Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-02-15
ADVOCATED BY MAN
OF GENIUS.

DR. Holmes and other allopathists," who
have exhausted their stores of wit and humor
upon Homeopathy, have met their match in
DR.. James John Garth Wilkinson, of London,
who has lately published pamphlet on this
subject ,some- extracts from which we find in one
of our exchanges. We give the following spec
linen of the extraordinary merit of this book
in literary point of view
Speaking of Skidbladnir, I" the best of ships"
reminds me also of the wolf Fenrir, who was
the worst of wolves. OF him it is also written,
in northern Runes and, as Homeopathy is pre-
figured in what happened to him, will also
tell you little about him. He came, by
monstrous kind Of birth, from Loki, the god of
mischief; he was very small, at first, when he
was brought out of the choas of giants to Val
balla, where he was fed by unwilling gods; but
he grew so much every day, and the seers FORE
told such ruin from him that the gods got strong
chain made, with which to bind him. The wolf
saw that he was more than match for it, al
lowed it be put on, and, with one struggle and
spurn, burst it in pieces The gods prepared
now second fetter, half stronger than the
first; ; but, out of this, also, Fenrir shook him
self. in no time. The first chain was the band
Of fraud; the second was the band of material
force; but neither of these held him. The gods
were now alarmed at his prowess, and they sent
down Frey's messenger to the country of the
dark elves, again to certain dwarfs, and had
chain made, termed the Gleipnir, or Gulper.
1t was srnithied of six things-of the footballs
of cats, and of the boards Of women, and of
the roots of stones, and of all the slnews of
bears, and of the breath Of fish, and lastly, of
the spittle of birds This Gleipnir was fine and
timber US a silken thread. The wolf, with great
reluctance, and exacting heavy pledge, allow
ed it to be put upon him it mastered and
gulped him, in the wrestle, and held him in its
elastic belly, for a thousand years Fenrir, you
perceiye-the wolf which we all have to keep
from the door-is disease. The first treatment
of the monster, who grows up among and at
the expense of our godlike powers, is naturally
by fraud we try to cheat disease and death
with all strong diversions; bat they grow, in
spite Of these, and even acquire head and pow
er, in overcoming the false chain, Leding, or
stealth. The body and substance of our enemy
being recognized, the second chain with which
we would cabin him is violence. his quality ;
and from this false force, also, he dashes with
ease; feeding on our rashness as his own hay.
For he is said to dash out of the fettsr Dromi,
which means our tight squeezing; whereby we
force disease into new conquests, and as tho
people say, drive it in. The fetter efFectually,
Gleipnir, the gulper Of DISEASE, comes out Of
dwarf land, the under world of the sciences, in
fact, Germany; and it is made Of impalpables,
magnetisms, and called Homeopathy dynam-
ical scientific power. The Rune book says
| g Thou mayest have seen that woman have nc
+ bearis, and that no pat falls from the tread ol
cats, and that there are no roots under stones
5 but then, on tho other hand, by my troth,
know that all have said is equ ally true, with
Q thy no sighD, though there may b some thing'
$ thou art not Of might to experience" Thi'
signifies the impossibility and improbability Of
s Homeopathy, the nothiugness Of it; and, al
the same time, its power fact. | don't know
that II would be possible to put lie case into q
clearer relation to itself and ita predecessors,