The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-03
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
to reassert this ancient truth today we
would look upon him as mad prophet
indeed. Yet the time viii 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 acknOwl-
edged to be as unnatural in the econ
omy of the creative plant as are sin
and suffering. Bat whether or not in
some millennium period mortal man
Will he able to forego The gross proc
ces OF physical dissolution in becom-
ing Il spiritual body is IL purely meta
physical question that does not enter
here. What does interest us is the
question. occupying the greatest scien.
ttic minds today. whether the body as
such cannot be retained in perfect con
dillon indefinitely
William y Hammond. one Of tho
great authorities, answers it by say
ing. "Ihyre is 10 Physiological reason
why nan should die"
Thomas J Allen. N. A. LII. D., writ
ing il Il similar strain. says: The hu-
must wear ont by constant disintegra-
ton. for it is self renewing 1t is 4
simple scientific fact that sc get an
entirely new body every few years,
estimated at from three TO seven
Every day IS birthday, for the proc
css of waste and renewal never ceases.
Perfect balance between elimination
and renewal would avoid permanent
waste"
There Is 10 doubt that when we be-
como more enlightened and understand
perfectly the laws that govern and de-
ternipe our physical lives and when
VIC conform to these reliGiously life
will be UNNECESSARILY prolonged.
The decay of the body as evidenced
in old age IS unnatural. The aesthetic
within US recoils il i2erely contemplate
ing its approach. We feet that there
must be. something self perpetrative III
the change when the strong color in a
healthy man and the fresh beauty III 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 1t
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
,tot nd hn Ia
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 rs we grow older this perfect bal
aucc becomes destroyed from "ause
or another.
The strength that should go to elimi-
eating impurities from the body is not
hushanded, but rather squandered in
different ways. Then, too, we eat and
drin'G 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 pow ers. and when the time
comes when these give way q 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 circulates lmper-
fectly, and when once this condition
exists bad functioning of every organ
oe the body results, and old age and
death gradually ensue.
Mind, too. has a great deal to do In
Fastening or retardirg 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 a
Wholesome and positive character act
constructively.
And when the curtains of 1.-The win
dows of the sour are drawn, when the
temples door is closed and final 81
lence Is within. when the spirit passes
the threshold tc take up a newer and
finer editice OF its own creation, science
assures us that the body lives on
Here at least physical Immortality Is
an assured fact.
Theology has irreligiously taught us
that the body returns to inanimate
dust. The religious answer of science
Is that It returns to God. The --latest
word in the field of biology is that al
nature. including the all mother soil
is animated and hallowed with the di
vine principle of life.
More than this. matter is indestructi
BILE and eternal There Is not an atom
that can be lost in all the universe
Tor this reason our bodies do not really
die. They are in the care Of the angel:
Of the elements.
The peculiar cellular arrangement
that formed them into a beautiful body
may be caused to disintegrate through
the action of the oxygen upon it. TIM
may change the position of the atom:
composing 1t, but the latter still con
tain within themselves the sacred and
eternal principle of life as much al
does the soul. and they exist only t.
enter into new and perhaps more beau
utul combinations of life.-Health.
Reasonable supposittcr.