The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-18
SOME OF THE NEW
BOOKS REVIEWED.
Vibration the Law Of Life" by W
H. Williams.
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VIBRATION, THE LAW OF LIFE; By
W. II. williams. The Temple Publish
ing Company, Masonic Temple, Denver,
Colorado.
Not long ago DR.. Cram, an eminent
Boston physician. wrote: In every dis
ease there is lost motion to be restored.
Psychologists OF note Ike Dunglinson and
Landors, refer to the human body as
a machine. Intelligent physicians who
accept this great truth must accept its
corouary-that every machine has two
prime factors: the machinery and the
power that runs the machinery. We
know where 10 find the machinery Of
the body; but as 20 the p0wer-what IS
it, where is It. how is it obtained, how
IS # applied. and in what portion Of the
anatomy is the reserve held? When
these questions are answered we shall
have a fun blaze OF light on the thick
darkness that has so long enveloped pro-
fossiOual work in the department Of prac-
teal medicine. with control OF this
power. disease would disappear. Its
achievement would be the greatest that
human progress has scored since civil
ization began.
These questions the author OF this
book claims 10 answer; this control. IL
IS asserted. he has achieved. His theory
IS based on a perception that "all IS
moti0nF-that out OF motion the earth
and all the planets came into being, and
by motion their life is maintained. The
'push and pull" movement by which the
arfT a
he clearly shows US IS the condition OF
life and growth throughout nature
Briefly his theory IS that the control OF
tho vital force on motor power on which
health depends. is found IN control OF
the motion Of the lungs. In this at
tainment." says the author. I'VE gain
mostly Of the breath Of life" This con-
troll Of breathing and its practical eNer-
else IS not 70 be confounded with any
mere system OF deep breathing or lung
gymnastics. as taught in the various
schemes Of physical training. The ply
steal exercise is directly related TO GER
tain mental processes. Natures own
methods are followed and man In his
individual life is connected with the
planetary life: the special needs Of ev-
cry individual being Indicated by the
time of his birth An important dis
c0vory OF the new psychological physi-
ology was announced by Professor VIII
liam James. Of Harvard. as the result
Of careful and repeated experiments
I'm these words: "A process set up any
where I'm the centers revcrberates every
where and in some way or other effects
the organism throughout" This law Alr
williams. I'm his vital gymnastics. espe-
cially I'm the exercises In harmonic breath
ing. applies 20 the equalization Of the
flow of the vital forces and the re-
storation Of that poise or balance in
mind and body on which all health de-
ponds.
AL the exercises given have rational
scientific basis. and. although the au-
thors thought is spiritual I'm great de-
gree. his exposition OF it is characterized
by common sense.
There are some chapters which VIII be
instinctvoly rejected as arrant bosh but
the reasoning IS far moro to be commend
ed than the what may be call the literary
padding