The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1906-12-22

mean moral cahbre to face them all OIL
go your own way. This kind of charac
ter manifestation Mrs. Post expresses
and encourages in her writings. With
her, above all in manifest nature, man,
the individual, in his highest possible
perfection, is the goal toward which al
nature works. To develop man who is
into the man who is to be-or rather
who Wills to be, is to her the problem Of
the age, to the solution of which all the
latent energies Of the race and the indi-
vldual must be brought to bear. But
Us all changes work from the unit tc
the surroundings, So must the lndivid.
ual be helped and encouraged to do his
own thinking, to cut loose from errone-
Gus customs and traditions, to reach
down into his own nature and realize
that he is the posseSsor Of latent and
functional faculties which, when once
fully developed, will, here on this planet
crown him the king of creation instead
of marking him, as now, the slave of
circumstance.
Mrs. Posts constant and reiterated
declarations in her writings were Man
can overcome sickness, poverty and
death" The department officials made
much of this and other statements in her
persecution by announcement and caus-
tic ridicule. Yet the fact is the best brain
power in the scientific world is now per-
sistently engaged in the solution of
these very same problems.
Sin, the commitment of errors through
ignorance of the fundamental laws which
bind society and preserve the unit, will
be lessened and finally disappear with
the ever widening intelligence for which
our public educational institutions
stand as sure foundation.
Sickness, the result of ignorance of
the fundamental laws which govern the
health and preservation Of our bodies
VIII be thing of the past rs soon as
man realizes that the responsibility for
the preservation of his health is really
with HIM, that the power to rectify
wrong conditions of health rests within
himself and he is not really compelled
to rely upon outside help no matter how
| learned.
The overcoming of poverty-involun-
tary poverty-on the part of the great
mass of the people is undoubtedly an
economic problem, which viii be solved
before this century has reached its limit.
The continuous development of the ire
! mendouS forces which now make mainly
for the production Of wealth, will, before
long. make for its just and proper dis
trlbution. Some steps in that direction
have recently been taken through con-
gresslonal legislation. Mrs Post, how
ever, has pointed out that person need
not, in fact, should not, sit idly or de
Iectedly by and let the flood of circum-
stance and opportunity sweep past him
or over him.
There is still plenty Of room for honest,
determined and intelligent eXertion and
remunerative advance, even to the very
top of achievement The whole scheme
resolves itself into question of intelli-
gence and power of the will for accom-
plishment,
The overcoming of DEATH {. the
preservation and maintenance of the
physical body for an indefinite period
OF years is now a matter of scientific
experimentation. 1t will resolve itself
finally into a question of qualitative and
cumulative food and drink; of santa
ton; of proper eXertion-mrntal and
physical; the economic use or prcser-
walton of the vital fluids of the body; a
study of the mental attitudes upon the
minute organisms which constitute the
foundation of the physical body; a
study of the chemical changes induced
by the varied manifestations of the
emotions of which as yet, We know 50
little; and finally, the power which sug-
gestion manifests upon the vital fine
tons of the body.
! All these subjects are now under in
veStigation and the results of earnest
/ experiments will become the property of
all whose desire is to reach out and
gather the vital treasures of knowledge
( Mrs H. W Post, like the true path
finders of old, sent message to the
race that a new world is open to man.
( To reach this new world he must look
within himself-cOnquer and develop it.
Great minds work decades, some even
centuries, in advance of the public
comprehension. The fact is that in
the mental domain, as elsewhere, the
great masses receive now upon platter
what has been dug for by candle light
amidst the toll, hardship and suffering
I of the braveSt of brave pioneers III the
/ thought world; and with them in spirit,
and like them, III fact. Helen Wilmans
has had to walk the thorny path.
CHAS. +. BURGMAN.