Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-05
SHOULD LIVE 200 YEARS.
Edward Earle Purinton Be-
lieves Three Score and Ten
To be Limit Fixed by Human Glut-
tony-Systematic Fasting and Sci
entific Feasting are the Novel Rules
he Proposes fer Prolonging Life.

tony -Systematie Fasting and Sci
entific Feasting are the Novel Rules
he Proposes for Pr0longing Life.
Edward Earle Puriuton has been
fasting for q days, counting to-day
and the results so far are said to be
highly satisfactory, and is not i'm
probable that the length of his fast
may be prolonged,
At the request of Newark, Ohio
paper he has prepared another ar
ticle in regard to fasting, which
presents many novel thoughts. He
says he deplores notonety prefer
ring to wait a few years when |
shall have something to give the
world that will bring so called fame.
Prof. Purinton gives some pecu
liar reasons for his having under.
taken the fast. Nearly all may be
summed up in four words: Reno
vatlon, Domination, Dedication,
and Illumination.
Renovation" he says requires che
physical body of disease present
and potential.
'The second object is Domination.
| want to declare that the voluntary
fast brings mental control, con
scious power over the body, a tight
ening grasp on Cosmos that is for
ever beyond the scope of external
healing, or educating, or rellgioniz
ing.
DINNER, Disease and Death are
the logical and lusty triumvirate at
whose slightest nod humanity
chief execution-Fear-smiles down
at 35 man whose body should last
at least 200 years and then be trans
muted into the universal, unsullied
by the feety shadow we call Death.
Break the shackles of meal time,
evolve from the family table, forget
the archaic dinner bell, let hunger
alone dictate as to the time and
choice and manner and amount and
atmosphere and motive in in eating
and you've taken the first step to
ward individual growth.
The third item is delectation.
And my own experience will prove
this most conclusively. After a
continuous fast OF 26 days I am be
ginning to feel actual hunger-for
the first time IN 10 years. It's tax
en- more than three weeks to rid the
body of the relics of white -four fare,
fried potatoes, meat, microbes, pick
les, condinements, pastries and the
rest of the poison procession | used
to swallow for food. And when the
child hunger fully returns there's
going to be a sensuous delight in
eating, appreciable only to the pris-
tine purity of of the unperverted
palate.
Moreover, it's funny to fast when
you do itrlght. You're outwitting
the doctors and becoming your own
beauty specialist and learning to
breathe as you can't when your
lungs were wedged in cruelty be
tween stuffed stomach and con-
gested liver, and taking the pres
sure of decaying food off your solar
plexus so it can send out some re-
tractive love thrills.
Frankly, however, the fourth OBJ
ject of attainment was to me the
most important. 1t is true that the
liver and duodenum and pancreas
needed a rest, with the restorative
force of air, sun, water, exercise,
massage, breathing and like phys
ical agencies. But the browning
purpose OF the fast is illumination,
and cannot explain that in full un-
til the book on which | am working
is prepared for the public.
The principles it will proclaim
would revolutionize and regenerate
society, the family and the indi,id
ual; would transform the popular
thought, therapy and theology, and
would within three generations peo-
Pile this earth with gods.
AT present | expect to eat little
something on Saturday, August 9.
Part of the time have taken acid
fruit juice, such as orange, pineap-
pie, peach, &c, these liquids not be.
ing food, but rather medicinal in eff
fect-laxative, depluratlve diuretic
and germicidal They act most ben
eficially on the liver and bring
quicker results locally than aerated,
distilled water alone.
The fast is more than fulfil lied ex-
peetations, both physically and psy
chically-and later | shall describe
| it in data1l y