Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03

/ not agree upon an answer TO a meta
physical subject ask me to decide it
/ for them The question Is: Which is
| the more wonderful thing mind or the
universe? These gentlemen evidently
are not familiar with Pope's tritc say
ing. Man. presume not God to scan;
the proper study of mankind Is man.
! wish these gentlemen had not in
sisted that | should cast the deciding
vote. for my doing so would imply that
am infaUible and aG such would render
an iufalliblc decision. Now. ] neither
claim infallibilitY nor wish to be regard
ed as infallible. Considering the position
I oc,upv. however. I cannot very we'll
refuse to- answer the question. Let II
be understood. therefore, that mas
much as ! am a human being ana as
such liable to err whatever | may say
on the subject every one Is at liberty
to agree or disagree.
The question whether mind or the
universe is the most wonderful thing
implies ! think. that the latter came
into being by accident and the former
had nothing to do with its creation.
am aware that some so-Callcd SClen-
lists maintain that such is the case
and / confess that i'm the past IT was
also my questionable belief, but now
it is to me inconceivable that thlllS
could exist by accident.
Sir w. Hamilton defines mind as that
faculty. I'm man which thinks, feels, per-
ceivcs. Wills and desires. 1t follows
that mind is the most intelligent, rather
thc most wonderful thing i'm man-the
finite II also follows that all one
has to do i'm order to create a thllis
ever so wonderful in its construction is
to will and desire to create IL. ms
man can do if he has the ability 10
nc witness
hundreds of wonderful things in opera
tion nl of which are the creations OF
man.
But to create. for instance. an en-
gine however complicated its mechan-
ism may be, is only creating an lnstru-
ment limited in it's scope 1t tollo"s,
therefore. that the creative ablllty Oh
man is also limited. In other WORDS;
man may will and desire ana actualy
create very wonderful tnihSs. Ses
every one of them Will pe lll"i'eu
(finite) in its scope.
Nv the term universe we understand
all things that exist, whether we see
them or not Every one doubtlesS du-
n7its that even the small portion OF the
universe we behold is, indeed, very
vonderful-so wonderful that the Gre
ations of man are almost NIL as COM
pared with it. Now, did not nina. VIII
and desire and actually create the UNI
verse and its wonderful mechanism?
There is no longer any question IN my
mind. and I do not now CONCEIVE now
any one ever can doubt that INFINITE
mind did create it.
Now. if man, the finite is able to
create wonderful things. God, the m
finite. certainly must have created the
infinite things Again, since the most
wonderful thing in man is mlnd' m
finite mind (God) is also the most Won
derful thing in the universe: once
more, since no thing created ny llia'
can operate unless there is mind pres
ent to see that it operates properly so
| fine universe could not maintain It's
nerfect operation unless mind We're
present. .,,,z,.
everything; hence infinite mind is part
and parcel thereof, just as the nina OF
man is part and parcel OF ms pouy'
But by reason of the wonderful things
mind can do, mind is undoubtedly the
most wonderful thing.
Health and Disease
I am called upon to answer two ques-
tions diametrically opposed to each
other. one person wants to know II
| perfect health during ones entire lie
! is natural and the other asks if disease
at any time of life is unnatural. Ihese
Iouestions have been asked ever since
man first became conscious of the bene-
fits of health and the detriments or DIS
case and they have been answered in
various ways.
| Some authorities maintain that disease
at any time of life is unnatural, while
others hold the reverse. The reason
why authorities differ is not so much
on account of their fallibility, but De-
cause they do not agree among then-
selves when disease is and when not
natural. For as a general proposition
disease is as much condition preVa-
lent i'm the universe as health.
No one has ever seen single prod
net of nature that did not exhibit
symptoms of disease at some period OF
its existence Everything actually be-
comes diseased at a certain period. of
life. Nay, no one ever dreams that
natural products will ever maintain
their vitality and be i'm sound condition
forever Such state of affairs is even
mconceiVable, for the reason that the
universe would have to come to q
standstin for lack of matter to create
new forms. Everything that lives must
i'm the course of time return to dust
Most diseases, however, would not at
tack the human being when they &c
if he or she knew how TO avoid them
knowledge of Whlcn, ann sorry 10 say
lis not being impaired to the average
human being at any time during life
The average individual, because of his
Hack OF knowledge of this important
Subject. is allowed to become the prey
of INSCRIPTIONS individuals who make
La business of how to keep people sicl
Irather than teach them how to aVoi'
sickness
Besides, most individuals invite dis
lease, either ignorantly or maliciously
For instance, an individual i'm pcrfec
health would allow himself to be i'm
noculated with vaccine virus becaua
he has been educated to believe tina
vaccination prevents smallpox, sub
icCt that the so~Called educators (doc
tors of medicinc) know nothing about
Now. suppose that this innocuiated in
.dNiduaTs arm has to be amputated ol
account of blood poison that resulte'
from the vaccination; in that event L.
.may be regarded as having invited TN
disease ienorantly. AS examples o
maliciously inviting a disease may b
mentioned yeuorcal diseases and Others
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