Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02
THIE BODY AND THIE MIND
How to Preserve the Former in a
Sound Condition and improve
the Latter
Conducted by B. NJ. jackson, Nj. d., of
The Herald STAFF.


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So long as hurry and worry will be
the main characteristics of the age
many problems will remain unsolved
but there are few problems which we
cannot solve too quickly, and among
these few there is one of chief inn
portance, namely, how to so far i'm
prove the human mind that every one
shall be capable of doing his own
thinking.
Most people think they think, where
as the real thinking is done by a few.
In consequence, this earth is literally
overrun with quacks. There are politi-
cal quacks, economic quacks, social
quacks, medical quacks, and nonde-
script quacks of all kinds The main
business of these various classes of
quacks seems to be to distract the
attention of mankind from real to fam
cied ills. This is especially true of
those numberless quacks who pretend
TO cure the bodily ailments of the hu-
man race.
Let us see if this is not so. A bod
lily ailment is one of which the body
afflicted Herewith is conscious; for in
stance a headache. Who can know the
extent of my headache as well as my
self? No one. Hence, being myself
conscious of the degree of the severity
of my headache. who can know better
than myself the cause of that head
ache? Again, no one. Once more, be-
ing myself conscious of the extent of
my headache, and the cause of which
the headache is the effect [Note-One
must never forget that a headache is
only an effect, a symptom, as it were,
of some abnormal condition of an or
gan or organs.l. who can know better
than myself what to do in order that
it shall leave? For the last time, no
one can possibly know it better than
myself.
An individual takes a notion to go
out of an evening and have what he
calls "a good time" He stays out until
dawn, or late into the night; during
those hours he fights with all his might
to ward off sleep. and in addition be-
comes intoxicated. He goes home, or
is taken thereto, and goes to sleep. In
stead of sleeping, however, sufficient
length of time in order that the af-
fected organs may resume their normal
condition, and the alcoholic poison
which accumulated In his system shall
be thrown off, he wakes up, or he is be-
ing disturbed by some one else, to go
to work. Suppose that the hours re-
quired for his full resusctation, so to
speak, are far short of what the mind
and body require, what must be the
consequence? A headache of more or
less severity.
Now, what shall that individual do
10 get rid Of his headache? What Is
the only thing for him to do? Shall he
take a dozen or more grains of some
poisonous drug, which will be adding
oil to fire (his system is already loaded
with poison, namely, the alcohol set
free from the beverages he drank)-I
say, shall he add more poison, or shall
he make believe that he has no head
ache? II would be the greatest folly
There is only one thing for him to do,
namely go 70 sleep, and sleep long
enough TO give his bodily organs
chance 10 resume their normal eondi-
tion.
II every human being would realize
TO what extent he. or she, is his, or her
own maker, SO to speak, the majority
OF so-called bodily as we'll as mental
ailments would disappear as II by
magic. True, TO certain extent ma
ture attempts to destroy that which,
whether organic or inorganic-be Il a
human being, vegetable or mineral
exhibits symptoms OF decay, in order
that the elements which have entered
into their composition may enter into