THE NAUTILUS. Build thee more stately temples, oh, my soul, As the swift seasons roll. Leave thy low vaulted past. Devoted to the Art and Science of Self-Expression. Entered at the Holyoke Post Office Let each new temple, nobler than the last, as second class matter. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free; leaving thine out-grown shell By life’s unresting sea.— Holmesy “ The Nautilus/’

j MONTHLY. f ELIZABETH TOWNE, ) V ol. VI. I Fifty Cents a Year. FEBRUARY, 1904. } H o l y o k e , M assachusetts , f No. 4

“BE STILL.” relationship. Inheritance by blood tie is not a the third earl of Normandy; which means that his stream the outlet of which can rise no higher grandfather was an ordinary every day scrub who Thank God for silence, and a quiet hour than its source. It is a sort of hydraulic ram probably murdered somebody particularly ob­ Wherein to meditate on larger themes through which life may be coaxed to almost any noxious to the king and was rewarded with an Than those that fill and fret the common mind; height of culture and refinement. earldom. Did he bequeath “the soul of knowledge, To have an interval of stillness, rare the essence of right living,” to William the Con­ And all pervading as the darkness was The writer of the above letter intimates that cul­ querer and his exclusive progeny? If so, where Upon that old Mosaic night which wrapped ture is “the soul of knowledge—the essence of right living” inherited from our ancestors. did he get it? His own grandfather and the an­ The Lotus-land of Egypt in its folds, IVhere I will tell you where; cestors of the poor miller’s daughter roamed the And could be felt. To shut away the world,— did they get it? they got it same woods, fought the same battles, hunted the To be at peace, and thus, in harmony by persistence in the same sort of practices which —by “wresting, by force,” the same beasts and men, and gnawed the same bones. With Nature’s law, receptive of all good. this man decrys knowledge, wealth and dominion of others; by Where did the ancestors of Robert the Devil pick Then, to repose within the spacious arms generations of “monastic seclusion,” much of it en­ up the “soul of knowledge” ? And what were the O f thought, with soul intent, and ear awake forced by others whose turn it was to “wrest by miller’s ancestors doing whilst Robert’s grandfath­ To catch the unrhymed music of the spheres, force” ; by generations of “rigid self-control” ; by ers cornered the “essence of right living” ? For I Exultant with the morning song of stars; hours and days and years of prayer, w h ich is warrant you that William’s miller’s-daughter- Is Joy that lifts the earth-bound feet from out simply a phase of “going into the silence” ; and, mother was less of a stranger to the “soul of The slough of sordid-self, and lends them wings. yes, and even by “breathing like a filthy, crazy knowledge, the essence of right living” than was G eorge W . S h i p m a n . Yoga”—though much of the breathing was forced that devil of a Robert. by strenuous endeavors to get away from the rag­ Yes there are many people who are educated but A LOOK AT HERIDITY. ing hordes whose wealth or daughters they were not cultured. But their progeny will brag of their ■—“All through your words it seems to me you stealing. The Spirit of Evolution which is run­ culture. For what is in one generation mere edu­ overlook inheritance, hereditary. It seems to me ning this universe is very cunning in devices for cation, or “monastic seclusion,” or “rigid self-con­ that you underestimate culture. Now understand inducing self-culture. trol,” or “going into the silence,” or “breathing like me—I am certain education is common where Full breathing, going into the silence, affirma­ a filthy crazy Yoga,” is by time and unconscious culture is wanting. This is my understanding of culture: Its possessor has not wrested it by force tions, etc., are not new methods of self-culture. cerebration transmuted into pure “culture.” And and does not possess it by a monastic seclusion nor They are as old and their practice as universal as if any of us lack culture you may depend upon it rigid self-control, nor going into the ‘silence’, or life itself. But heretofore their practice has been our ancestors, by blood and spirit, are numbered breathing like a filthy, crazy Yoga. Culture! why among those who failed to “wrest by force” the it’s the soul of knowledge—the essence of right in the main compulsory. Humanity had to be per­ secuted, starved, .hupti»rl .ih3 o breathhig, ,gxercE-, very things this writer, “W. T.,” decries as un­ No evolutionist can overlook heredity, nor un­ ing, praying—had to be forced to develop body, cultured. derestimate it. He believes that every generation soul and wits by using them. All life is education; and time transmutes edu­ comes in on the shoulders of its predecessors, and The present generation inherits the wisdom cation into culture, “the soul of knowledge, the he fully appreciates the value of good predeces­ gained through their efforts. Not the least of its essence of right living.” sors. The world’s pride of ancestry is not so inheritance lies in its wits developed to the point Not a human effort but is necessary to the de­ foolish as it might appear. The more intelligence of seeing that for self-development ten minutes of velopment of the soul of knowledge. Not a Yoga and culture my forbears had the greater my pos­ voluntary deep breathing is preferable to an all­ breath, not an hour of silence, not a moment of sibilities. There are no breaks in the law of day chase to save one’s neck; that a half hour of rigid self-control, not a day of hard labor, not a growth or evolution or heredity, though the casual intelligent silence is worth more than the three sound or movement or cry of joy or sorrow or observer often fancies there are. and four hour “wrestlings with the Lord” such rage or despair,—not one but has helped to free Every human being comes into the world as an as our great-grandfather John Wesley—and many the soul of knowledge. Not one could have been “acme of things accomplished” by his ancestors, of his inheritors—practiced regularly. dispensed with without leaving culture less cul­ and he is an " encloser of things to be" accom­ Herein lies the great difference between our an­ tured than it is. plished by himself and his progenitors. cestors and us: They were by conditions com­ The difference between education and culture But who are my ancestors? Let me tell you pelled to self-culture; whilst we, their inheritors, is the difference between the daily drill at the piano that Ralph W aldo Emerson and Jesus of Nazareth are making intelligent use of it. and the finished musical expression of a Pader­ are more directly my ancestors than many of those Through evolution we are learning to conserve ewski. Education comes first and without it there whom the world calls my great-grandfathers. energy. Our ancestors spent all their time—per­ can be no culture. Education is the work of There is a spiritual and mental kinship through force—in half-unconscious physical exercise and TO D A Y ; whilst culture is the soul of well used which we inherit. There are spiritual and mental breathings; we spend a few minutes a day in yesterdays: Why exalt the well used yesterdays relationships to which we all owe far more of our intelligent exercise and breathing, and conserve to the disparagement of Today’s opportunities? goodness and greatness than can be traced to those our forces for mental and spiritual uses. Inheritance is wealth left us by sanguine and of blood tie. In rare instances only do these And without them we should be minus the in­ spiritual relations gone before. It is capital left spiritual and mental relationships exist within the telligence to do this. Humanity is a solidarity— us, to be increased by just such “wresting by force” line of blood relationship. on the square; and without the work of his an­ as “W. T.” contemns. W ho is the more valuable The world does well to be proud of its ancestry; cestors none shall be made perfect. to the human race:—he who parades his inherit­ but it does better when it appreciates its spiritual B ut it is by the work of his ancestors that man ance as he received it or he who adds to it his ancestry. Think you that the poor little waif owes stands on today’s pinnacle. What they learned to own efforts at self-culture? a larger inheritance to the woman who bore it do by labored effort and mainly under compul­ Don’t be a Chinaman and kow-tow eternally to and deserted it, than to the foster parents who sion, we do by instinct. heredity. Be an Individual and improve heredity. nurtured it in love and wisdom? And it is by man’s work today on this pinnacle, If your inheritance was poor make it better; Our blood relations are not the only relations that his great-grandchildren shall be brought forth if it was good MAKE IT BETTER. The world’s from whom we inherit; neither when we are born on yet higher pinnacles, with yet higher instinc­ culture is only just beginning; get busy helping it do ive cease to inherit. There is One Father of tive knowledge. along. That is the important thing. us all, and the oft-repeated statement that we are Take the most cultured person you know; trace D o it Now. all brothers and sisters is no fanciful one. The his ancestry and tell me where his culture began. “fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man” is You cannot do it. Go clear back to William the SELFISHNESS TRANSMUTED.

FACT; and the man who thinks he is limited by Conquerer if you will; thus far you may call his “Reginald will not share his pleasures with his the ignorance of his blood relations is himself an ancestors cultured, but even so their culture, all sisters. He is so selfish, and it seems impossible ignoramus. If his blood relations are not to his the way back, is a descending scale of boorishness to break him of it.” H. P. liking, let him draw a new inheritance from the in comparison with what we 20th century folk call Attempts to “break” a child of selfishness simply world’s greatest and best. They, too, are his an­ culture. And we* must hark back of William for set the habit. Every time he hears the statement cestors. the beginning of his culture. William the Con­ that he is selfish the habit is set a little more And mark this: Not only does the son inherit querer was the illegitimate son of Robert the stron gly. Every time his mother T H I N K S him from his fathers of blood or spirit tie, but many Devil. Did culture begin with Robert? And the selfish he hears the mental statement and receives a father inherits from the son that which the son mother of William was a miller’s daughter. Is she a subconscious impulse toward selfishness. has gained from other sources than those of blood the mother of all culture? Robert the Devil was To heal a child of selfishness the mother (or 2 THE NAUTILUS. nearest relative) must begin on herself. She must vibration for the thing you don’t want; it is “black than The Highest in you, but with his Highest you change her mind. Instead of thinking Reginald magic,” a “treatment” for “evil.” are not directly concerned. Neither are you di­ specially selfish she must know that all beings are “Without the W ord was not anything made that rectly concerned with the great Undefined God necessarily selfish; and that the strongest char­ was made.” The “Word” is the suggestion, the which is over us all. But God in you is your hope acter is the most selfish. Without selfishness there statement. not only of glory but of all good. God is in his could be no life, no health, no happiness, no suc­ To cure selfishness suggest or affirm its oppo­ heaven in you, and he is there for you to enjoy. cess, no growth. Selfishness is cohesion, the force site. Every individual enjoys God most when he is which keeps us from dissolving in thin air. Sel­ But the opposite of selfishness is not ««-selfish­ doing good according to his highest lights, accord­ fishness is the organizing principle, the very law ness but a larger ¿e/(-ishness. Suggest to Reginald ing to his peculiar and God-given bent. To do of attraction, or love itself. by word and deed (one word to ioo deeds) that here and now the best thing you know of to do, Blessed is the selfish child; for he is full of he and his brothers and sisters are One and that and to do it in your best manner, is pure enjoy­ power; he is the encloser of great things to be. he loves to give pleasure to them all; that he loves ment of God. You can enjoy God at any kind of But he needs a broader vision. them all. work, so long as you put your Highest, your soul, All actions are manifestations of selfishness, the Kneel beside him after he has gone to sleep into the work. And your very highest enjoyment manner of action depending upon the actor’s and whisper to him The Truth about himself and of God throughout eternity will come through estimate of himself. them. Tell him he loves to give. Tell it over attractive work well done. Such work is the ex­ There is the animal estimate of self—with which and over, emphatically, fervently. Tell him we pression of God in you; it is literally God fiowitig all children are born; this estimate is instinctive, are all One and Love is that One. through your brain and nerves and muscles and expressing in the simple act of appropriating any­ H e is learning to live by the statements you out through your acts. You will never get closer thing which seems good. This instinct is omni­ make him. See you give him plenty of love- to God, nor enjoy him more, than in doing your present, from amoeba to man. It is based upon statements ; for love not only covers a multitude loving best. one’s self-estimate as simply a body with five of sins but wipes them out. But next to doing good is receiving good; in senses. It belongs to the condition of separate­ which act we enjoy God at second hand. W e catch ness from God and man. It is the little five-sense NEW THOUGHT GOES TO the shavings dropped from the doings of another. “ I” wresting from others its food—physical, men­ CHURCH. They are fresh, clean, beautiful shavings perhaps, tal and spiritual. It gives away only that for —“I often wish you would write something spe­ but they are the leavings and they are good for which it finds no use. It is the child-I; purely in­ cial for us women (we must be numerous) who, little except to kindle the fire. Even then, you see, stinctive and regardless of the rights and joys like yourself once, are good active church mem­ we have to do something with them in order to bers, who have been and are interested in the activ­ o f others. really enjoy them; and it is in the doing that our ities of our church, local, home and foreign mis­ But it is good; it is the seed of the divine “I” sion work. I really haven’t means nor time to give real enjoyment of God comes. which has many senses, and above all the sense all round, and still have what new thought liter­ Now we go to church to receive good impulses, of oneness. ature I wish, and time to read it and think about it. to catch the shavings left over from the doings I attend church regularly Sabbath mornings, have It lies in the mother’s domain, and the teacher’s of preacher and choir and even from the money- a Sunday School class of young ladies I’m attached domain, to cultivate the ground that the seed to, and usually attend Wednesday evening prayer doings which have made the church expressive of grow and the divine “I” come forth. meeting. Do you think that doing this and also the Highest; and we go to church to give g o o d When a gardener wants to grow something he helping in home and foreign mission work hinders impulses to our friends. my progress in the new thought? M y first hus­ does things, not with the seed itself, but with the Sometimes church-going ceases to be profitable band was a fine young minister in the Christian earth around it. But a mother usually keeps do­ denomination, in which church my membership because we go to receive and forget the most im­ ing things to the seed— which keeps it from grow­ is. Thinking of him and my many good warm portant part, the giving. Sometimes the church ing. She keeps harping on “selfishness”—which friends in the Congregational church here where authorities won’t let us give in our way; they I attend it is hard to break loose from church sets the habit. don’t want an expression of our heterodox ideas activity and relations. Should it be done? Gradu­ The only cure for petty manifestations of selfish­ ally? Or at once?’— Mary, ------and methods. Even then we can for a len gth o f ness is a deeper understanding. When Reginald G o to church as long as you find interests there; time enjoy God fiysiting realizes that to be selfish is to make others selfish as long as you can help or be helped. mentally the high impulses which the church toward him; that his pleasures increase as he The Law of Attraction is all-powerful and un­ authorities will not permit us to express orally. shares them; that he cannot live his life alone; erring; why use force against it? But soon this grows irksome and we cease to en­ he w ill outgrow petty selfishness. The church stands for the ideal; has all through joy it. Then is the time, if not before, to get out Experience is the only effective teacher. Regi­ these ages stood for the highest and best in man; of that particular church. It may be you can find nald has perhaps three sisters besides twenty-five and still stands for the highest and best— for another church where you will be freer; it may playmates. That makes twenty-eight equals with something higher and better than man himself has be you will find other uses for Sunday than attend­ whom his life is bound. If Reginald refuses to understood. Why should a woman desert the ing church. shares his goodies there are twenty-eight to give church simply because she catches a glimpse of the But whatever you do don’t continue too long sitting in the back pew fo r back his mete as he measures. By selfishness he reality which the church represents? W hy desert without enjoyment; loses at least twenty-eight treats to one. It does her friends because she happens to have had a bit this is the place and mode of death. Enjoyment o f G o d is n ot pay. of a revelation? Why not stay and reveal her life. It is Reginald’s mother’s privilege to so manipu­ revelation as long as the friends in that particular Someone has said that unexpressed thought late Reginald’s experiences that he will learn this church will let her. Why not stay and leaven the evaporates. I surmise that this is literally true, in childhood; instead of growing up to learn it whole lump, instead of withdrawing to mix with and that even the best of intentions and affirma­ by the world’s hard knocks. the rest of the leaven in some exclusive little tions evaporate from that back pew, leaving but It will do no good to compel Reginald to divide. church of its own? A Methodist or Baptist or a parched and shrivelled personality. H e m ust want to divide. So, if he chooses to keep Christian or Catholic church stands for just as G o do something for somebody quick, if you his gum to himself, let him have it. But send high truth as a Swedenborgian or a Unitarian or a would enjoy God and LIVE. No matter whether him away where he can enjoy it without rousing Christian Science church. The difference is in you go to a church to do it, or to a mission or a the envy of others. the people not in that which the church represents. prison, or to a needy neighbor’s, or just do it in It will add to the experience if upon his return I f y o u fit in with the people in the particular your own home and unto the least of these your he finds the other children finishing the enjoyment church with which you are affiliated; if you enjoy children and husband. Go bring order and beauty of something nicer than gum, of which there is them and they enjoy you; if you have much in from any chaos you happen to be nearest to, and nothing left for him. common; if you can understand and sympathize the enjoyment of God, of good, will be yours. But if you lecture him, or let him or the other healthily with them and they with you; if you As for the matter of making your money go children know it was all managed purposely, the and they are even a little bit happier for the asso­ around for all these missions and calls for new experience will lose its power as an object lesson. ciation ; if attendance at that church inspires you; thought literature, every individual must be his Never scold one child in the presence of another. giving a mental uplift and added enthusiasm for own judge. If a woman is too generous she will Take Reginald away by himself when he is in a doing your best; then by all means go to that be inclined to rob herself of the literature in order good humor and explain to him that if he w ere church, for the Law of Attraction which is Love to give. If she is “selfish”- she will rob the mis­ anxious enough to hunt up his sisters and share or God itself, is calling you there. sions in order to supply her own wants—and she his gum with them, they would have been anxious But don’t go to church for fear people will think will often quote “Charity begins at home” as her to find him and share their chocolates. Show you peculiar or ungodly, and don’t go from a sense excuse, forgetting that it is not good for charity him that selfishness actually robs him of good of duty—don’t dishonor God bv offering such a to alw ays stay at hom e. things, and that it keeps others from wanting to contemptible perfunctory “service.” If you can’t Use your best intelligence and don’t try to please him. Never tell him he “ought to” be enjoy God in church don’t go. The chief end of cover too much ground. One or two lines of generous. “Ought to” generosity is no generosity man and the chief end of all his goings and effort well supported in interest as well as money, at all. Show him that it is a pleasure to make comings is to enjoy God. If you can’t enjoy God are worth a dozen half done— where money is per­ others happy. in church he is calling you somewhere else to functorily given from custom, or “duty,” or from But above all things DON’T drive it in. E x ­ e n jo y him. fear of condemnation if you fail to give. plain gently and clearly, and let experience d o the I wonder if you have ever thought what it is to A general rule is to give where your interests rest. It will not take many experiences managed enjoy God. God is The Highest, the best which lie. I believe the purchasing power of a good- b y the rightly trained mother to show Reginald is in you. This is not all of God of course, but it willed dollar is far greater than that of carelessly the mistake of being selfish. is all with which you are directly concerned. The given or grudged dollars. Why do you suppose Never use the word "selfish." It is a powerful Highest in your neighbor may be higher or lower a man’s ill-gotten gains do him so little good? THE NAUTILUS. 3

Because no good will and interest went with the been opposed by her father; he reaps as he has race is because that development takes place na­ money—it was literally “cursed” ; and his own sown. Or else she is the daughter who has been turally, according to law, as the planet draws nearer to the sun. W e are now entering upon an ill conscience prevented his changing the curse to brought up with the idea that parents are a mere era of great development because, in drawing blessing. convenience for her use. closer to the source of life, we are now entering If you want your beneficiaries to really profit The way out of the Family Jar is often labyrin­ a higher sphere— an orbit which contains in itself by the dollars or dimes you give see that you thine ; but the Loving Individual can always many things about which we have been before very ignorant. In time, when we reach the point g iv e w ith intelligence and interest and G O O D thread it. that Venus today occupies, we will not have bodies WILL. If you want to receive the best good for that we could see today. Still further along, in dollars spent see you observe the same mode. DR. CARR ON PHILANTHROPY some thousands of years yet to come, this planet Never rob yourself or Peter of a good generous In the March issue of Medical Talk a letter will be in the orbit of Mercury, which is very close to the sun, and it is very likely that when gift in order to pay Paul and Peter and Tom, is published from a young gird who is very we reach there we will be simply a center of in­ Dick and Harry a miserly pittance. It’s bad for anxious to “make the world better.” In replying telligence compared with what we are today. y o u all. to her questions Dr. Carr gives utterance to the Later on this planet will plunge into the sun, and And remember that unless you are well taken following sound, sensible ideas we will then have returned to the point from which we started many millions of years ago. care of, unless your highest nature is well nour­ “There seems to be a general impression that We left the sun as pure spirit, and we will re­ to do good in the world, giving one’s life for ished, you curtail your power to help others. turn to it as pure spirit, plus the experiences we the benefit of the world, is something other than Don’t rob yourself of twelve visits of Nautilus have had on the journey. But if you ask why such following a legitimate avocation. I have given a journey was necessary or desirable I will have to o r Harper’s o r even The Ladies’ H om e Journal this subject a great deal of attention and I feel tell you that I don’t know. But the fact stands in order to give five cents a piece to a dozen or so sure there is no place in the world where any out that this globe is operated for us, since we one can do good except in some legitimate pur­ missions for supplying red flannel shirts to the are the highest form of life on it, and it certainly suit of business. Going one side from business Plottentots or the “gospel” to folks who don’t isn’t operated for anything less than we are. The only leads any one into embarrassment and dis­ w ant it. fact that it is a product of the sun; that it is appointment. Business affords the only legitimate sustained and held in place by the sun, and that In short, use your gumption, Sweethearts. opportunity for kindness and true charity. In its ultimate terminus is the sun certainly indicates our natural contact with men and women in a that we have some kind of a pull with that business way we have our only opportunity to remarkable source of life and energy.”— D odge. THE FAMILY JAR. spread sunshine and make the world brighter and better for having lived. —DON’T plead “I did the best I could” as an — “If a man and woman love each other and are “There is a continual disposition on the part excuse for a poor job. Such a plea is a libel on every way suited to marry should they yield to the of every one to think that philanthropy can be yourself—it is a li-e. No man has done the best opposition of his grown daughter?” M. A. dispensed in some dramatic way. That we can he could until he does the best that can be done. This question in varying forms comes to me find a place in life where we depart from all often. It always stirs within me something I business methods and become an advocate of You could have done the thing right if you had humanity in some special way. My observation put enough of your wits and will into the doing. used to call “righteous indignation.” And in­ of the people who attempt to do any such thing You didn’t Then be honest and say so. And cidentally it makes me smile. Translate the ques­ is that they do more mischief than good, that Wake up and do it over; or tion into Plain English and anybody can answer their mission is sure to end in disappointment make it right now. it without hesitancy. Put it this way: When two or else they degenerate into hirelings even more do the next thing better. disreputable than the people they set out to assist. Individuals know what they want and the whole —SUBSCRIBERS who were to receive a copy “Find some avocation in this life which you of ",Just H ow to Concentrate” as premium, please world approves, should they go away back and sit are fitted to fill. Fill that avocation as full as down because a third Individual tries to interfere you can with yourself. Become enthusiastic as note: A new edition of that booklet was slow in with their inherent right to the pursuit of happi­ to its details and hold before yourself the fact materializing, so we had to hold up your orders ness ? that you are helping the world to be better and for a few days. The booklets came and the last of wiser through your function. This is the only these orders were mailed before New Year’s Day. O f cou rse not. A man or woman old enough improvement that will amount to anything. Read­ to have a grown daughter is old enough to know ing books on theoretical subjects that can never So we did not reply to postal card complaints of whether he wants to marry again. Not even the be put into actual practice, only breeds discon­ non-receipt of the booklet. If your copy has not most precocious daughter is a better judge than tent. It is what you do, what you are actually yet reached you it has gone astray; and if you able to accomplish, not what you read or what you her iaUiei as- to what is best for his own happi­ will again notify us another copy will be mailed to think or what you imagine, that makes you of ness. any use in the world.” you. I trust you will pardon the delay or possible Ah, there’s the rub! It is not his happiness she loss in the name of the universal holiday rush— is concerned about. It is her own. A new —L. W. Billingsly is “an optimist sixty-two not our rush but the printer’s and post office marriage would interfere with the daughter’s years young and headed strong for sixty-two p eop le’s ! plans. She would have to give the chief place to more.” He is doing his share of missionary work —W e began to fear Conable’s Path-Finder had the new wife. She would have to give up a share among us American heathen. On a white card he got itself lost in the wilds of the Ozarks, but here of the prospective inheritance she has more or less has printed for distribution the following: it is again, large as life and twice as natural, in a consciously been counting upon. So she opposes “Fourteen rules framed from writers on health brand new pine-cone-trimmed suit, and bubbling her father’s re-marrying. culture, and from personal observation and expe­ over with enthusiasm. And what do you think!— rience, that tend to promote health, happiness, and But apparently not on these grounds— dear, no! lo n g life. not content with buying 8,000 acres of the Ozarks Her father is “too old,” or “too weakly,” or the “i. Get your full share of pure air and sun­ and starting Path-Finder Park and a non-meat intended wife is “not nice.” The daughter con­ shine, and often breathe deeply. eating, non-breakfasting colony, the irrepressible jures up a dozen excuses, but never the real o n e ; “2. Eat sparingly, and little or no meat, and Edgar Wallace has installed a new printing plant, drink two quarts of water daily. of which she is not fully conscious herself,—and laid him out a town and got it named Conable, “3. Walk perfectly erect, not less than four doesn’t want to be. miles daily, or have equivalent exercise. and has had himself appointed postmaster. He is The parent’s “duty” to children is great; far “4. Keep clean, dress neatly and with propriety the whole show down there, and his anxious greater than the child’s duty to parent; but at all times. friends can find him by addressing “Conable, Ark.” “5. Be temperate in all things, and do the parental self-sacrifice should certainly not be c o n ­ Nothing else needed! Good name, too. May the square thing by everybody. tinued for life. A grown daughter is an Indi­ “6. Be cheerful, composed, fear nothing, and Conable, Ark., find tip top sailing. vidual, who should stand on her own feet and never hurry. —“I still have lots to overcome and bring my make her own happiness without curtailing the “7. Bear no one angry thoughts, and don’t be a way.” Anna. fault finder. happiness of parents. The only thing to be overcome is one’s own “8. Think of the good rather than the bad in Let her leave her father to a renewal of youth others. misunderstanding and misuse of life. Life is. and happiness; or let her gracefully and kindly "9. Think of your good health and not of your T h in g s are coming your way. Nothing was, or accept her rightful second place and use her loving ills. is, or ever will be against you. ALL things are “10. Be an active member of the ‘Don’t Worry energies in helping to make bright the home. working for you and with you. They have com e C lu b.’ A sensible, well trained, loving daughter will “11. Tell your troubles to a lawyer or police­ y o u r w ay. But you won’t believe it, and therefore do one of these two things. man : don’t annoy others. you make no use of them. WHEREFORE . A sensible, well trained, loving parent will con­ “12. Utter these words before rising in the THEY HANG AROUND CLAMORING TO morning: ‘Courage,’ ‘Force,’ ‘Decision,’ ‘Com­ sider his daughter’s feelings and will do all he BE USED. Only by using that which comes can posure,’ ‘Concentration,’ ‘Accuracy,’ ‘Self-Reli­ can to gain her willingness before he marries; but ance,’ ‘Cheerfulness,’ and live them. we get rid of it. The more intelligence and in­ he will not make a lasting sacrifice of his own “13. Strive each day to do one or more un­ genuity we put into the using the earlier we get and the other woman’s happiness simply to please selfish acts. through with them. And when we are through “14. Be brave enough to acknowledge your a selfish girl. with a thing it slips away with as little effort as m istakes.” If daughter and parent are not sensible, well it cam e, leaving room for something better. A ll — “When a new planet is ‘born’ it is in the form trained and loving it will be a case of frying pan of a very hot gas thrown out from the sun hun­ this effort to “overcome” things and “bring them or fire either way. dreds of millions of miles. It goes until it is your way” simply keeps them away—as a drown­ The recognition of individual rights to the pur­ stopped by the extreme cold, and then begins to ing man’s struggles keep the floating life preserver form a sphere of gas, very much distended. It suit of happiness according to individual desire, from coming his way. A quiet, cheerful, faith-full draws gradually nearer to the sun, as it begins to is the only basis of happiness in family relations. revolve around it, becoming more and more solid heart and mind sets up a current which will in the The daughter who helps her father do as he de­ as the ages pass. In the course of thousands of fulness of time bring all you ever desired—if you sires will find him ready to help her d o as she d e­ centuries it reaches the place where Mars is now. don’t churn the current into froth trying to “over­ It then begins to form a crust, and by the time sires. And come” what it has already brought you. Things vice versa. it reaches the point where this planet was ioo,- The daughter who “opposes” her father’s mar­ 000,000 years ago animal life appears. The reason are coming your way. Let ’em . Take them, and riage is quite apt to be the daughter who has why we see the steady development of the human make the best of each in its turn. 4 THE NAUTILUS.

INDIVIDUALISM^. at their advertising. It is possible to make a patent tion as a whole, pleasing and satisfactory. The medicine ad a suggestion for health. Some ad­ ed itor o f Eternal Progress had only kind words B y W il l ia m E . T o w n e. vertisers do it. The list of symptoms should be of praise for the convention. Here is a brief HYPOCRISY. Shelton says, “ dam the hypocrites.” reduced to the minimum or entirely omitted. extract from his report: This is his mild and gentle manner Testimonials which are free from recitals of symp­ “To be in the presence of that wonderful gath­ of suggesting that hypocrisy has no part in the toms have a cheering effect upon those who are ering was an inspiration that will never be for­ gotten. The Spiritual Power that was present in life of the God-Man. The hypocrite part of us inclined to try the remedy. that assembly was simply immense; it was so should be dammed (checked) and ignored. strong that your entire being was thrilled through Hypocrisy is a species of dishonesty. W e seem WOMAN AND A woman knows, but she does and through during every moment you were to be that which we are not. This is inimical to INTUITION. not know how she knows. Man, present. You felt as if the very heavens had come down and you were standing in the very Presence health and happiness. It is weakening. The hyp­ secure in his intellectual conceit, of Him Who is All Power, All Peace and All ocrite soon loses respect for himself. is apt to look down upon her for this. Man is Love. What was heard was beautiful, grand, It is always the mortal part of us which plays very apt to get the big head because of his superior sublime; what was seen was far more beautiful; the hypocrite. W e have a great deal of false pride, strength. But the intuition of woman is a safer but what was felt was the most beautiful of all.” and desire to impress others with our superiority. guide by far than the intellect of man where the The convention formulated a statement of new We hate to acknowledge our mistakes. We fear deep things of life are concerned. Woman is more thought principles which seems above criticism ridicule. adaptable, more childlike, more responsive than so far as I am concerned. For the benefit of But as the Real Man comes to the surface and man. When the infinite forces play upon her she Nautilus readers I will insert this statement here­ begins to manifest we shall drop cant and hypoc­ interprets them according to her intuition and not w ith : risy. W e shall know others at their true worth according to her intellectual understanding, and in “The New Thought is the New interpretation of Universal and Eternal Truth. and be known in the same manner. this way she keeps closer to the heart of nature “God—Universal Spirit, Mind, Principle,—is This does not mean that we shall judge others, and the throne of the All-Good than man. A Omnipresent, Omniscient, and Omnipotent. in any sense. Each one unconsciously judges woman’s faith surmounts all obstacles. A man’s “Man is the individual expression of God, pos­ himself, even while he wears the mask of hypoc­ faith is almost always weak in times of trial. sessing inherently and capable of manifesting, all the aspects of God. risy. Emerson says: “In full court, or in small Faith cannot live where the intellect rules. “Man unfolds to a continuously expanding con­ committee, or confronted face to face, accuser Here is an interesting extract from a letter re­ sciousness and manifestation of these aspects, and accused, men offer themselves to be judged. cently received from a man who is an earnest through right thinking and right living. Against their will they exhibit those decisive reader o f Nautilus. H e sa y s: “The consciousness of harmony is Heaven, here and now; in the realization of which abide peace trifles by which character is read. But who “Disraeli says ‘there is a rapture in the strife of mind and health of body. judges? and what? Not our understanding. We of factions that a woman’s soul can never reach,’ “The essentials of the New Thought are sug­ and I say ‘there is a rapture in the communion do not read them by learning or craft. N o; the gested by the words: Unity, Co-operation, Free­ with a woman’s soul that the intellect of man can wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he never reach.’ They are that part of God which dom, Brotherhood, Individuality.” does not judge them; he lets them judge them­ we have lost and must in some way regain. There will be another new thought convention, selves, and merely reads and records their own Woman intuitionally grasps the spiritual truths under the same management, at St. Louis some­ verdict.” All this is only another way of saying which we must toil hard to formulate into percep- time during the present year. Those who feel that if you give a person rope enough he will interested in the subject of organization will no hang himself. doubt be glad to attend. But if you expect to get All this applies only to the mortal man. The t PLEASE LOOK! -g the most benefit from the convention, don’t go Real Man is not concerned with judgments or j i At the special offers on page 8, column i, of with an axe to grind, either for yourself or an­ judging. He simply knoit's. this Nautilus. You are all invited to partake. ¡5 ^» other, and don’t expect that you will hear nothing O f what avail, then, is the mask of hypocrisy? outside your own brand of new thought men­ It accomplishes no more than a boy’s jack-o’- tioned. Go with the intention of co-operating with lantern. We soon come to know the hypocrite, the other fellow if he won’t co-operate with you. tion, and if we can come en rapport with their either in ourselves or others. It is better to let Then you will not be disappointed. H. soul life we have gained a'glimpse of paradise simplicity characterize our relations with the uni­ lost. If I could sit down and talk to Elizabeth, Personally I prefer to keep clear of all organiza- verse. There is a grandeur about the simplicity Kate, Nancy or Ella or Helen, Moses and Elias tions. I feel regarding them as Emerson expresses might go up or down the street unhailed.” of truth which nothing else can equal. it in his verse on “Communion” : “Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, PATENT Several physical culture and hy- THE NEW THOUGHT The new thought con- I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome. MEDICINES. gienic publications are engaged in CONVENTION. vention at Chicago seems, And when I am stretched beneath the pines, “taking a fall” out of the patent in most ways, to have Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, medicine manufacturers just at present. They been a success. First of all it is said to have been At the sophist schools and the learned clan. seem especially inclined to criticise Peruna in no a financial success. This is pleasing and satisfac­ For what are they all, in their high conceit, very friendly manner, because it “has been found tory. The only way to conduct such a meeting is When man in the bush with God may meet?” on analysis to contain over twenty-five per cent of along business lines. Make it pay for itself, or alcohol.” I am neither a doctor, chemist or user d o n ’t h o ld it. BRIEFS. of patent medicines or alcohol in any form, there­ O f course there were a considerable number of B y W il l ia m E . T o w n e . fore my opinion may not be worth much; but people at the convention who were not satisfied. for the life of me I cannot see that any harm is Some of these were impolite enough to make some * * * The Ladies’ Home Journal has g on e likely to come to one who takes a bottle or two rather unkind remarks about the convention. into the mail order business, it seems. In the last of diluted alcohol in teaspoonful doses. To be Those who went there with the expectation of issue they advertise Dr. Van Dyke’s poem, “The sure it might not accomplish much good. But hearing nothing but their own particular brand of Foot-path to Peace,” mounted on cardboard at would it and does it accomplish all the harm these ideas advocated were, of course, disappointed. ten cents per copy. Wonder what they’ll do with nublications would have us believe? I cannot Others, according to the published reports (we the stacks of dimes they will receive? I can think so. But I may be wrong. I often am. But were not present), were anxious to see the con­ remember when the Journal’s circulation was being until the evidence against the patent medicines is vention take up certain subjects which it did not built up by mail order methods. I believe they much stronger than at present it would be the see fit to discuss, and consequently these indi­ even were not above employing the puzzle contest worst kind of an outrage to prohibit their sale by viduals pronounced the convention a failure. Be­ scheme at one time. law, as some of these liberal (?) journals advo­ tween the rowdies who were anxious to run things, * * * How many people realize the wonder­ cate. These publications never fail to come to the people who had axes to grind, the liberal wing ful work that is being done by Dr. J. H. Kellogg, the front in opposition to proposed medical legis­ and the conservatives, the management must have who stands at the head of the Battle Creek, Mich., lation, but I do not see that there is any better been “between the devil and the deep sea” a good Sanitarium? This institution has over thirty ground for prohibiting patent medicines than there share of the time, and to an impartial outsider it branches in all parts of the civilized world, where is for interfering with the right of the individual looks as if they did exceedingly well under the rational living is taught. Obedience to nature’s to employ the kind of a healer he chooses. circumstances. laws and a pure diet, free from meat and condi­ Thousands of country people are greatly helped T h e Mental Advocate gave a fine report of the ments, is insured at each of these health homes. and benefited by the use of patent medicines. convention in detail. Unity, also, gave a good The Sanitarium management also controls about Whether this is due to any virtue which the medi­ report, as was to have been expected. Colonel thirty vegetarian cafes and restaurants in different cine possesses, or is simply a matter of faith, does Sabin seems to have the opinion that the liberal parts of the United States. not concern us. The fact is that these medicines wing was rather too dominant. Charles Wallace * * * Truth is bound to receive recognition, take the place of a regular physician to these Silver, who gives the convention a bad black eye sooner or later. Facts will not always be ignored. people in numberless mild disorders, and to inter­ in his report published in It, insists that it was You may ignore a truth for a time, but it will only fere with their right to use these remedies would the orthodox element who were to blame. Of cause it to become stronger in the end. be most unjust. course Mrs. Gestefeld, in her notice of the con­ There is only one thing in regard to patent vention, published in her magazine, The Exodus, * * * The clergy and the medical profession medicines that I object to, and that is the style of was not altogether complimentary. have, to a great extent, been ignoring the truth some of their advertising. Some of these ads In short, this convention was not unlike all other contained in the new thought. But all the time the are a powerful suggestion for diseased conditions. similar gatherings. Each individual took away facts concerning healing were making themselves If any regulation by law of the sale of patent according to what he carried. Those who went felt, and now there are strong indications that medicines is to be attempted, it should be aimed there with love and good will found the conven- both doctors and clergymen are becoming inter- THE NAUTILUS. 5 ested in knowing whether there is not some truth * * * The truths embodied in the new thought distinctly state or intimate that God leads into in the new teachings. have not been unknown to those who, in past evil as well as good, that he hardens not only ages, have lived by the spirit rather than by the Pharaoh’s heart but the hearts of all evil doers. * * * It cannot be denied that this movement letter of their religion. It may be true that the Read the allegory in the first chapters of Job and has attracted to itself some adherents who are majority of orthodox people today are living by you will see that Satan asked permission before he fantastic and unbalanced, and whose teachings the letter that killeth rather than by the Spirit tempted Job. And it was the Spirit which led are too extreme to appeal very seriously to the which giveth life, and hence cannot see that their Jesus up into the mount to be tempted. Every­ level-headed, honest truth seekers. Many who religion has an identical basis with the new where the Bible teaches that there is but One became identified with the new thought early in thought. But in all creeds there are individuals Spirit, which leads us beside still waters or into its history, were swept off their feet by the first who recognize that each and every creed and paths of evil, which hardens our hearts or softens glorious glimpse of truth. But gradually we are cu lt has some foundation in truth, and he who them as is best for us at that particular time and getting our feet down on a solid foundation, lives by the Spirit comes to realize the underlying place; all this THAT WE MAY GROW IN and the truth in our system of thought is working unity of all things, however far apart they may WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE. ALL things itself out and shining so brightly that even the seem to be upon the surface. work together for good to us and the universe dwellers in the very dark corners are beginning and God. That’s what I’ve been telling you— to inquire as to the cause of the illumination. * * * I have given considerable space to a con­ sideration o f Mr. Harrington’s pamphlet in order there is no evil; there is only the good God and * * * I have before me a very interesting ad­ to show you how the new light is permeating the his manifestations. There is light and darkness, dress on “Psychic Healing,” (Burrows Brothers, world, melting down the surface barriers which both made by the One Power. And the “clay” Cleveland, O. Price ten cents.) delivered by Rev. prevent a full and free understanding and accept­ is not to blame except as it blames itself. T h e p ot Vernon C. Harrington of Cleveland, O., in the ance of truth. I consider this sermon of Mr. calls the kettle black, and all the time God hard­ Second Presbyterian Church of that city, and Harrington’s one o f the most significant signs of ens here and softens there, multiplying our experi­ also read before the Presbyterian Ministers’ Club the times. ences of good and evil, to tepch us that all is good of Cleveland. The address is published in pam­ * * * There is another movement to which I and no one to blame. “God’s in his heaven (in phlet form by request of the club. wish to call attention, that is destined to accom­ your heart and mine) and all’s right with the * * * This address is a fair and impartial sum­ plish much in bringing out the underlying basis world.” Get above the earth, Brother Gault, and mary of the facts in regard to Christian Science, of truth in all the different schools of thought. I the larger vision will be yours. “To know all is Mental Healing, etc., as they appear to an honest refer to the Federation o f Religions outlined by to forgive all;” and to really forgive is to know orthodox investigator. The author has read a Rev. Hiram Vrooman in his recently published there is nothing to forgive. God over All knows goodly number of standard new thought books, book. (“The Federation of Religions,” published this; it is only petty man who rewards and blames; and has also taken the time to personally investi­ by the Nunc Licet Press, Philadelphia, Pa.) Mr. and the pettier the man the more he blames. gate some of the healing work done by new Vrooman’s general purpose is explained in his —In the New York Journal of January 10 there thought methods. His conclusions are far more opening words: “The Federation of Religions appeared an interesting full page article by Mrs. favorable to the new teachings than one would seeks to bring into co-operative relationship as Blanche C. Martin, professor of oratory and expect. It is especially pleasing to find an ortho­ many persons as possible, from any or every re­ Psycho-Physical Culture at the famous and fash­ dox clergyman giving public utterance to his faith ligion, who are truly open minded and loyal ionable Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Mass. I in the law of mental or spiritual healing, even if hearted to truth. Its chief object is to carry for­ wish you could all read that article and become one does not coincide fully with the explanations ward, as far as possible with an accuracy equal to enthused to live hygienically as well as to think which he offers concerning the philosophy of such that of science, the investigation of spiritual or new-thoughtfully. Mrs. Martin wears no corsets, healing. religious truths.” runs her own automobile, walks five miles a day * * * Something of what these clergymen are * * * Mr. Harrington thinks that the spread of and sleeps on an open veranda summer and Christian Science is due almost wholly to its power trying to accomplish in the religious world is winter. She is a handsome, stylish and magnifi­ to heal. Whatever is true of Christian Science, being undertaken in the medical profession by cently healthy woman and says of herself: “If 1 believe the spread of the new thought in general Dr. Leavitt, a review of whose book appears else­ L keep on growing young as I have during the is due to its all-around regenerating power. The where. This book is dedicated to “Those of the past four years (since she took to sleeping out­ truth not only heals physical ills, but it makes of medical profession who love truth and do not doors) ,1 expect to be irresistible at seventy.” man a new creature, as he comes more and more fear to stand for it.” And she says, too: “My husband who was a into an understanding of it. The acceptance and * * * The grand object of each of these work­ consumptive a few years ago, has now almost per­ practical personal understanding of the divine ers is to bring about a fuller knowledge of the fectly recovered by sleeping on a couch with his truths which are more or less clearly formulated basic truths of life, and a more harmonious re­ head directly under a wide open window.” Fur­ in the teachings of the new thought, will renew lationship between all sects and creeds. thermore she says: “But I do not advise people the entire being of man, and bring him into har­ * * * The real, essential difference in the be­ to begin sleeping out of doors in winter. Wait monious relations with the whole universe. liefs of those who are earnest truth seekers, and until next spring or summer. Then, as the sea­ * * * Personally I believe the truth which who love the spirit rather than the letter, is not son advances, your system will get toned up and underlies the new thought movement is the same great. It is only that our various points of view in condition to resist the cold of winter. But which has animated all religious movements in the and our methods of expression make the differ­ what every one can do at once is to have the past. All religious and philosophical systems are ence seem great. Many are seeking now for the windows of one’s sleeping rooms open top and due to man’s efforts to come into harmony with common basis of truth which they know upholds bottom and so get all the fresh air possible. You truth, to comprehend and embody the principle all systems of belief, and when this common meet­ do not need to have any fear of sleeping in a of divine law and order. ing point is found the millennium will be ushered draught.” Mrs. Martin teaches to her classes at in. W . E . T . * * * Under the heading of “Grounds for Be­ Lasell a sort of cross between mental science and physical culture. During their exercises the girls lief in Real Divine Healing,” Mr. Harrington — “ Your fine article in the January Nautilus in his pamphlet ably states the basis of healing as lacks only one thing; you omit to state that only think or chant of beauty, life, joy, health, happi­ follows: “Health is the normal condition. Dis­ by copious drinking of pure water can the lime, ness, etc., much as described in Solar Plexus ease is abnormal. The whole tendency of the dirt, ash, etc., of the body be removed. Nothing book. Mrs. Martin was much pleased with that else in the world will take out the clinkers of the little book because it agreed with her own self- laws of Nature is to conserve health, else the human furnace. Old people should drink two or race would long ago have perished from the earth. three quarts daily o f pure water. God never made evolved methods and practices. Before Christmas The laws of Nature foster life,—heal wounds, any other kind of water but pure water. All the she bought fifty copies of "Just How to Wake the repair fractures, refresh the tired body in sleep, thoughts and all the care and all the rules of a Solar Plexus” to present to fifty of her girls at thousand hygienic systems will never renew the Lasell. raise up men and women in gradual recovery from body until we stop pouring lime and dirt into the sickness. All the restorative power is that of system by the use of raw water, and until we begin — “Never take upon yourself the task of satisfy­ Nature, the great mother of us all, constantly try­ flushing the system by means of clean water. Add ing any one or anything except your own mind— yourself. The great men of every age have been ing to get us back into normal condition. The distilled water to your philosophy, and tell old people not to eat grains such as wheat, that are those who, while they have been working for the laws of Nature are the laws of God, His power loaded with mineral matter. After forty a man good of nations or races, did not care whether touching us, His hands moulding and guiding us.” should live on nuts, fruits, eggs and lean meat, the mass of people approved their ideas or not. and a very very small portion o f meat; better The reason of this is that to be a superior person * * * Remember that these are the words of none. Happy Christmas—good luck to Nautilus one must necessarily be in advance of the average an orthodox minister, and that they were delivered —prosperous 1904.” Elmer Ellsworth Carey, public intelligence—otherwise he would not be from an orthodox pulpit. W e doubt if any new Assistant Editor of Suggestion, Chicago. superior—and the average public intelligence al­ ways crucifies that which does not conform to its thought writer could have better stated the basic — “Does the quotation, ‘And lead us not into own low standard. Hence, when you begin to truths upon which mental or spiritual healing temptation,’ imply that he does or would do so progress you must look for approval of yourself rests. sometimes with us? I have always been under from one source only—your own mind. You will the impression that the good shepherd never led find it impossible to please even a small circle * * * The main point brought out in this dis­ us into any wrong, but that he created nothing of immediate beneficiaries, to say nothing of the cussion of psychic healing by Mr. Harrington is but good. Please explain this verse, Isaiah x l v : whole mob. This does not mean that you are not 7— “ I form the light and create darkness, I make that there is nothing about it which is unreason­ to be useful to others; but be useful in your own peace and create evil, I the Lord do all these way and just to the extent that it pleases you, and able or inconsistent with a religious faith. In things.’ And now I would ask you, would the don’t care a cuss whether they like it or not. Then a deep sense this is undoubtedly true. That which clay be to blame for what it has been made into ?” you will not be wasting your time in cultivating seem s to be contradictory between the old and the W. C. Gault, 1224 14th avenue, Detroit, Mich. fruit of the Dead Sea variety.” E. W . D odge in new is o f the surface— merely superficial. These are not the only Bible quotations which Riches. 6 THE NAUTILUS.

—In reference to the article, “To Free Your — “Atma Fairy Stories” is a dainty cloth bound such words of greeting and good cheer; such songs Soul,” in January Nautilus, A. W. Rideout wants volume of short stories and poems for young folks, as were sung; such benedictions pronounced and to know if I practice what I preach, and if not, written by Laura C. Holloway-Langford, Elizabeth such harmony and inspiration in it all ! I wonder why I preach it. He asks if I fast one day in P. Chapin and Maude Ralston and published by if we new-thoughters, who are wont to exalt indi­ seven and if not why not. For some time I ob­ Home Publishing Company, New York. Price, viduality, realize the good that great convention served the weekly fast day, and at intervals, when seventy- five cents. Some of the poems are unusu­ did in making us realize our one-ness and our the spirit moved, I fasted longer than the thirty- ally good, and the stories are sweet, fanciful and power. I am proud of us all, and I hope they will six hours. The longest fast I ever took was fifty- full of new thought implications. hurry up the new convention “Official Register” so we can read the reports of the many fine six hours. In addition to this I live on one good — “The Federation of Religions” is a new book speeches made by everybody. Send ten cents for meal a day and one very light one; sometimes very by Rev. Hiram Vrooman of Boston, who is presi­ the Convention Number of Mental Advocate and light indeed. For this evening’s meal I ate three dent of the Federation of Religions and president stewed and slightly sweetened figs and drank read Miss Kiersted’s graphic description of the very of the Co-Workers Fraternity. This book is a a large glass of grape juice and lemonade. I convention. Address her at The Concord, 24th clear, concise and interesting presentation of frequently eat simply a few grapes at night, or an street and Indiana avenue, Chicago. The next spiritual philosophy which will interest every orange or apple. Once in a while, if I have exer­ convention will be held at the great St. Louis Ex­ thinker on religious lines. The book is beautifully cised in some unusual way and am particularly position. L e t’s go. printed and bound in blue cloth and gold and sells hungry I eat a bit of bread or drink chocolate or for eighty-five cents, postpaid. Issued by The ice cream soda (!) along with my fruit supper. Nunc Licet Press, 42 West Coulter street, Phila­ I have lived thus for nearly four years, and for Ebe Success ditele. delphia. almost three years we have lived without meat Do you desire to better your condition f Do you desire —“ Psycho-Therapy in the Practice of Medicine to help relative or friend to better his? Then join us and except on a very few occasions when we were GROW SUCCESo. * * * By sending me an order away from home. In addition to this I take daily and Surgery,” by Sheldon Leavitt, M. D., is a book for $3.00 worth of my books and papers you will be en­ of unusual note and merit. Calculated to enthuse titled to my " Course of Lessons on the Attainment o f Suc­ cool baths, and night and morning I do my little cess/* and a year’s membership in the Success Circle up-to-date doctors with new thought and to wake ABSOLUTELY FREE. 1 will, if desired, enter also the breathing and light gymnastic exercises. I drink name of your wife or husband or other relative or friend back-numbers to the fact that the procession is plenty of water the first thing in the morning and without extra charge. Back dues for T h e N a u t i l u s may leaving them behind. And written in interesting be counted in on this $3.00 order. * * * OR, you may the last thing at night. All this, along with my have o n e membership in the Success Circle for one year, mental attitude, keeps me in first class trim. The and un-technical terms which present his argu­ by sending $1.00 for the Course of Lessons and a year’s subscription to N a u t i l u s IN AD VAN CE. I f you are in ment clearly and forcefully, almost thrillingly, to very tiniest ill feeling on my part means more arrears for N a u t i l u s it will be necessary to pay up to layman as well as professional man. Dr. Leavitt date, and send $1.00 besides, to pay for a year in advance, fasting, more water, more breathing. Because I and the Lessons. * * * OR, you may have o n e mem­ n o w very rarely have ill feelings of any sort I very upholds and explains even our much-abused “ab­ bership in the Circle by sending $1.00 for "H ow to Grow Success” (or any other of my own books to the amount of rarely fast except as I invariably leave out the sent treatment” in a way to make the hair of the 50 cents), and the " Course of Lessons on the Attainment medical profession stand on end with surprise and of Success.” * * * REMEMBER, no books or papers morning meal. You see, fasting is for house­ substituted for mine. NOTE TERMS CAREFULLY, for cleaning purposes. The careless housekeeper lets conviction if not horror. If I were a Carnegie NO deviations will be made. * * * Every member of the Circle should have besides the new Lessons and N a u ­ I’d present a copy of this book to every doctor the dirt and ill feelings pile up until it takes a t i l u s , a copy each of “How to Grow Success,” "Solar in the land, and to every mental healer and Chris­ Plexus” book and "H ow to Concentrate,” as aids in under­ regular upheaval of cleaning, or perhaps several of standing and applying the law of success. * * * When them, to get rid of the dirt; whilst a wise house­ tian Scientist. For the latter class need the old joining write me a brief and TO-THE-POINT statement of your desires, and if possible send a photo o f yourself, keeper after once getting her house clean takes science so well presented in this book as much as with name, address and date of birth written on the back. some of the doctors need the new. There is only Do not send one that must be returned, and see that daily pains to keep it so. By those weekly and postage is fully prepaid. * * * Your order will be semi-weekly fasts two years or so ago I cleaned one flaw I can find in Dr. Leavitt’s presentation— filled and the nrst of the Course of Lessons sent you by return mail. * * * I teach Success by these means, house pretty thoroughly; since which I have taken he says healing by suggestion “belongs to the med­ and daily I speak for the Circle collectively the Silent ical profession” (ye gods!) and wants legislation Word o f Success. daily pains to keep clean. No breakfasts, vegeta­ ELIZABETH TOWNE. rian dinners, fruit suppers, with occasionally no to prevent anybody else using it. Just as if sug­ supper at all, have thus far done the trick. If I gestion of health were dangerous unless applied by T o t h e S u ccess C ircle :— should at any time feel dull, or headachy, or tired, a man with a diploma’- And as if an individual “ I think I am ready for Lesson III. Can renqj^ has not a right to take what suggestion he pleases some success—the securing of a posuioiwiK^uic o r cross, or tear-y, or need extra energy for work promise of a life companion. When I entered the and from whom he pleases! And as if he wouldn’t of any kind, I should cut my present food supply Circle I held a position for which I was not fitted. do it in spite of legislation! Good land!—we live in two, and perhaps change it; and possibly cut It was in a law office. Failure kept developing and move and have our being in suggestion. I’d it off entirely for a day or two or three. My until I began to get desperate. Then a love affair like to see the medical profession corner all the broke out! I reckon your ‘Dearie-ism’ is conta­ general rule is to eat what I like, but to regulate health, happiness and success suggestions and leave gious. Then I lost my job but strengthened the the quantity and the time for eating. If one regu­ sweet chains at the same time. For weeks I us laymen to use only suggestions of sickness and lates quantity and time, and confines himself to walked the streets looking for work, until my death! Wouldn’t that out-trust any trust yet plain foods, he may trust his appetite to indicate funds were reduced to five cents. But I kept up a imagined? But don’t worry, dearies—that is a happy front. T h e day I intended to start for the his menu. Indiscriminate stuffing on gastronomic north woods (or what there is left of them) I trust busted before it is realized. The world is complexities produces an unnatural appetite which struck a position just to my liking, and I am now bonds, not making them. And it is amus­ cannot be trusted. The whiskey habit is created loosing a square man in a square hole, and that on only ing to read this opinion of Dr. Leavitt’s after read­ and perpetuated by this very thing; and can be two Lessons. Though I have for the past twelve ing his statements as to the general impotence of years been acquainted with the mental methods cured by persistent short fasts, no-breakfasts, and contained therein nothing I have seen has been so medicine and the frequent misuse of both medicine plain non-meat diet. quick and sure of results.” Nazar. and surgery by men who sport diplomas! Oh, I publish this -letter for the encouragement of ANENT BOOKS AND THINGS. diplomas are cheap and many a man can parade a others whose first efforts at living the new thought diploma who has not gumption enough to give — “Spice and Rose Leaves” is a “Pot Pourri” of seem to bring disaster. One to whom the new effective health suggestions. But read Dr. Leav­ quite creditable verse by Miranda Powers Swenson thought brings a sudden mental revolution is quite itt’s book for yourself— and smile at his one foible! of Sartoria, Neb. Cloth bound, well printed. apt to find his environment turned upside down W e all have ’em! “Psycho-Therapy” is a large P rice, $1.25. to match. Christian Scientists call this “chemical­ well made book of 236 pages issued by the Gamer- —“Mental Science, Its Nature and Objects” is ization,” and liken it to the results affected by Taylor Press, 79 Fifth avenue, Chicago. Price an “introductory pamphlet” just issued by the dropping soda into sour milk. When new thought not given; probably $2.00. “Higher Thought Center” recently established at was very new nearly everybody was at first “chem­ 10 Cambridge Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. — I am in receipt of O Hashnu Hara’s five type­ icalized,” because the new ideas produced such a May success grow for “Center” and pamphlet. written “Lessons in Telepathy,” which I find most sudden and radical change in the thinking, and interesting and instructive. If these lessons cannot — I have received a character reading of myself, consequently in the body and surroundings. Vio­ enable you to effect telepathic communication written from my name and my mother’s maiden lent sick spells often resulted from treatment or nothing will. Clearest and most practical direc­ name, by Ellen L. Kent of Portland, Ore., an old from study of the new science. In fact “chemical­ tions I have seen. O Hashnu Hara is the bright friend of mine who loves to help folks. Her read­ ization” was the rule, instead of the exception as ed itor o f The English Magazine of Mysteries and ing is accurate, illuminative and helpful, as well now. The change is due to the fact that new telepathy is her hobby, which she rides to the ad­ as interesting. Thank you, Ellen. thought is permeating the entire social world and miration and inspiration of the beholder. Her nearly everybody has been taking it in homeopathic -—Before me is an interesting little booklet called address is 15 Tothill street, Westminster, London, and unlabelled doses from the pulpit, from lectur­ “Flower Visions,” by William Heald, 15 Tothill S. W ., and she will send you the Lessons for $1.05, ers, from the magazines, the new novels, the Sun­ street, Westminster, London, S. W., England. paper money and stamps, or international money day “editorial sections” and even from the daily Price of booklet, one shilling or about twenty-five order. papers. So when new thought is presented to him cents. Order of the author. Contains instructions —A t last!—here is the long-hoped-for and al- as a science and art and practice he says, “Oh, yes, for using clairvoyance through flower gazing. most-despaired-of report of the great New that agrees with what I always believed” ; and the —“How to Read Character by Handwriting,” Thought Convention held at Chicago. And such changes wrought in him are less severe and rapid. by Henry Rice, is the first book of the kind to be a report!—it is written by Grace Adelaide Kier- If new thought “chemicalizes” you just rejoice. published at the popular price of twenty-five cents. sted, who is brimful of enthusiasm over the great Keep up a “happy front” as Nazar did. And keep Mr. Rice is an able graphologist and a fluent and event. Her description of the great gathering and practicing. Don’t be scared out by a few “feel­ lucid writer, and his new book is complete and the good times they had makes my mouth water; ings,” a rush of blood, a bilious spell or a finan­ fully illustrated, containing many points of interest and almost makes my eyes water to think I cial “disaster.” Keep at it. All things are work­ not found in older books of the kind. couldn’t be there. Such a happy time as they had; ing together to manifest what you desire. I f you THE NAUTILUS 7

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If you will send me If your house tumbles about your ears look happy unseen nervous systems “the believing wife shall $11 will tell you how to cure yourself, at home. No drugs. Recovery sure and permanent. EDWARD and expect a better one. G o in to win, and stick sanctify the husband” and one friend or relative G. CAMP, Drawer 4 A., MIDDLETOWN, CONN. quietly and confidently to it if the heavens fall. helps or hinders another. New heavens will be revealed. What you desire E l iza b e th T o w n e . will manifest—unless you are a fraidie-cat and "THAT WHICH HE ALL LOI« FOR.” turn back. —“ ‘Mother, I don’t have to cry when I fall This book shows how Dyspepsia, Constipation, Kidney Trouble, etc., CAN be cured, and why “ Raw Food, Yes, you can have a friend or relative entered down,’ said a little fellow, whose brown eyes Physical Culture, Fasting, etc., will cure one, and yet not sparkled with the light of the new discovery. another. in the Success Circle without his knowledge. ‘I can make myself stop. I just say, Stop that! The Cure for Chronic Dyspepsia and How to Get Fat are alone worth many times the price of the book. and then I make me mind me.’ The boy had, I have given in this book, freely, information that is indeed, reached a great epoch in his life, and he priceless. If you don’t think so, return it, and get your had gained a great victory. Many fail in the money back. 25 cents (silver). HERBERT J. PIGOTT, JUST HOW TO CONCENTRATE. 22s N. Carondelet St., New Orleans, La. battle of life because they never come to that self- This booklet by Elizabeth Towne tells how to use the wonderful forces of being to produce a happy, harmonious mastery, where they can make themselves mind and healthy life. It is a bugle call to those who sleep. themselves.”— From The Vanguard. MENTAL TREATMENTS WITH It is a power and an inspiration to those who are awake. DIETETIC ADVICE. Sleeping or waking you need this essay. The great cry to­ day is: How can I use my inherent powers to produce —There is a new Elizabeth Towne out in New There is nothing incongruous in this. The two go success—to bring health—to acquire wisdom? Here is an together. Ill health can only be cured by removing the answer. And the answer comes from one who has demon­ Albany, Ind. She made her appearance about the cause. The cause is wrong thinking and wrong habits, strated every statement in the book. It is a practical, helpful first of December last and her adoring mother, followed from childhood. pamphlet which tells how to develop and practice concen­ Let me set you right. I have made diet and hygiene a tration, control emotions, restore memory and youth and Mrs. Stella Ramsier, says she is “such a pretty study for years, and can promise a cure in almost every direct all powers for the betterment of conditions. P ric e , case. I shall be glad to have you write me your trouble, *3» Cents. Address, baby” with heavy black hair, blue eyes and fair sending self-addressed stamped envelope. I will give you ELIZABETH TOWNE, HOLYOKE, MASS. skin, and healthy as a little pig. Good! She’ll be a careful answer with terms for treatment. Address, A. W . Rideout, 7 St. Paul St., BOSTON, MASS. a credit to the community and a joy forever. She is horn in a good Success Circle of her own, bless her. LIFE MORE ABUNDANT. 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There is — “For a long time I have been a reader of your nothing cheap about it except the price. Each issue of very excellent paper, the Nautilus, and I have no O HASHNU HARA. Points is printed on fine, heavy book paper, and contains 20 hesitation in saying your writings have proved a The first course of Practical Lessons upon this fascinat­ pages. The cover pages are beautifully printed in blue ink. ing subject yet given to the world. Gives practical tuition Each number gives interesting information concerning the source of pleasure and profit to me. Unique in in the development of Every Phase of Mental Telepathy. latest and best new thought books, and many brief, prac­ style, graphic, always to the point and upon sub­ tical helpful articles and items. YOU IEVER SAW PARTIAL SYNOPSIS. jects of common interest, making your paper uni­ IT» EDI AC AT THE PRICE. The December Telepathy Defined. Mind Reading. The Ordinary number contains the following: Communion (poem by versally valuable; and I congratulate you heartily Methods. Telepathic Experiments with Cards. Reading. Emerson) Brief Points—New Thought Simplified (mental upon the good you are doing, and wish you and Unseen Names Fastened in Sealed Envelopes. Ordinary atmosphore)—Man-Made Laws Unmade, by Elizabeth— your good journal many years of prosperity.” Dr. Experiments. Thought Transference. Communications at Correspondent’s Corner (In which are considered the ques­ Close Quarters. Practical Effect of Telepathy. Methods tions of a raw food diet, the mental treatment of patients C. H. Carson, Kansas City, Mo. of Thought Transference. Necessary Training. Com­ without their knowledge, etc.)—The Junk Shop, Consisting munications at Long Distances. How to Transmit Sen­ of New and Secondhand Chunks of Wisdom and Non­ —“There are six solid pages of reading in tences. To Receive Same. Passive Telepathy. 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