The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-08-05
MAN SHOULD NOT DIE
There Is No Physiological Reason
For Death.
THE BODY Is SELF RENEWING

Perfect Diet and Mode Of Living Would
Insure Exact Balance Between
Bodily Waste and Renewal and
Would Mean Physical Immortality.
THE last enemy that shall be de
stroyed Is death" said the Scriptures,
yet II some man attempted seriously
to reassert this ancient truth today we
would look upon him us mad prophet
indeed. Yet the time will come when
men will be able to believe this prom
Use of the Bible, although they may
never see 1t literally fulfilled.
Death some day Will be aeknowl.
edged to be as unnatural In the econ.
omy of the creative plant as are sin
some millennium period mortal man
viii be able to forego the gross proc
ess of physical dissolution in becom-
ing spiritual body is a purely meta
physical question that does not enter
here. What does interest us is the
question, occupying the greatest scien-
tlhc minds today, whether the body US
SQtH tuhuot be lStuiiieu III beiiStl Noh-
dtion indefinitely.
William A. Hammond, one of the
great authorities, answers 1t by say
ing, "rhere Is no physiological reason
why man should die"
Thomas j. Allen, NJ. A., LII. D., writ
ing In similar strain, says: .srhe hu-
man body Is not like II machine which
al,
tlon, for II Is self renewing. 1t Is
simple, scientific fact that we get an
entirely new body every few years,
estimated at from three to seven.
Every day Is a birthday for the proc
ess of waste and renewal never ceases.
Perfect balance between elimination
and renewal would avoid permanent
waste"
There Ia no doubt that when we be-
come more enlightened and understand
perfectly the laws that govern and de-
termine our physical lives and when
we conform TO these religiously life
Will be UNNECESSARILY prolonged.
The decay of the body us evidenced
In old age Is unnatural. The aesthetic
within us recoils In merely contemplate
Ing Its approach. We feel that there
must be something self perpetrative In
the change when the strong color In u
healthy man and the fresh beauty In
pure woman take their departure,
when the bloom on the cheeks fade,
when the brilliant light within the eyes
grows dim and the full, red lips become
pale and fallen.
Medical science has pointed out the
| physiological cause of these conditions.
| Probably the time will come when IL
| will be able to point out the manner Of
avoiding them.
We know that the body grows old be-
cause of the existence of an imperfect
balance between the waste which the
body aceumulates and the amount 1t ~
able TO throw Off During youth the
balance Is perfect, because the body
has more than Its normal vitality and
strength to throw off the waste matter,
but as we grow older this perfect bal
ance becomes destroyed from one cause
or another
The strength that should go to eliml-
mating impurities from the body IL not
husbanded, but rather squandered In
different ways. Then, too, we eat and
drink those things that cause excessive
waste. An impure diet composed Of
foods containing uric acid, such as
meat, or of drinks containing poisons,
such as ten and coffee, taxes the ellnl-
native powers, and when the time
comes when these give way state OF
imperfect elimination has set In, and the
wastes In part are deposited In the sys-
TEN, settling In the arteries and Joints
of the body and accommodating until
they become obstructive elements.
The blood stream clrculates lmper-
fectly, and when once this condition
exists bad functioning of every organ
Of the body results, and old age and
death gradually ensue.
Mind, too, has n great deal to do In
Fastening or retarding the unpleasant
signs of physical decay. Mental sci
ence has satisfactorily demonstrated
that mean, narrow, selfish and unpleas-
ant thoughts act destructively Oh the
tissues of the body, while thoughts of n
wholesome and positive character act
consiructlyely.
And when the curtains OF "the win
dows of the soul" are drawn, when the
temples door Is closed and final 81
lence IL within, when the spirit passes
the threshold to take up newer and
finer edltice OF its own creation, science
assures us that the body lives on.
Here at least physical Immortality Is
IN assured fact.
Theology has irrellgiously taught us
that the body returns to inanimate
dust The religious answer of science
IL that II returns to God. The latest
word In the field Of biology IL that all
nature, including the all mother soil,
IL animated and hallowed With the di-
vine principle Of life.
More than this, matter Is lndestrueti-
bic and eternal. There Is not an atom
that can be lost In all the universe.
For this reason our bodies do not really
die They are In the care of the angels
Of the elements
The peculiar cellular arrangement
tuul IOfIleu litiH IutO Dtuutii VI pohy
may be caused to dislntegrate through
the action Of the oxygen upon 1t. time
may change the position Of the atoms
composing 1t, but the latter still CON
tain within themselves the sacred and
eternal principle of life as much us
does the soul, and they exist only to
enter into new and perhaps more bean.
tiful combinations Of life. Health.