The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-08-07
MAN SHOULD NOT DIE
There Is No Physiological Reason
For Death.
THE BODY is SELF RENEWING
Perfect Diet and Mode of Livinq Would
Insure Exact Balance Between
Bodily Waste and Renewal and
Would Mean PHYSICAL Immortality.

Would Mean Physical Immortality.
"The last enemy that shall be de-
stroyed is DEATH" said the Scriptures,
yet If some man attempted seriously
TO reassert this ancient truth today we
would look upon him as q 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 it 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 becom-
ing a spiritual body Is q purely meta
physical question that does not enter
here. What does interest us is the
question, occupying the greatest scien-
tiac minds today, whether the body Us
such cannot be retained In perfect con-
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, LII D., writ
ing in a similar strain. says: "The hu-
man body is not like a machine which
must wear out by constant disintegra-
ton, for It is self renewing. 1t Is q
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 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 immeasurably prolonged.
The decay Of the body as evidenced
in old g is unnatural. The aesthetic
within us recoils in merely contemplat-
ing its approach. We feel that there
must be sorething self pertetrative 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 viii 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 this perfect bal
ance becomes destroyed from one cause
or another.
The strength that should 60 to elimi-
mating impurities from the body is not
husbanded, but rather squandered in
different ways. Then, too. we eat end
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 whsn the time
comes when these give way a safe of
Imperfect elimination has Get In, and. the
wastes in cart are deposited In the sYs-