The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-05-05
DEGRADE TIoN OF THE BoDY.


Abou: six hundred years before the beginning
OF our chronological era, speculative phlloso.
Iher OF Northern HiDdostan set about to invisti.
gate the origin Of the sufferings which 90 often
make human life a burden instead of blessing.
and falling to trace these sfl lotions to any avoid.
able cause, he took 1t into his head that terrestrial
existence Itself must be an evil, and conceived
1he unhappy idea Of preaching crusade against
the love OF earth and the rights Of human body,
as distinct from supposed pIeternatural part 'oR
our being. His success has been, beyond all COM
pare, the greatest calamity that ever befell the
human race since the days OF the traditional
deugei not OILY that the doctrines Of Gautama
core their fruit In the utter physical degeneration
OF MS native country, and the pOpulous empires
OF Eastern Asia, but, seven centuries after the es.
sential doctrines Of Buddhism, intensified by an
admiXture Of Gnostic demonsm and Hebrew
mythology, were preached upon the shores Of the
Mediterranean and invaded the paradise OF the
Aryan nations. A mania Of selktorture and
miracle Workshlp broke out like mental epi.
demic, and, at the very time when the influence
OF GrecIan civilization began to wane, the new
creed spread into IalV and the friends OF science
and freedom were confronted with the fearful
danger OF an anu.natural religion. What that
danger meant, our liberated age can hardly
realize III less we review the fate OF those nations
to whom salvation came too late on whose des-
tiny the curse OF that superstition has been
wrought out to the bitter end The attempt to
carry the theories Of the Hebrew fanatics into
practice led to state Of affairs against which the
unpossesSed part Of mankind had to combine In
sheer self defense the mauiacs were oVerpOWer-
ed but only after a struggle which has trsmpled
the chief battle fields into dust, and not be fore
they had turned the Mediterranean GOd.garden
into such pandemonium of madness, tyranny,
and wretchedness, that the LIT Of the African
savsges appeared heaven in compar son. The
annals Of pagan despo ism furnish no parallel ia
the pageN stained with the blood and tears that
record the horrors Of the inqusitorial butcheries
and man hunts Of the middle ages-Dr Felix l..
Oswald In Popular Science Monthly 'or May.
THE DIARY OF MINISTER'S WIFE, Part II. No
58, Standard Series. Price 10 cents 1. X. Funk
Il Co., New York.
II is quaint, 1t is laughable-not much exaggera.
ted, There are ministers wives who can testify
to many such experiences. Laymen, get 1t and
read It,
THE NUTRrrIvE CURE. By Robert Walter, M. D.
No. SO, Standard Series. Price, Is ceuts. l. K.
Funk u Co, New York.
This book is full Of practical hints on how to get
we'll and keep well, without the use of medicines
The author ably maintains that food, properly
used is the best Of medicines. It is q suggestive
book on an important subject
sARToR REsARTUs By Thomas Carlyle. No. 60,
Standard Series, Price, 25 cts, l. X, Funk & Co..
New York
This is one Of Carlyle'smost 'amous books Says
DR.. John Lord Of this book: Every page is
stamped with genius 1t shows pictures Of the
| struggle of the soul which are wonderful" We
quote the following from "Appleton's Cyclopae-
dia 1860 edition. Carlyle" page A3: "In the
course Of the year 1884, he published, In Fra
sers the most peculiar ald remarkable Of all his
works-the quaint, the whimsical the profound
the humorous and the poetic 'sartor Resartus, in.
to which he seems to have poured all he treG-
sures Of his mind and heart. Under the eccentric
guls of vsgabond German philosopher, and on
the homely topic OF the philosophy Of clothes, he
has brought together much Of the deepest specu-
laton, the finest poetry, the noblest morals and
the widest humor that his or any age has pro-
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