Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
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.

' yet If some man attempted seriously 1 to reassert this ancient truth today we would look upon him as a mad prophet indeed. Yet the time will come when men will be able to believe this prom | ise of the Bible, although they may never see 1t literally fulfilled.
 Death some day will be acknowL edged to be as unnatural in the econ omy of the creative plant as are sin and suffering. But whether or not in some millennium period mortal man will be able to forego the gross proc ess of physical dissolution in beeom- ing spiritual body is purely meta physical question that does not enter here. What does interest us is the question, occupying the greatest scien- tific minds today, whether the body as ! such cannot be retained in perfect con- 1 dition indefinitely.
 William A. Hammond. one of the great authorities, answers it by say. ing, There is no physiological reason why man should die"
 Thomas J. Allen, NJ. A, IL. D., writ ing in similar strain, says: "The hu. man body is not like a machine which must wear out by constant dislntegra- tion, for 1t is self renewing. It is a 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 is no doubt that when ~e be- come more enlightened and understand perfectly the laws that govern and de- termine our physical lives and when 1 we conform to these religiously life will be immeasurably prolonged.
 The decay of the body as evidenced | in old age is unnatural. The aesthetic within us recoils in merely conternplat- ing its approach. We feel that there must be something self perpetrative In the change when the strong color in a healthy man and the fresh beauty in a 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 it 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 accumulates and the amount 1t Is able to throw of. During youth the balance Is perfect, because the body has more than its normal vitality and strength to throw of the waste matter. but as we grow older thls perfect bal ance becomes destroyed from one cause or another.
 The strength that should go to ellmi- mating Impurities from the body is 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 tea and coffee. taxes the elimi- 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- tem, settling in the arteries and joints 1 of the body and accommodating until they become obstructive clements. The blood stream clrculates imper- | 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 a great deal to do in hastening or retardlng the unpleasant signs of physical decay. Mental sci ence has satisfactorily demonstrated that mean, narrow. selfish and unpleas- ant thoughts act destructively on the tissues of the body, while thoughts of wholesome and positive character act constructIvely.
 And when the curtains of ''the win dows of the sour' are drawn. when the | temples door Is closed and a final si- lence Is within. when the spirit passes the threshold to take up a newer and finer edifice of It's own creation. science assures US that the body lives on. Here at least physical immortality Is an assured fact.
 Theology has irreiIgiously taught us that the body returns 10 inanimate dust The religious answer of science Is that 1t returns to God. The latest word in the field of biology Is that an nature. including the all mother soil is animated and hallowed with the d. vine principle of life.
 More than this. matter Is indestructt- ble and eternal There Is not an atom that can be losr in all the universe. For this reason osr bodies do not really die. They are n the care of the angels of the clements
 The peculiar cellular arrangement that formed tsem into beautiful body may be caused to dIsinfegrzte through the action of the oxygen upon it. time may change the position Of the atoms composing Il. but the latter still con tain within themselves the sacred and eternal principle Of life as much as does the soul. and they exist only to enter Into new and perhaps more beau tfuI combinations of Hfa-Health.