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There is no vicarious atonement in Nature, She does not +bandy and has no favorites, you get what you pay for, She keeps no +books but has an automatic adjustment which regulates accounts as you +go along and marks your soul for the future as well. + +This book advocates churches and pastors or teachers who are God's +Noblemen and it advocates THEOCRATIC DEMOCRACY for if you love God +and your neighbor you are the CORRECT LAW. + +But you can never overrule the law that your temper, rage, cruelty +and vindictiveness will be uncontrollable as long as you use tobacco, +alcohol and meats, and WAR WILL NOT BE ANNIHILATED UNTIL YOU REFORM +YOUR DIET AND HABITS. "Abstinence begets spirituality--dissipation +crime", and yourself, your wife, children, associates, animals and +humanity suffer--you have misapprehensions, moroseness and misery. + +War is the result of selfishness, greed, graft, ignorance and +animalism and it advocates education of the individual to the end that +he shall combine and amalgamate his power with his fellow citizen, +when he can control WAR and government. + +This book shows that diffusion of light and the freezing of water into +ice is from one white spark radiating "high frequency" straight cold +rays against its warm neighboring molecule and causing it to become a +white spark itself, it gives "contagion," it shows that the ether or +spirit gives "contagious transmission of ideas." + +It explains MONISM as being correct and that there is but one God. + +It explains that all of the material of a combustive nature Naturally +is censored by going to the intestines, and here it is emulsified and +coated with an incombustive coat of albumen, if an oil and if starch +is turned into sugar which in turn is changed to an oily substance in +the liver later and this is subsequently emulsified for eligibility +to the blood, but alcohol, essential oils and the organic bases sneak +into the blood surreptitiously, therefore "medicine" is not food, +there may be times when a stimulant is a pathological aid and the +germs often make a stimulant in the body to help over a bad condition, +as when the system contains useless material which is a load on the +organs or when minerals or "humors" embalm the system, but only a +limited amount is a medicine, any more is a poison, these cases are +anomalies and under proper conditions are transgressions of Nature. + +This book shows that we can live upon a few cents per day and be +stronger and better in every way--it shows why many who gave up eating +meat failed and how they can discard the evil and cease to make +graveyards of their stomachs--the author has experimented with dogs +and cats and found that by feeding milk and well cooked oat-meal from +the weaning period till maturity they throve and were happier gentler +and more active and vivacious. + +Meat causes man to be peevish, ill tempered and criminal, like +tobacco, alcohol and drugs. + +The differentation of animal bodies can be met by the cooking of the +cereals, the short intestines and other conditions of carnivorous +animals are not inhibitions to the discarding of meat as a food. + +Man and animals require pure soft water, hard and polluted water +is a cause of much unsuspected poisoning and the hidden cause of +"epidemics" and diseases--all water should be analyzed before being +accepted as satisfactory. + +Mineralized waters are not desirable and the waters from some wells +and springs are fit for plants but will disorder the liver and +constipate the bowels--many farms are in the grip of misfortune and +losses from having bad water for the use of the home and the animals. + +All of the unused elements which are thrown into the large intestine +as waste should be discharged regularly and in cases of constipation +a mild laxative like Cascara Sagrada or Senna should be taken to help +Nature. + +The great category of medicines of the doctors is a farce and there +is no mysterious "selective affinity" for certain drugs, but all +elements have either one of two actions--a stimulating process or a +refrigerating or embalming process, some remedies go to the liver and +counteract the embalming action and aid the flow of bile and some may +be of a resinous nature and saponify in the alkalies of the intestines +and aid their action. + +It will be seen that the book simplifies medicine to TWO PRINCIPLES, +one counteracting the other like heat and cold but these actions are +unnatural and undesirable; it is only by avoiding discrepancies and +ameliorations that we follow Nature. + +The book explains that the differentations and forms in the universe +are the results of two forces, the curved force and the straight +force, just the same as every word in English language is made up +of letters having only two kinds of lines, the straight and the +curved lines. The book tells just what occurs in the life cells and +protoplasm; this is a remarkable discovery and to show how much so, we +quote from Le Bon the great Scientist, he says: "THE SCHOLAR CAPABLE +OF SOLVING BY HIS INTELLIGENCE THE PROBLEMS SOLVED EVERY MOMENT BY +THE CELLS OF THE LOWEST CREATURE WOULD BE SO MUCH HIGHER THAN OTHER +MEN THAT HE MIGHT BE CONSIDERED BY THEM AS A GOD." (From EVOLUTION OF +FORCES, p. 363). + +Haeckel declared that a cell did not go to the bottom of the secret +of life and that we must allow that the naked protoplasm itself held +the secret of life, this book proves that protoplasm is composed of +molecules with centers of sulphur and phosphorus which conformed into +WHITE SPARKS by the alternations of heat and cold, the SPARKS contain +spirit and each spark has a quiet center or consciousness and a +potential of radiation of force. + +This book is terse and compact, is printed on good paper and bound +with red cloth with gold letters. + +[Illustration: READ IT!] + +[Illustration: THEN TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS ABOUT IT] + + + + +THE +WHITE SPARK + +By + +ORVILLE LIVINGSTON LEACH + +[Illustration] + +Printed by the +OXFORD PRESS +Providence, R. I. + + + + +The White Spark + + + + +Part First. + + +This work is an exposition of a NEW PHILOSOPHY, and although it has +been taught to a number of highly educated men,--in a technical way, +we have had many suggestions made to us to publish a work which the +"work-a-day" people can understand,--some have said: "It is too far +above me," and "why don't you explain it so everybody may understand +it." + +In this section we have especially planned to overcome all such +incongruities. + +First of all we want to say that nature is a strict economist of time, +material and energy--her acts and laws are the simplest possible. + +When you see any philosophy that is complicated, it is wrong, but +if it teaches simplicity it is right--the orthodox creeds have +maintained that the universe contained two distinct and eternal +elements--MATERIAL AND SPIRIT--but this is complication--can be +reduced,--WE ARE MONISTS AND "PANTHEISTS" and we are right,--there is +ONLY ONE ELEMENT IN THE UNIVERSE, AND THAT IS THE PRISTINE SPIRIT. + +This is all that is needed to form the universe, and we will show +that matter is simply an enclosure of SPACE or nothing, having an +outline of spirit which is in such swift motion that it holds the +outline--water can be sent through the air so swiftly that it will +turn aside a steel bar. + +To better illustrate the fact we will take a blackboard and paint it +all over with whitewash, then we take a wet sponge and wipe out round +figures--these will show as black spaces outlined by the white--these +black spaces represent SPACE or nothing, while the white represent +SPIRIT--the black spots then represent MATTER. They are really +nothing, only a form outlined and held by motion of spirit or "ETHER." + +The statement in catechisms that "GOD MADE THE WORLD OUT OF NOTHING" +is then correct, although the statement has been called impossible by +many scientists. + +Our philosophy was the first to enunciate the true nature of matter, +atoms, molecules and electrons. Previous to this atoms were considered +as solid indivisible particles. Later the scientists said matter +was condensed spirit or ether. I imagined so myself once, but upon +reflection I said, "THE ETHER CAN PASS THROUGH EVERYTHING, SO WHAT +COULD HOLD IT OR COMPRESS IT?" And spirit or ether could not compress +ether, as ether is all alike. + +To show our part in teaching the world the truth we will go into a +little history. + +As the readers of this work have probably never read THE LATCH KEY, I +will reprint two paragraphs verbatim, numbers 6 and 17. + +Paragraph 6 will require some explanation. Count Rumford claimed that +heat was nothing but a motion, and in some cases this is so, a motion +of the atoms in a body, but a line of spirit from the sun will cause +atoms on the earth to move, and thus is the real cause of heat, and +so radiation of force or spirit from burning wood will create heat. +Perhaps we have in this paragraph used the nature of spirit rather +vaguely in saying heat is the "prime mover," but heat in one way is +spirit, or analogous to spirit. + + +6. + +Matter Is Only Space or Nothing, With a Wall of Spirit. + +Fire was held in sublime awe by the Egyptians and the sun was +worshipped as the source of Divine Power. The wonderful Pyramids are +supposed to have been erected for the glorification of these subtile +forces in Nature. + +Modern thought reverts to ancient ideas. + +Fire is simply spirit in motion. + +Heat is a circular or circumscribed motion or =direction= in +which spirit is moving--it is the "Prime Mover" of organization, the +creator of matter and the parent of the universe! + +A centrifugal act occurring from the intellectual fiat of +spirit--leaving a center, a whirling away of spirit to a certain +circumference or distance from a center leaving space in the +center--this is materialization, a creating of matter, the formation +of an atom, from nothing! + + +17. + +The Point of a Pin Illustrates the Annihilation of Matter. + +A point continued to an absolute end must end in spirit! Matter is cut +down to something beyond our senses; the absolute end of a point may +contain an atom, but matter ends here--here where one single whirl of +spirit surrounds the smallest amount of space possible. Beyond there +is no whirl or motion of spirit, consequently no matter, yet there is +now unparticled spirit. + +If electricity had been studied correctly no scientist would ever have +imagined that matter was condensed ether. In Maxwell's Elementary +Treatise on Electricity on page 49 he says: "WE KNOW ABSOLUTELY +NOTHING WITH RESPECT TO THE DISTANCE THROUGH WHICH ANY PARTICULAR +PORTION OF ELECTRICITY IS DISPLACED FROM ITS ORIGINAL POSITION." * * * +"THE ACTUAL VELOCITY OF ELECTRICITY IN A TELEGRAPH WIRE MAY BE VERY +SMALL, LESS, SAY, THAN THE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH IN AN HOUR, THOUGH +THE SIGNALS WHICH IT TRANSMITS MAY BE PROPAGATED WITH GREAT VELOCITY." + +It is the very fact that the ether is not compressible that allows a +wireless signal to be given a thousand miles away instantly. It is +just the same as if you had a long stick and punched a bell 20 feet +away. + +I sent my work, "The Latch Key," to Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir William +Crookes in 1904. Its philosophy was buried for three years before the +ideas were presented to the British Association for the Advancement of +Science. + +Sir William Crookes wrote to me in 1904 stating that he had received +my pamphlet, but he was just leaving home for a vacation of two weeks +and when he returned he would give it his attention. + +In Sir Oliver's great work, called "Life and Matter," he wrote: "But +it appears now that an atom may break up into electric charges, and +these again may some day be found capable of resolving themselves into +pristine ether. In that case the ether alone persists. It is the most +fundamental entity." + +In another book called "Modern Views of Electricity" he said: "Ether +is somehow affected by the immediate neighborhood of gross matter, and +it appears to be =concentrated= inside it to an extent depending +on the =density= of the matter." + +So it is seen that Sir Oliver at this time believed that matter was +compressed or condensed ether. + +In my pamphlets I explained that the ether could not be compressed, +as it was capable of passing through all substance, and that matter +was not =more= of the ether, but instead was =less=, and +that atoms were simply spots of pure space or "nothing," and that the +ether or its moving lines or sheets simply whirled around on empty +space while what was called a vacuum was really the habitat of real +material, or the ether. + +In 1907 Sir Oliver accepted this new version of the nature of matter, +and it was the cause of much excitement in the British Association, +so much so that the report reached America and Prof. Serviss wrote an +article about it in the Boston Sunday American in October, 1907, in +which he says: "The answer as recently given by Sir Oliver Lodge is +amazing beyond belief. The solidest thing in existence, he avers, is +the very thing which for generations has been universally regarded +as the lightest, the most imperceptible, the most utterly tenuous +and evanescent beyond all definition or computation--the ether!" And +in the same article he says: "Matter, Prof. Osborne Reynolds has +asserted, instead of being, as we innocently believe on the evidence +of our senses, the only real and solid thing in nature is, in fact, +the absence or deficiency of mass." + +The following is an article by Sir Oliver Lodge in regard to spirits: + + "Though for many years, ever since the eighties, I have + tried all sorts of other methods of explaining these things, + they have gradually been eliminated one after the other, + and now no explanations remain except the simple one that + the people who communicate are really the individuals they + claim to be. Not always, of course. One has to prove them + in every case. But still the conclusion is that survival of + existence can be scientifically proved by actual psychical + investigation. + + "That all leads to a perception of the unity running + through all states of existence. That is why I say that + man is not alone; that is why I say that I know he is + surrounded by other intelligences. If you once step over the + boundary beyond man, there is no limit to higher and higher + intelligences up to the Infinite Intelligence himself. There + is no stopping; you go on and must go on until you come to + God. + + "It is no strange land to which I am leading you. The Cosmos + is one. We here on this planet are limited in certain ways + and are blind to much that is going on; but I tell you we + are surrounded by beings working with us, cooperating, + helping such as people in visions have had some perception + of. And that which religion tells us, that saints and angels + are with us, that the Master Himself is helping us, is, I + believe, literally true." + +In presenting this work to the public we claim no right to inject any +fallacies into the mind of the reader, and as far as we can discover +there is no cause for any misapprehension in regard to our statements. +THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH to any question, and all we base our claims +upon is our ability to present facts pertaining to our enunciations. + +Fallacies are very short lived among persons who use their brains, and +the only credit which any philosophy earns is from the good precepts +which it inculcates, the value which it proves to the world and the +TRUTH WHICH IT HOLDS. + +It is usually the case that a careless person resents any philosophy +which conflicts with their habits, no matter how many facts you +present to them or how much history you cite to them in proof of your +statements. + +The use of tobacco and liquor deadens the users' alertness to +safeguarding their own welfare, and in many cases with poisons and +also diet the only thing we can do is to try to have you learn the +truth, and if the end of the rope has been reached and you are at the +ebb of life and hope, you will have more willingness to conform to the +laws of life. If you don't need our philosophy as a "missionary," some +time, you may want it as a doctor. Learn it, anyway. + +The greatest field for fruitful efforts is with the children. If we +can prevent their using improper articles of food and drink and teach +them the nature of their effects, then we may find better soil for +the seeds of rectitude. Of course a little dissipation may not always +cause great trouble. + +There is but ONE GOD and we may tell about SAVIOURS, "SONS OF +GOD" and the TRINITY, but there is only one SAVIOUR and that is A +TEACHER--either a SPIRIT or a HUMAN BEING--and the only salvation is +in the following of Natural Laws which are GOD'S BIBLE. There are +Natural laws which are OCCULT LAWS, and these sometimes contravene +what we may call "LAWS OF MATTER." + +A TEACHER OF THE TRUTHS OF NATURAL SCIENCE IS GOD'S NOBLEMAN, and +KNOWLEDGE IS OUR ONLY SALVATION. + +The use of stimulants is just the same as if you should use a 104 volt +electric lamp on a current with 250 volts. It would be burnt out; +and so your nerves which are the wires of the body are wasted away +by stimulants. They are all alike practically. Alcohol and essential +oils act as a kindler to the natural combustives in the tissues and +the alkaloids or organic bases, as nicotine, morphine, etc., act like +radium. + +Quinine is an alkaloid also, and I will here reprint a selection from +the original LATCH KEY which explains the manner in which the organic +bases become dangerous. They all contain nitrogen, which may account +for their affinity for the nerve substance. + + +32. + +Light and Heat From Radium Are From the Absorption of Ether. + +The emission of light from a substance spontaneously, as in the case +of "Radium," is not a new phenomenon. Nearly forty years ago Prof. +Stokes enunciated the fact. + +He filled a glass tube with a solution of sulphate of quinine and +then moved it through the spectrum, entering at the red ray. When it +had passed through all the colors and entered the region of the ultra +violet, or where the invisible magnetic rays were, the tube lighted up. + +A solution of horse chestnut acted in the same way, so also did glass +stained with oxide of uranium. + +Paragraph 45 was sort of a mysterious alchemical article explaining a +secret of life. Life comes from the formation of WHITE SPARKS or vacuo +in matter, and therefore bioplasmic elements MUST BE LIQUID, SOLUBLE +OR MOBILE. They must be capable of conforming into ROUND GLOBULES. +Then the second feature must come in--heat and cold to expand the +molecule and cool the outside and allow the inside to later contract +and form a vacuum in the center, the home of SPIRIT. + +"Decay" generates life as it makes solid substances soluble. Of +course, excessive decay creates a gas and then this evaporates. + + +45. + +Secrets of Silicon. + +Moses was a great alchemist, skilled in all the arts and sciences of +the Egyptians. The works or writings of Moses are called Books of the +Old Testament and not works on alchemy, but tradition tells us that +his sister Miriam wrote an extensive work on alchemy--(the Catholic +Bible has the name Miriam translated as Mary). + +In Genesis Chap. 3, verse 19, we read, "Till thou return unto the +ground, for out of it thou was taken; for dust thou art and unto dust +shalt thou return." + +Some scientists scoff at the idea of Moses and some scoff at the idea +of "Spontaneous Generation," but we can prove that both are true. + +Life can be produced from MINERAL ELEMENTS ALONE. + +Silicon has always been a source of dispute among chemists in regard +to its classification. Some consider it a regular metal, but it is +usually called a "hyalogen" or glass former like Boron. + +Silicon is never found in its pure metallic state in nature, but is in +combination with oxygen, as is then called by various names as Silica, +Silex, Silicic Acid and SAND, which is the most abundant of mineral +substances. + +The most important and useful elements as air, water and sand God +gives FREE TO ALL, they are found everywhere. + +Sand is at one time a crystallized substance and at another time it +may be A COLLOID substance and thus become the same nature as an +"organized substance," as albumen. + +Sand is insoluble in pure water, but it is dissolved by alkaline +solutions. Natural waters which contain alkaline carbonates always +have some sand in solution. + +Sand from its two fold nature seems to be the bond between death and +life or the solution to the theory of "from dust to life." + +Sand when in solution is a colloid. + +If 8 or 10 parts of carbonate of soda or potash are mixed with 12 or +15 parts of sand and 1 part of charcoal on being heated they melt and +form a mass resembling ordinary glass, but it entirely dissolves in +=hot water=. + +If now chlorohydric acid be added to the solution it neutralizes the +alkali and the silica or sand separates as A TRANSPARENT JELLY. A +colloid! It is "hydrate of silica," but it is now fixed like albumen +or an organized substance and is insoluble in water or acid. + +If it is kept moist it remains a colloid, but by drying it and +separating it from its partner, water, the colloid making alchemical +mysterious WATER, the sand turns to dust again--a gritty powder! + +At common temperatures carbonic acid is stronger than silica, and +upon many of the combinations of silica the air acts as a destructive +agent, its carbonic acid slowly uniting with bases or alkali and +liberating the silica, and at the moment of its liberation the sand is +soluble in water. + +Sand, it will be seen, acts both as an acid and combines with an +alkali and as a base and combines with acids. + +Sand in solution enters the roots of plants and from its transforming +nature or transmutation, it performs great wonders in nature, it +performs miracles in the animal body and in water itself. + +It is the ideal agent for the generation of =vacuo spaces= or +life cells, from its being in one state when warm and in another when +cold, from its being capable of forming soft cell walls and then +concreting around a quantity of ether or spirit upon cooling. It +proves itself the "Philosopher's Stone." + +Hot and cold and silicon! What a wonderful combination! It explains +the mysteries of the universe, radio-activity and life. + +It may be well to here state that there is no chemical difference +between a dead man's brain and nerves and a live man's brain and +nerves. This in itself shows that the cause of life and intelligence +is simply from some conformation of matter which allows the presence +of Spirit. This is the invisible process of the formation of WHITE +SPARKS or the making of a hollow center to molecules. + +LIFE is not a principle per se of organic matter, but organic +matter is arranged into round molecules with cell center of silicon +phosphorus, sulphur or iron. + +The hard and fast nature of the elements is an imagination and it is +only a short step of nature from quartz or silicon to carbon and I may +also say to nitrogen the gas of the atmosphere. + +THE FARMER CAN BECOME A MAGICIAN by intellect. We once proved that by +the use of lime or an alkali vegetables can be made to grow IN SAND. A +tomato plant was planted in a mixture of sand and plasterer's mortar +(a mixture of quick lime and sand) and a bushel of tomatoes were +gathered from this one plant. The lime makes the sand soluble and acts +the same as manure which produces carbonic acid which at the moment of +its formation acts as a solvent of sand and this gives growth. Water +is the great element of life and growth--with the heating effect of +the sun and the alternations of temperature or cooling after heating +we augment the life and growth. + +I will reprint some more of the articles which were in THE LATCH KEY, +as they seemed to strike the readers more impressibly than anything +which I ever wrote, and in fact THE LATCH KEY seemed to have hypnotic +influence. First of all IT WAS ANONYMOUS and no author's name appeared +and further it was given away. + +One lady in later years found out the author and wrote to me for a +few copies, saying she could not help crying when she read paragraph +37. Perhaps the paragraph took on the "poetical" and thus reached her +sentiments. + + +37. + +The Secret of Life! + +The little chapel peacefully resting under the overhanging trees, with +the solemn graveyard beside it, tells the story of life's longings and +miseries. Yet within the little chapel, however humble, can be learned +the secret of life's joy and success and the eternal happiness of the +soul! + +Life's sentiments are fragrant, space only is fraught with pain! + +Spirit fledges space, unlocks the caverns of misery and sheds the +light in the gloom. + +Man grovels in the dark mid the skulls of despair till he lists to the +whisper of spirit. The lisping pines, the rustling oaks, the sunshine +in the meadow and the moonlight on the hill speak in accents calm and +clear. Our motto: + + "SPIRITUS EXCELLO." + +Water is the great agent of life or conformation as it is mobile. + +Molecules which are round when whirled or heated take to orbits, but +the metallic substances having molecules of a disc shape whirl on +their axes. I herewith give articles 26 and 42 of the LATCH KEY: + + +42. + +Why Ashes or Water Do Not Burn. + +Fire is the action of atoms or molecules in separating farther apart. +To be sure, ashes have atoms, but for atoms to whirl apart their +motion must be so that they can separate. If the heat causes them to +whirl on their axis only, the substance may get red hot, but will not +burn. + +And some substances do not burn because the heat and motion applied +whirls the molecules or groups of atoms apart and wastes its motion in +that way. Water acts this way (steam). + +Crystallization is the result of the formation of vaco cells or white +sparks, and I reprint paragraph 26 to explain this fact: + + +26. + +Annealing and Malleability of Metals. + +Crystallization has been considered in paragraph 21, but when matter +is cooled very slowly through long periods of time, vacuo spaces are +not formed. + +Ordinary cast iron is crystallized, but when it is heated in a furnace +and gradually cooled through several days or weeks, it becomes +"malleable iron." + +The iron which is used as an electro-magnet for a telegraphic machine +will not work unless the iron is annealed very soft by being heated +and allowed to cool in the ashes as the fire gradually dies out. + +Crystallization is the most wonderful dovetailing process conceivable. +When a liquid is cooled the molecules become radio active and radiate +lines of force. These lines are nearly straight, unlike heat lines, +and therefore they are cold lines. They drive matter in planes and +straight lines or surfaces instead of into globules or liquids which +move. The discs of ice cannot move or roll about like the globules of +water, and ice is hard like quartz or a form of flint or silica. + +All objects are formed by the action of TWO forces, either a curling +force or a straight force. Plants form leaves in the air, and where +there is more obstruction and curving influence they form roots. ALL +CELLS ARE ALIKE in their first state, but are changed in the process +of growth or from influences. + +A slip from a geranium when stuck into the earth will form roots. It +seems to me that each cell in an egg contains a counterpart of the +whole body of a chicken--that is, it contains electrons or occult +matter which, once having passed through all parts of a fowl's body, +in the blood photographs these parts. + +We can account for the various parts of the egg yolk turning its +cells into different forms by the location which the particular cell +occupies--as cells in various parts,--at the center,--or at the +surface,--would be subject to curling forces or straight forces. At +the center forces would be obstructed and curled, and at the surface +just the opposite, and a hundred variations, according to the location +and surroundings. + +How many times I have wished that a social condition could be +instituted by which EVERY LIVING BEING in the world or the +universe could be happy and free from fear, worriment, hunger, and +exposure--where peace, plenty and pleasure existed for all--where all +could have a horse, automobile, golf link or any correct thing which +their ideas called for to make them enjoy themselves. + +FOUR HOURS' labor per day is enough for any one and there is enough +in the world to give every one happiness and plenty if THE SOCIAL +CONDITION was arranged correctly. + +While there are many unfeeling capitalists, yet the poor are not +always right. They don't know how to act for their own welfare. They +may know what they want, but don't know how to get it. An ignorant +poor man will often sell his vote or he is too ignorant to learn that +he should obey correct laws. + +The London Spectator recently gave a biography of former Secretary of +State JOHN HAY and I give an excerpt from the same: + + "It was natural that Hay should despise the arts of the + demagogue. He speaks with scorn of what he calls 'gutter + Ciceros,' and of the practice adopted during a sharp + electoral campaign of 'hiring dirty orators by the dozen to + blather on street corners.' He very rightly held that it + was the special duty of statesmen in democratic countries + to have the courage of their opinions. He himself wrote a + novel, entitled 'The Bread Winners,' which was widely read, + and which was really an elaborate defence of capital against + the attacks of labor; and in 1905 he wrote to President + Roosevelt: 'It is a comfort to see the most popular man + in America telling the truth to our masters, the people. + It requires no courage to attack wealth and power, but to + remind the masses that they too are subject to the law is + something few public men dare to do.' + + "America at her best can produce men of a very high type. + Such a man was John Hay." + + + + +Part Second + +Spirits and the Spirit Land. + + +1. Reveries in the Country. + +It was a day in January. The desultory snow-flakes were skudding +here and there and a white mantle was becoming visible on the fence +tops and pine trees, and as I gazed dreamily from the window of my +study I heard the church bell in the belfry of the village church +peal out its glad tidings of love; and as its decadence faded away, +a thought peaceful and quiet captured my soul,--it seemed as if the +reverberating voice of the holy bell had told me a story--a secret of +happiness and peace. + + +2. Redemption of the World. + +And as I settled back in my broad wicker arm chair before the blazing +hearth fire I said to my inner soul: "How beautiful is this moment! +Can I perpetuate the sentiments which give me joy on this Sabbath +day, can I delve into the laws of comfort and rest and emerge with a +TROPHY TO REDEEM THE WORLD?" + + +3. Spirit and Matter. + +The scintillating sparks in the fireplace rose up on the wings of a +golden glow, paused for a moment and then I saw a flash of pure white +light gleam like the star of Bethlehem. I had seen the wild, red coals +changed to peaceful, redeemed souls of light. + + +4. A Truism of Nature an Eternal Principle. + +The church bell, emblematic of religion, and the "white spark," a +ubiquitous principle of the universe; visions of the superstructure of +the millennium, rose up before me--religion and science hand in hand, +science the fact and religion the herald or harbinger. + + +5. Matter Only the Wake of Spirit. + +I had seen that from out the depths of the base matter come forth a +substance pure and glorious. Transmutation then had proved that there +is no vile, low or corrupt matter in the universe, and the idea is a +relic of the ignorance inculcated in the dim vistas of the past. All +matter is simply a figure sculptured by the pencil of spirit, vortices +which use space as a playground, speed which holds the lines stiff and +refractory against ultra intrusion. + + +6. Science of the White Spark. + +Now I see two visions--two houses in the precinct of nature--the first +a structure of spirit for the abode of space or nothing; second, a +structure of space for the abode of spirit, the all, the great, the +powerful, and the conscious; the first, a minute affair, an atom; the +second, a collocation of atoms forming a shell or larger structure +for the abode of spirit, and this is formed by a heated or mobile, +molecule conforming substance, suddenly cooled by oxygen or a cold +temperature, when a shell is formed and indurated, and a hollow center +made. + + +7. Symbol of the White Spark. + +I introduce a new symbol ° the emblem which will represent the white +spark, the circle or hollow globe, for this is what the white spark +is, and this spark prevails throughout the universe. It is a hollow +molecule, holding an air-tight reservoir, excluding everything but +spirit or the ether. + + +8. The Spark is a Receptacle of Mind and a Potential of Force. + +The white spark is alive. It has a shell formed of rotating atoms +which roll in the spirit or magnetic lines of force. The lines +converge to a common center. Here they must halt for an instant. Force +cannot be lost, so it is transmuted into consciousness. This mind can +now radiate lines of force from the center out again. + + +9. Mathematics of the Spark. + +If you take a silver dime and lay it on the table you will find that +it always takes just six dimes to form a ring around it. This leaves +six spaces between the dimes, and it is the same with atoms, and a +molecule seen from the side if radio-active, and if we could see the +lines of force, would show six streams of force, and the snow-flake +always has six points. + + +10. Crumbling Sparks and Permanent Sparks. + +The sparks of combustion explode from the inner force, but the +"sparks" of a magnet and radium do not, and the sparks formed in +protoplasm or in the nerves and brain last longer than the sparks of +combustion, and the sparks in the spiritual bodies of departed souls +are like radium. + + +11. Location of the Spirit Land. + +In paragraph 6 I refer to two visions of houses in the precinct of +nature. Now I refer to a third, the greatest, most beautiful and +wonderful abode in the universe. This house has no interior of simple +space or nothing, and again it has no outer wall of matter. It is the +pristine spirit and it is in the interstellar spaces outside of the +planets. + + +12. Conditions in the Spirit Land. + +In this land there is no gravity or obstruction. What is built and +placed there is free from destruction and decay. Living spirits can +move by a thought and build by their desires; spirits can outstrip the +earth in its flight in its orbit, can come to earth and leave at any +time or part of its orbit. This is a home of joy. + + +13. Attributes of Spirit. + +The soul is kept in our body by the magnetism of our blood. When a +person goes into a trance there is an embargo on the blood and the +soul can leave the spark cells of the nerve substance of the brain +and occupy a spiritual body or electrical vapor in the atmosphere +or ether. During sleep or failing powers of the mind, the soul is +drowned out by matter, the permanent spiritual center of the spark +is overflowed with matter and consciousness is temporarily turned +to motion. Spirit always, in any amount, has the attributes of +intelligence and power; the ether transmits intelligences. + + +14. Superiority of Spirit. + +When our soul leaves our body it enters its own, it becomes clear and +bright as in childhood; there is no fear, pain or dimness of thought +and mind. We meet our friends, we remember and visit our earthly +friends in the human body, we strive for their uplift and happiness, +we live in happiness and peace, yet our earthly career affects our +degree of spiritual advancement, and the truths which you can learn +at the little country chapel and the emulation of the "SERMON ON THE +MOUNT" will prove to be your "WAND OF HOPE." + + +15. The Pope Says the Advent of the Saviour Is Near. + +In a decree of Pope Benedict sent out from Rome on January 19, 1915, +he says: "Those days which Christ predicted seem in fact to have come, +'You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. For nation shall rise +against nation and kingdom against kingdom'." Christ can return to +earth in spirit. There is no need for Him to come otherwise. He can +talk to a person adapted to receive telepathic instructions and give +the world His message. + +Some readers may be averse to the claims that Jesus Christ is +anything but an imaginary person from the inventions of the priests +of the early ages, and others may claim that contemporary with the +dates applied to the fictitious legend there was a great teacher and +the teachings recorded were from this teacher. But what difference +does a name make? The only issue of any value is what is taught. No +great teacher cares a whit about what the people think about his +personality if they accept his works. The name Jesus has been applied +to the teacher of the good things in the New Testament for so long a +time now that we can well afford to grant the application, whatever +might have been his acceded name. + +All the ether in interstellar space is intelligent, and if we connect +our mind with it we gain power and intuition by a "sixth sense," but +to do this we must not throw the blanket of too much blood about the +brain. "Prophets" have to diet and fast. + + + + +Part Third + +How to Generate the White Spark or "Vaco-Cells" in Our Body. + + +All the life and thought on this earth and in any material and on any +other earth or body in the universe comes from a peculiar transaction +by which all matter is cleared away and a space left wherein there is +nothing but the invisible ether or spirit. + +The origination of all tangible matter was from the degradation of +spirit and the transmutation of thought into motion, and it is by the +motion of spirit that matter is formed from spirit. + +Therefore to regain the conditions of thought and to regulate the +adjustment of material or matter conditions must be instituted which +simulate the original state, and evade the decadence from contiguosity +of matter and generate SPIRIT in vaco-cells with life and power. + +This great principle is the keynote of all that we hope for in +existence. It is the most vital science and yet it has remained +totally hidden from the ken of mankind. + +This NEW SCIENCE opens up a field in the new order which holds the +greatest hopes for utopian success ever given to man. + +It is not gold, power, notoriety or glamor that make for this great +process of joy and health. It is not the costly foods and luxuries +which bring us within reach of this coveted condition. + +When we learn the facts we find that the great part of mankind are +very much misinformed and that human knowledge is upside down. We +find that peace and happiness like air and water are not under a ban, +but that God is on the side of the unostentatious and simple living +people, and that what has been considered by some as poverty is really +greatness in disguise. + +Nature never places any premium on truth and like all good things +should be free of access. + +Among the things which we give, you will find new methods of +combatting disease, a means of economic freedom and of rising above +misfortune. + +We will show that most diseases are caused by the food and drink which +is used. The theories of the "howling germ doctors" are all insane +emanations from an ignorant mind. We will prove that there are two +distinct types of disease with an admixture of these two types. + +The first type is malarial and is caused by a mal-assimilation of +sugar and grease, fat or oil in the system. The second type is +"small-pox" and is caused by the non-assimilation of the nitrogenized +element of meat, or gelatinous elements. + +When you know the cause you can avoid the disease. GERMS or MICROBES +are not the cause of disease, but are beneficent provisions of nature +to reduce meat proteids, etc., which are blocking the system, to a +state in which they can be eliminated from the blood, and therefore we +always find the poisonous URIC ACID in all cases of small-pox, etc. +Even an excess of vegetable proteid is injurious. + +In malarial diseases we always find an excess of carbonic acid or +other acidulous products of decaying or germ inhabited sugars or +glycerines (from grease, etc.). + +A diet of skim-milk and white bread will cure malaria, and a diet of +SKIM-MILK and oat-meal will cure kidney disease. + +During health the blood is always ALKALINE, while the tissues or +nerves and ganglia or brain are always acidulous. NOW THIS IS WHAT I +WANT TO IMPRESS UPON THE MIND, for it relates to my discovery of the +WHITE SPARK PRINCIPLE. An acid acts like heat, while an alkali acts +like cold. The molecules in an acid are rotating in orbits, while the +molecules of an alkali rotate on an axis, so we can see how when the +blood becomes acidulous as in disease WHITE SPARK CELLS OF LIFE CANNOT +BE FORMED. + +SUGAR has proven itself a bane to humanity. It is a modern product and +was not used by the ancients. Honey had a limited field as a luxury, +and here I will say the high cost of luxuries has been a protective +principle for poor people. + +Sugar has no limit of solution. Water will absorb it until an immobile +syrup is formed, and glycerine, a product of grease, acts similar to +sugar in the system. + +Syrup has a great affinity for LIME, and children who eat candy and +sweet foods have bad teeth, as the lime required for the teeth is +absorbed from the blood by the sugar. Any chemist knows the great +affinity of syrup for lime, and this is why he makes the syrup of lime +which is used in prescriptions where lime is required. + +Sugar acts as an acid, chemically, forming Saccarites with the bases +or alkalis. Sugar destroys the natural alkaline state of the blood. + +There has been a great scare around Boston about a "NEW DISEASE." +The doctors have various ideas about its nature and treatment. It +is generally called ACIDOSIS and is supposed to be the result of +eating too much sugar; but some doctors say it is AN EPIDEMIC and is +not caused by sugar. In the disease the blood has been found to be +acidulous. + +Sugar will fill the system with an embalming element, and thus the +tissues are saturated with an element which acts on the system like +ashes thrown on a fire. They extinguish it, and as sugar prevents +oxidation in the system, the VACO-CELLS or "WHITE SPARKS" cannot form. + +There are times when electrical machines will produce only a few weak +sparks and at other times powerful sparks are produced, and it has +been proved that this state of non-electrical atmosphere is the cause +of EPIDEMICS when the system is loaded with either sugar or gelatinous +products of a meat diet. + +Fasting is often necessary in disease, for disease is usually a +congestion of the blood and a distention of the blood vessels, and +when we lessen the quantity of blood or the excessive pressure from +the effects of stimulants, etc., we allow the blood vessels to get a +grip on the blood and force it along. A dog or horse will never eat +when he is sick. + +An invalid for a time may do best on a little toasted white bread +and skim-milk, as oat-meal, etc., may contain too much gluten, which +is not needed in the system at this time. There is a difference in +proteids. Gluten is more like gelatine and is used where toughness is +required as in the skin, tendons and muscle. The vital proteids are +required in the nerves and brain. + +It is not well to eat eggs for breakfast in all kinds of sickness, but +a soft boiled egg for dinner may be good for some. + +The excessive use of meat is a cause of cancer, and it is the gelatine +which is to blame. There are two factors, however, which should be +considered. We may eat gelatine, sugar or grease, and if we work +hard in the open air we overcome the disease in a measure. It has +been proved that carnivorous fishes have cancers if the fishes are +crowded in a pool, but removal to running water cures them, as running +water contains more air and oxygen which gives more nerve power and +eliminates the useless material. + +It is the same with malaria. Work in the pure air burns off the +hydro-carbons better and the blood becomes more mobile. + +When we use oat-meal, mush, etc., with skim-milk we don't get much +solid food, for we fool ourselves by taking lots of water which we +would not use otherwise. In winter stabled horses are seen to excrete +dark heavy urine, as they are fed on grain or proteids and drink +little water. Vegetables contain much water and are useful. + +The air in closed rooms is dead, but out-door air is in motion. Decay +and filth fills the air with gasses and oxygen is displaced, which +means death to "the white spark" of the nerves, the generators of +power. + +If you have money and leisure you can dissipate more with less +inconvenience than as if you had no money or time. + +It has been proved that the use of alcohol, tobacco, etc., wastes the +tissues and nourishment the same as hard work and overworks the liver, +kidneys and lungs; but work is the poor man's bulwark, and thus it is +that the abstemious person is always a better, wiser, more reasonable +and industrious employe than the other. + +The "sport" has a debauch and then a "loaf" or else he soon goes to +the sanitarium. Stimulants always lessen your powers after each dose +or after the first effects are worn out. + +We can show you how to overcome poverty without a labor union +propaganda, or a lodge benefit, for you can live on a few cents per +day and become better off thereby, if you follow the right method. +Many have tried to live on boiled potatoes, beans, skim-milk and +vegetables, but have failed; but the trouble was this: the system had +been adapted to the stimulation of creatinin, the stimulant of meat, +and when this was withdrawn there was a slack action to the stomach +and general system. But I have proved that if you use some onions or +celery or some mild condiment like pepper or the like you can avoid +meat without trouble. + +Many reformers have failed because they drop stimulants, yet still eat +soups and meats or cakes and rich dishes. YOU MUST DROP THESE THINGS +WHEN YOU DROP ALCOHOL AND DRUGS, for meat gelatines, grease and sugar +make a heavy refractory blood and nature calls for an increased nerve +action, but this stimulation is a first stage of inflammation with +its weakening reaction. Starch is transformed into grape sugar in the +intestines, yet nature regulates this better than when sugar is taken +directly into the stomach, as this goes directly to the liver. + +The simple living person gets up earlier, works easier and gets more +enjoyment from the sunshine, the open fireplace and all the beauties +of nature. + +A fine cigar may stimulate the brain, but like Emerson you may decline +when you should be in your prime, and perhaps, like him, lose your +memory. Emerson in his last years attended the funeral of his old +friend, Longfellow the poet, but could not remember this man's name at +his last rites. + +I believe it is utterly impossible for any person to live a real safe +moral life, according to the Christian code, and subsist upon the +ordinary food and drink of the times. For instance, the use of coffee +will often create immoral feelings which a saint could not overcome. +Tobacco creates sensations in a like manner. Anything which creates +undue nerve action causes a congestion of the inner organs. I might as +well tell you to place a torch in a powder magazine and then prevent +an explosion as to tell you to become a true Christian and live upon +highly exciting foods or drugs. + +There was never a true saint which did not practice self-restraint in +regard to foods, drinks and habits. + +You will see that I am an advocate of the simple life, yet I want +to say that I am not trying to drive anyone against their will, +and I also want to say that I do not say you will go to immediate +destruction, always, by diverging from my creed. Some persons from +the nature of their ordinarily proper habits withstand much that is +taboed by science, yet this does not change the facts that correct +physiological habits are the only ones to be condoned. + +The use of some fruit sauce may not always prove serious, of course, +and the farmer who eats baked apples and milk may plod along in his +own way and retain good health, yet an invalid who can barely keep +alive had better be fed on easily assimilated concentrated life +building food. As explained elsewhere, a person who does not use +alcohol or tobacco, etc., can use some fruit sauces, etc., and as the +poisons have not weakened the nerves which govern the liver and vital +organs, the liver can take care of the acids and sugars. Stimulants +create wastes in excess and overpower the kidneys and liver, and when +they are discarded there is loss of required nerve power. + +When a nation has any serious business on hand or when Arctic +explorers want to get to their goal they abolish the use of ALCOHOL. + +Russia has been under prohibition for the short time of the war, and +the decrease of crime has already proved what a monster DRINK has +been. In 33 precincts of Moscow for the first half year of 1914 there +was an average of 986 criminal cases a month, while for the first +temperance month there were only 406. Crime was reduced 54.7 per cent. + +Within two weeks after the closing of the wine shops of Russia she +felt as if RESURECTED, and it was proved that perfect temperance was +possible and that alcohol was not a necessity. + +This is only the working out of a Natural Law and is the enactment of +one branch of codes, and it holds true of drugs and all of the many +branches of physiological requisites. + +Individual freedom many times is a menace to a person's welfare. This +is proved by the "freedom" with which persons can get drunk. + +If the monarch was a wise and conscientious ruler, an absolute +monarchy would be a blessing. God is an absolute monarch and his law +is absolute. Nature has no favorites and we must obey the law or pay +the penalty. + +Society is to blame for crime. If municipalities would enact +ordinances preventing the dispensing of injurious foods and drinks, +and otherwise control the PREVENTION of a person's dissipation, it +would necessarily vanish. + +But we see the evils of giving legislatures power to enact coercive +medical laws when ignorance controls the legislators. + +The forcing of citizens to submit to the inoculation of virus or serum +in themselves or their animals is equal to the monstrosities of the +medieval ages. The recent epidemic of hoof and mouth disease, the Germ +Doctors themselves admit, was caused by a hog cholera serum which +was tested by the government bacteriologists and pronounced clean +and was sold by a Chicago firm. The hoof and mouth disease has never +been proved to be a generator of specific "germs," as no microscope +has ever detected any such germ, and the poison will pass through a +porcelain filter. So how can the virus be "tested?" + +There is an epidemic of "Grip" about now, and a health doctor, Dr. +Chapin of Providence, R. I., says: "Persons with mild attacks +continue at their work and thus rapidly spread the disease. It is for +this reason that isolation and official control have never been able +to check an outbreak. The epidemics run out themselves after a few +weeks." + +Well, then, we are safe! Let them run out instead of poisoning +thousands of healthy persons with Typhoid and other serums. + +Every German soldier, it is claimed, is given the three inoculations +of Typhoid Serum before going to the front, but recent medical reports +say the Typhoid fever has been malignant in the men in the trenches. + +There has recently been a great amount of study about the ductless +glands of the animal body. It has been variously claimed this thing +and the other for their uses, but I am going to tell what nature +made them for, THEY ARE FOR THE REDUCTION OR "DECAY" OF PROTEIDS +WHICH MAKES THEM VERY SOLUBLE AND READY FOR THE FEEDING OF THE NERVES +AND CELLS. The elements which go into them never come out, but are +reabsorbed. With one exception, the male sacs eject the nerve food +for the propagation of the species, but it is a cause of disease and +weakness. + +It is proved that the ductless glands (or sacs) take in proteids which +become formed into granules and gradually decay or are broken down +enough to be reabsorbed. + +The loss of the fluids of these glands is the loss of an alkaline +nerve food, and many diseases would be avoided if chastity had been +preserved. They prevent the acidity of the blood, which is the cause +of many diseases. + +The bacteriologists must learn that they cannot fool nature. If your +system holds substances which nature must remove by germs it is of no +use to kill the germs, because this does not remove the cause. If we +kill all the specific germs of one disease, then nature will give some +other germs in place of them. + +There has been a great cry that consumption has decreased. Perhaps +it has, but nature still gives just as much action with her required +eliminating process as ever. Here is what Dr. Hutchinson writes in the +Boston American, January 10, 1916: + + "Although, in the main, the march of modern medicine has + been a series of triumphs, at certain points its progress + has been checked, if not actually defeated. + + "While we have been steadily beating back typhoid, + tuberculosis and diphtheria, most of the diseases which have + baffled us have been either maladies of later life, like + cancer and arterial sclerosis, or conditions depending upon + long continued action of a variety of imperfectly known + causes, like heart disease, Bright's disease and insanity. + + "But there is also one disease among the pure infections + whose germ has been identified, whose active cause known for + nearly thirty years past, which still defies us, and that is + pneumonia. + + "In fact, for some ten or fifteen years past, we have been + faced with the singular and disquieting paradox, that of the + two greatest and most fatal diseases of the lungs, while + tuberculosis has been steadily declining, pneumonia has been + rapidly increasing in deadliness. + + "Twenty years ago tuberculosis caused about one-seventh + of all the deaths in the United States; pneumonia, about + one-fifteenth. To-day tuberculosis has fallen to about + one-twelfth of the deaths, while pneumonia has risen to + one-tenth. + + "One reason why pneumonia so baffled medical skill was that, + although the germ, or rather germs--for there are at least + four varieties of them, each producing a different type of + the disease--were well known, the infection seldom naturally + spreads to other human beings, and it was for a long time + rather difficult to transmit it experimentally to animals. + + "Further than that, the pneumococcus which produced the + most serious types of the disease was, if not identical + with, quite hard to distinguish from two or three types of + streptococci which were found in abundance in the human + mouth, about the roots of the teeth and in the tonsils, even + in conditions of perfect health. + + "So that we were driven to the discouraged conclusion that + some 'state of the system,' or lowered resisting power or + other unknown factor, was necessary in order to allow the + pneumonia coccus to get a foothold in the lungs and produce + the disease; and there the case hung for a number of years. + + +The Open Air Cure. + + "Considerable improvement in all but the most virulent type + of cases was produced by the introduction of the open air + treatment, with abundant feeding similar to that relied upon + in tuberculosis. But we could not honestly say that we knew + of any drug or remedy which appeared to have a directly + curative effect upon the disease." + +Can't you see that the product is 22 in either case? And don't you see +that the "germ doctors" have not fooled nature? + +There is a great epidemic of "grip" and pneumonia sweeping the +country--one of the worst ever known. In Providence, R. I., the +disease has been the cause of more deaths in a given time than was +ever known. Here is what the Evening Bulletin says in the issue of +January 10, 1916: + + "Fifteen persons in Providence died of pneumonia or grip + during the second half of last week, making 35 lives claimed + here by the epidemic in the first eight days of January. + + "This is the largest number of deaths from these diseases + which the city has ever had in a similar period. Physicians + report that there is no indication of a let-up in the + epidemic as yet, and that a continuance of the unusually + high death rate may be expected. + + "There were nine deaths from pneumonia last Thursday, Friday + and Saturday, and six fatalities from grip. The deaths for + the first eight days of the month are as follows: Pneumonia + 24, grip 10, acute bronchitis 1." + +At the Rhode Island State Institutions there are nearly 300 cases of +the disease--100 at the State Prison alone--but at the State Reform +School for girls there is not one case, as this school gives better +hygienic care to the inmates. But the great reason is the girls are +not dissipated and nature does not have to produce the germs in their +systems. + +Reformers are often bombarded with statistics by brewery owners, +distillers and those whose ideas are regulated by personal benefits. +The favorite weapon is the story of the man who lived to be old and +always drank or smoked. Here is a reprint of such a story: + + HALE AND HEARTY AT 102. + + New Jerseyman Chews Tobacco as Preventive of Disease. + + Newton, N. J., Dec. 22.--Charles Ashford Shafer, Sushex + County's oldest resident, celebrated his one hundred and + second birthday at the home of his son, George Shafer, + to-day. Mr. Shafer is still active, hale and hearty, and + walks several miles a day. He was born a few miles from here + and has spent all his life in this section. For many years + he conducted a distillery. The centenarian declares that + chewing tobacco is a means of preventing disease, and he has + been chewing it since a boy. Mr. Shafer reads without the + aid of glasses. + +But wait a minute--here is a better one: + + TEETOTALER DEAD AT 115. + + West Virginian Never Tasted Liquor or Tobacco in His Life. + + Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 29.--Henderson Cremeans, known to be + the oldest man in West Virginia and probably the oldest in + the United States, died to-day at the home of his grandson, + Clark Cremeans, near Point Pleasant, Mason County, aged 115 + years. He never tasted liquor or tobacco in his life. + +And when we study statistics of the insurance business we may rest +assured that they are correct, for an insurance company gets a premium +on every policy and regulates its action upon the correct statistics. +Here is another reprint: + + SAYS PROHIBITION IN RUSSIA WILL SAVE 500,000 MEN + + Insurance Expert Claims That If Czar Carries Out Present + Intention, Loss of Half Million in War Will Be Made Up in + Decade. + + New York, Dec. 11.--Results of an investigation in which + an entirely new set of statistics had been gathered were + put before the Association of Life Insurance Presidents at + their annual meeting at the Hotel Astor yesterday and threw + a new light on the influence of alcoholism, overeating, + undereating, and other factors in shortening lives. + + The investigation, which has just been completed, concerned + the causes of premature deaths in the last 25 years among + the 2,000,000 policy holders of 43 leading insurance + companies. The object of the investigation was to determine + which types of persons could be insured safely at regular + rates, which ones should pay extra premiums, and which ones + should be refused. The results were given by Arthur Hunter, + chairman of the bureau that made the investigation. + + "If the Government of Russia carries out its present + intention to abolish permanently all forms of alcoholic + beverages, the saving in human life will be enormous," said + Mr. Hunter. "The loss of 500,000 men as the result of the + present warfare could be made good in less than ten years + through complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages by all + the inhabitants of Russia. + + "Among saloon proprietors, whether they attended the bar + or not, there was an extra mortality of 70 per cent., and + the causes of death indicated that a free use of alcoholic + beverages had caused many of the deaths. The hotel + proprietors who attended the bar, either occasionally or + regularly, had as high a mortality as the saloon keepers. + + "Among the men who admitted that they had taken alcohol + occasionally to excess in the past, but whose habits were + considered satisfactory when they were insured, there were + 289 deaths, while there would have been only 190 deaths had + this group been made up of insured lives in general. The + extra mortality was, therefore, over 50 per cent." + +Cardinal Gibbons says: "Reform must come from within," and he opposes +prohibition; but there is no question but what prohibition is the +right thing as has been proved, for in some persons the only thing +"within" is alcohol and ignorance. + +SOCIETY is about our only hope. Lord Bacon wrote the first half of +a book on this subject of an ideal society or community, and he +described as a first requisite his "SOLOMON'S HOUSE," a college or +school where NATURAL SCIENCE was taught. + +Thomas More portrayed the same ideas in his "UTOPIA," a beautiful +island where ideal laws and conditions prevailed. Campanella also had +an idea in his "CITY OF THE SUN." + +Where temptation is removed better conditions exist, for human nature +always wavers and no one is permanently wise. The lad in the country +is healthier than the one in the city. Why? Because there are less +temptations in the country. + +What is it that perfects animals but forcing proper rules upon them? + +I have experimented with fowl and found that you can perfect them by +proper treatment. I raised 56 pullets one spring, and that winter I +had eggs galore. The fowl were healthy and happy. I fed them only two +meals a day on cracked corn and wheat or the regular "scratch feed" +of the market in the morning, and at night gave them scalded meal, +seasoned with some salt, pepper and onions; sometimes cooked potato +parings, etc., were used. I supplied the fowl with fresh ground bone +which held some fat, of course. I always had gravel and ground oyster +shells before them, also plenty of fresh water. They had their run and +found grass both in summer and winter, and had a dry, roomy house. + +Meat is not only unnecessary to animal life, but is injurious. My +hens laid more eggs than any others about and were bright, active and +healthy, yet they had no meat during all the winter. The bone was not +necessary, for I had at times fed poultry a little fat or oil instead +of the ground bone, and they did just as well. + +The mind has a great effect on the digestion, and it is necessary in +selecting our food and drink to have it agreeable. Of course, this +does not mean that because something tastes good we should use it, for +poisons often taste pleasant. We mean that from a variety of salutary +food we should select what we like, and again any combination, +adjustment or preparation which enhances the food is very useful. For +instance: + +Potatoes mashed, mixed with eggs, flour, pepper and salt and other +articles which are not injurious, and then fried in a little butter +are very agreeable, and many such manipulations of foods are wise. + +But spices, coffee, tea and such condiments contain tannin and poisons +and should be eschewed. + +If a person should suddenly change his diet from a liberal one to +mush and skim-milk it might give him indigestion and disgust, for the +organs try to adapt themselves to certain kinds of food; and if the +persons cannot take a vacation while reforming their diet, it might +be better to wait until they can. After a fit of sickness one can +start with the right kind of food and drink and improve by it. + +People who are raised on simple food relish it and keep happy and +healthy. Here is a reprint which proves this to be true: + + "According to census reports, persons who live 100 years + or more are very scarce. The United States, with a + population of more than 90,000,000, is given credit for + only 46. Germany's population is 60,000,000 and its quota + of centenarians is 70. Great Britain, with a population of + 46,000,000, has 94. France, with 40,000,000, claims 164. + Bulgaria, with 4,000,000 inhabitants, boasts of 3,300, and + Roumania, with 6,000,000 people, has 3,320 centenarians. The + last named little countries eat little meat and use a great + deal of milk and dark bread." + +The persons who used tobacco, etc., and lived to be old might have +lived much longer if they had been abstemious. William Smellie in +his "Philosophy of Natural History" records cases where persons have +lived to be over 150 years old, and some of the oldest people, for +instance, Capt. Diamond, was a simple living man and lived to be 113 +(when I last heard from him). He never even used sugar and was an old +bachelor, showing that simple life allows continence. + +It has been proved that meat allows an alkaloid condition in the +intestines which generates poison producing germs, while vegetable +food, like oat-meal, etc., produces an acid condition which, it is +claimed, "prevents the generation of microbes and poisons which +produce premature old age." The large intestine when retaining the +elements from the bowels too long becomes a "filth reservoir." + +Prof. Metchnikoff says that animals having a greater length to the +large intestines do not live as long as those with shorter large +intestines, which cannot breed the poisonous bacteria so well, yet he +is puzzled by the long life proportionately of the squirrel, which +has a long intestine, and he says he has found few of the "dreaded +bacteria" in the intestine of the squirrel. (This is because the +squirrel has not the noisome elements here which harbor germs.) + +The recent discoveries that VEGETABLE food inhibits the generation +of the microbes or renders them unnecessary is an object lesson which +tells us to live upon the foods as I recommend, for the squirrel lives +upon vegetable food or nuts, which are seeds with Vaco-Cell forming +molecules. + +We need not discard the use of a few condiments of a mild nature +from our food, and a little salt, pepper or onion, etc., may not be +prohibited. + +It has been found that a good regime is made up of a breakfast of +skim-milk and well cooked oat-meal; a dinner of boiled potatoes, eggs +or fish and boiled rice and skim-milk, and a supper of skim-milk, rice +and perhaps boiled beans. If you are not a hard worker you should not +use too many beans or any excess of proteid foods, and a few boiled +onions, etc., may be added to the dinner if desired. A little butter +may be used with food if skim-milk is used, but the use of an excess +of rich milk loads the blood with too much grease. + +The outside hull of grains, beans, peas, etc., contain cellulin, +an indigestible woody fibre which acts as a mechanical laxative to +the bowels and aids health if you can use coarse food. Of course, +invalids could not always use such food, as their stomach can hardly +digest milk or eggs. Fruit and acids should not be used as foods by +invalids. + +The germ of grain and seeds in general is a great nerve food or "spark +generator," but as it is highly organized it changes easily and so is +not used in fine flour. + +My theory is that the whole universe is interdependent and that there +can be no separation of its component parts. We and all things are +joined together the same as a knitted sock--joined by invisible lines +of force; and as all matter is simply a peculiar aspect or motion of +spirit or the ether, and as no part of the ether can be separated or +absolutely isolated, it is an axiom that the universe is ONE. Nothing +can be moved except there is a fulcrum. It may be infinitesimal or +like an isthmus though. + +The great scientists are now admitting this to be a fact. Prof. Edgar +Lucien Larkin says: "In the ultimate, what distinction can be drawn +between organic and inorganic matter, since mind is matter or force? +Therefore, is it not but matter or force under a different aspect or +relation to surrounding appearances, or, in other words, are not all +things a unit?" + +This scientist further says: "The ultimate distinction between +inorganic and organic matter is the inscrutable mystery." And here is +where I am able to explain this GREAT MYSTERY. + +LIFE is spirit and I have discovered a process in Nature, which we +explain in other works more extensively, by which she forms invisible +"VACUUM CELLS" in matter, which are conscious and with a potential +of radio-activity, and this is the principle of all life and form in +organic bodies and in the snow-flake, etc. The process is simple and +is from alternations of heat and cold. + +In the bioplasmic foods of nature the germ of seeds, for instance, +we find a peculiar arrangement of the molecules. They contain a cell +center of SOLUBLE SULPHUR, SILICON OR PHOSPHORUS. This arrangement +facilitates the formation of the white spark, and the formation of +this wonderful food in plants depends upon the soil. + +Alkali, and carbonic acid gas, in the nascent state, makes SULPHUR, +SILICON, Phosphorus and IRON soluble. I have evaporated five gallons +of spring water and obtained the solid residue and found out the +wonderful nature of the cell center elements. These minerals are +hydrated and at a temperature of 100 degrees they are liquids, and +at 50 degrees they are solids. This explains the reason why certain +proteid foods are "bioplasmic" and how easily the white sparks are +generated in the nerves and brain. The bodily or tissue temperature +when life is active is 100 degrees and the oxygenized blood and +evaporation from the lungs and skin reduces the temperature of the +molecules to 50 and the life vacuo are formed. Oxygenized blood cells +are discs rotating on an axis like an alkali. + +I have in other publications explained that meat was a second-hand +food, in which many life molecules were exploded (gelatine), and that +the proteid portions of milk, eggs and vegetable foods contained +"CARTRIDGES OF LIFE AND POWER," that is, molecules having sulphur or +phosphorus centers which under proper conditions formed VACO-CELLS, +especially the germ of all seeds which is absent in fine flour +usually. + +I discovered the paradox of temperatures by accident. I had been in +correspondence with Sir William Crookes, President of the British +Association for the Advancement of Science in England, and in +connection with a scientific matter he had advised me to evaporate the +water of a certain Spring, and it was in following out his directions +that I found "THE CENTER FORMING MOLECULAR ELEMENTS," which nature +uses in forming foods. + +There have been many changes in the ideas of scientists within a few +years. Several years ago I was taken to task for stating that the +wave lengths of a line of force could be shortened or increased by +the nature of the substance which it passed through, but one of the +Great Professors--Garrett P. Serviss--has just stated: "So the waves +of radiant energy sent out from the sun are not heat, but have been +set going by heat in the sun and CAN BE TRANSFORMED into heat again on +encountering the earth." + +Anyone may perform two interesting experiments which prove the +statements which I make in regard to "the white spark." + +When the soldering compound which is sold to fill up holes in +marbleized iron ware is melted and dropped into cold water, peculiar +little bodies are formed--little rubber bags or cells filled with +powdered sulphur at the center; the compound being composed of +sulphur, rubber and quicksilver in this experiment follows the natural +laws, and the opposite features of heat conduction causes the sulphur +to be encased with the more organic rubber. + +The other experiment is dropping melted tinsmith's solder into water +at a temperature of 75 degrees when hollow balls are formed, if care +is taken in dropping the metal in a globule. + +The great provisions of Nature are so sufficient and magnificent that +it is proved that the worriments of mankind are imaginary, and it is a +fact that they are the result of physical disorders brought about by +improper food, drink and habits. + +When I see the beautiful sunshine pouring life-giving rays upon +everyone and every atom in the world, when I see the grandeur and +stable travel of the bodies of the sidereal system, when I see the +unperturbed growth of the trees, plants and grains, the gentle rain +and the whispering winds, I can say surely the human acts of greed, +malice and crime are the results of a distorted mind. + +Judge Swann says FIFTY per cent. of those who are brought to trial +in the criminal courts of New York City are addicted to the use of +narcotics. + +Judge Collins says that since the "BOYLAN LAW" allows the sale +of medicines containing a certain percentage of narcotics, the +Health Department cannot pass laws restricting such sales without +contradicting the state statutes. + +Coffee, tea and other insidious poisons are agents of the "DEVIL" +also. Chocolate and roasted wheat, peanuts, etc., are poisonous. +Roasting often creates empyrean oil. + +It is the ascetics or those who live upon vegetable foods, milk and +eggs with some fish, or those who do not overeat and live the "SIMPLE +LIFE," who look upon the grandeur of Nature properly and ignore the +contingencies of life which others commit suicide over or ply the cry +of incongruity in Nature. + +Consider the religious martyrs of the medieval ages and see how the +little "Jap" with his ration of rice went to battle without fear and +endured hardships and put the Russian Army beneath his feet. + +It is the same with the abstemious prize fighter. He has more coolness +and endurance than the beef steak eater and libertine, as proved by +Freddy Welsh, the world's champion lightweight. + +The Harvard Football Squad had a number of men stricken with +appendicitis after training upon a meat diet, supposing that meat was +a requisite to hard work, a fallacy too often disproved. + +Jess Willard, the world's champion pugilist, says he never smoked nor +drank liquor in his life, and at the end of the battle with Johnson he +felt as if he could fight "a thousand rounds." + +We all wish PEACE, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, STRENGTH and SUCCESS. The only +differences between us are HOW TO OBTAIN THESE DESIRES, and yet a +little candid observation will show us the truth. + +The first transaction must be a determination and an agreement to +become independent of all other codes and methods except those by +which the above objects can be attained. + +There are many habits which appeal to us as being a means of personal +well being, and yet they are insidious enemies. + +It is the regime which has a reaction for our health and happiness +which we should follow, and we must have sense enough to eschew the +methods which are sure to bring a subsequent disaster to us, even if +they may induce a temporary pleasure, for there can be but one correct +path which leads to elysian joys. + +Nature is wiser than we are and we must not set ourselves up as her +superiors, for if we do we are sure to fall. We must not make use +of her productions until she has finished them, and we must not +use things for food or drink which she has arranged for some other +purpose. Sugar is an unfinished product of nature, and leaves, barks, +etc., containing poisons are not intended for our consumption, and we +should not breathe smoke into our lungs when it is intended that only +pure air should pass into them. + +We should not entertain passion for passion's sake when it was +intended only for reproduction. Secretions in ductless and sac filling +glands are for reabsorption. If I take the finished products of nature +and undo them again, I am as unwise as if I used them before nature +finished them. The breweries take the beautiful grains and degenerate +them and people use the liquid poisons and do not realize that they +are insulting nature and ruining themselves. We take grains, etc., and +roast or burn them into poisons and seduce ourselves with the mistaken +idea that we are using harmless and innocent food or drink. + +We steal the property of others, we extort from them, we are jealous +of them with the delusion that we are the benefitted parties, but +nothing is more untrue than this idea. + +All of the mental, social and physical effects of greed, malice and +immorality are indelibly disastrous to us, and we have a mistaken idea +of our needs and of the things which make happiness. + + + + +What the European War Has Demonstrated. + + +We have previously stated that FOUR HOURS labor per day was enough for +any one, and this would carry on the world's industry adequately and +to prove this we give an excerpt from an article by the great English +Divine--Rev. R. J. Campbell, his statistics prove that POVERTY IS +UNNECESSARY and that wage earners can be paid enough to buy what they +wish to make happiness--, pianos and other so-called luxuries, and +automobiles could of course be substituted for pianos if their desires +should require such. + +At the present price of automobiles they are within reach of the man +who will give up drinking and using tobacco or other narcotics and I +want to say that I believe riding in one of the new type steel bodied +automobiles with a magneto ignition is a great health augmenter as +these cars when running become charged with electricity and I quite +often get a shock from one of my automobiles if I happen to touch part +of my hand to the body of the car while the other part has hold of +the side shift lever. This statical electricity has been proved by +Dr. W. J. Morton, of New York City, to be a wonderful therapeutical +agency. When properly supplied to the body it causes the blood discs +to take up more oxygen from the air and augments the power of the +vital apparatus. (See his address published in the November, 1893, +Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.) + +Riding in a carriage or car will aid the circulation of the body +fluids without waste of our own energy, the motions massage the body, +the same as muscular action. + +Work is a benefit to us but how much do we need is a question,--a +sick person can not work and a person's training and condition must +regulate this,--too much work draws the vital force from the vital +organs and mental work is absolutely injurious in sickness, the brain +draws on the vitality to the detriment of the vital organs of the +body, yet again the cultivated mind has a power to govern the base +faculties which debilitate the body. + + +Part of the English Divine's Article Which We Have Referred to: + + "One of the strangest paradoxes about this period of + destructiveness through which we are passing is that there + is very little dire poverty about. It has taught me a + lesson, a lesson which probably the workers as a class + are assimilating too, namely, that destitution and the + degradation which so generously accompanies it =could be + got rid of in a month= in time of peace if we were only + in earnest to do it. + + "It is caused simply by an unfair distribution of wealth. We + always knew that, but what we did not know was that it could + be so speedily remedied. We thought it would take a long time + even if the nation were willing to tackle the problem + seriously, which it has not yet shown any anxiety to do. We + were afraid of drastic experiments of a social nature, with + the consequent displacement of capital, the shock given to + that very delicate entity, the national credit, and so on. + + "Go more slowly, was the universal cry. Give us breathing + space. These drastic changes one after the other--all in + the direction of making the rich pay more into the pockets + of the poor--are very dangerous. You are impairing public + confidence; do wait awhile before you attempt anything + further. You are imposing a tax on industry which is certain + to hinder productiveness. + + "And we were wrong, the whole lot of us--Kaiser, German + Bureau, British Tories, hesitant Liberals, landowners, + bankers, manufacturers, shopkeepers, taxpayers generally, + and probably the proletariat, too. It is nothing short of + amazing. Here we are hurling our accumulated stores of + wealth into hell, the hell of war, and the workers as a + whole were never so well off. + + "We are able to pay, and we do pay, without complaining. + We are doing it without suffering very greatly, without + hearing the cry of hunger going up from our congested areas + as it has too often done in time of peace, and without the + slightest apprehension that we are drawing near to the end + of our strength. + + "We shall be able to go on doing it for years if need be. The + savings of the working classes have hardly yet been touched + for national purposes, and if report speaks true there + has been a not too creditable increase in the purchase of + cheap luxuries--and luxuries not commonly accounted cheap, + too, such as pianos--among a section of these, unskilled + laborers especially. They are not unpatriotic, but is it to + be wondered at that they should suddenly feel themselves + well-to-do and fail to realize that war is economic wastage + as well as wholesale murder? + + "'Three pounds a week, and no 'usband!' a lady engaged in + munition work is credited with saying--'Wy, it's 'eaven!' + There is humor in the sentiment, one must confess, though it + was not complimentary to the absent husband. + + "We have withdrawn not less than four million men from + productive occupations and set them to smash and kill + instead. + + "Think of it! And then remember that those men have to be + equipped and maintained somehow or other by the rest of us, + and that most of them are the very pick of the country's + early manhood. And we can afford to do it! We can do it, and + in the process make an end of destitution for the time being + and secure to wage-earners a higher standard of comfort + than they have ever enjoyed before. + + "Will the electors of Great Britain, rich and poor, try to + digest that fact and grasp its implications? The logic of it + is that we can if and when we choose get rid forever of the + crying disgrace of starvation and misery at one end of the + social scale and senseless ostentation at the other. + + "The thing is demonstrated now. + + "The army as it exists to-day is a fine all-around leveller. + A good many artificial prejudices and social distinctions + are being swept away by the power of actual daily + comradeship in the face of death. These four million citizen + soldiers have votes. How will they use them when they come + home? + + "Let the lesson be driven well home. We can do all that is + required if we want to do it. Behold the economic miracle of + to-day, and consider what is possible to-morrow. There need + never be another hungry mouth. No honest man ought to have + to dread the loss of a job or to lower his self-respect by + seeking the aid of the Poor law. + + "It is all nonsense to say that the problem of destitution + is unsolvable or that our resources will not bear the + institution of a standard living wage for everybody and not + for the aristocracy of labor only. + + "After the debacle of 1871 France was apparently ground + to powder, her manhood decimated, her trade ruined, her + treasury empty, and an enormous indemnity to pay to her + triumphant foe. She recovered so quickly and completely, to + the surprise of everybody, that in 1875 Bismarck, like the + bully he was, wanted to hit her again, and would have done + so but for Queen Victoria and the British Government." + +I have shown how to rise above poverty even when the capitalists grind +the worker down to a wage inadequate to his service, yet this is not a +just condition, and when the war in Europe is over many workers will +be back to their countries, to work. There may be lack of employment +then, but let the FOUR HOURS per day schedule be put in operation and +let the pay be proper and all will be well. + +Let the capitalist adjust himself to the fact that the worker is HIS +BROTHER and that THEOCRATIC DEMOCRACY is God's Law. + +The air, the water and all necessities are one man's as much as +another's. + +The Kaiser, King George or the President of France must drink the same +water which his lowly brother has once drank and breathe the same air +which he has breathed. + +A King has water brought to him--it may be that this water,--the very +identical molecules, were once in the blood and body of a lowly tiller +of the soil; he may have drank it, excreted it, it went to the river, +to the ocean, then evaporated to the mountain top, and was again +precipitated to the earth and leached into the King's well. + +The VOTERS HAVE THE POWER TO ADJUST THE LAW; if they belie themselves +who is to blame? + +Let them institute the INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM AND THE RECALL OF +JUDGES first, then make the proper laws to raise man to the social +position where he belongs. + +It is well known that much of the poverty and misery of the world has +been caused by ALCOHOL, and the use of narcotics is also not far +behind in the cause of degradation and misery. + +The prohibition laws which have been instituted in Russia prove these +statements to be correct and to show the wonderful prosperity which +ensues from temperance. I give a statement from Russian Minister of +Finance Bark. He says: + + "On the other hand, there is nothing illusory or specious + about the Russians' prosperity. It rests upon the + incontrovertible fact of the Russian people's increased + earnings and savings. + + "When, a year ago, the savings banks showed a monthly + increase of 50,000,000 rubles, it was regarded as + phenomenal. But that was only the beginning. During the + month of January the savings banks alone showed an increase + in deposits of 120,000,000 rubles. This is accounted for + principally by the growing thrift and economy of the + peasants since the enforcement of prohibition, by their + greater earning power and the higher wages they command. + This marvellous prosperity makes Russia capable of raising + large numbers of successful internal loans, and it is by + this means chiefly that we hope to defray the expenses + of the war, which have now reached 1,000,000,000 rubles + monthly." + +Blessings often come to us masquerading as evil; this terrible war has +its benefits. While death must come to everyone sometime, it may be +that we put too much stress on the fact that so many lives have been +sent to the BETTER SHORE within such a short space of time, and it is +best to believe in the axiom THAT WHAT IS--IS RIGHT. + +There probably will never be another war, and perhaps, it must be that +this one is the lever to throw THE "DEVIL" into OBLIVION. + +The Germans have seen the revelations as well as the other +belligerents. Here is what a writer in Berlin says: + + "On Tuesday and Friday there is no meat to be had. On Monday + and Thursday the consumption of fats is forbidden. Some + alcoholic drinks are forbidden to be sold after 9 o'clock at + night. They are mostly liqueurs. + + "The enforced abstinence from meat on two days of the week + has been accepted everywhere with personal satisfaction. + You agree with the German when he tells you that he has + eaten too much meat all his life, and is glad the government + has made him reform. So on these days he eats fish, oysters + and vegetables, and declares he feels the better for it." + +This item from Augustus Baech is illuminating and instructive. Grease +is not a colloid; it does not absorb the gastric juice like a better +organized element, and thus the stomach is irritated. There is a law +of Nature by which the molecules affect matter; crystalline substances +in solution are readily drawn into colloids. A system of symbols +helps understanding in the matter--let us represent an acid by a +perpendicular line, an alkali by a horizontal line, a crystal by a +pyramid and a colloid by a globule; flat surfaces oppose round ones +and a confusion of straight forces would produce a spiral force. + +There is a great law of HUMAN BROTHERHOOD, yes, more than that--a law +of the brotherhood of all animal life. + +The hatred of the English, Germans and Russians in this flaming war of +passion is wrong--let us remember St. Peter's vision of the basket +let down from heaven with all kinds of men in it. + +The reform of diet and habits will relieve the tension of malice, +hatred and jealousy, the lessened rage of sexual passion will curtail +the undue birth rate, the nations will not need to conquer more +territory and the social conditions will be adjusted. + +How beautiful would it be to see all men living in peace, harmony, +prosperity and happiness. + +Let us regain our reason and settle down to truth and common sense and +have peace and correct understanding between individuals and nations. +IT CAN BE DONE, and THIS WILL BE THE MILLENNIUM. + + + + +Transcriber's Notes + +Minor punctuation typos have been silently corrected. + +Page 7: Possible typo: "differentations" for "differentiations." + (Orig: the differentations and forms in the universe) + +Page 7: Changed "Scientis" to "Scientist." + (Orig: Le Bon the great Scientis,) + +Page 8: Changed "conciousness" to "consciousness." + (Orig: each spark has a quiet center or conciousness) + +Page 47: Changed "miscrocope" to "microscope." + (Orig: as no miscrocope has ever detected) + +Page 65: Changed "CARTIRDGES" to "CARTRIDGES." + (Orig: vegetable foods contained "CARTIRDGES OF LIFE AND POWER,") + +Page 74: Changed "debiliate" to "debilitate." + (Orig: base faculties which debiliate the body.) + +Page 82: Changed "axion" to "axiom." + (Orig: believe in the axion THAT WHAT IS--IS RIGHT.) + + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The White Spark, by Orville Livingston Leach + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44016 *** |