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Contents,

Physical Regeneration Sidney H. Beard 6i Occult Aspects of Food Reform Bcttram Theobald, AI.A, 64 TA Tlie Art of Forgetting ... M. L. Gates, M.D. 66 IN The Flesh Traffic .. 67 The Source of Vital Energy Hereward Carrin^on 6S

Beauty Culture ... A. B. Olsen, M.D, 71

Editorial Notes Sidney H. Beard 72 The Progress of the Food Reformation —The King and Food Reform— National Deterioration—More AthleticVictories—Ptomaine Poisoning— Flesh Eating and Civilization —The Coming Gener- ation—Uncooked Cereal Food—A Much-needed Book.

Diet and Disease ... Robert Bell, M.D., F.F.P.S. 76

Cheerful Thoughts ...... Mabel G. Shine 77 The Greatest Movement of the Age Francis S. BUsard 7S

Announcements ._ ...... So -^fe^ L-^^ A VALUABLE WORK ON HYGIENE AND DIET. Fifth Edition. 30tti Tliousand.

fliving a clear presentation of the principles relating to simple, whole- Revised, Enlarged, Improved, and brought Up-to-Date. some living^ and the rational treatment of the sick which have proved so successful at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. A COMPREHENSIVE. . THE LIVING TEMPLE, By Dr. J. H. KELLOGG. GUIDE-BOOK to Natural, This book must be seen to be appreciated, but the following brief, partial outlines of the most important chapters will afford some idea of Hygienic and Humane Diet. the nature of the contents. helpful SIDNEY H. 568 pp. Price Six Stiillings, Post Free. By BEARD Illustrated. Art Linen Covers. Price The Miracle of Digestion. One StaiUing Net In Art Linen Boards, Net. Post and The Organs of Digestion—Five Food Elements, Five Digestive EigllteenpenCB Free, 1/2 1/8. Organs—What the Saliva Does—The Work of the Gastric Juice— {American and Colonial Edition 50 Cents, ^st free). Other Uses of the Digestive Fluids. A book for those who desire to live a Hundred Years, which shows Dietetic Sins. how to avoid Mistakes in Diet and the suffering which results from them. for Disease—The Selection of Food—Cereal Foods and Eating It is being freely purchased by doctors, teachers of physical culture, etc. —Erroneous Notions About Fruits— Food Legumes, — Predigested and leaders of thought in religious and food-reform circles in all parts Elements in Fruits—Fruit Juices Destroy Germs The Medicinal Use of the world. of Fruits—Fruit — Fruit Cure for —The Fruit Soup Constipation— Diet Most persons who buy this book send for additional copies for their —Fruit a Cleansing Food — Diseases Due to Milk Milk and Cream friends. from Nuts— Eggs. Its artistic appearance commends it as a gift book, apart from its being The Natural Way in Diet. — a useful vadc mccnm to all housewives. Why Fats Render Food Indigestible Objectionable Vegetable CONTENTS. Fats—Chemical Bread Raisers—Condiments the Cause of Gin Liver The True Ideal in Diet. Winter and Summer Drinks — Dextrinised Cereals—The Daily Ration—Balanced Bills of Fare— A Plea for the Simple Life. How TO Feed Invalids. Too —The Purest Water, etc. Frequent Eating A Plea for Moderation. What to do at Christmas. The Heart and the Blood Artistic Cookery. Useful Domestic Information. How the Blood is circulated —The of the Heart Beat— —Mystery What to do when Travelling. How TO Cook Vegetables. How the Blood Cells Combat Germs How to Strengthen the Heart. Substitutes for Animal Food. Labour-saving Appliances. in case of Illness or Accident. What to Do Sudden Soups. Medicinal and Dietetic Quali- Fainting— Hemorrhage of the Lungs—Hemorrhage from the Stom- Substitutes for Fish. ties OF Foods. ach—A Bruise—The Dressing of Wounds—Sprains, etc. Substitutes for Flesh. How to Regulate our Diet. Dangers in the Air, and How to Avoid Them. Simple Savoury Dishes. Table of Food Values. Draughts Not Necessarily Dangerous—Sleeping in Cold Air— Cold Luncheon Dishes. Hygienic Information. Diseases Due to Germs—How Germs Kill^Germs not a Direct Cause Gravies and Sauces. How to Acquire Physical of Disease—How to Combat Germs^Disinfection, etc. Puddings and Sweets. Vitality. The Clothing of the Temple. Bread and Cakes. The Properties of Different Clothing Materials—The Best Material a few press opinions. for —Common Evils in the Dress of Women — Underclothing — Customary "A valuable practical manual of recipes and general directions for Waist Constriction The Deformities of Civilised Women ; Effect readers who wish to try living upon the simple foods and to give up of Waist Constriction the of upon Kidneys ; Displacement Vital being carnivorous."—Scotsman. Due to Waist Constriction— Woman is "the Weaker " Organs Why Tlie author is Editor of The Herald the Golden and is Vessel." of Age, perfect master of his subject, and his aim is purely philanthropic, as the profits The Brain and the Nerves. — are devoted solely to the furtherance of the work of the Order of the Feeling Cells and Working Cells How Habits are Formed—The Golden Age, and the gratuitous supply of its humane and educative Proper Function of the Sense of Taste—How to have a Good literature to public institutions and reading-rooms throughout the English- Memory—Recent Interesting Discoveries about Nerve Cells— Insomnia speaking world. The book abounds in useful, and even essential, in- — Nerve Poisons—A Common Cause of Nerve Exhaustion—How to formation. It tells how to avoid dyspepsia, gives valuable dietetic Have a Clear Head—The Problem of Heredity— Rational Mind-cure. advice to travellers, and ample advice about both feeding and cooking." What is Disease? —Christian Commonwealth. " The Rational Use of Cold Water—Cold Bathing—The Neutral Bath Every humanitarian— ought to be acquainted with this most excellent —Stomach Disorders—The Hydropathic Treatment of Typhoid and cookery-book the best work of its kind, in our opinion, that has yet been The book is more than a of other Fevers—Useful Hints for the Application of Water—A Retiring published. much compilation useful vege- it as its Bath—Inflammations. tarian recipes ; is, name implies, a real guide to the humanities of diet, and it is written with such sympathy and experience as to be— what few such works are—thoroughly readable and interesting. We These brief outlines give a very inadequate idea of a book of some 568 pages, beg all our readers who do not know the book to a without written in a most interesting style, and dealing with matters of vital get copy delay." interest.] —The Humanitarian. PARTIAL LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. "A Guide-Book that we heartily recommend to all who desire cleaner, The book is FULLY ILLUSTRATED, a number of fine coloured including more wholesome and simpler food. Many of our friends would fain plates. Following are a very few only of the subjects illustrated : — abandon flesh meats but know not the value of fruits, nuts and vegetables, Cell Division, Salivary Glands, Structure of Liver and Kidneys, Blood Cells, The author comes to the assistance of the food reformer and renders Malarial Parasites, Different Forms of Starch, Structure of a Grain of Wheat, good service It is the most and most suitable Measly Pork, Beef Tape-worm, Blood Cells Destroying Germs, How to stop thereby. best, attractive, work Hemorrhage, Bandaging, A Fashion-Deformed Woman, Effects of Tight Bands on the subject we have seen."—New Age. and Heavy Skirts, Diagram showing Abnormal Position of Internal Organs, "The introductory Chapters 01 this Guide-Book are quite enlightening. Normal Nerve Cells, Abdominal Compress, Wet-Sheet Rub, A Healthy Stomach, The bulk of the book, however, consists of for a Fatty Heart, etc. practical recipes simple style of living which is not only rational but pleasant and appetising— besides being humane. The—whole deserves the attention of all who wish A CHARMING AND INSTRUCTIVE to make life worth living." Hereford Times. BOOK " There is not a dull in the whole — Suitable for both Old and chapter book." Stirling Journal. Young. " It is well written and, as it is admitted on all hands that loo much THE UNIVERSAL KINSHIP. flesh is generally used, it deserves a wide circulation." —Christian Advocate, J. By HOAVARD MOORE "The whole work is a valuable help in the correct understanding of (Instructor in Zoology, Crane Manual Training High School, Chicago.) the dieting of the human body. It is written with a freedom from 'faddism' —an evil that so often enters into and in 340 pp. Art Cloth boards. Price Five Shillings post free. checks, parasitical fashion, the growth 01 a new movement. There is shrewd common sense, This Volume is full of genuine, common-sense, up-to-date teaching a practical grasp of the subject and a choice of only those arguments concerning Man's place in Nature and his Relationship to other endorsed by scientific research."— Torquay Times. Creatures ; of and brilliant and of racy literary matter, pathetic " anecdotes. It is the most important Text-Book for Humane Education Food Reformers and those thinking of adopting a more humane diet would do well to this yet printed, and is especially appropriate for use in Colleges and for obtain book. It is full of useful information."— Montreal Herald. presentation to Institutions. It demonstrates our Physical, Psychical Daily and Ethical Kinship with the Animal World, and constitutes a most powerful plea for the recognition of the rights of the sub-human races. THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN AGE, THE ORDER OF THE 60LDEN AGE, PAIGNTON, EN6UND. Paignton, England. HOW TO PREVENT CANCER. A Complete and Comprehensive Guide-Hook for the Treatment of all forms of Sickness and Disease. By ROBERT BELL, M.D., F.F.P.S., Late Senior Physician to the Glasi^O'V HospitalJor Women. Fellow oj the Obstetrical Societies of London and Edinburgh. Price Threepenco net. THE HOME BOOK All who are threatened with this ilread disease, or OF MODERN MEDICINE. who have relatives suffering- from the premonitory symp- toms, are invited to purchase this booklet. By Dr. J. H. KELLOGG (Founder and Medical Superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium). IS FLESH-EATING MORALLY DEFENSIBLE? Illustrated, and containing an Atlas of Ninth Edition. Forty-fifth Thousand. Profusely the Human Body (detachable) and all its Organs. Price Threepence Net. 2/6 per dozen, post free. H. By SIDNEY BEARD. Price, ONE GUINEA (net). Post Free £i 2s. 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driven, apparently by their inability to successfully Physical Regeneration. overcome prevalent human malady, to resort to empirical measures that either outrage humane sentiment, or are discordant with Ideal of Physical Regeneration, as a great possi- manifestly common-sense. Some of our Thebility for the individual as well as for the nation, Physicians seriously inform us, and expect us to that certain of our bodies is a practic:il concept that merits consideration believe, organs should be removed because of their from every thoughtful and philanthropic indiscriminately liability to become diseased and that should human soul. ; we do well to submit to inoculation with and various of microbic It concerns every invalid, every many types cultures, in order to enable us to withstand the seeker after a higher, more enjoy- onslaughts of destructive which can be able and more abundant life, and micro-organisms quite withstood human whose all who desire to improve the social successfully by beings vitality is not below the normal standard. and vital conditions of the less — fortunate around them. In fact it These signs, and many others including the preva- lence of the idea that ill-health is natural and concerns everybody, for human re- unavoidable, and to be with — lationships create a solidarity. We therefore, accepted resignation point to the fact that cannot evade sharing each other's unmistakably we have been, racially, on burdens; and amongst such burdens the down grade for many decades. They also indicate is one of the heaviest is that of illness that it high time for philosophic and altruistic men and women to ascertain and face the truth about this or chronic incapacity. matter; to do something of a sort to It is also a conception that practical mitigate this ever evil increasing ; and thus to avert if specially claims our attention at possible the suffering that threatens our and the this present time, when ill-health posterity, doom that menaces our race. is becoming so general, and Ph3'si- It is inconceivable that an all-wise cal Deterioration is so obtrusively Creator should most of our have intended human beings to be in such a apparent ; when sorry condition. The of the Asylums and Hospitals are over- phenomena Nature, beneficent crowded, and when the dark cloud of laws that operate in such a manner as to maintain the sub-human races in a Disease and premature death overshadows so many state of physical fitness, means of which ensure the out earthly homes. by processes weeding of the unfit and the For we have now reached such a condition of affairs transgressing ; and the declaration of the world's to the effect that that the majority of the young men who offer themselves greatest prophets, God desires Man to Health and for military service in some of our large cities, are enjoy Happiness, render such an idea untenable. rejected as being unfit. A very large percentage of the children in our schools are either physically or mentally It is also inconceivable that mutilation and serum- malformed, or in some way enfeebled and deficient; quackery are the best means, or even rational means, for with and while impaired eyesight, flat-feet, weak hearts, spinal dealing overcoming the vital deficiency curvature and soft teeth are becoming so general as to and physical degeneracy which render men and nations be regarded almost as normal amongst the j'outh of an easy prey to Disease. our country. There must be potent causes that have produced —the that Cancer dreaded destroyer now overshadows such deplorable effects ; and it is obvious that no us all —claims as victims one woman in every eight, remedy for the latter can be adequate which does not and one man in every twelve, who have passed the age consist in the recognition and removal of the former. And this is ever National and individual ill-health of thirty-five years. percentage — must arise mainly increasing. from two things namely. Ignorance concerning the Many representatives of the medical profession are Laws of Health, and habitual violation of the same.

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of And as it is a well-known fact that ill-health and of the State as were deemed, approximately, the devitalisation of the body generally produce correspond- required standard of fitness. of the and the The desire for culture and ing functional derangement mind spirit, eager physical perfection the Grecians in their and thus bring sorrow and trouble upon others as which was witnessed amongst then be revived. malformed well as upon those who are afflicted, it must be readily best days, would Weakly, or can in and anjemic women would know that their chances of apparent that no man woman engage any were indeed unless more important or beneficent work than that of being chosen for marriage slight, their and men disseminating knowledge concerning Hygienic Law. they could improve physique ; unhealthy have to face the same situation. And the Earnest protest should therefore be made against the would stamina and the more serious forms of popular physical transgression, ultimate effect upon the National our social life would be such and also personal exemplification of the advantages and conditions of probably our the benefits of living a natural and hygienic life. as to completely transcend present conceptions. to "•^i ""^ ""^ Although such new conditions might seem press some nearly all would realize It is true that many obscure and un- hardly upon persons, yet that the new Statute was for the welfare of the State Unchecked checked sources of weakness and disease, and for the benefit of posterity; and they would Sources of which exist in our midst and are ruining with the trend of public opinion. Degeneracy, our national physique, can only be effec- acquiesce tually combatted by wise legislation and •''S ^^h ''^i collective effort. But when the great Ideal of Physical Just as social order, good government. becomes crystallized in the national mind, Regeneration The First public safety, and prosperity were evolved a will be found to withstand and overcome these way Step. out of chaotic conditions in Mexico, by factors that make for and moral particular physical the wise but inexorably firm legislation of decay. President Diaz, so might national Health and Prosperity The indiscriminate and unrestricted of breeding be evolved in Great Britain by enlightened statesman- lunatics, habitual criminals, wastrels, and physical and ship. Only the man and the opportunity are needed. moral of the worst should be, and degenerates types, But the first step towards getting Physical Regenera- will be, prevented drastic legislative ultimately by tion included in the programme of practical politics, measures. And such legislation will soon become is to get the Ideal enshrined in the soul of every en- for the simple reason that national imperatively urgent, lightened and cultured member of the community. It is a that is and self-preservation politic duty obligatory therefore behoves all who have apprehended and of paramount necessity. embraced this Ideal, and who are capable of realizing Imbeciles, profligates, consumptives and chronic its potentiality and dynamic force, to labour for the invalids cannot be allowed to increase and until multiply great End which it foreshadows; and ever to emphasize constitute the majority of the community—as they they its significance both in private and in public life. now bid fair to do. The taxation thus entailed upon the If we proclaim Health as being the birthright of all, healthy and the industrious would become unbearable. and a possibility for the majority of our contemporaries, And therefore the time must be near at hand when it even under the conditions of our present adverse will be for to compulsory enlightened statesmanship inheritance, multitudes of invalids who are at present declare that parenthood, instead of being the right of apathetic, faithless and pessimistic, will be encouraged however malformed or misbehaved, every individual, unfit, or shamed into making resolute effort to emancipate must henceforth be at the of regarded prerogative only themselves from chronic bondage of ill-health. And they such citizens as are free from certain of comparatively will thus deliver themselves and their relations from our worst diseases and evil tendencies, and from the much suffering and inconvenience. more serious of or moral degeneracy. signs physical Thousands more who might have stumbled blindly The enforcement of such a Law would doubtless at into the mire of helpless invalidism, or have drifted first great difficulties, but these could be overcome. present into the prison-house of pain that ultimately awaits those Certificates of Health and good Citizenship (liable to who persistently live unhygienic lives, will also be endorsement, as in and to withdrawal) could Germany, induced to take their bearings, to forsake their folly, be issued. These would constitute licences for parent- and to seek the only way of salvation from physical hood and would be conferred a Board of by competent disaster. And a vast number of innocent children who Health. And, as a last resource, the establishment of would otherwise be cursed with inherited deficient vitality segregation colonies and labour settlements, in which or predisposition to disease, will escape the unhappy discipline and perpetually enforced celibacy would be destiny awaiting them on this planet. tempered by helpful, reformative and kind treatment, ""^i ""^h "^i would secure obedience to legislative enactment and act as a powerful deterrent against unlicenced parent- Let us try to imagine what this world of hood. A Beatific ours would be like if all, or even the The effect upon the national soul, and the popular Vision. majority, of its inhabitants enjoyed that health, by the adoption of such drastic politic measures perfect, abundant and glorious Health that we feel to be the of each would be incalculable. The responsibility and dignity instinctively— ou{;ht birthright appertaining to parenthood would at once become one of us if all the sufferers, weaklings and depressing recognised by the youth of the nation, and serious and burdensome invalids were to be transformed into effort would instinctively be made on the part of most happy, vigorous and cheerful beings who would radiate young men and women to render themselves fit to joy instead of gloom. exercise this important function, and thus to enjoy a Let us create a dream of fair women with magnificent privilege that would only be accorded to such subjects vitality, abundant energy, cultured minds, sound teeth

"There is a larger world, a greater world, a more beautiful world, awaiting uc all.' -^ The Herald of the Golden Age. -* 63 and moulded forms—to whom exercise and normal results of health that a perfectly perfect physical ; and work and recreation were equally enjoyable. very large percentage of our popular sin and folly is Let us also conceive a race of men in whom physical, the direct outcome of perverted, neurotic and abnormal mental and spiritual culture—had combined to produce physical conditions. God's true ideal of Manhood a magnificent combination The results do not justify a continuance of such a of and wisdom. strength, activity, goodness policy ; and the time has arrived when some emphasis It is easy to realize what life might become on this should be laid upon the necessity for physical salvation, Earth if we could only work our way back to Sanity and in order that God's great Work of spiritual Evolution, Health—both 'of body and mind. Happiness would in connection with His human creatures, should not shine in the faces around us, music would be heard be hindered by obstacles that are removable, or by everywhere, and joy would simply irradiate the conditions customs that are degrading, barbaric and indefensible. of our Social and National life. Let us then work for social upliftment and ameliora- And such a dream is no means or im- tion while it is called for the of by Utopian to-day ; hour personal possible. By Faith, Wisdom, resolute and combined opportunity will soon pass! Effort, and practical Statesmanship it could ultimately Let us show by our deeds and by our personal be brought about. And one day in the distant future service, rather than by our good intentions, that we it will come to the of at this pass. apprehend great need Christendom time ; But how long we may have to wait for such a and that we are ready to be used as God's instruments realization depends upon ourselves. We can all hasten to promote the true welfare of those around us. that day, to some slight extent at any rate. And we can Sidney H. Beard. all bring many benefits and blessings into our own lives, as well as into the lives of others, by striving so to do. ''^i ""^^ •'^ The Better Land. The problem of Physical Regeneration will most certainly be solved in the coming years. This great Xhere is a land where Truth is king, remedial in human conditions will be the change physical Where Understanding sways throng ; achieved—for the growth of enlightenment will cause Where all unspoken love is told mankind to be dissatisfied with anything less. And Right has triumphed over Wrong ! Not by miracle, nor by discoveries made by sense- The promptings of a heart that quailed, less and cruel experimentation, nor by some secret The words affection meant to tell, The that died ere it bloomed— "Elixir Vitae;" but by recognition of those hygienic praise yet ' ' Will stand revealed when all is well ! and therapeutic Laws upon which Health regained, and Health perpetually maintained, depend. The ones who left us sore and hurt. and obedience are what are needed—in Knowledge The erring ones who sinned and fell, place of ignorance and transgression. Back to harmony The crushing of our hearts with woe the and dictates of Nature back to the — knell with teaching ; At death the coffin and the ; to in diet back the that simple and abstemious life, and purity ; The hopes that died, plans failed, to the land, to the pure air and sunshine, and to health- The pain and suffering we bore. ful work and exercise, must be our policy. When we have reached the Better Land And when we thus forsake our unwholesome, luxur- Will stand revealed and be no more ! ious artificial of and seek after and ways living, Wisdom, Then we shall understand the world, the transformation will soon to take great begin place. Shall know our hearts, and read aright ""^i "'^i ""^i The actions and the words of men Many of us desire to do some beneficent Who struggle onward in the night. Practical hence so that when Truth is work before we pass ; Ah, Better Land, where king, Pfailan- we compose ourselves for our last rest, we Where understanding sways the throng, tfaropv have the satisfaction of that I fain would rest soul in thee for all. may realizing my we have done something that was worth When Right has triumphed over Wrong ! doing during our period of incarnation—that we have Byron Williams. not lived in vain. ^^* f^^ ^r^ others are desirous of forth Many putting practical HAVE FAITH IN YOURSELF. Christian endeavour, that will produce actual results in the form of increased human happiness and lessened to achieve what desire is first to have human suffering—as well as some furtherance of the The only way you belief in and then to work with redemptive mission of the Christ who was so intent faith, or yourself, for The world on promoting man's physical, moral and spiritual intelligent industry your object. always to and believes in those who have faith in Regeneration. gives way missions. To all such this great Ideal must appeal, as it is themselves and their world will misuse based upon the eternal foundation of accordance with If you are afraid of the world, the it will retreat the Divine Will, and characterized by beneficence, phil- you. If you march valiantly forward, from If take the word "fail" out of anthropy and true patriotism. you. you your For centuries our Churches have been attempting bright lexicon you do not fail. It lies in what you in the task of saving men's souls whilst leaving their believe you can do. Believe, then, yourself. Just work for what level- bodies to riot in physical transgression and in carnal gird yourself up, you desire, keep too and must succeed.— indulgence. The important fact has been long headed, you eventually Progressive true are the ignored, that sanity of mind and morality Thought.

" Live for great IdeaU, and others will catcii your inspiration. 64 -* The Herald of the Golden Age. -*

We may therefore say that Evolution is Occult Aspects of Food-Reform Vibration largely a question of vibration. In common the Key to with all other organisms, man is gradually (Being part of an address given before the Vegetarian Society at Manchester. ) Life. learning to respond to a larger variety of vibrations, and also to vibrations of Darwinian theon', as modified by later scien- greater rapidity, and in this way he comes into Thetists, has attempted a solution of the question contact with new sensations and even developes new of Evolution with praiseworthy industry and organs for that purpose. accuracy of research, but it only For example, sensations of sound and light are deals with a section of the whole received by means of vibrations of given rapidities, problem, viz., the evolution those of sound being slower than those of light. And of the physical organism. there is apparently no arbitrary limit to the point at Modern religion, on the other which they cease to produce an effect upon us. Thus, hand, has set forth its teach- Professor Tyndall, when walking in some Alpine fields ing as to the development with a friend one day, remarked that the whole air oi mdin s but full of of certain insects spiritual nature; seemed to him the humming ; it likewise attacks only a his companion, however, could not distinguish these portion of the problem, con- sounds at all, the limit of his capacity for receiving cerning itself mainly with sound vibrations having been reached and over-stepped. certain aspects of his spirit- For him, therefore, these sounds were absolutely non- ual and little existent there. nature, very ; yet they were with the physical body. Similarly with sight. Not only is there consider- of Now I think it may safely able diversity in the ordinary range vision possessed be said that we shall never by different individuals, but clairvoyance itself is fully understand the entire simply the power to receive vibrations of greater problem, until we have ceased rapidity than can be received by the majority of to consider man as merely people at the present day, viz., vibrations of super- compounded of a physical body physical matter. animated by a something, more or less unknown, We might very usefully compare the physical, or which we call a soul. Such a crude division as this other body of man to a violin. When this is new, mav suffice for the untutored rustic, but for a true and the fibres of the wood are closely packed together, the instrument comprehension of the subject, we must endeavour to and to some extent clogged with varnish, make a somewhat more accurate analysis. Even when does not readily vibrate when played upon. The most skilful can draw from it sounds of St, Paul speaks of body, soul and spirit, he does not musician only limited and But in of give a complete definition of man's whole being ; and quality strength. as, process it is not until we study the ancient sevenfold division, time, it becomes accustomed to the action of the bow, known to all who concern themselves with the esoteric so the very nature of the wood seems to change, the or inner, rather than the exoteric, or outer side of particles respond more and more willingly, until the is to little religion, that we begin to form a just appreciation of vibration able penetrate every fibre, setting it in harmonious relations with the rest and thus the the problem. ; as roll But as a close investigation of this would lead us tone grows sweeter and more mellow years b}', too far astray, it will be sufficient for the purposes of until it seems able to express the subtlest emotion of this little essay to recognise the fact that man, the soul of the player, almost becoming for the time properly considered, consists of a divine principle, call being part of his own personality. in all our bodies must be it by what name we please, which, to use a convenient Just the same way, life within us. though not entirely accurate simile, is encased in a series trained to respond to the divine pulsing of sheaths, each composed of matter of varying degrees These bodies are all vehicles of that divine life, and the difficult is of density, the physical body we know being merely the more unresponsive they are, more it for the life to itself. must be the outermost, or more strictly, the densest. express They purified and into with one another and with These sheaths must not be conceived as lying one brought harmony the until we are "in tune with the infinite." within the other, entirely separate and distinct, but divine, truly rather as It be said that Man "^i "'^i "^i interpenetrating. may " has within him matter to each of the And now you may perhaps say to me, But what corresponding "' of and it is virtue of has all this to do with Food-Reform ? this. seven great planes Cosmos ; by Just this fact that he is eventually to become a self- Modern science teaches that our physical bodies are conscious entity on them all. entirely built up of minute cells (or whatever name On the physical plane, as modern science tells us, may be given to them at different times), each having his organism has been trained during untold ages to an independent life of its own, though temporarily respond to impacts coming from the outer world, united in common subservience to the needs of the until in the fulness of time his various sense organs whole organism. have been developed and perfected. Similarly, his Further, there is a constant renewal and inter- of emotional, mental and spiritual bodies are being change of these particles going on, by which some them trained to respond to influences from the planes of are thrown off and attach themselves to other bodies; of emotion, thought and spirituality, until they too have this, quite apart from the ordinary process eating developed and perfected their faculties, and the divine food. man appears in all his glory. Now it is known by students of occultism that

"A man must become elevated who constantly aspires." -^ The Herald of the golden age. ^ these particles acquire the psychic characteristics of and sea. Think for one moment of the terrible suffer- the body to which they have been temporarily ings and emotional experiences through which these attached, and when they leave that body and pass to anunals pass at and before their death. Think of the another, they bring to the latter the imprint of thousands that arc brutally murdered every day of the to the former as the and then to realize the qualities belonging ; and eating year, try not merely enormity of animal flesh brings with it the characteristics of of the physical suffering, and the degraded moral con- animal life and its passions, by so doing we impart dition of those engaged in this horrible trade, but also some of those very qualities to ourselves. That is to the frightful effect of all this upon the emotional say, we deliberately build our bodies of a gross atmosphere of the world, and how these feelings of material, gross from the higher standpoint, I mean— pain and terror and rage must inevitably re-act upon one which responds more readily to coarse vibrations. us. For we live in an atmosphere of thought and emotion And if we remember how intimately all our bodies generated by ourselves and those around us, including are connected, so that if one is coarse and unrefined, the animal creation, so far as emotion is concerned. it will to render a like The mere it is and this is an tend the others of nature, then idea of appalling ; yet we shall realize that by eating flesh-food we are aspect of the flesh-eating custom which rarely occurs making it more difficult for the divine self within us to most people. to manifest itself through our bodies, and thus we are It is related of a well-known lady that, when the evolution of distinctly retarding our higher nature. travelling in America, quietly reading in the train and Surely it is hard enough already to control the lower not thinking about her journey, a feeling of depression and cultivate the higher, without adding to the gradually crept over her, which at last became so difficulty by an unwise choice of food. strong that she put aside her book, and then re- That the use of flesh as an article of diet really membered that the train was approaching Chicago, does have the effect I have described is also corro- the great slaughter-house of America. The whole borated by the observations of clairvoyants, some of psychic atmosphere of the place was so laden with whom have remarked that, other conditions being these repulsive influences as to make itself felt at once equal, the aura of a vegetarian is generally noticeably by a sensitive nature. Other sensitives have corro- purer than that of other people. By the aura I mean, borated this experience. Such are some of the results subtler of course, that portion of our bodies which, arising from the depraved taste for flesh food and the though invisible to the ordinary eye, is clearly dis- false notion that such food is necessary or at least cerned by those whose range of vision is somewhat good for health. more extended. ]\Ian is often spoken of as the monarch of the all this is in with the Moreover, quite harmony brute creation. If so, he has strangely perverted ideas of most of the ancient who were well teachings sages, of his royal responsibilities. It is not usually considered aware of the effect which diet not produced, merely the prerogative of a sovereign to murder his subjects, but also the upon the outer physical body, upon higher still less to devour them. Ruskin once said: "We Thus, to quote again from the Golden be remembered in as the most cruel and principles. — " shall history we find these words : But Verses of Pythagoras, therefore the most unwise generation of men that ever abstain thou from the meats which we have forbidden the unwise in to troubled the earth ; most proportion in the and in the deliverance of the soul. purifications their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their distinction of them and examine all Make a just things science. No people understanding pain ever inflicted well." no facts ever acted on so much ; people understanding Not only, however, do we thus build our own bodies them so little." but since the of badly, interchange particles composing But there is a further duty we owe to the animal them is in we also other constantly progress, help kingdom, besides protecting them from cruelty and is it that we to do the same ; so true cannot, people ceasing to slaughter them for food. Following up the live for ourselves alone. even if we wished, idea above mentioned of the essential unity of all life -""^h -"^h ""^i throughout the universe, we should ever bear in mind another This brings me to thought, viz., the dependence of the lower on the higher. The whole Xfac the unity of all life throughout the universe. of creation, human, sub-human and super-human, is is a familiar in Eastern Universal It teaching slowly climbing up the ladder of evolution towards that is as well as Kinship. philosophies every living being perfection, and it is the obvious duty privilege other linked by imperishable ties to every of the more evolved to help their weaker brethren in being, and that we can neither do, nor desire, nor think this toilsome ascent. which does not also some effect anything produce upon We must never forget that in ages to come, the world around us. And for this reason con- the they foremost members of the animal kingdom will step the demned what was called the great heresy, heresy over the border line of the human kingdom, and them- idea is a of separateness, the that any being perfectly selves receive that divine breath which shall make unit, rather than a of the organism in to independent portion them self-conscious entities ; and just proportion of the universe. the care and love which we bestow, or do not bestow It follows from this that nothing which adds to the be hastened or retarded upon them, will their evolution ; of the human or sub-human, can misery world, possibly and not merely theirs, but ours too, since we are all even were some to be justified, apparent advantage close linked together. Surely this thought alone ought ourselves such action. accrue to by to make us pause before we so far degrade our humanity remind of the scenes I need hardly you revolting as to butcher in cold blood those who are literally our to which are almost inseparable from slaughter-houses, brothers. land ""^i say nothing of the horrors of cattle transport by •"^^ ""^J

** The great purpose of life is attainment—endless attainment." 66 ^ The Herald of the Golden Age. ^

To sum up, then : The use of flesh as food has a definite effect in coarsening the material of which our Tl)c Art of Forgetting. bodies are built, not only the physical body, but also the more ethereal ones constituting the higher part of is said and written nowadays about cultiva- our being. And thus, by habitually eating flesh, we Muchting the memory. Schools have been established make ourselves and others more responsive to the lower for the purpose of teaching memory culture. influences around us, and less responsive to those nobler All a A is types of emotion and thought which we should ever very good thing. good memory necessary seek to cultivate. to success, business and social. A well-trained memory is a useful to It not makes Secondly, the slaughter of animals for food is not very faculty possess. only smooth the of its but it is so much only an act of barbarity to the animals themselves, but way possessor, stock to his credit. is morally degrading both to those who are responsible capital But with all our we should also for it by eating flesh, and to the unfortunate men and memory training learn the Art of more of us need women engaged in all the disgusting work thereby Forgetting. Perhaps involved. to learn how to forget than to learn how to remember. can be learned as as Thirdly, the effects produced upon the psychic Forgetting easily remembering, but it the kind of atmosphere in which we live by all the horrors connected requires exactly opposite training. Even how to the we should with slaughtering are very real, though unperceived and learning forget things will us to remember the we should even undreamt of by most persons. This poisoning of forget help things remember. our moral atmosphere constitutes a serious evil for The that are the that humanity in general, and inevitably hinders the evolution things unpleasant, things the that make us feel bitter and unkind— not only of the animal kingdom, but of Man himself. irritate, things these are the we should Lastly, since all living creatures are bound together things forget. The health of the as well as of the by community of nature, and are evolving together body, mind, To let the of a towards a common goal, it becomes the sacred duty depends upon forgetting. memory wrong, of each one to help all others with whom he comes of angry words, of petty meanness, linger and rankle into contact, by every means in his power to draw in your memory will not only dissipate your mental but it will react the nearer to that goal. energy, upon body. The secretions will be And so, to those who may still be wondering whether diminished, digestion impaired, sleep disturbed, and the health suffer in this custom of flesh-eating really is so bad as we general consequence. Forgetting " is a mental and a medicine Food-Reformers represent it, I would say, Do not splendid calisthenic, good for the think of it only as a question of palate, or of health, or body. of economy, though these and many other arguments If any one has been mean to you, has wronged you, slander treated may be adduced against it; but remember also the heaped upon you, you contemptuously or it. will not moral issues involved, and the effect flesh-eating has discourteously, forget Remembering undo it, but will make bitter and in hindering us all, animals and humans, from rising only you irritable, angry; will react both to the glorious heights of our true destiny, which is upon you harmfully, physically and to become one with God." mentally. Bcrlram Theobald, MA. If your friends prove false and cast you off, do not hold it in rather »3* t^* ^* anger against them, but pity them. Keep a clear conscience and forget the little jealousies, How the Shadows Come. the petty meanesses, that may be bestowed upon you. By casting it out of your mind, you can go on serenely How easy it is to spoil a day ! and happily, while the ones who have done the mean The thoughtless words of a cherished friend, things will be the only ones to suffer. The selfish act of a child at play, Forget the peculiarities of your friends, forget their The of a will that does not strength bend, faults. Remember only their good qualities. Forget The of a the scorn of a slight comrade, foe, your disappointments, forget your annoyances, forget The smile that is full of bitter — things, all the disagreeable things. They all can tarnish its golden glow By forgetting, you will develop for yourself a sunny And take the from its grace airy wings. disposition, a good temper, a cheerful manner, a health- A is too to be in vain ful at wrinkles and old day long spent ; body. Forgetting keeps bay age. Some should come as the hours It beautifies the countenance with a all its — good go by ; beauty own Some tangled maze may be made more plain, peace, contentment, health. Some lowered be raised on glance may high. --^n -^"^i •"'^i And life is too short to be spoiled like this, How shall ? mind to If only a "prelude" it may be sweet you forget By turning your happier When the remembrance of Let us bind together its threads of bliss ! things. unpleasant And nourish the flowers around our feet. things crowds into your mind, use your will power and W. Yale deny them a foothold there. Turn your thoughts to O^ «?* (^* immediately the happy moments that have been }'Ours. Deny the disagreeable things any place in your The Supreme Being, who in the ancient scriptures of all thoughts. Pick up a book and read, or go to some place. true is described as the Eternal Mother Religions Get out in the fresh air and walk or ride. Fill the as well as the Eternal Father of all wills living souls, mind so full of other matters, that there will be no the happiness and of us all. And beneficent well-being room for the disagreeable memories. Laws have been ordained to secure that end. M. L, Gates, M.D.

"No one has a right to deal with any human being, except with Love." The Herald of the Golden age -^

For over thirty years there was a Federal Statute The FIcsl) Traffic. limiting to 28 hours the time during which live stock could be without rest, food and water. It Some of its Cruelties as revealed by the American Humane Association. transported was not strictly enforced. At last, recently, the Department of Agriculture undertook a large number ''Inhere are about of live 45,000,000 stock transported of prosecutions under this Law. An uproar from the in this \ country (United States) annually. Most millionaire shippers followed. Bills were introduced in of it is destined for food purposes and goes Congress in December, 1905, to extend the time limit to the centres of the great from 28 to 32, 36 and 40 hours. Instances are recorded, meat trade. The conditions where the law has been technically evaded, when the the stock in governing transit unfortunate cattle were kept 60 hours without rest, are barbarous in their crudeness food and water. There seems to be actually no limit and inhumanity. to the brutal cupidity of the stockshippers and owners. The cars which are usually A Bill was finally passed, and became a Law during are employed, merely slatted 1906, permitting shippers to extend the starvation and bo,\es into which stock, large exhaustion period to 36 hours, if they saw fit. or small, are wedged as tightly This was done in the face of the almost unanimous as as a rule. possible, The opinion of a large number of the leading Veterinaries of floors are wet and slimy with this country that 24 hours without rest, food and water, excretions, and are constructed should be the maximum limit. It was held that longer of wood. They become reek- exposure to these privations rendered the stock feverish with and are ing filth, infrequently cleaned. There and unfit for food. The legislation was strongly fought the cattle must stand, packed like dead sardines by the better part of the newspaper press, and large in a box, panting for breath, crazed by excitement and numbers of prominent citizens all over the country. terror, bellowing for food and drink which they do The American Humane Association vigorously opposed not to the get, exposed burning summer sun without this diabolical law, which was conceived in a spirit of and the protection, swept by pitiless blasts of sub-zero graft and brutality and passed, assisted by the efforts weather in winter. of a large and expensive lobby. At a meeting of wealthy Thirty-six hours is now the legal maximum limit. stockmen in the west, while Congress was in session, Just think of it. Think of the inhumanity, and of over ten thousand dollars was raised in fifteen minutes these horrible conditions. in is The time, transit, to push this legislation. Gross misrepresentation and divided with callous indifference between waiting trickery were used to pass the bill. tediously on side tracks while preferred dead freight is Stock-owners cannot be trusted to be humane because hurried past to market, or in jolting and jarring along of their financial interests, although this was the argu- over the the beasts all the while ties, poor making ment chiefly employed before Congress to secure the Bill muscle-racking efforts to keep on their feet, hour after which was passed. Over 448,000 animals were involved hour. in cases cared for by the Anti-cruelty Societies in the Does the tired animal, accustomed to ample rest, United States last year, and in 99 instances in each attempt to lie down, an attendant prods it mercilessly 100 it was the owners or caretakers who were responsible with an iron-tipped pole. Does it fall from exhaustion, for the brutality. the swaying mass closes over it and all life is soon We have before us at this moment a large number trampled out of its worn and fevered body. of photographs, showing the bones and bloated remains On one wagon, which came only 120 miles, were of stock which has been starved to death on the cattle counted the carcases of thirteen steers trampled to ranges of the west. They are left to die by thousands death. They got down under the hoofs of others as and tens of thousands. Some lay for days dying. In is what remains of the car jerked and bumped along. In the case of one terrible photograph shown nearly starved to death near the home of one animal, one horn was knocked off, an eye gouged 1,200 head of stock, out, ribs broken, the paunch and softer parts were trampled their well-to-do owner. the facts into bags. The other twelve were in a similar condition. It is desirable, in order to place plain circulate literature Thousands of stock suffer this fate each year. before the public, to print and the Our Accurate statistics of the number of stock killed or relating to this subject throughout country. are and Shall the mutilated during transportation are carefully concealed opponents rich, wily unscrupulous. interests of Health, and and for by interested parties. At least our agents have been public Justice Mercy be forsaken the American refused information in nearly all instances. Estimates the helpless, by people?" based on known statistics, which are considered reliable, ^V ^^^ 9^^ indicate that about 60,000 animals are taken from the INVISIBLE MINISTRY. cars dead yearly, and also about 50,000 injured and mutilated. Considerable numbers of these animals there were who came and took have become sick and diseased just before or during In olden days angels from the transit. men by the hand, and led them away City There is evidence to show that these poor battered of Destruction. now. But men carcases have been utilized indiscriminately for food We see no white-winged angels yet a is from destruction ; hand purposes by unscrupulous corporations. What sort of are led away threatening into theirs which leads them forth gently towards food must they make ! They were living carrion before put so that look no more life was extinguished. They were fit only for fertilizer a calm and bright land, they after death. backward. George Eliot.

" Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character" 68 -*> The Herald of the Golden age. -*

the source of the bodily energy, it is obvious that if we Tl}c Source of Vital Energy. were to take away this food the energies would decrease and slowly wane until the patient collapsed from article by Hereward Carrington in the August nervous prostration. That is the generally held theory, An issue of The Annals of Psychical Science, contains and is what we read would happen were we to take food from a for some novel and most suggestive thoughts in away man a number of days. The contradiction of the popular idea that source of the energies being withdrawn they themselves must wane. It the human body derives energy from necessarily would, at all events, be for the its fuel, like a steam engine. They impossible patient to get stronger during this

of inanition ; that would to be will doubtless prove —interesting to period appear quite many of our readers. Ed. H.G.A. impossible. — "If the current theories of the And yet in all diseased conditions—at any rate—

this is what ! causation of vital energy by food precisely happens Contrary to our and to is were correct it would only be expectations what generally taught in physio- ever necessary for us to retire first to logy, since the doctrine of the conservation of the dining-room and then to the energy was adopted, it can be proved that this is what occurs. is gymnasium, in order to regain our precisely The patient frequently stronger at the of a strength and energies. end ten or twenty or thirty or forty days' or even a We should ingest more food, and fast, longer period of time, than he was at its commencement! then oxidize it off, and the process of its internal combustion would This, I acknowledge, appears self-contradictory, and even absurd at first is add more energy to the system, and sight, but it the truth neverthe- so on ad infinihim. less. I have seen patients so weak that they could A not walk down stairs at the commencement of a truly pretty theory, but unfortunately (for it) we fast, all and at the of a know, from actual practical experience, that we end thirty-day fast they are so strong that are five miles a must, when weary, retire to bed, and not to the dining- the}- walking day. And every man, without room, in order to recuperate our energies; and there exception, who has had the opportunity to observe such cases has at once comes a time when we must seek rest and sleep, or agreed with me in mv die; and this, no matter how much food we may have contention that the vital energy of the body does not and cannot come from the eaten, or how industriously we may have exercised and daily food. His clinical breathed in order to oxidize it off. experience in every case coincides with my own, and corroborates the I As a matter of fact, we know that it is exceedingly theory have advanced as to the unhygienic and unwholesome to eat at all when causation of vital energy. exhausted by the labours of the day; and that exercise Perhaps I should state this now, in order that the reader be at such a time is most doubtfully beneficial, and that maj- better enabled to appreciate the argu- no amount of deep breathing will succeed in in- ment and the facts upon which it rests. definitely the exhaustion postponing oncoming fatigue, "^i •''^i -"^h and sleep. I contend—and Dr. with These facts would seem to indicate clearly therefore Rabagliati agrees rne in this—that the does not that we must seek rest and sleep, and not food, when The Body body nearly an Electric so much resemble a steam in its we are tired and need energ}-. And this fact alone engine differentiates the human from the steam Trans- workings as it does the electric vxotor— at body engine, former. and characterises the one as human and the other as least so far as its energy is concerned. a mere machine. The sole and only function of food is, I to the wastes of the —the Thus the great difference between them is that one believe, supply day tissues that have been broken down exercise. is self-recuperative and human, and needs sleep in order by to effect this; and the other is not self- recuperative, The food never supplies any heat or energy to the and needs no so as it at all under circumstances. It receives its heat rest, long works ; and in body any and in of this . . another spite obvious and all-important difference . energy way entirely. Physiologists have the scientific world has continued to ignore this question been misled by the superficial appearance of the facts, of sleep altogether, and to treat this matter of the renewal and have drawn too hasty conclusions therefrom. of vital force by food as a proved fact, instead of a The human body does not receive its heat or its energj- from the mere theory, open to these very objections, and a food consumed- These come from rest and most monstrous absurdity because of them. sleep alone. ^"^S -"^i -"^i During the hours of sleep the human body is put These are some of the facts of every-day into a receptive attitude, and its nervous mechanism is The experience—facts which only need observ- recharged by some all-pervading cosmic energy, in which Phenomena ing in order to see their import and we live and move and have our being. For this reason of we awake in the refreshed and Fasting. bearing. Now, there is another whole set morning invigorated ; of facts which seem to disprove the current and we can receive our strength and our energies in no theory of the causation of vital energy by food—the other way whatever. cases. alone do we receive these it phenomena presented by fasting By sleep energies ; and If we take away food from a man for a number of will be seen at once that this gives us a new of " theory days he is certainly going to experience sensations sleep. It is that physiological condition of the and phenomena will present themselves hitherto un- organism in which the nervous system of the individual known and undreamed of. The food being (supposedly) (in precisely the same manner as the electric storage

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is battery) being from without. . . ." This if do recharged they how can it be contended that energy is not theory would enable us to which is derived from explain sleep, then, food? That is the question we must certainly not possible on any theory held to-day. now consider. The I have advanced also theory enables us to explain First, as to the question of starvation. The return the causation of animal heat in the The heat is of body. natural hunger marks the point at which the one not maintained process of but ceases and by any food-combustion, other begins. Starvation and fasting the vital which animates it. A will are two by energy corpse entirely different things, and I have thus cool to the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere distinguished them in my book: in a short time ; and no matter how much food we may Fasting is a scientific method of ridding the system the never rises above a certain of diseased ingest, body tempera- tissue and morbid matter, and is invariably ture—which is always uniform when the body is in accompanied by beneficial results. Starving is the health. deprivation of the tissues from the nutriment which The retains a sub-normal body frequently temperature they require, and is as invariably followed by for and will rise years, only to normal when a patient disastrous consequence. fasts—he without the going supposed source of its heat, The whole secret is this. Fasting commences with it be observed, for thirty or more days ! .-^11 these and the omission of the first meal and ends with the return numerous other reasons convince me that we do not of natural while starvation hunger ; only begins with and cannot derive our bodily heat from the food eaten. the return of natural hunger and terminates with death. It receives it in this as way. Just a wire is warmed Where one ends the other begins. Whereas the latter the it of by passage along electric energy, so is the process wastes the healthy tissues, emaciates the body, nervous mechanism and the warmed the body by and depletes the vitality, the former process merely it of vital passage along energy. The heat is but expels corrupt matter and useless fatty tissue—thereby another manifestation of the that energy animates the elevating the vitality, increasing the energy, and organism. eventually restoring to the organism "that just balance The body, in short, is an energy -trcinsforming machine, we term Health." and not an machine. It receives its " energy -creating As Dr. Dewey so truly and so pithily said : Take energy during the hours of sleep and rest, and gives away food from a sick man's stomach and you have forth that energy during the waking hours. It transmits begun—not to starve the sick man, but the disease." this it is energy merely. And being so, apparent that There is the whole science and philosophy of fasting vital energy, or the power of life, is not derived from in a nutshell. any process of food-combustion at all, but from another It will thus be apparent that there is a radical source altogether. It will also be seen that it lies out- distinction between fasting and starvation, and whereas of side the law conservation. This will become more energy is unquestionably gained by the patient in the apparent as we proceed and as we follow this theory first class of cases it is doubtless lost during starvation. to its conclusion. logical Of course the whole point of my book is that fasting "^Ti -"^^ '"^^ is beneficial, and that it is useless to try and feed a Before proceeding further I must call patient with the idea of "keeping up his strength" in Fasting time of sickness. It was found that such a and attention to the radical distinction between proceeding made the worse. Starvation "fasting" and "starving," as I conceive only patient the two processes to be entirely different •"^^ •'^^ ^^> —though they are the same thing to the public mind. The body is the transmitter or tranformer When this difference is understood much of what has The Trans- of energy or life—this merely manifesting preceded will become intelligible enough. mission of through the body. Life is a power separate, Say that a man, as the result of years of living Energy. distinct, per se, capable of existing outside contrary to Nature's laws, is more or less diseased— the body and independent of it. This he is choked and blocked-up with mal-assimilated food life-force merely uses the body for its external expres- material—effete material calling for elimination. Now sion or manifestation—being transmitted or focussed this man enters upon a fast; he commences going through the body just as light is transmitted through without food. He drinks water, and that is all. His a glass prism. eliminating organs are kept constantly active, and A good analogy would be this. A burning glass continue to dispose of refuse material that had lodged receives the sun's rays and concentrates and focusses within with the result that he "cleans at a and in a similar the the system, up" them point ; manner body in a his and to receives the cosmic and focusses and individualises few days ; temperature pulse go normal, energy his tongue clears up, and his breath becomes sweet. it. And just as the burning glass would affect the rays, Also his hunger returns—his first natural hunger since rendering them less intense and active, according to the fast began. the condition of the glass, so does the condition of the He now eats food and finds that he can retain it body affect the amount and character of the life-force properly, and that he is cured. Together with natural manifesting through it. hunger his health has returned. And, more than that, If the glass be cracked or chipped or broken or his energies have returned also, for he finds himself blurred, or in other ways rendered impure and befogged stronger than he was before he began to fast. This the sun's rays passing through it would be affected, and is due to the fact that more energ}^ can now manifest the power of the glass would be largely altered or nulli- his clean it more to flow fied. And in the same we can conceive that the through organism ; permits way through it. condition of the body would affect and colour the char- But what happens after the return of natural acter and amount of the life-force manifesting through it. hunger ? Do not the energies then decline ? And If the body were choked and blocked with an excess

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food if it of mal-assimilated material ; were diseased, on the other it were or if, hand, depleted through Noteworthy Facts. starvation, life could not manifest through it so fully so as it could a whose and perfectly through body health A large and rapidly increasing percentage of progressive was In the condition the ^ perfect. short, of body would Physicians throughout Europe and America, are now the character and amount of the vital regulate influx. prescribing abstinence from flesh-food to their patients. we can see this in the human Now, clearly body. On In a few decades, or even years, the medical man who one when the is diseased and the hand, body choked with recommends flesh-food will be regarded with grave foul material it it (as is, generally speaking) renders mistrust by enlightened persons. impossible the transmission through it of the life-force. It cannot find expression. The Butchers are combining in order to make the And when, on the other hand, the tissues are shrunk Cattle Breeders bear the loss when Cattle are found and wasted by starvation, the life-force cannot manifest to be consumptive patients, or in other ways seriously either, for the reason that the vehicle for its transmission diseased. The prospect of more rigid inspection is is not to and is diminished the as know that tuberculosis is up par, ; receptivity and alarming them, they very power of expression of the human machine is checked prevalent. The fact that sensible people are beginning and lessened. to think, and to know what is going on in the meat when the human machine is at its best is them Only working ; trade, causing grave apprehension. when the nutrition is properly managed, so that there is is them that the State shall neither too much nor too little food material in the body for It proposed by compensate the Cattle Breeder for his diseased stock; but this its maintenance and proper working, we get the best results of must be and the highest expression of bodily and vital energy. unjust expenditure public money strenuously resisted all Food Reformers, as it is not fair This enables us to see clearly why it is that we get by they should be taxed in order to enable carnivorous human stronger all the time we are fasting and weaker the moment to their unwholesome food more we begin to starve, and this, on the theory of energy and beings buy cheaply. Fruitarians must therefore combine also, and stand its relation to the organism advanced, just as readily as for the that those who want on the accepted view. Both of us can take the same set firmly righteous principle of facts and them and the choice flesh (free from disease) must pay the price for it. interpret differently ; would seem to be open to each to take which he prefers, Xhe Order of the Golden Age has printed over 50,000 were it not demonstrable that there are certain facts booklets and leaflets during the past quarter, and which are contradictory to the accepted views, and are 15,000 additional bound books are being printed at the only explicable on the theory propounded. present time. A very large output of missionary literature ^^ <3* *2^ has been sent forth from our Offices to influential people. Wealth. The Council anticipate that the removal of our Head- to London will soon become necessary have I wandered when the sun quarters Oft setting in of the of the Movement. If Breathed out a the hills consequence growth gold good-night along ; any friend should feel disposed to present the Society And in that gilded hour of respite won, with suitable premises in the metropolis, the President Strength was abroad to gird men's wavering wills. would be glad to supply the fullest information con- Oft have I wandered 'neath the waning moon, cerning the present situation and our future plans. Such Where lilies lie on latent langourous lakes ; a gift would constitute a most significant and beneficent And all the world is in a silvery swoon. memorial of the donor, and would be regarded with While Pain sinks down to sleep and Ease awakes. interest and recognition in the future when our great Oft have I wandered when the diamond stars Cause—like the Anti-Slavery Movement—has triumphed. Floated on sea away day-break's jasper ; When the removal is made, the Council feel that And blades of like silent scimitars light it should be to a commodious and worthy building, Flashed the bonds set free. through of Hope and her which could be made a Central Bureau or Rendezvous Earth brims with gold that knows no cankering greed. for our workers and friends. Silver and of the jewels truest worth ; is more than all the soul can need of our comrades are connected with the Here, then, ; So many And yet the blinded millions die in dearth. Esperanto Movement, that it was decided at a George F. G. Mills. recent Congress held in Dresden, that a National Union ^W ^W ^W of Vegetarian Esperantists should be formed to pro- claim the Principles of Food Reform amongst those THE POWER OF THOUGHT. who are using the new language. Information can be obtained from Sinjoro R. do Ladeveze, Altonaerstr, If we throw a pebble into the water, the circle of a 67III, Hamburg, 6, Germany. rippling wave expands from the tiny point where the Our leaflet "Ten Reasons Why" (Esperanto Edi- pebble fell, and goes on in an ever widening circle until tion), has already been widely distributed, but I should it reaches the furthermost shore. And thus it is with be glad if our friends who are in touch with the a thought sent out by the will. It moves in pulsating Esperanto Movement would send for copies so as to waves which vibrate through the highly refined ether, make it more widely known. They are supplied at other minds to their cost and in can impressing according receptivity price (i/- per hundred) ; copies English and the power of the dominant thought set into motion. be obtained so as to be usedfor translation, and thus Uriel Buchanan. for teaching purposes.

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together harmoniously, and the whole system respond as Beauty Culture. a perfectly tuned instrument to the movings of the soul within. There can can be no true beauty without health. The clear, be no true beauty culture without Happi- ness; and while in vain for selfish Theresparkling eyes, the rosy cheeks, the transparent Happiness, sought comes of its free will to those skin—are not all these so many signals that Nature purposes, own who set about most hangs out to show that all is well heartily the work of making others happy. within? The most powerful moral aid to beauty is a truly unselfish devoted to the and the dis- A soft, transparent skin life, highest ends, which can is one of the things every position, easily be cultivated, of looking to the woman longs to have. needs and welfare of others. Selfishness mars a countenance of the most Fortunately it is suscep- elegant tible of cultivation; but proportions, while loving care for others brightens, softens, no amount of mere ex- and transforms the plain face, and makes it shine with ternal treatment will effect heavenly light. A. B. M.D. the desired end. A coated Olsen, tongue, a bad taste in the mouth, slow digestion, a sluggish liver—these are the Tbc Motive Power of the Universe. usual accompaniments of a and sallow, muddy complexion, is the motive power of the Universe. We they show where the real trouble lies. A cleansing Lovesucceed or fail in life to the degree we love. There process is called for. is a difference'of one letter only between "love" and " Plenty of pure, soft water, drunk freely between meals, live," and there is no difference between the two words on in the and before immediately rising morning, just at root. Only as we love can we be truly said to live. retiring, will do much to rid the body of accumulations By this is not meant the narrow personal love for of waste, just as real in their way as the garbage heaps one individual —-rather the all-inclusive, overpowering that encumber a back yard. love for all creation. We live in our enthusiasms, in Vapour and electric light baths will greatly assist our appreciations of things and people, and, when thus the the cold the elimination through skin, and morning- appreciative and enthusiastic, we may be said to love bath will improve the circulation. the person or thing admired. out of is a wonderful Daily exercise doors beautifier; So long as we keep our exuberance, our faith, our brisk walking, with chest well expanded, shoulders back, enthusiasms, our friendships and our loves, especially and arms hanging naturally at the sides is the best all- a broad and evergrowing interest and affection for in the is also excellent. round exercise. Working garden humanity, just so long shall we remain young. Good digestion is essential to good looks. Take One becomes old only when cynicism and selfishness liver. Feed on jealous care of your stomach and pure (both due to a superficial estimate of life) usurp the to the exclusion of one wholesome viands, rich, indigestible, rightful throne of Love and Wisdom, indissolubly highly spiced and clogging foods. since the creation of the world. is to A diet composed largely of fruit conducive a Love is the sovereign medicine for all human ills, smooth, healthy skin. Cultivate a taste for simple, for love means adjustment to all conditions, and ad- natural foods avoid dishes as The reverse of this ; rich, complicated you justment brings poise and power. would the plague. They are invariably beauty destroyers. is also true. Hatred, selfishness and greed are most Good hard bread, well baked, may be taken at every meal, deadly boomerangs. and will be found distinctly superior to cakes and pastries. We cannot afford to think thoughts of hate toward The manner of eating is almost as important as the any person—nor can we afford to complain or quarrel morsel surrounds nature of the food. Eat slowly, chewing every with any thing, person or condition which thoroughly. us, unless we desire to retard our spiritual development, Late of our Rise early if you would keep fresh and young. and to poison all the cells and secretions body, hours and fashionable dissipation make 'pasty' com- and inevitably turn such person or thing more appar- on plexions, weaken the nerves, and bring premature age. ently at variance to us than ever. Deep breathing, practised night and morning, will Love is the key to business success. Love for one's do wonders in the way of broadening and deepening the work, a cheerful furtherance of the objects of one's

hollows of the neck in time. Another ; chest, and filling up the unsightly employer, spells certain success point and chest. when one loves his neighbour as himself he cannot be medicines. would as soon act Don't drug yourself with patent unjust in any way to him. One the to have a Don't wear stays; they are unnatural, unphysiological, unjust to oneself. Just as only way and unhealthful. Don't patronise so called beauty friend is to be one, so the only way to be dealt squarely in with a doctors. Don't indulge in late suppers. Be sparing by is to deal squarely with all, not legal square- the use of sugar and sweetmeats. ness, but according to highest ethical principles. the our It is a Don't forget that beauty-culture is, at bottom, Again, we must love and bless body. athlete must exercise self- to us to make use character-building. As the perfect instrument, given holy of, denial in order to develop his muscles to the highest and we must love it by not putting it to any wrong use. true and manifest the pitch, so must the aspirer after physical beauty deny If we love it, it will 'respond, quicklv over it. perverted appetite, and maintain strict control divine beauty and power God has given work E. W. Dawson. passion, in order that all the bodily organs may

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On June 23rd, the following letter was sent to Miss Editorial Notes. May Yates, the Hon. Sec. of the Bread and Food Reform League, from Buckingham Palace : — Madam, I have had the honour of letter and the enclosures \he progress of the Food Reformation proceeds apace submitting' 3"our which accompanied it to the King:, and I am commanded to inform with ever increasing momentum and prestige. you, in reply, that His Majesty is glad to hear that the Bread and Food of events of the One the most significant past Reform League is doing such good work. quarter has been the found- I am, Madam, ation of a National Food Your obedient servant, Knollys. Reform Association in Lon- (Signed), Miss May Yates. don, in consequence of a The time will, I think, soon come when it will be held in the town meeting to send a letter of to the residence of the Countess opportune appeal reigning Alonarchs of Europe, to consider the claims of the of Plymouth. Amongst the Food Reform Movement and to set an example to their Vice-Presidents and officials subjects by the adoption of a more natural and rational of this new organisation for the end which we have in dietary. furthering great * li" * were the view, following distinguished persons: I am glad to be able to report that the Duchess of Marchioness of The Portland, Minna, Anglesey, Fruitarian- Opening of the Fruitarian Lunch Rooms Earl of the Earl the Dysart, of Lytton, Lady Henry ism in at Glasgow by the Directors of the Crans- Frederick Isabel Mar- Somerset, Lady Cavendish, Lady Scotland. ton Tea Rooms, Ltd., was a complete Ulrica and Lord and gesson, Lady Baring Lady Gifford, success. Fifty thousand illuminated circu- the Rev. Hon. Lady Leigh, the Dowager Lady Loch, the lars were distributed throughout Scotland, an invitation E. Sir Lauder Mr. Lyttelton, Brunton, Bart., M.D.; banquet was given to a large number of influential guests, the Dean of the Archdeacon George Meredith, Durham, and then the rooms were opened to the public. of Mrs. Madam Sarah Westminster, Asquith, Grand, The following letter received from the Managing Mrs. and Mrs. Webb The Hon. Neville Despard Sidney ; Director of the Company speaks for itself: —

Chairman ; Mr. Eustace Miles, Vice-Chairman ; Lytton, Dear Sir, and the Hon. C. S. Rolls, Treasurer. The Committee After three days' entertaining guests by invitation at four tables includes the Hon. Rollo Russell, the Hon. Mrs. Neville per day (totalling about 320 per daj-), and hearing nothing but praise for the menu submitted, we prepared this morning to receive the Lytton, the Hon. Mrs. Edward Lyttelton, Clara Lad\' public on the usual business terms of ordering and paying for each Fitzgerald, Mrs. Bramwell Booth, Mrs. Hugh Bryan, item a la carte. Mrs. C. W. Earle, Mrs. Eustace Miles, and Mrs. We prepared for something like four hundred people. Visitors before 12 and to went Cobden Sanderson. Mr. Aylmer Maude is the Hon. began coming ii o'clock, up 1.15 everything very smoothly, like clockwork. From that, onwards, for an hour Secretary. there was a great rush, and the service from the kitchen and from the buffet and all the items ticked off in on the This is a remarkable sign of the times, which clearly was overtaxed, pencil enclosed menu card ran out, some of which were very soon replaced indicates that the time is near at hand when all truly by other items. cultured will the the ir- people recognise impropriety, With such a rush there was naturally some confusion, but the rationality and the inhumanity of consuming the cruelly guests were very considerate and prepared to make allowances under the circumstances. For a time a number of were butchered and disease-laden corpses of cattle and other people standing their turn for vacant chairs. So far as we have heard, animals and the of a return on the waiting every- ; desirability part one was pleased with the food provided. of all philosophical and self-respecting persons to the From conversations with many of the guests, vie feel satisfied that there is a much strata of to pure and natural way of living that God intended for very larger society prepared partake this diet than we had so from those who are mankind. of new expected, that, already well disposed towards it and those who may come from have Man is the only animal on the planet that thus curiosity, or for a change from their usual meat diet, we not the of the ultimate success of the scheme. We are more violates the dietetic laws of his being, by feeding habit- slightest anxiety than thankful that did us the kindness of interesting us in this and like the beasts of you ually persistently prey, although work, and for all the aid you have since so freely bestowed upon it. he was created a fruit-eating creature. In consequence, We had half expected that some of the newspapers would have a number of about the so have Man is the most diseased, and, apparently, the most expressed quips diet, but, far, they taken the whole scheme in dead earnest and with a marked degree depraved, of all the inhabitants of this world. But of appreciation. is reason to there now hope that the present sorry Yours faithfully, condition of affairs will be materially improved in Stuart Cranston. consequence of the growth of popular knowledge and Two enthusiastic speeches were delivered at the understanding. Opening Reception, and the Scottish newspapers printed lengthy and most sympathetic reports of this new venture. And thus the Fruitarian Ideal will be intro- It is gratifying to note that the King is duced into thousands of homes through the enterprise, to in the Food The King beginning take an interest courage and loyalty to conviction of Mr. (and Mrs.) and Food Reform and I Movement ; earnestly hope Stuart Cranston (for he was supported in the most Reform. that, ere long, the necessity for improving devoted manner by the faith, counsel and active assist- the physique of the British race in general, ance of his wife in making the extensive and most artistic and our so Army recruits in particular, will be realized arrangements connected with this new departure.) His by Majesty that he will be induced by some The Directors have sent a preliminary order for over politic utterance or some diplomatic action to give a five hundred of our books, for sale at the pay desks, and great impetus? to the work of Hygienic Education there is every prospect of a great impetus being given throughout his dominions. to the Food Reformation in Scotland.

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This has resulted from the influence development clearly reveals the immense impression created by this of our Order and its literature ; and indicates the memorable good performance upon the minds of the public work that is being accomplished by our Society. and our journalistic friends. * * * "To my thinking, the event of the day was the Five Miles Flat Race. I told the other of the of Emil day prowess Robert ; how The extent to the Voigt alarming which physique easily he won his heat, and wrote of him as the runner we have greatest National of the men of this country is being under- had since Alfred Shrubb. On he of a it Saturday complained toe ; him much Deteriora- mined by unhygienic living, was demon- damaged gave pam, but he ran that five miles as as if it tion. easily were mere child's play. strated certain figures Mr. He trotted by given by sweetly. He was all springs. Hefferon, by his side, was Acland, of the War Office, in the House heavy, always exerting himself; Svanberg, the Swede, had not the same there of Commons, on July 8th. They show that in London graceful style ; was, indeed, no one like Voigt. He was a splendid general of himself. He allowed the other man to and in all of make the larger towns the country from 40% to 75% He ran as he running. pleased ; he was fresh all the time, and when of the recruits were The are as the bell ran he killed the best Army rejected. figures of all his competitors by his terrific pace, the follows : — Voigt sprinted whole of the distance round the track. No one could live and as he Offered. Rejected. against him, cantered home, men, women, every- body, rose to tribute to him. London ...... 20,975 S,8o6 pay is a wonder. It was the Birming^ham ...... 1,858 1,084 Voigt amazing, considering disabilities wrought by the condition of the track, that he was able to finish Manchester ...... 2,523 J, 82 1 sprinting. And did not exhaust himself his remarkable effort. Sheffield ...... 1,031 363 Voigt by He knew no fatigue, and made his to the tent Leeds ...... 791 452 way chatting gaily to his friends the while thousands of men, to all Newcastle ...... 'i493 1,046 belonging nations, acclaimed him as their hero. The race so run Sunderland ...... 776 2S2 magnificently by Voigt made the whole live. It was to be at the Stadium Glassrow ...... 3)90S i.>35 day good on and see the of it all." Dundee ...... 956 680 Saturday grandeur ...... 62S Edinburgh 1,500 Voigt has also secured many events recently, includ- The following figures show—how the established and actual strength ing the Four Miles Amateur Championship, and the Four of the Forces have fallen off : Miles at which he won from scratch Numbers Handicap Glasgow, (in ig minutes seconds) Establishment serving. 40 by twenty yards. 1906-07 903,404 753.077 On August 1st, F. A. Knott (Vegetarian C.C.) repre- 1907-08 893,141 739,04s sented Great Britain against the Racing Clubs of France 190S (July) 799,610 639,000 at the Stadium, in the 1,500 Metres Race, and broke the The army is now smaller than it has been for many decades. record. Later in the he won the Three * * * previous day Miles Scratch Race by ninety yards against the same During the past quarter athletic fruitarians competitors. More have rendered a * * * Athletic again good account of Victories, themselves, and have secured a number of It is interesting to note that although victories. The Dorando, the real winner of the Marathon The great achievement that was accomplished by Marathon race, was induced by misguided advisers Race. " " Mr. Emil R. Voigt, in the Five Miles Flat Race at to take some meat and— some Oxo on the the Stadium (in which he competed against the best morning of the race thus perhaps bring- champions of the world in the Olympic Games), covered ing about his collapse after being the first to reach the himself and our Cause with glory. Stadium, he has throughout his life, been almost, if not flesh. It is well known that the Five Miles Race is a entirely, an abstainer from Writing to The affair under and our Daily Express, on July 27th, he describes his habitual punishing any circumstances, " in the words : — I used to train in readers will be able to appreciate the following descrip- dietary following time when I had done work for the tion (published in The Daily Chronicle) of the way in my spare my day, but I have never dieted meals in the which Voigt won his heat. myself. My " were meals of other Italian — Minestra But the most beautiful running was seen in the second heat, when ordinary way any and without flesh— E. R. Voigt, of Great Britain, ran right away from his ri\als. Bellars, the (a mixture of beans, vegetables rice, American, made a desperate effort for victory, and Pagliani, an Italian, Ed. H.G.A.), macaroni in various forms and plenty of on a terrific much too soon for his own looked put spurt, safety. Voigt fruit." at the Italian, and humoured him round half a lap, then he smiled and * * * left him behind. Bellars took advantage of the Italian's failing strength and still was far with a passed him easily, but Voigt ahead, running Epidemics of ptomaine poisoning, through grace and easiness which called forth the unbounded enthusiasm of the Ptomaine eating meat pies, pork sausages, and other spectators. Poisoning. forms of flesh-food, have been so prevalent It was a joy to see this little Manchester man, whom the vege- that one feels tarians may claim as a perfect athlete, able to win the world's champion- during the past quarter on a diet. is and ran with the ship vegetable He beautifully neat, inclined to wonder whether the public who persist in liglitness of a girl tripping across the grass, while the American such suicidal habits are suffering entirely from ignorance pounded behind him. At the end of his five miles he was cool and form of mild at unruffled. As he walked quietly on to the grass after breaking the or from some insanity. Sixty persons tape it w*as almost impossible to believe that he had run five miles at St. Anns-on-Sea were smitten down after banquetting top speed. Old sporting men agreed that they had never seen least on pies and potted meat. Two at died, anything more wonderful, even in the da\'s of Alfred Shrubb and pork were in extremis for several and all received Morton in their first championship years. He deserved the splendid several days, are not to reception given to him by the Americans, who, though their man had a painful lesson which they likely forget. shouted the of his and it was a that a hundred lost, praises victor, pity At Saddleworth, near Oldham, thirty others succumbed thousand Englishmen were not there to cheer one of the most brilliant to a meal of meat A named S. died, achievements ever done by an English runner. Voigt must be re- pies. boy Bradbury " death from membered for this day. He has revived the greatest glories of the and the verdict at the inquest was ptomaine foot-race." said "the in meat poisoning." Dr. Stonehouse jelly pies the of bacteria. His victory in the Final was thus described in was the chief medium for presence for the of The Standard, and the tone of this press report Hot weather was suitable growth bacteria.

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which were not discernible by smell or taste. The con- Until a few years ago many good people used to of the not due to dition pies was carelessness or dirt." express their religious sentiment and zeal by giving ' Sixty nurses in a Hospital, in Germany, were also away tracts,' or by placing them in Reading Rooms, simultaneously taken ill after eating shredded meat sand- railway carriages, &c. The plan was excellent, although wiches, but they recovered. most of the tracts were feeble and unworthy of circulation. ' Unfortunately such mishaps seems likely to increase. Let me suggest that our official leaflet Ten Reasons ' It has now been established in a Court of Law that Why could be used in this manner with useful and a business firm selling poisonous compounds can be practical effect. * * * mulcted in if fatal results and thus damages ensue, an The progress of all great Reformations, inducement is offered to those who have undesirable The Coming whether religious or social, has always to rid of them them to relatives, get by inviting purchase Generation, been dependent to a large extent upon and partake of such unwholesome products as have the amount of influence which has been been mentioned above. At the Staffordshire Assizes, brought to bear upon the minds of the youthful a recovered on July i6th, man £2;^^ damages from a members of the community. Therefore, all who local business firm because his wife had died of have the interests of the Humane Diet Movement at some of their ptomaine poisoning through eating pro- heart will share my conviction that earnest efforts ductions. I do not for one moment that suggest this should be put forward to make the young people of case was other than particular purely accidental, and this and other lands acquainted with the facts which the bereaved husband has but the my sympathy, point form the basis of the great ideal which The Order of Law thus established may have serious consequences. of the Golden exists to and * * * Age proclaim emphasize. a visitors - Amongst number of who have Sir James Crichton Browne has again recently to to become better Flesh-eating come forward as an advocate of a beef- journeyed Paignton acquainted with our work, was a Master from one of our Govern- and steak diet {ad lib) and a depreciator of ment Schools, who suggested a most feasible Civilization, abstemiousness, by delivering a speech to plan, which has since been carried for the Institute of Public Health at Buxton successfully out, awaken- the interest of the scholars in this matter. to that effect. Mr. Eustace Miles administered a crush- ing And as it is a plan which could be utilised extensively ing reply in Rey7iolds' Newspaper, which included the the if a —- throughout British Empire, sufficient amount following sentences : " of can be I to Last year I thought that, perhaps, Sir James did not know, and co-operation secured, want make a that he had, as his excuse, ignorance of what a non-flesh diet included. resolute effort to get it adopted, and I therefore invite I regret that, though he is a year older, he is not a day wiser on this " all our Members and Friends to assist by their influence. subject. As to civilization and meat-eating going hand-in-hand," I — The scheme is as follows : -To offer a Prize well- think this is hardly to the credit of meat-eating, if we consider the " (a prevalence of extravagant waste, of pauperism, of dipsomania, of bound copy of A Comprehensive Guide-Book to drug-taking, of insanity, of cancer, of tuberculosis, of Bright's disease, Natural, Hygienic and Humane Diet,"—the 2/- Colonial of diabetes, of insomnia, of headache, of g^out and kindred disorders, edition), for the best Essay written by the pupils of of stupidity, and of incompetence. " The features of civilization that seem to be most closely connected any school on the subject: Hygienic Diet in Rela- with meat-eating are, to my mind, the crying disgraces of modern times. tion to Health." In the case of large schools, one Almost when one is filled with shame at some horrible always, will be to each in all prize given hundred pupils ; and custom and habit, and when one examines deep down, one finds meat- cases six small consolation will for eating at or near the root of it. prizes be given Meat is dear to the but to no one is it so dear as to the six next best the form of either enough " public, Essays (in copies, Sir James Crichton-Browne. of Dr. " * * * Oldfield's Penny Guide to Fruitarian Diet and Let me ask all our Workers and Friends Cookery," or "The Voice of Nature.") to remember the of November—the The basic facts upon which the Essays are to be written Oar 5th " are contained in our Anniversary Anniversary of the foundation of The booklet, The Testimony of Science in favour of Natural and Day. Order—and to make some special effort Humane Diet," which on this day to further the advance of our consists almost entirely of expert, medical and and which will be to Movement. Last year, a very considerable amount of experimental evidence, supplied each for the sum of one to extra effort was put forward by those who responded pupil pennj'. (Price School- masters hundred—-a which does not to the invitation that was given to commemorate the day 6/- per charge cover the cost of in this manner; and I earnestly hope that still more will printing.) As the books above mentioned are almost entirely be done this year. educative and and allude en to the Meetings should be arranged, Addresses given, or scientific, only passant for humane sentiment which constitutes so an in- Debates organised the exaltation of our Ideals ; and strong those who cannot work in this manner, should endeavour ducement to all truly cultured persons to abandon the carnivorous habit, I that if educa- to make converts by personal influence, and by pressing anticipate few, any, tional leaders will raise to this — our literature upon the attention of persons who are in any objection project as the fact is now admitted any way likely to take an interest in our Movement or to especially generally by statesmen and that our national respond to the truths we proclaim. patriotic philanthropists and the of disease which What we want is more missionary zeall Multitudes physical deterioration, prevalence is so in our must be corn- of persons are quite ready to come over to our side when distressingly apparent midst, the truth is to shall batted an increased amount of Education. brought home them ; but how they by Hygienic Let invite all our to hear the truth unless voluntary preachers are forth- me, therefore, readers make this invitation to some of a coming. Let me, therefore, venture to remark that known Principal school or the President and the Council of the Order of the college, and to every Schoolmaster with whom a personal in to use moral Golden Age expect every Member to do his or her duty acquaintance exists, and, addition, on this opportune occasion. suasion to secure his or her friendly co-operation.

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As our Society is a purely philanthropic one, and I have, in consequence, felt the need of some really as this offer on our part involves a gratuitous presenta- comprehensive Text Book for the treatment of all tion of the Prizes, without any financial return, our —forms of human malady, to which I could refer them action cannot fail to be recognised as being disinterested, one written by an eminent medical Author, and also and should command appreciation and a sympathetic from the Fruitarian standpoint. response. Such a book has now been introduced into this If this scheme meets with acceptance in most of country, and has been added to the stock in our Book our Government Schools as well as in manj^ others, an Department, so that those who are in any doubt or will be the of immense influence exerted upon minds difficulty may be able to obtain reliable advice. the parents as well as upon the pupils, and great It is entitled "A Home Book of Modern Medicine" will follow. The demand thus made results surely and consists of 1,676 pages of valuable instruction funds is to be but I have upon our likely considerable, concerning all the ills to which flesh is heir. It also of our friends have the no doubt that many who contains an atlas of the organs of the human body of our Movement at will be interests sincerely heart, in) detachable form) and a very large number of illus- glad to share with me the privilege of contributing trations. the cost of such a towards strategic missionary plan, As the Author (Dr. J. H. Kellogg) is the Founder of which will be so far the ultimate issues reaching, and Medical Superintendent of the largest and most incalculable. and the extent of which may be successful Sanitarium in the world (having thirty resident Official letters containing this invitation have been Doctors and three hundred Nurses on his staff) he is able sent to The Schoolmaster and other educational to write with great authority and ample knowledge. No to a Institution— the Battle papers, so as to make the offer known at once flesh food is ever provided at this It is that — for or nor at large circle of educational leaders. hoped Creek Sanitarium, either patients staff, any the active co-operation of the Board of Education of the hundred or so Branch Establishments that have may be enlisted. been instituted in various parts of the world, in con- Ten thousand circulars explaining the scheme have sequence of its success. And the therapeutic system to and is or of the most been printed, and copies will be sent Principals practised therein abreast, ahead, pro- science. Teachers, together with sample copies of the books (for gressive modern thought and physical is Guinea inspection). The price of this large volume One (22/- is asked to the of Each of our Readers place copy post free), and it is a monumental compendium enclosed in this issue of our Journal, in the hands of medical wisdom and instruction that ought to save its as the efforts that some Schoolmaster, so to supplement possessors much expense, trouble and suffering. will thus be put forth by our secretarial Staff. * * * The following list of donations towards The practice of living to a large extent the furtherance of the work of The Order, Uncooked uncooked food, so as to have the Oar upon its have been is Propaganda and Missionary Propaganda, Cereal vitality in it unimpaired, becoming Work. received since our last issue (irrespective Food. popular amongst experienced hygienists. of amounts received for the purchase of Mr. Eugene Christian has championed this and annual for The Herald). The idea most in America, and has placed many books, subscriptions successfully the Council are tendered has now intro- thanks of the President and types of such food on the market. He to all these Friends of our Movement. duced them into England, and has forwarded to our £ s. d. d. Offices of cereal foods for the table S. A. Gilbert 6 samples prepared Miss E. I. Allott 2 6 Mrs. " 6 without being cooked. His Unfired Bread," consisting Mrs. C. W. Asbury Mr. J. Gresjson ... Mr. P. L. Gundavada 6 of thin wafers or biscuits, made by blending three kinds Mr. D. S. Ashley Mr. S. S. Mrs. Hamilton is to become Ashley of cereals with two kinds of nuts, likely Mrs. D. S. Hehner Mr. G. Asplet-Falle and is of Leon very popular with all fruitarians, worthy hearty Mr. G. G. Athalye Mr. Hymans Mr. K. R. 6 recommendation. I was against uncooked Mr. A. Atkinson Jassawalla prejudiced Mr. V. R. Kokatnur 6 in the uncooked Dr. T. Baty, D.C.L. ... cereals, although believing strongly Mrs. Knox-Field... o Mr. J. Bennett have convinced me S and vital food theory; these wafers Mr. K. T. Brooks Mr. H. Q. Mack... o that cereal food can be rendered enjoyable and easily Mr. R. Buckland Mr. R. Mecredy ... Mr. M. M. 6 fire. Col. Sir F. Cardew Mehenty although untouched by Mrs. Mills 6 digestible Mrs. Walter Carey ... i Miss Mills 6 * * * Master Dennis Carey ... i Mr. S. R. 6 MissM. J. Carr Mistry I have been S. Moore 6 For many years frequently In of the late Mrs. A. memory o A Much letters from on the path Mrs. D. Clarke Mrs. E. Mostyn-Jones receiving beginners Jane 6 Needed and Mrs. Annie Purdon Miss M. Oldham of Food Reform, asking advice concerning 6 Book. 100 Mr. J. Pherogi ... ailments and troubles. In Joyce o their physical Miss E. C. Colo Mrs. Richards Rolls... 6 most cases their ailments have been of long standing, Mr. K. U. Chhiyd Hon. C. S. Mr. C. N. Searle 4 sufferers have a fleshless dietary inthe Mr. R. A. Dickie and the adopted Mr. G. B. o arisen Mr. S. N. Dholakia Tarring of relief. But difficulties have Rev. Thornton o hope obtaining Dr. H. S. Dormer ... i J. local Doctor has them to return to Miss M. Toovey ... 6 because the urged MissS. J. Eddy feel that Mrs. A. Wardley 6 the although they instinctively Mrs. J. A. Fairfax-Craig flesh-pots, I. B. Waterson o Mr. W. C. Ferris Miss the of salvation is to forsake them; hence they Williams o only way Mr. M. Fletcher Mr. Howard and instruction, and the L. M. Wood 6 write to ask for encouragement Mrs. Forrer Mrs. Amounts under 9 name and address of some Physician living at a distance, Mr. F. Forty 2/6 Mrs. ... i whose views are more progressive. France-Hayhurst

humanise and illuminate us." "Religion is not worth much, unless it can both 76 - The Herald of the Golden age. -*

without serious organic mischief arising. The blood, Diet and Disease. overladen with the products of decomposition, en- deavours to get rid of these by the skin and the — Even the are called t is obvious that if Diet be related as it assuredly kidneys. salivary glands into — as be observed the bad taste in I is to Disease, then Health must also, to a large requisition, may by the extent, be dependent upon it. The influence which mouth so frequently in evidence. However capable all be to deal the dietary of the present day exercises these organs may satisfactorily with the upon Health, and in the normal impurities of the blood, their task becomes production of common ail- impossible when these impurities are not only in ments is a subject to which excess, but continue in excess. I would call attention. ""^h ""^^ -"^l Though Nature is not One of the most important impurities long, asa rule, in retaliating Uric Acid thus developed is uric acid. Combining if her laws be not com- Maladies. with certain alkalis, always present, this plied with, it is astonish- acid forms salts which, being deposited in ing what an amount of the joints, give rise to rheumatism and gout. forbearance she seems at Uric Acid, also, is an important factor in the pro- times ready to extend to duction of skin affections. Its injurious effect upon the her rebellious subjects, vital changes constantly going on in cell life is so and how willing she is to apparent as to place this statement beyond all question. condone faults and rectif}' Owing, moreover, to the pernicious influence uric acid evils that may have super- exercises upon what is known as cell metabolism, a vened. Unfortunatelythis predisposition to Cancer is encouraged. This scourge, benevolence on her part is I am convinced, is largely due to over-indulgence in liable to develop persistent a meat diet, which is permitted to take the place of disregard of her behests, which if indulged in must of a cer- the necessary amount of vegetable food essential to tainty bring down condign punishment upon the offender. our physiological well-being. If constipation be coin- The tendency of civilized humanity is to commit cident, a state of things which a meat diet tends to what I can only designate a slow suicide. Most of us encourage, then the danger is materially augmented. are inclined to indulge our appetite too much, thus A sedentary occupation, as everyone is aware, overtaxing our digestive organs, and overloading them invariably exercises a retarding influence upon the pro- to an undue extent with substances they are incapable cess of digestion; the consequence, as a matter of course, is This is Nature's that of assimilating ; hence to this, and to this alone, is diminished appetite. warning a attributable the prevalence of dyspepsia with all its halt must be called if health is to be maintained. long train of evils. How is this warning heeded in most instances ? Man's stomach was never intended to be the Not at all. On the contrary, the jaded stomach is receptacle of the heterogeneous messes it is so usually goaded to produce an artificial appetite by frequently loaded with. No machine could be con- means of a sherry and bitters, a gin and bitters, or structed elastic enough to permit of similarly unfair some other pernicious concoction. Subsequently the treatment. The stomach maj- for a long time appear digestion of the conglomeration of food products thrust tolerant of the excessive and unnecessary work imposed within the stomach's enfeebled walls is assisted by in upon it, but its tolerance eventually becomes exhausted, artificial means the shape of digestive ferments, and a crisis develops. extracted from the stomachs of sheep, calves, pigs, and Were we to permit our stomachs alone to gauge the gizzards of fowls. After all this, a scavenger in our appetites there would be but little danger of over- the shape of a Seidlitz powder, or other saline, completes indulgence at table, but this we very rarely do. Our the cycle in the daily life of the gourmand. palates are systematically tickled by savoury odours Is it for a moment to be supposed that these emanating from what—erroneously, I think—are termed precautions, if they can so be termed, counteract the dainty dishes. By this means the gustatory nerves evil influences of such a mode of life? Certainly not. become unduly excited, and a normal appetite is thus Life, no doubt, has been maintained, and a certain into is of at ? Is transformed one that abnormal. kind indulgence gratified ; but what expense The result is that the stomach has thrown into it it possible anyone can be so foolish as to imagine that far more food than it can possibly utilise as nourish- the organs which control nutrition can be abused in ment. If vomiting does not relieve the organ of the tuch a manner and yet perform their physiological duty superfluity, a considerable portion of it passes into the satisfactorily ? intestine, there to undergo a putrefactive fermentation, .\mid all this persistent disregard of warnings—loss the product of which, absorbed into the circulation, of appetite, indigestion, headache, nausea, offensive vitiates it to such an extent as to produce a form of breath, disturbed sleep, lethargy, irritability of temper, blood-poisoning, which, of course, is accentuated if nervous depression, gout, rheumatism, and a host of constipation be also present. other danger signals—there has been going on a gradual In such circumstances the blood cannot possibly carry undermining of the health of every cell, of every mem- on its vital functions, and the various organs are handi- brane, and every organ of the body. In a word, life capped to a very serious extent, not only because they which otherwise might have been long and healthy, has are dependent upon an impure blood supply, but because been curtailed and deprived of its chief enjoyments for their nerve stimulus is reduced from the same cause. a temporary gratification of the appetite ! This state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely On the other hand, the evil effects might have been

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at all events postponed, had the life of the offender been in engaged outdoor pursuits, with plenty of exercise in the open air. ^ Cbccrfuljbougbts. a man This brings me to the consideration of the thinketh in his heart, so is he. This is Fresh Air paramount influence that an abundance of As why you are to think cheerful thoughts. Think and Exercise fresh air, which is the pabulum of the lungs, cheerfully—you will be cheerful. Think delightful exercises will have upon health. By each draught of thoughts—you corresponding feelings. Think fresh air the lungs are revivified; and if their functional well, and you will feel well and do well. be in activity augmented by exercise, they will receive their Begin the morning, get ahead of all the gloomy vital stimulus and anxious in increased abundance. Thus they are thoughts that are ready to greet you, with enabled to to the the most cheerful impart blood greater efficiency, which thought you can think of. If you can- will enable it to not think expel effete matter and flow in a pure, quick enough in the morning, get it ready the unsullied before stream, distributing in its course new energy to night ; your sleep will be all the sweeter for it. all its The Think of to be dependent organs. blood returns to the something glad about, quick ; some- about lungs charged with the products of combustion, and at thing yourself or someone else, then thank God for every exhalation the process is repeated. A pure atmos- something you are glad about. It will make a in wonderful difference phere, fact, acts in an identical manner towards the to the day if you begin it with lungs as a natural diet does towards the stomach, and gladness and thanksgiving. Next ask Him to bless the these combined with day, and and loved ones ask for two, personal cleanliness and a j'our work, your ; Him the sanitary condition of the bowels, will tend in a very special help you need, whatever it be; for patience, marked to skill in degree ward off sickness and promote longevity good temper, your work, trust, neighbourly love. to a degree one little dreams of. God does not give by measure. He ever stands at the door and knocks, asks to receive His We niust never forget that the body is composed of you blessings. an infinite Your asking is the door to let Him in. You have multitude of cells, each a distinct and separate may just as much as will take. entity possessed of its own individuality. If these cells you After made this cheerful continue are continuously being nourished by an impure food having beginning, all to think the most cheerful supply, does it not stand to reason that they will tend day thoughts you can, to lose about that comes to mind. Be faithful their healthy condition and be unable to beget a everything your in and will be amazed at the result. healthy progeny ? this, you is In this practice be sure to include feel- It found, in fact, that, gradually, cells depart from your physical ings. No matter how much reason have to feel the normal standard, their character becomes altered, you downhearted, think No matter what and as the change in structure grows more pronounced cheerfully. physical their ills you are from, think the most cheerful functional activity by degrees diminishes, until suffering thoughts can about them. There is some- eventually the cell becomes quite unrecognisable as an you always thing to be thought of on the cheerful side. integral part of the tissue of which it forms a part. In certain Then the last thing at night take a sleeping potion in instances, as in a muscle, it may take on a fatty the form of a the can degeneration, as sometimes occurs in the heart, when, happy thought ; happiest thought you recall of the and as as a heart failure will in day just closed, many happy thoughts consequence, supervene ; or of other days as you choose. There is no or so the muscular coat of the arteries, when rupture or day night dark it has not had something in it to be glad about. dilatation of the vessel may result, giving rise to Most lives have not but hemorrhage within the brain or other organs, on the one only something, many things. To find out if think them hand, or aneurism on the other. The change in the cell your blessings, you few, think of the who have less than may also be due to calcareous degeneration, the conse- people yourself. Eye- of sight seems a when think of a quence which may be quite as serious as when a fatty very precious blessing you blind man. When looked will be condition exists. Or the cell may take on an unduly active up, your blessings found in abundance. You will notice it is of the and aggressive character, and thus give rise to Cancer. thinking things other people have that we have not, that makes But each and all of these departures from healthy us feel poor. Perhaps the person we envy has not half vigour are due to neglect of elementary hygienic laws, as much in quantity, quality or number, as we have. We especially errors in diet, paucity of fresh air, and neglect of notice some one or two things, and fret. the lower bowel. Every one of these reacts injuriously It is a very good plan at night to be thankful for your upon the quality of the blood, and hence every cell-tissue and when as far as that, God blesses and organ of the body suffers. blessings, you get all your life to you, no matter how twisted it comes to It will be perceived, then, that the majority of ill- " " or how much twist it. So you should thank nesses man is said to be heir to —a statement I no you, you by for all from — Him for all your life, and thank Him which means endorse are in reality the fruit of his own He has saved you do not know what, or at least dereliction of duty towards himself. He would never you; do not know all, —but thank Him for it. Take large dream of risking such liberties with a machine as he you all is doses of the of thankfulness at times ; it a habitually takes with the delicate but capable mechanism spirit sedative and an and works wonders. of his own body. If he would into invigorator, only bring harmony -"> '^^i -"^^ its just demands for nourishment with the work it is are — either Every instant you thinking something ; capable of performing, he would speedily be convinced or are of its wonderful and to the various pleasant unpleasant thoughts travelling through efficiency adaptability mind. uses it your may be put to. Most important of all, he would You cannot help what thoughts come to you, but it is discover that its liability to get out of order would be for to decide what thoughts shall stay. reduced to a ! you minimum o u . t> u x„ t^ c-ttco Robert Bell, M.D., F.F.P.S. Mabel G. Shine.

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and once the transforming power has asserted itself it is — Tbe Greatest Moveipeot of able to spread with great rapidity for a little leaven truly leaveneth the whole lump. From the first it has been a fight against Custom the Age. and Ignorance, and as such it will continue until the victory is fully established. are the Reforms and Movements which evidence The flesh-eating habit has rooted itself in the Manythe progress of man's evolution in the direction fallacious doctrine that meat is essential to health and of wisdom and enhghtenment during the last strength. No greater untruth could well have been and it lives in the quarter of a century. In uttered, yet to-day minds ^^^^ of Religion, in Science, in Sani- thousands of people. Once we get rid of this wrong ^^^^ ^^^B idea ^^^^^ ^^^^^ tation, and in the world of the way is open for the final triumph of Food J^^^^^<4^^^^P Art a transformation Reform, for we can then put forward the many and ^^^^^L J^^HB h^^ slowly come about and great advantages of the non-flesh dietary, and after all most are to seize an in ^J^^j OB^2^. ^^^ ^""^ to-day enjoying the people ready advantage any or form. What now fear is a loss ^^J^TTjAJ' ^^^^ benefits of the same in all shape they by ^^^^^^m^M^^^^^k departments And in making the change, hence their lack of consideration ^^^^EJ^^^^^^^^^^^ the midst all these changes for the Rights of Animals.— It is as they imagine a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H a slow ever case of self-preservation at all costs to other lives. ^^^^JH^^BBH|^^ tendency towards a Reform ""^ '-^ '"i in Diet has become manifest. To-day there are many workers in this great Cause— For a number of years the few pioneers of this great because its aim is to help to establish the King- Cause were like "prophets crying in the wilderness"; dom of Righteousness upon Earth, when Peace shall and the only apparent result of their labours was to supplant War, and Tenderness shall replace Cruelty. earn for themselves the title of "crank" or "faddist"— Then shall be dried up for ever at its source the which term was also freely bestowed upon their few river of blood which now divides man from his dumb adherents and disciples. fellow creatures, and at the same time separates him If we trace the early history of any great Reform from his best ideals, and gives the lie to his noblest Movement we shall not be at this and the animal shall surprised apparently professions ; kingdom have com- unpropitious start. Men are usually slow to receive a pleted its long Era of sacrifice. truth which is new to them, unless that truth happens And if anyone asks what claim our Cause has to " " to appeal to some selfish trait in their character— the title of The Greatest Movement of the Age moreover few people in our day have time or inclination the answer is because it stands broad based upon Man's to sift carefully and intelligently all the evidence both highest needs, as a being—physical, moral, intellectual for and against a proposed innovation, and so it comes and spiritual—and on each of these planes its in- about that the majority of us are content to take some- fluence for good is great and far reaching. what superficial views of important and serious matters. This claim is no idle one. For to those who will It is only when we are prepared to go carefully into seek it there is available abundant evidence that in each details on any subject that we can possiblj' arrive at a and all these departments of man's threefold being true estimate of its worth and importance. Before gold something like a revolution is effected by the avoidance can be won there is much prospecting and a lot of dead of all dead flesh as food, and the substitution of the work to be done as a rule, and it is precisely the same living vital properties of the fruits, grains, and nuts, with the gold of Knowledge, it is not to be had through etc., which go for the building up of a finer and more indifference or superficial investigation. sensitive type of cell structure. The importance of the The water of a stagnant pond will reveal to the change can scarcely be realized without a careful study patient searcher a fairyland of wonder and delight. A of the whole subject. careful perusal of ancient writings of a thousand or There is plenty of literature available to-day con- more will years ago sometimes teach a profound lesson cerning every phase of it, so there can be no valid which life's has failed to our excuse for in the the further experience impress upon ignorance matter ; and minds. And so we see that the more we seek to dis- one examines it the more engrossing it becomes. cover in relation to any given subject the more we shall For this reason, there are thousands of people who find there is attached to it of interest and worth. began as scoffers and ended as enthusiasts; it is simply The very opposite quality to this spirit of investi- a matter of understanding rightly. gation is the tendency to cling to Custom and past Our race has not by any means neared the end of tradition, as though the final word lay there. But we its evolution, and there are wonderful possibilities must remember that Custom is sometimes based upon ahead in the future before Man shall have entered into based Error, and very firmly too. his full estate; and depend upon it, this question of a In the case of Food-Reform it has taken years of pure diet has to take no small share in the raising of dead work to arouse the minds of people to the fallacies the standard of life on its upward course from the concerning the flesh-eating custom of Englishmen—the Savage to the Angel. custom was there, and prejudice was there also, and Out of the clay of matter into the light of the nothing more was to be said about it. spiritual is the order of progress, and if the transition But just as the constant dropping of spots of water is to be effected it is necessary to commence at the will wear a hole in solid rock, so the constantly reiterated foundations, viz., in the physical. We must build up- statement of Truth will overpower and undermine the wards from below and then the structure will be sound most rooted custom is deeply which based upon Error ; and lasting.

"Lieht injuries are made lighter by not regarding them.' -»' The Herald of the Golden Age. -* /Q

Other reforms will be of but at the brain. necessary course, One tells him he must eat most sparingly— the there are few matters can call present stage which and another says he must have bulk if he wishes to avoid more and more for a fair than a loudly justly hearing breakdown. Is it to he wondered at if the man is the Cause of Food-Reform. disheartened at the outset? I think not. He will in any Attention has been drawn and to the again again case be sceptical, and will call to mind many robust which attend the of and dangers consumption flesh, people who have taken most or all of these things for a are the disclosures which many revolting have been generation or two—and their parents before them. made both at home and abroad—all of has of which No, the fact is we have simply to be natural and to course tended to forward our Movement and avoid all help excess either of food, drink (language, too, for establish its claims. But it is a that surely poor thing to matter), and health will probably be ours; and then into a as it is a we merely frighten people reform, just shall get a willing hearing from those who now weak and fallacious policy, to attempt to terrify sinners often look at us askance. into and repentance righteous living, and such has There is another subtle danger in connection with the failed in the miserably past. subject, viz.. Proprietary P"oods. There arc now so many To alter one's line of for the on conduct mere sake of the market as to be almost bewildering to the novice, is no real reform is and gain fundamentally. What needed here again there is a tendency to swear by this or is a love of for sake and the tim.e has that Right, Right's ; particular one or other as essential to our ph)-sical come when we can to the better fitness. of perhaps safely appeal Many them, and perhaps all, arc excellent in of side human nature, and point out the utter injustice their way, but the man who objects to being fed from the and of the wanton and wholesale of can cruelty slaughter packet dispense with all, at the outset at any rate, unoffending creatures merely to gratify an unnatural and go direct to the field, the orchard, and the garden— or appetite. what is more likely to the baker, the grocer and No excuse can possibly avail, for there is not one the fruit store. He will drop the butcher and the fish- jot of evidence, scientific or otherwise, which can be monger, and as he is already dealing with the former found in support of a practice which is unnecessary, trio there is little to puzzle him. Later on, when he uncivilized, and harmful in every sense of the word. becomes an adept, he will gradually interest himself in ""^^ •"^Ti -"^i all the foods, manufactured or otherwise, and will find them most convenient well There are to-day many factors making for as as nutritive. How to the ultimate of Food and Then there is the further difficulty (alwaj's to the _ triumph Reform, of of n ''"m"^^ an ever increasing number of people who novice, course) scientific tables of quantities and nutriment.. Few have either time or ^gQt_ are ready to make the change of diet pro- people inclination to these and their vided they are influenced in the right way. seriously study things, importance has been At the same time there are a few things which are much overrated, and almost every authority has a different them. tending to make them halt in their decision, theory concerning perhaps " " and to fear the title of crank from their friends and They are all very well for those who understand I to deal so with a few them, but we must remember our first and most acquaintances ; propose briefly task is to to leave meat of the possible causes leading up to this attitude of important get people alone, which does not call for of or intricate mind, the removal of which lies very much in the any study figures of To become a Fruitarian is a hands of Food Reformers who voice their opinions both systems dietary. very and matter, and for the in private and through the Press. easy, simple pleasant yet I it is It is well known that an excess of zeal sometimes reasons am stating, most people imagine a intricate and so leave it leads to exaggeration and the straining of facts, such as terribly business, they severely the condemnation of this or that article of diet, not alone. A farther cause of in the minds of flesh- necessarily meat only, in such a manner as to make it prejudice eaters lies in the fact that Food Reformers are often appear a deadly thing. taxed with unable to talk on other Now truth consists in stating the facts about any- being any subject than and Now, I am aware thing without addition to or subtraction from what eating drinking. quite that are often in no to blame, for the actually exists, and any departure from this standard they way is raised as soon as a Fruitarian makes towards something which is not Truth but the subject invariably at the table of a if not reverse. We need, therefore, first of all to be rational and sits down meat-eater, before; in own of such to avoid iindtte condemnation of anything whatever. and, my experience, usually proves The curse of the Food Reform Movement has interest that it is likely to be discussed at too great a ' Anti-this ' and ' Anti-that ' and to the detriment of other interesting subjects. been pet theories, and the length of boredom are shown some of the and which abound in the literature of our ranks. We may each Signs by company sometimes looks of be observed on some hold our opinion of course, but opinions are not anything displeasure may faces. here there is need for tact, for we have to more than opinions after all, and facts are often some- Just bear in mind that just as we are privileged to open thing very different in nature and essence. The average on the so we flesh-eater must be almost alarmed at the number of a conversation subject, may bring is called it to a close by introducing another subject, relatively harmless things which he upon to adroitly of If is not is more to the liking of several the company. abjure as positive poisons. he alarmed, he probably so we stand to gain rather than lose in- cynical or disgusted. By doing — and shall remove the which There is the deadly tea and coffee the terrible salt— fluence, certainly stigma — sometimes attaches on this head. the plague-dealing breakfast and he must on no account is a of drink with meals, whilst others say he must rigidly avoid After all, health not solely matter diet, and on one side of a is to drinking between meals. White bread is a tragedy, and to dwell too exclusively subject alcoholic drinks even in strict moderation tend to destroy belittle other important aspects.

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must learn to all-round Food Reformers be people, Announcements. and then they will be admired and listened to wil- lingly. Much of the Vegetarian literature might be vastly is to and made readable and even to 'phis Journal regularly supplied (gratuitously) upwards improved entertaining of One Thousand Public Institutions in this and other the average man and woman, instead of appealing as lands, such as Free Libraries, Institutes, University, it often does to the confirmed enthusiast only. Colleges, etc. A discussion on how to boil potatoes may vastly interest the who raised but it is useless and people it, Bound Volumes for 1906-7 (the copies for the two years even ludicrous to the reader. A average paragraph bound together), containing a well executed portrait devoted to the merits of the and respective Egyptian of the Editor. Price 4/- post free. The volumes for 1900, Lentil but dull to of us. German proves reading most 1901, 1902, and 1904-5 are all sold. A few volumes Let our evangel be one not of Pure Food only, for 1898, 1899, and 1903, can still be obtained. Price of but Health, Joy, Optimism, Beauty and Sanity, and, 3/- post free. above all, let each one strive to carry with him the atmosphere of Health, the magnetic influence of which is /^ new and much improved edition of "Is Flesh-eating Defensible" has now been It con- to be felt. And then with tolerance and kindly guidance Morally printed. we shall secure a host of followers who will be con- tains a number of ministerial utterances which very much vinced that we have something good to tell them. strengthen this booklet. All our workers are invited to obtain and to or distribute Price A very good answer to the oft repeated question lend, sell, copies. ' ' " ? is — Threepence (2/6 per dozen, 15/- per hundred, post free). What do you eat this With the exception of " The " Peter's Vision has also been revised flesh-food I eat everything, and the variety is endless." pamphlet, and Francis S. Bluard. enlarged (Price Sixpence per dozen, 4/- per hundred). ^ ^ Our latest four leaflets (for enclosure in letters or free distribution) are useful pieces of ammunition. They are

as follows : — The Tribunal of Reason. " Ten Reasons Why the use of Flesh-Food should be Abandoned." (i/- per hundred), soth thousand. "Twelve Reasons Why the Ideals of the Order of the Golden Age " " should be Exalted." (i/- per hundred). 30th thousand. you go by impressions ? I don't. I heed " Humaneness put to the Test." (2/- per hundred). 20th thousand. D But must the criterion "impressions." they pass "The Christian Festival." (2/- per hundred). of Reason before I "go" by them. All Friends are invited to circulate these " publications. 1 receive a great many impressions." I am verj- Moreover, I believe I understand easily impressed. 'J'he President and Council of The Order of the Golden some of the Law of and I realize that we impressions, Age invite the sympathetic and active co-operation of are in the midst of unseen forces of all kinds which all philanthropic and humane souls in connection with impinge upon us and impress beneficially and injuriously. their endeavour to humanize Christendom, and to lessen But I have a head on me. is there for a That head the sum of pain, disease and suffering in the World. use 'and not altogether as an ornament. I have what The fullest inquiries concerning their plans, methods and we call judgment and discrimination. I am not a projects will be gladly answered. address senseless lump pulled hither and }-on, without volition, They will endeavour to arrange for Lecturers to although it is true that to a great extent I am operated meetings on the subject of Food Reform, if friends who upon by cosmical forces that pull me here and there desire to evangelize their neighbourhoods will communi- beyond my will. But as far as possible I must use my cate with the Secretary. Reason and my will, while at the same time realizing to the that Life is more than Reason. ]y[embers' badges can be supplied upon application —but to Members of the Order. Beware of those ultra people who believe in listening Secretary only to all their impressions and forth with them going t^ (5* «^ thoughtlessly. If they like that sort of thing they are kindly invited to take themselves off and have just such an Publications Received, animadventure of wild cavoorting about as they like. But they are not agreeable company, for one does not know "The New Old Healing." By Henry Wood (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., Boston. Price 1.30 dollars.) what wild, inchoate, preposterous thing thej* may do. This book is an to render mental and Do not misunderstand me. Listen to the voice of attempt helpful, psychical truth in familiar terms, and to show the way to its practical the can cut himself off from these and spirit. No man quite application. The author is a veteran writer on the subject, subtle influences if he would, and he should not if he all his books are most instructive. Food and W. A. and E. Williams. could. But, try the spirit. That is what our Reason is for. "Regenerative Cookery." By (L. N. Fowler, 4, Imperial Buildings, London, E.C. 1/6 nett). Our Reason is our personality. Leave that out and "The Pictorial Esperanto Course." (The British Esperanto Associa- we would lose our manhood and our selfhood. We tion, 133, High Holborn, London. Price i/-) must have off and cherish Reason or step down from "Concerning Lafcadio Hearn." By G. M. Gould, M.D. (Fisher, W.C. Price the human plane and sink below the higher animals and Unwin and Co., i, Adelphi Terrace, London, S/6 net). facts con- become as the lower brute beasts. This volume contains many interesting biographical the talented author who has made Japanese ideals and Remember this when comes cerning any specious sophister sentiment so well known to the English people. It will be read your way. But in holding fast to Reason do not exclude with interest by all persons who have been charmed by Mr. that Hearn's descriptions of the simple artistic life and the which transcends it, i.e., the spirit. But on the idyllic — quaint customs of our Eastern allies. human plane try all things by Reason, or you will " The Punishment of Death." By Carl Heath. (Society for the either transcend or descend. More than will likely you Abolition of Capital Punishment, 145, New Kent Rd., London. descend. joho F. Pease. Price Twopence).

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