The Virginia enterprise., 1908-11-06

drawn brows, or other facial disfig.
usements --QerhaP the bridge
whist face, which accompany bad
l'uentGl states. What dol mean. by
bad mental states? mean anger,
tear, worry. anxiety, irritability, re.
gret, envy, jealousy, lack Of trust in
ones self and in the Great Good
all these are bad mental states, aud
all these destroy health aud beauty,
not only by interfering with the &C.
ton of the vital organs. but by d.
rectly disfiguriug the expression of
/ the face.
Knowing the .currents that are
rushing over the world today in it's
present condition: filled with beings
ignorant OF the purpose of life, it
would be strange, indeed, if the
earth were not covernd aud filled
with dieease. When We consider
the intimate relation between mind
and body and that not Thought,
which is a force, fails to exert its
influence and make it's imprint on
the cells through which it flows, it
is not unreasonable to suppose that
a discouraged h umauity today NAV
be suffering from heritage of die.
ease begotten during the dark ages
of the world, when monastic orders
were perpetualiy dissolved in tears
and sought to shift the responsible
ties of their crime upon the vicari.
ous' shoulders of a Savior. If we
violate natures laws We must suffer:
the consequences.
The object of life is the attain.
meut of perfection, and all nature is
making toward that end. She pro
duces for a time, and then destroys
her work; but nothing is lost or an
initiated. The enlarged intelligence.
the result of enlarged experience,
builds for itself a more perfect
form.
The physical details which l have
discussed in the early part Of this
paper are important, but of equal
importance are the formation of
proper mental habits, and the de-
velopment of sturdy moral char.
acter. In fact there is an inter reia
ton of cause aud effect between the
physical conditions and the mental
aud moral habits of man, not fully
understood. For instance, a meal
eaten under proper conditions nour-
ishes and strenk thens; the same
meal eaten in sorrow or anger is
liable to produce 'indigestion. A
long breath taken in joyous relief
at work we'll done, refreshens and
euergizes; q sigh further ~fatiguee
and depresses; yet the tsction of the
lungs and muscles has been the
same in both cases. These bad
states of mind thus caused work in
a negative way upon character de.
velopment.
That the emotional nature breeds
,toxines, or poisons, is now proved
beyond controversy, aud since it
'has at last received the mint stamp
of regularity, it is recognized by.
the medical profession at large.
Education docs not mean the
mere passing through course of
study but the drawing out of what
is potentially in the child-its pur-
poses, the development of charac-
ter. No department of life stands
alone, but 10 90 intimately blended
with all life that he is no minister
to the body unless he can also min.
ister to the mind diseased. No den-
tist ever filled a tooth with gold
alone; uor are brains more needed
than tenderness aud technique;
chemistry is'not more needed than
common sense. Oh that we could
round out our lives to an unfolding
of our own powers and poteotiali
ties! We are not teeth alone, or
stomach, or head, but are full of
powers unknown, waiting only our
laggard WILL to call them into life
and usefulness. Huxley very elo-
quently stated this when he said:
"That man has a liberal education,
whose body has been 90 trained in
youth that it is. the ready servant
of his will, and does with ease and
pleasure all that, az a mechanism.
it is capable of; whoseintellect 10 a
clear, cold, logical engine with sll
its parts of equal strength and in
smooth running order, ready like a
steam engine TO be turned to any
kind of work and to spin the gossa.
mere as we'll as forge the anchors
of mind; whose mind is stored with
the kuowledge<of the great funtla.
mental truths of nature and the
laws of her operations; one, who no
stunted ascetic, is full of life and
FIRE, but whose passions have been
trained to come to heel by a vigor-
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