Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-12
NATURES SUPREMACY,
A Condition That Perverse Man DE
clines to Recognize
OTHER ANIMALS SHOW MORE SENSE.

Some Valuable Points For People WhoHave
the Intelligence to Take Them In-Bad
Health the Penalty of the Violation of
Natures Laws-Drugs and Nostrums Are
Mainly Make-BeIieve Specifcs-Unnatur-
al stimulation Is Steady Destruction-In-
stinct a Safer Guide Than Perverted Phil
losophy-How We Blame Nature For Ills
That We Bring Upon Ourselves.
Written for The Yorkvile Enquirer.
My object in this article is to show
sinners the fallacies Of their anti-nat-
ural dogmas and to try and induce
them to put their trust in their instinct
the true guide of nature. Anti-nat-
uralism has been the besetting sin Of
the human race from time immemorial.
"a national superstition is national
misfortune. No pious fraud has ever
advantaged the world, for every popular
delusion becomes the mother Of nox-
ious and numerous progeny" says Hell
vetius. Logicians distinguish between
inferential and presumtive fallacies,
the first being founded upon illogical
conclusions from correct premises; the
second upon logical conclusions from
incorrect premises. With few excep-
tions the most mischievous popular de-
lusion of all ages, has arisen from
the latter-the ''presumtive' fallacies
If man had been persuaded that cold
was panacea, that man would naturally
conclude that Siberia is the healthiest
country in the world. In Hindoostan,
where the sanctity Of horned cattle Is
an established dogma, no true believer
would hesitate to indict an irreverent
bull driver for blasphemy, or to pre-
serve a beefSteak as a sacred relic.
AS long as we believe in anti-natural
dogmas, it is perfectly logical to as
cribe diseases to witchcraft and their
cure to prayer; to regard mans natu-
raj instincts as his natural foes; to
deny the difference between one and
three, and treat mathematicians as en-
emies of the human race.
From the moment man Is born into
the world, he is treated on the princi-
pie that all of his instincts are essen
TALLY wrong-that nature must be
thwarted and counteracted in every
possible way. He is strapped up in
contrivance that he would gladly ex-
change for a straight-jack and pre-
vent him from moving any limb Of his
body. His first attempts at locomotion
are checked; he is carefully guarded
from the outdoor world, from the air
that would invigorate his lungs, from
the sport that would develop his mus
cles.
Hence the peevishness, awkwardness
and sickness Of our young autocrats
Poor people have no time to initiate
the absurdities of their wealthy neigh
bors, and their children profit by what
the model nurse would call neglect.
Christian mothers reproach themselves
with neglecting their duty to their chill
dren if they do not constantly inter-
fere with their movements; but they
forget that in points of physical edu"
cation nature herself is such an excel
lent teacher that the apparent neglect
is really a transfer of the pupil to
more efficient school.
When a child complains of headache.
lassitude or want of appetite, the nurse
concludes that he must take some
thing" If a baby squeals day and
night, a doctor is sent for, and is ex-
pected to prescribe something" What
that something should be, the parent
is unable to define; but has a vague
idea that it should come from the drug
store, and that it cannot be good for
much unless it is bitter and nauseous.
Traced to it's principle, their theory
would be about this: sickness and de-
prayity are the normal conditions of our
nature, and salvation can only come
through abnormal agencies, and rem
edy. in order to be effective, must be
as anti-natural as possible" But ma
ture still persists in following her own
laws. Her physiological laws she an
nounces by the instincts which man
shares with the humblest Of his fellow
creature and health is her free gift to
all who trust themselves to the guild
ance of those instincts.
Health is not lost by accident, nor
can it be repurchased at the drug store.
It is lost by physiological sins and can
be regained only by SHINING no more.
Disease is natures protest against