head praying. While 
 Christ of old "mixed his spittle with clay and 
 placed it on the eyes of the blind young man," 
 this minister indicated no skill whatever, simply 
 standing there with his hands in position. 
 Another reason of the apparent failure of the min- 
 ister's healing on a large scale was in the fact that 
 the individual's power to heal is limited to the 
 comparative difference between the well and the 
 sick. After the strength of harmony of the 
 healthy man has been given off to the sick, to the 
 extent of becoming the same as the sick, the sixth 
 Law of nature is in that case no longer operative, 
 for it has reached its goal of perfect harmony. 
 This Law is well illustrated in the case of "the 
 woman who touched the hem of Christ's garment." 
 Although Christ was in and among a concourse of 
 people more or less healthy, heat once knew when 
 the sick woman had touched him. He knew be- 
 cause "virtue had gone out of him:" and the 
 woman knew that "she was healed from that very 
 hour," because she had exchanged her sickness 
 with the specially healthful strength of another. 
 Christ had up to the fullest limit all the essential 
 qualifications of a great and successful healer com- 
 plete. Large, healthy, proportional, and skillful; 
 "He went about Galilee healing all manner of 
 sickness and all manner of disease among the 
 people." Should the reader have any doubt, or 
 
§2 THE CONFIDENCE OF THE SICK ASSISTS THE HEALER. 
 
 lack of information, regarding the extremely 
 powerful harmony possessed by this comparative 
 "king among men," physically, mentall}^, morally 
 and culminating in an extraordinary spiritual 
 unfoldment, let him read the three chapters which 
 follow this example, and be instructively satisfied. 
 
 To understand that mind can harmonize wilhj 
 mind, and thus assist in promoting physical health:{ 
 read Matthew, eighth chapter, verses two and 
 three, — "And, behold, there came a leper and 
 worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou 
 canst make me clean/' Observe that this "leper" 
 was willing and passive; and hence, in a receptive 
 state, — "And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched 
 him, saying, I will: be thou clean. " The health- 
 fully harmonized man "touched" the leper so much 
 in need of harmony, the mental desire and kind- 
 ness of heart expressed in the words "I will; be 
 thou clean," harmonized the two minds, "and 
 immediately his leprosy was cleansed." Both 
 mentalities were focused to one idea, and one de- 
 sire, the touch unified the physiques, and the 
 fruition was, what would otherwise have been an 
 impossibility a "miracle," which is but another 
 word for surprise or wonder. 
 
 Immediately Christ's harmonious touch had 
 started the localized disease to circulate through 
 the remainder of the leper's body, and the two 
 physical atmospheres reached the unit of harmony; 
 the disease no longer existed, because it harmoni- 
 ously circulated within its surroundings. 
 
MOSES INDIRECTLY TAUGHT FROM NATURE. 83 
 
 In substantiation and explanation of the fore- 
 going ideal fact, read Leviticus, chapter 13, verses 
 2 and 3: — "When a man shall have in the skin of 
 his flesh a rising, a scab, or Bright Spot, and it be 
 in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy: 
 then shall he be brought unto Aaron the Priest, or 
 unto one of his sons the Priests: and the Priest 
 shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh; and 
 when the hair in the plague is turned white, and 
 the plague is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is 
 a plague of leprosy: and the Priest shall look on 
 him, and pronounce him unclean." In connection 
 with this, read verses 12 and 13 of the same .chap- 
 ter; — "And if a leprosy break out abroad in the 
 skjn, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that 
 hath the plague, from his head even to his feet where- 
 soever the Priest looketh; then the Priest shall con- 
 sider: and, behold, if the plague have covered all his 
 flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the 
 plague: it is all turned white; he is clean." Ob- 
 serve that in verses 3 and 13 the disease is "white"; 
 hence, the color of the disease is not a considera- 
 tion, neither in the stages of the disease nor in the 
 "cleansing." In the second verse, the plague is a 
 ik bright spot"; i. e., the disease is local; there is 
 only a small portion of his body diseased; the re- 
 mainder is well; and one part of him being diseased 
 and the other parts well, he is out of harmony 
 with himself: — "and the Priest shall look on him, 
 and pronounce him unclean." But in verses 12 
 and 13, the plague having "covered all his flesh from 
 
84 "HEALTH IS HARMONY.'' 
 
 his head even to his feet, the Priest shall pronounce 
 him clean that hath the plague." Observe also, 
 that he still, "hath the plague" but being harmon- 
 ized to it" from his head even to his feet, whereso- 
 ever the Priest looketh; he shall pronounce him clean 
 that hath the plague." 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 "Faith," — Confidence* 
 
 "Without works," said one of old, "faith is 
 vain " 
 
 For example, we may "have faith" that a good 
 fire will cook our breakfast, but without works" 
 we may miss our morning's meal. 
 
 Natural Law will operate and be still as potent 
 whether man is cognizant of the fact or not. "A 
 tree is known by its fruit: "The man is seen in his 
 actions: "To obey is better than sacrifice: "Ex- 
 ample is better than precept:" etc , all assist the 
 indication that both nature and man's deeper con- 
 ceptions of her, are practically utilitarian. 
 
 Although confidence between the sick and the 
 physician is of great assistance to heal; yet, to sepa- 
 rate "faith and works" and thereby invent a sys- 
 tem of "faith cure," is the fancy of the frivolous: 
 and is neither true in nature, in reason, nor in 
 sound sense. 
 
 The healer gradually gains confidence in his 
 power to heal from his experience in healing: the 
 sick derives his confidence hi the healer's ability 
 to heal from communicated or personal knowl- 
 edge of that ability. 
 
86 LAW VARIES NOT AND IS THE SOURCE OF VARIETY. 
 
 As discouragement and "low spirits" are gener- 
 ally the accompaniments of sickness, causing an 
 abandonment in the sick: to which, in health they 
 are not inclined; so, anything from which they 
 may borrow hope of relief, is by them immediately 
 appreciated. Sometimes, so true is this, that even 
 the cheering words of the powerfully confident 
 have been known to restore the despondently 
 sick. "Thy faith/' or, (which is better) thy confi- 
 dence, "hath made thee whole;" is a case in point. 
 But this is mostly true in imaginary mental mor- 
 bidity, and not possible in real sickness. 
 
 If a law is initially true, it is finally true: if it 
 lacks solidity in any of its stages, it will eventually 
 be found false. If the "mind" or "faith" will 
 "cure" one real and one which is not an imaginary 
 ill, it will rectify all: if it will not harmonize every 
 human discord, it is not intrinsically true. If the 
 mind or faith will even stop a bona fide toothache, 
 it will recover a broken leg; but as it will not do 
 either of these, the "mind" is not the supreme 
 master of the truly sick situation. 
 
 If we search the principal source from which the 
 scheme of "faith-cure" has been concocted, we 
 shall find that "works" have had more to do with 
 "cures" than has "faith." Even where this fact is 
 not specially recorded, we may rest assured that 
 as natural law is the real source of health, and as 
 nature is practical in every evolute, the "touch" 
 is always prominentia these examples. 
 
 When the son of the Shunamite woman was 
 
ANCIENTS UNCONSCIOUSLY COINCIDED WITH NATURE. 87 
 
 overcome by the heat of the harvest-field, — "he 
 said unto his father, my head, my head. And he 
 said to a lad, carry him to his mother. And when 
 he had taken, and brought him to his mother, he 
 sat on her knees till noon, and then died. And she 
 called unto her husband, and said, send me, I pray 
 thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, 
 that I may run to the man of God, and come 
 again/' When she had reached Elisha, to whom 
 she hastened for help, he said to Gehazi his ser- 
 vant, — "Gird up thy loins, and take my staff 
 in thine hand, and go thy way; and lay my staff on 
 the face of the child." 
 
 Elisha knew from experience, as we, to-da3^ un- 
 derstand it; that as contagion may be conveyed by 
 an article of wearing apparel worn by the one 
 diseased, so may some strength be transmitted by 
 the "staff' of a healthy man. But finding that his 
 staff was not sufficient to restore the sun-stricken 
 child, — "he went up, and lay upon the child, and 
 put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon 
 his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he 
 stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of 
 the child waxed warm." Of course, immediately 
 the two bodies came in contact, the sixth Law of 
 nature and responsive sixth Sense in man began 
 to operate, and gradually transferred the compara- 
 tive strength of Elisha to the correspondingly 
 weak child: and Elisha feeling his superabundant 
 physical force thus abated; — "returned, and walked 
 in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched 
 
S8 WATER IS ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH. 
 
 himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven 
 times, and the child opened his eyes/' After 
 walking "to and fro" to throw off the attracted 
 weakness of the child, and renew his own strength, 
 Elisha succeeded upon his second effort in restor- 
 ing the child. 
 
 Absolutely on the same principle did the leprosy 
 leave "Naaman, the captain of the host of the king 
 of Syria," when he "went down, and dipped him- 
 self seven times in Jordan, according to the say- 
 ing of the man of God; and his flesh came again 
 like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was 
 clean." 
 
 As water, in its various degrees of temperature, 
 is the great natural solace for all sores, and as 
 Moses of old instructed the lepers to "wash with 
 water, and be (ye) clean;" also, as Thales the 
 Greek philosopher said, "Earth from ocean comes, 
 not ocean from the earth; the liquid holds the 
 solid in its womb; the firm hard bones grow from 
 the y ielding flesh; the flesh from flow of the more 
 yielding water;" why was Naaman advised to 
 "wash in Jordan seven times," and assured that, 
 — "thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou 
 shall be clean?'' Because, by diving or "dipping" 
 into the water and returning to the bank "seven 
 times," he allowed the water-flow to renew itself 
 each time, and also, as the cleared water periodi- 
 cally cleansed him externally, the necessary 
 exertion brought to surface the remainder and 
 more internal portions of the leprosy. 
 
PRAYER GENERATES CONFIDENCE. 8<) 
 
 Prayer being always good for the soul, and 
 more especially if it generates confidence in deeds 
 of kindness; Elisha "went in, therefore, and shut 
 the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the 
 Lord/' Undoubtedly, this imparted to him confi- 
 dence to persist to success. 
 
 Similarly in the example recorded of Elijah, 
 who, while he "cried unto the Lord, and said, O 
 Lord my God, 1 pray thee, let this child's soul 
 come into him again;" did not neglect the practical 
 part, — "And he stretched himself upon the child 
 three times." 
 
 Sufficient confidence to obey was imparted to 
 Naaman from his servants, who "came near, and 
 said, my father, if the prophet had bid thee do 
 some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? 
 How much rather, then, when he saith to thee, 
 wash, and be clean?" 
 
 Excepting the examples already quoted in this 
 book from those recorded of Christ in the Bible, 
 we shall for the present pass by the remaining 
 deeds of this king of healers, whose prowess in 
 healing equaled his confidence, which confidence 
 some hypercritical writers and speakers have 
 dubbed "his extreme egotism," and come to the 
 corresponding example • recorded of St. Peter, 
 who said: — "Silver and gold have I none; but 
 such as I have give I unto thee: in the name of 
 Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he 
 took him by the right hand and lifted him up!' 
 
 Peter derived his confidence, and his example, 
 both, from the same great teacher, Christ. 
 
90 MIND HEALS MIND AND BODY HEALS BODY. 
 
 If we are contending with the disease of hypo- 
 chondriasis, "arise, take up thy bed and walk/' may 
 be sufficient; but if the trouble is real and physical, 
 we need to avail ourselves of the healing virtue in 
 the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense 
 in man. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 Spiritual and Material Illustrations* 
 
 A most beautiful example of the higher side of 
 this natural Law is recorded in the fifteenth chap- 
 ter of St. Luke— "The Prodigal Son." 
 
 None but a parent may comprehend the joy of a 
 father upon meeting his returning "prodigal son.'* 
 The boy had been away, the father's yearning 
 heart knew not where; there had been a breach, an 
 inharmony between son and father, and the return- 
 ing son's exclamation, — "Father, I have sinned 
 against heaven" (harmony) "and in thy sight, and 
 am no more worthy to be called thy son," would 
 scarcely be heard by the father in his longing to 
 "fall on his neck and kiss him, and say to his ser- 
 vants, bring forth the best robe and put it on him; 
 and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet, 
 and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it, and let us 
 eat and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is 
 alive again; was lost and is found." 
 
 The examples, quoted in this chapter, of "The 
 Prodigal Son," "The Lost Sheep," and "The Piece 
 of Silver, 5 ' are fully expressed in a person meeting 
 a sudden injury to any particular part of his body, 
 and immediately hurrying to that part, physically, 
 
()2 "THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN IS A MATTER OF GROWTH. 
 
 and mentally, and soothing it back to harmonize 
 with the remainder of his body as before it oc- 
 curred. It is also expressed in the mother hasten- 
 ing to the rescue of any of her suffering chil- 
 dren, and remaining with that one, consoling, and 
 nursing it back to its former harmony. The same 
 ideal law is in action in the "sinner's return to 
 righteousness/' and "more rejoicing over him than 
 over the many who need no repentance." 
 
 If these ideas had not a natural indication pri- 
 marily, they could not have a spiritual signification 
 ultimately; as there is nothing in spirit which has 
 not been in nature, and nothing in nature which 
 is not originally in Law. 
 
 Many individuals of history have felt the neces- 
 sity, and recorded the fact, of the ultimate cer- 
 tainty of the great prediction, that "Every valley 
 shall be exalted, every mountain and hill made 
 low, the crooked straight, the rough places plain, 
 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." 
 
 "Its comin T for aw that, an' aw that, an' aw 
 that, when maun te maun shall brithers be, the 
 the warld ower, for aw that." 
 
 "The world is my country, and to do good is 
 my religion." 
 
 "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye 
 love one another, even as I have loved you." 
 
 All the foregoing are simply ideal expressions 
 of the ultimate perfecting power of natural law; 
 — as man learns to "Consider the lilies how they 
 grow, they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet 
 
PROGRESSION IS ETERNAL. 93 
 
 I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was 
 not arrayed like one of these." 
 
 In man's comprehension of, and obedience to, 
 the many and varied laws of nature and responsive 
 senses in himself, rests his rescue and final emanci- 
 pation from the educated fear which dwarfs him 
 from reaching out to perfect harmony with him- 
 self, his place of abode — the earth — and his fellows. 
 The full and complete understanding of nature's 
 laws, — Sight, Sound, Smell, Touch, Taste, Har- 
 mony, and responsive senses in himself. — will yet 
 allow him to know of many natural blessings which 
 his artificial "schooling" has kept from him. He 
 will no longer be in the position of "The wind 
 blowing where it listeth, and he hearing the sound 
 thereof, but not knowing whither it cometh or 
 whither it goeth." He will understand that it is 
 simply the different densities of the atmosphere 
 seeking harmony, in obedience to the sixth Law 
 of nature; and, when any semblance to these things 
 occurs to mar the comfort of his earth-life, he will 
 learn to "rest his soul in peace" in the knowledge 
 that when allowed to run its course: such phe- 
 nomenon is only temporary. 
 
 The physical and mental food of the child are 
 its milk and its ''Santa Claus," but full-grown vig- 
 orous manhood requires its roast beef and its 
 reason. "Childhood," is only a comparative term. 
 The greatest men of the past were but a predic- 
 tion of the present, and the greatest of the present 
 are simply a dream of the future. 
 
94 NATURAL LAW IS ETERNAL. 
 
 The more man has advanced the more he will 
 advance, and the more he will know of his natural 
 privileges and responsibilities. "And he said, so 
 is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast 
 seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise 
 night and day and the seed should spring and grow 
 up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth 
 forth fruit of itself; first the blade, then the ear, 
 after that the full corn in the ear. But when the 
 fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in 
 the sickle, because the harvest is come," 
 
 " The earth bringeth forth fruit of itself"' so will 
 the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense 
 in man "'bring forth fruit of itself/' when the "seed 
 is cast into the ground;" i. e., when the proper 
 conditions are observed; when we cease to leave a 
 sick person alone, and subject him to a treatment 
 of drugs while at the same time, we deprive him 
 of that which is his by natural and brotherly right; 
 during the time he is unable to assist himself In- 
 stead of leaving him alone, let us nurse him back 
 to health internally, with the fruits of nature, ac- 
 cording to his particular trouble or disease; — for, 
 that which is the fruit of anything contains within 
 itself the essence of that of which it is the fruit: 
 and as man and the remaining products of nature, 
 are from the same "Tree of Life," whatever we 
 may give him which is best for his case, will come 
 en rapport with him, and harmonize him inter- 
 nally, while the external harmony we communicate 
 to him from our own healthful atmospheres in 
 
HEALTH AND DISEASE ARE EQUALLY CONTAGIOUS. 95 
 
 nursing, will impart to him a double prospect of 
 recovery. 
 
 It is a standing disgrace to the medical frater- 
 nity to have so little practical aid from nature. 
 And, as knowledge of natural law increases among 
 men, it will yet be a disgrace to any home 
 to have within its walls a sick person, except tem- 
 porarily, as by accident. 
 
 Man is hurried about by long hours work, and 
 has not time to think; he pays the men who truth 
 do shirk, and at his ignorance wink. He is not to 
 blame for his lack of knowledge of natural laws; 
 his employers, teachers, advisers, and "physicians" 
 are to blame. 
 
 In the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
 Sense in man, whereby good health is equally con- 
 tagious with disease, we often, by even sitting on 
 the seat of a public conveyance whereon someone 
 has sat, who, compared with ourselves, was un- 
 well, suddenly feel unwell, and becoming alarmed, 
 we send for the "doctor," who orders us to bed, 
 where we are liable to stay from one to six weeks, 
 with a long after-sufferance of recovery from the 
 injurious effects of drugs; whereas, if we knew that 
 an occurrence of this kind is simply a borrowed 
 condition, foreign to our individual atmosphere, 
 which would pass off if we braced up, instead of 
 succumbing, we would save ourselves from many 
 so-called "sudden sicknesses." 
 
 Just as a person may be saturated, surrounded, 
 filled, or permeated with harmonious health, 
 
96' THE HEALTHFUL "TOUCH" IS "THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. " 
 
 which makes us conscious of something from his 
 presence, his clothing, his touch, as we enter his 
 home: etc , which we cannot precisely define, but 
 which we thoroughly enjoy; so it may be found 
 with an inharmonious or "diseased" person; we 
 may expect nothing but weakness as we approach 
 or stay near him. Cases in point are recorded in 
 St. Mark, chapter 6 and verse 56: — "And whither- 
 soever he entered, into villages, or cities, or coun- 
 try, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought 
 him that they might touch if it were but the bor- 
 der of his garment: and as many as touched him 
 were made whole." The immediately foregoing 
 is an example in point of the contagion of har- 
 monious health; and for a supposed instance of the 
 possible depth of contamination, consequent future 
 contagion and spreading of disease, even sinking 
 into the very material of a house: read Leviticus, 
 14: 36 to 45: — "And the Priest shall command 
 that they take away the stones in which 
 the plague is, and they shall cast them into an un- 
 clean place without the city: and he shall cause the 
 house to be scraped within round-about, and they 
 shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without 
 the city into an unclean place: and they shall take 
 other stones: and put them in the place of those 
 stones; and he shall take other mortar, and plaster 
 the house. And if the plague come again, and 
 break out in the house, after that he hath taken 
 away the stones, and after he hath scraped the 
 ^ouse, and after it is plastered; then the Priest 
 
"disease" is self-destructive. 97 
 
 shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be 
 spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the 
 house: it is unclean. And he shall break down the 
 house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and 
 all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry 
 them forth out of the city into an unclean place." 
 
CHAPTER XVL 
 
 "Spiritual Healing," 
 
 Among the names under which the sixth Law 
 of nature and responsive sixth sense in man is un- 
 consciously practiced to-day, is, "magnetic heal- 
 ing.'' This mode of family treatment, and this 
 name, came from "modern spiritualism," which 
 dates its commencement to the year 1848. 
 
 In their gatherings, the Spiritualists sit in a 
 "circle," take hold of each other's hands, and sing 
 a hymn. The contact of their hands harmonizes 
 them physically, and the singing of the hymn is 
 intended to assist in harmonizing them mentally. 
 As they take their seats, a large person will sit 
 next to a small one, a strong-looking one next to a 
 weaker-looking one, and sometimes, so particular 
 do they seem in the direction of perfect harmony, 
 they alternate the positions of males and females; 
 their hands being connected with each other, and 
 their feet placed apart, so that the current of har- 
 mony may pass uninterruptedly from each person 
 to and through all. 
 
 It will be easily seen that this habit or notion of 
 Spiritualists is powerfully educative, and directly 
 in accord with natural law; powerful, because the 
 
THE "CIRCLE" EXPRESSES A NATURAL LAW. 99 
 
 people are in the most convenient positions and 
 immediately connected: this in and of itself having 
 a powerful effect in the direction of transferring 
 the health of the healthy to exchange with the 
 sickliness of the sick, and vice versa, according to 
 the time absorbed in the "sitting," they both ar- 
 rive at the same state of complete harmonization; 
 educative, because, here is seen the very thing to 
 do in our homes, or among our friends and neigh- 
 bors in case of physical or even mental sickness. 
 Sit in a "circle," connect hands, sing a hymn; and 
 doing these things in the name and object of har- 
 mony, there will harmony be in the midst, and 
 there to bless. 
 
 How much better this than that one of the 
 family, having a little sickness, probably only tran- 
 sitory in its nature, we should send for the doctor 
 whose order puts the sick one to bed, there to be 
 isolated from immediate assistance from laws in 
 nature and corresponding senses in the human, to 
 a drug treatment, and a possible funeral in the 
 near future ! 
 
 Let the physical inharmonies between the indi- 
 viduals composing the circle be never so diversi- 
 fied, each will have a tendency to harmonize with 
 the other, which will be measurably successful 
 with the time spent in the sitting. As they ap- 
 proach the unit of physical harmony, they unitedly 
 express one of the essentials of great and successful 
 healing — size — and by the same law, that the 
 whole circle becomes a unit of physical harmony, 
 LofC. 
 
lOO SPIRITUALISTS HEAL BY NATURE^ METHODS. 
 
 on an extensive scale, even so is it with the mental 
 and moral natures, for the time-being at least. 
 
 Thus we gain from a custom of the Spiritualists 
 a true idea, and a practical example of family 
 healing. There would, however, be a lack in our 
 company treatment, the idea of which, again, the 
 Spiritualists supply. They have a person set apart 
 from the circle, who is in himself well harmonized 
 in the essentials to heal; who goes from one to 
 another to find anyone particularly requiring as- 
 sistance; upon finding one, say, with a headache, 
 or a rheumatic arm, he applies his individual skill 
 to cause the life to flow through that head or limb, 
 as the case may be, until, where there was a local 
 congestion or temporary stagnation, all becomes, 
 by the united forces, and this individual's assis- 
 tance, harmonious. On the same principle, the 
 healthiest, strongest, and most harmonious one in 
 the family, neighborly, or friendly circle, could be 
 appointed to manipulate the part or parts affected 
 in the sick one, and thus specially hasten the re- 
 covery. 
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that Spiritualists claim 
 all success in healing their sick directly traceable 
 and dependent upon spiritual "influences" of the 
 inner life coming in contact with their spiritual 
 natures, and through their spiritual to their physi- 
 cal natures thereby healing the latter; it is none 
 the less a fact that even granting all this, it can 
 only be done through and in obedience to natural 
 laws. 
 
LOOK FACTS IN THE FACE AND LEARN WHERE YOU MAY. 1 01 
 
 Absolutely the same laws govern in the life of 
 the soul as control the life of the body: the princi- 
 ple of law does not change or vary; it is.simply on 
 a higher, broader, and deeper plane of advance- 
 ment. 
 
 The life of the soul is a direct continuation of 
 the life of the body; and to speak of '-supernatural" 
 is about as logical as to speak of superperfect. 
 
 Of course, it is neither profitable, advisable nor 
 necessary to ridicule anything: let us "gather up 
 the fragments, that nothing be lost;" and, at the 
 same time, allow none to wrong us in our birth- 
 right as part and parcel of natural law. In our 
 largest cities, there are hundreds practising the 
 healing art, through their individual harmoniza- 
 tion with nature's laws, and by the alleged assis- 
 tance of "the higher intelligences." In the United 
 States alone, there are thousands who would not 
 have any other way of healing upon any consid- 
 eration whatever. 
 
 As the term "magnetic healing" has become un- 
 popular, some have substituted "massage treat- 
 ment," "vitapathy," "osteopathy," and so forth, 
 which new terms will again be subject to change, as 
 they in turn become unpopular: and hence, ob- 
 noxious. However each wag may signalize a 
 thing, or law, according to the density of his wag- 
 gishness, let us not wrangle about names, but 
 stand firm in defence of our natural rights. 
 
 If we analyze the terms "magnetism," "mas- 
 sage," "vitapathy,"and "osteopathy," we shall find 
 
102 NAMES DO NOT INFLUENCE LAW. 
 
 that the framers of them had very vague ideas of 
 the source of power in these methods of healing. 
 Massage is but an effeminate fabrication for "lay- 
 ing-on of hands," the terms magnetism, vitapathy, 
 and osteopathy, are at least misleading to the unin- 
 itiated. The word magnetism essentially signifies 
 magnet or medium of some unknown power or 
 force, in the act of healing: the word vitapathy 
 must mean that there is supposed to be a "vital 
 force/' or "invisible substance/' going from the 
 healer to the sick, and thus accomplishing in the 
 sick a restoration to health: and the word osteopathy 
 that, from the spinal column to each and every 
 physical function, there are nerve-connections, 
 which are channels of communication between the 
 brain and every part of the body. The cause of 
 disease being either functional interruption, or 
 nerve interference, or both: the osteopathist di- 
 rects and adjusts the vital mechanism with his 
 hands and without medicine. The reader may see 
 that in essence and in principle, this practise is 
 correlatively nothing more than "laying-on of 
 hands:" "spiritual magnetism:" "massage:" or 
 "vitapathy." 
 
 Osteopathy claims a more extended knowledge 
 of anatomy than its predecessors; this is simply 
 owing to the fact that, the science of anatomy has 
 advanced more and more as man's intelligence has 
 unfolded, and osteopathy has necessarily availed 
 itself of this progressive advantage. 
 
 Neither has osteopathy in and of itself outgrown 
 
THE CLEVEREST PHYSICIANS FORSAKE PHYSIC. I 03 
 
 the medical idea. The intelligent abandonment 
 of medicine, is more a matter of human experience 
 and development than it is of any particular indi- 
 vidual, association of individuals, or "college" of 
 any particular period. However, as we have 
 herein seen and demonstrated that, healing the 
 sick by the supposed "methods'' of "magnetic 
 healing," "massage treatment," "vitapathy," and 
 "osteopathy," is purely and simply the immaterial 
 and eternally persistent expression of a natural 
 law: it follows that should this theory of the sixth 
 Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense in man, 
 ever become "an exact science," which it cer- 
 tainly must; then, it will be found that the terms 
 magnetism, massage, vitapathy, osteopathy, etc., 
 are wide of the mark as true and appropriate 
 names. 
 
CONCLUSION. 
 
 Little more remains to be said with reference to 
 the topic of this book. As physiology is now 
 taught in public schools, blank ignorance of the 
 constituent parts of the human, and their different 
 functions, will soon be a regret of the past: and, as 
 a knowledge of the human constitution and its re- 
 lation to nature's fixed laws, and a knowledge of 
 the laws themselves, advance, man will yet be able 
 to burst the physical bonds which have gradually 
 tightened more and more around him, ever since 
 the starting of the medical idea. 
 
 Medicine was commenced separate from nature, 
 it has continued separate from nature, and bids fair 
 to reach its final separation from man as a part of 
 nature, for it is a very unnatural thing. 
 
 In the United States, we have known of won- 
 derful healing by laying-on of hands, by people 
 who really knew nothing of the law by which they 
 performed these things. The so-called "magnetic 
 blacksmith, " for example, who accidentally dis- 
 discovered "a power of healing in his hands," 
 knew not of its source, and did not assume to 
 know. 
 
 As an instance, on the other hand, of a man who 
 misnames the law "vital magnetism;" read the fol- 
 
HEALTHY MAN IS THE NATURAL PHYSICIAN. 105 
 
 lowing extract from an advertisement which re- 
 cently appeared in a local paper. 
 
 "The Vitapathic Healer's Glorious Record. 
 1394 Chronic Invalids Relieved and Cured. 
 
 It is true, it consists chiefly in laying-on of 
 hands, but not in any haphazard sort of manner 
 since every touch of the healer's hand is a scien- 
 tific application of Vital Magnetism, the results of 
 which are as clearly demonstrated facts as any es- 
 tablished by Fulton, Morse, or Edison." The ad- 
 vertiser proceeds to say: — "To compare these 
 results of vitapathic science with marvellous heal- 
 ing is no presumptuous exaggeration, since most of 
 the marvels of scientific discovery appear little 
 short of miracles, even in this the twentieth cen- 
 tury." And he says: — "Think of the multitudes 
 treated, crippled, blind and deaf chronic invalids, 
 before an enthusiastic, sympathetic public as wit- 
 ness and censor." And he further states: — "Most 
 of these patients had been abandoned as hopeless 
 cases by their physicians, and in numerous in- 
 stances had gone the rounds of the hospitals." 
 
 All the foregoing from a respectable and very 
 successful American practitioner, whom the writer 
 heard say in a public hall, before hundreds of re- 
 spectable people, that he was a graduate of three 
 different schools of medicine, and that thirty years 
 previously, he had abandoned the practice of 
 medicine, in preference to this more successful 
 method of healing. 
 
 What matters it if this man misnames his 
 
I06 CIRCULATION IS LIFE: STAGNATION IS "DEATH." 
 
 adopted art "a vitapathic science," and claims it 
 to be "a scientific application of vital magnetism, " 
 or how much sand such individuals unconsciously 
 cast in people's eyes; so long as the fact remains, 
 that it is purely and simply the operation of a 
 natural law, which is within the scope and reach 
 of all! 
 
 We have sufficient evidence on record, to know 
 that people absolutely innocent of all knowledge of 
 the source of this power, have consciously and un- 
 consciously healed sickness by laying-on of hands 
 in sympathy, and known sick people to have im- 
 proved, as they, for a time, sat near well people. 
 
 It seems proper to here remind the reader that 
 there are two things to remember in connection 
 with this plan of healing; i. e., the sick person 
 throws off, and takes on, and the well person 
 throws off, and takes on, also. This being true, 
 the well person may take away disease and return 
 health. 
 
 Let the healer place his hands on the part af- 
 fected in the sick person, and so soon as he feels a 
 change come into them, which is not his own, 
 draw them away in the direction of the feet or the 
 hands of the sick person, rub his hands together 
 until his own natural feeling returns, and repeat; 
 until such times as he finds that he cannot cast 
 away the feeling which he receives from the sick 
 person, and recover his own, by rubbing: in that 
 case, let him hold his hands under the running 
 water faucet, until he feels the water naturally, 
 
EVERYONE SHOULD STUDY AND PRACTISE HEALTH; 107 
 
 then dry them, and rub them together until they 
 are warm, and proceed as before: and if he does 
 not "weary in well-doing" ultimate success shall 
 surely be his. 
 
 When the healer finds the "virtue gone out of 
 him," he must remember the example of Elisha, 
 and "walk to and fro in the house,'* or do anything 
 by which he may refresh himself naturally. 
 Among the many obvious helps, a hearty drink of 
 water, or a short "open-air bath," will be found 
 beneficial. 
 
 Above all things, the natural healer must be 
 confident, and able, to cast off any condition what- 
 soever, which may be foreign to his individual at- 
 mosphere; constantly making it his object to main- 
 tain the pink of perfect personal health; having 
 encouragement in every difficulty, and satisfaction 
 in every success; that he is simply the instrument 
 or medium of natural law, and absolutely subject 
 and limited to its harmonious environments. 
 Never losing sight of the fact that, as sudden in- 
 dividual contact with wrong conditions is im- 
 mediately detrimental; so, sudden individual con- 
 tact with right conditions is immediately beneficial. 
 Knowing this to be true, he will readily compre- 
 hend the great advantage to the natural healer of 
 a superabundantly healthful atmosphere. 
 
 As a very general rule, every physical trouble 
 is a congestion, a "lesion," a nerve-"impignment," 
 or lack of proper circulation in the part or parts 
 diseased. The healer finding this to be the case: 
 
108 GENTILITY INDUCES HARMONY. 
 
 as, for example, in goitre of the neck, or in local 
 rheumatism, let him gently and soothingly manipu- 
 late, knead and press the part, until he transfers 
 to it a life-flow, by connecting it with the natural 
 circulation of the remainder of the body; treat- 
 ing it as. soothingly, caressingly, sympathetically, 
 and gently, as he would a sore bruise on his 
 own or his child's head, for it is an expression 
 of the same harmonious law. 
 
 The reader must ever be prepared to learn 
 much and. many things from personal experience 
 in healing, which for lack of space cannot be here 
 detailed: he will not err, however, if he is always 
 guided by the ruling principle: — the sixth Law of 
 nature and responsive sixth Sense in man. 
 
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