The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-05

of the art of brain building for the purpose of embodying more mind, He continues:
 Mind is life. Life is not something different from mind. The life of cell is it's mind. The activities of a cell are psychological activities, and, there fore, the regulation of the psycholog- ical activities of cells and multicells is the basis of the long -looked-for funda- mental laws of cure, therein lies the key to the mystery of disease and pain and evil, and therefore also lies the
 Ariadne's clew to health and hap piness and success, I think no inn
 partial mind can review with me the evidence upon which these conclusions are based and doubt for a moment that life and vitality and psychic processes are solely mental processes. If so, then we are in sight of the law of health and crime, and we see it not by faith or through mysticism or symbolism, but through the medium of verified facts which are conquerors of scientific knowledge, and the study of this law comes within the province of strictest scientific research. If we can know
 how to regulate mind processes then
 we can cure disease-all disease. There
 are two methods of regulating the
 mind in organism--first by varying the environment conditions and the bodily
 conditions of the organism, and thus bringing about notifications of the mental activities; and, second, by causing the organism voluntarily to
 vary it's own mental activities, and
 thus change its bodily structures and it's chemisms and environments.
 Under the fascinating topic of mans
 organic relations to the sum total of living things upon the earth, Professor Gates asserts that in proportion to the
 degree of the mentation every living thing gives off electric waves and other
 kinds of waves, and these forms Of | radiant energy, falling upon other living things, at once modify their mental processes. This constitutes a physiological oneness between all liv- ing things In this larger cosmic
 organism each living thing is an organ "a theory strongly reminding one of Swedenborg's doctrine of grand man. Discussing brain binding as means of curing disease, he asks: If des- | truction of cortical areas produces | disease of corresponding organs, may we not expect that the strengthening and upbuilding of these areas will pro- | duce development and health In these organs?" He believes the same curative methods may be effectively applied to the morally diseased, de- l claring that the time will come when | criminals will not be allowed to grow | up as criminals, but the state will see 1 to it that criminally inclined children
 are cured during early school years. 1 Professor Gates describes a number
 of new instruments with which his
 researches are conducted, including a
 paralled beamreflecting microscope by
 which he can see short distance be- meath the surface of most opaque ob- | jects, and even see microscopically a
 muscle cell through thin skin layers of 1 the fingers. He will embody the de- l tailed results of the researches here
 glanced at in several volumes. He
 says in conclusion:
 "The conviction has been steadily l growing in the minds of scientific
 observers that medicine is not a
 science, and that, with the exception
 of surgery and sanitation, it is not even rational art. If disease is tc
 be actually cured and crime is to be l abolished, there is but one royal road
 to such an achievement, and that is by 1 the scientific study of the mind as we l find it manifested in living things, and as it is capable of being modified by
 environmental conditions and it's own ! activities "-Literary Digest.
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