Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-25
PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY.
No Reason Why Man Should Die
 Body Is Self.Renewing.


 ''The last enemy that shall be de
 strdyed is death," say the Scriptures
 yet if some man attempted seriously
 10 reassert this ancient truth to-day
 we would look upon him as a mad
 prophet indeed. Yet the time will
 come when men will be able to be.
 lieve this promise of the Bible, al
 though they may never be, able to
 hope to see it literally fulfilled.
 Death some day will be acknowl-
 edged to be as unnatural in the econ
 Dmy of the creative plan as are sin
 and suffering. But whether or not
 In some millennium period, mortal
 man will be able to forego the gross process of physical dissolution in be- coming a spiritual body is a purely metaphysical question that does not enter here. What does interest us Is the question, occupying the great est scientific minds to-day, whether the body as such cannot be retained in perfect condition indefinitely.
 William A. Hammond, one of the great authorities in medical science and formerly surgeon-general in the United States army, answers it by saying: There is no physiological reason why man should die"
 Thomas J. Allen, M. A., LL.. D., writing in a similar strain, says: 'The human body is not like ma chine which must wear out by con- stant disintegration, for 1t is self renewing. It is simple. scientific fact that we get an entirely new body every few years, estimated at from three to seven. Every day is birthday for the process of waste and renewal never ceases. Perfect balance between elimination and re- newal would avoid permanent waste"
 There is no doubt that when we become more enlightened and un- derstand perfectly the laws that govern and determine our physical lives, and when we conform our selves to these religiously life will be immeasurably prolonged.
 The decay of the body, as eyi- denced in old age, is unnatural. The aesthetic within us recoils in merely contemplating it's 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 he bloom on the cheeks fades, when | the brilliant light within the eyes grows dim and the full. red lips be- come pale and fallen.
 Medical science has pointed out | the physiological cause of these con ditions. Probably the time will | come when it will be able to point put the manner of avoiding them.
 We know that the body grows old because of the existence of an im- perfect balance between the waste | which the body accumulates and the amount it is able to throw of. During youth the balance is perfect, because the body has more than it's normal vitality and strength to throw ,ff the waste matter. But as we srow older this perfect balance be- comes destroyed from one cause or mother.
 The strength that should 70 to eliminating impurities from the body s not husbanded but rather sduan- tered in different ways. Then too ve eat and drink those things that ause excessive waste. An impure liet composed of foods containing Iric acid, such as meat, or of drinks outaining poisons. such as tea and ofee. taxes the eliminative powers, nd when the time comes when these i've way state of imperfect elimin- ton has set In. the wastes In part re deposited in the system settling the arteries and joints of the body nd accumulsting until they become bstructive elements
 The blood stream cirsuIates i'm and when once shis condf- lon exists bad funcfionin9 of every rgsn of the body results and old age nd death gradually ensue. Mind too has a great deal to do in sstening or retarding the un-t ieasant signs of physical decay. lental science has satisfactorily < smonssrated that mean. marrow. slfsh and unpleasant thoughts act on the tissues of the ,6y, while thoughts of a wholssoue sd positive character act con- 2 rzctively.-Health. 2