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HI NERVOUS SYSTEM.


at the E~aDefnAcle.
Mrs. Madana F.. De Hart, MD, lectured
on The Nervous SYSTEM yesterday at the
Tabernacle before a large audience of
women. She said in part:-'Our subject
today is The Nervous System, and it is
! especially interesting, as this the medium
through which we hold communion with the
outside world and it is the instrument of the
mind. Its functions are sensation, thought
and motion, and we fancy that here we shall
find the connecting link between mind and
matter, but are obliged to confess that after
all our researches the secret of life evades us
still. How can we see with the eye, hear
with the ear, or think with the brain is still
a mystery, for though all these rgans are
here after life is extinct, we realize that the
house is deserted and that the lifelong tenant
for whom all these were made has departed,
leaving no him of its further vicissitudes, or
even of its continued existence, and to all
| appearance is unmindful that the body, with
all its wonderful mechanism, will soon be
resolved to its original elements.
The problem of life, with it's strange be-
ginning, its short duration and its mysteri-
GUS end, presents itself to every thoughtful
mind, and many different solutions have
been given-but all must construct a theory
and find a philosophy for themselves by
which they can guide their lives, satisfy the
clamoring needs of their natures, and fulfil
the mission for which they were placed
here.
Carlyle SAYS, GAN these visible things are
emblems; what thou seest is not there on its
own account; strictly taken, is not there at
all. Matter exists only spiritually and to
represent some idea and body it forth. What
Is man himself and his whole terrestrial life
but an emblem, a clothing or visible gar
ment for that divine Me of his, cast hither
ike a light particle down from Heaven?"
Some who have held this belief have
despised the body and sought to cultivate
mental and spiritual excellence at its ex-
pense, or by ignoring its claims and disdain
ing its assistance. That this is a mistake is
demonstrated by the wretched lives and
early death of many noble men and women.
a wiser course surely being to value both
according to their real worth, using each to
help the other.
We see that any deviation from the nor
NAL is followed by a disturbance of these
functions, and when they are destroyed or
injured, not only sensation land motion,
but intellectual and moral power fail. 1t
becomes us then to search for the laws which
govern in this most wonderful realm of
nature. 1t is not enough to keep the body
alone in health, but we must learn the avs
of the mind. We need to early to
direct the education of children, giving to
each department. of their natures proper
direction and exercise. This most important
work belongs to mothers.
After describing the organization of the
nervous system, DIR. de Hart advised that
physical culture should be by no means neg
lected. Saying that light, air and sunshine
are the natural %tonics, stimulants and
a~nodynes, and exercise, the best known
remedy for congestion and nervous irri-
liability, will give valuable assistance in pre-
venting infammatory diseases and nervous
prostration.
The mind must be judiciously trained, hay
ing suitable tasks assigned and regular work
required, for the faculties suffer from a con-
dition OF arrested development unless they
have exercise, which must be progressive.
increasing as the intellectual power grows
stronger.
DR.. De Hart also touched upon the neces-
sity for developing the moral nature accord
ing to its laws, and upon the diseases of the
will-melancholia, kleptomania, ~dipsomania,
or a tendency to drink alcohol; religious
monomania and n~ymphomania, pyromania
and many other varieties of decisions and
Authorizations. DIR. De Hart also spoke of
the process of ~hypnotism, and upon the
nervous affections of tetanus, hYsteria,
epilepsy and nervous disorders of the func-
tions.
The next lecture, which concludes this
free course, will be next Tuesday afternoon
at the same place, on Generation"