Breathe, then, good reader! Take in large quantities of the divine, immaculate fire! Let every woman (and every lady, sans Fashion,) give free play to her lungs; and let every man also open his mouth to the blessings of air, ("No smoking allowed,") so that all food swallowed shall be transformed into the foundation of rosy Health, and every soul be a living fountain of gratitude and gladness. Bathe your body with pure and beautiful water; then rub your entire skin briskly with a soft flannel cloth; lastly, make passes with your hands—so that an electrical condition will exist externally, and, as a consequence, the internal surfaces be supplied with healthy magnetism The opposite of this condition is disease. When the surface is hot or feverish, the vital parts are negative and electrical; the exact reverse of the state of Health-when the surface is pleasantly cool with electricity, while the interior is magnetically warm with vital energy.

THE GASTRIC METHODS.-The reasons in favor of full and intelligent respiration are numerous and easily understood. Chyle is the last result of fundamental digestion. But, in itself, chyle has no power to promote growth, give strength, or repair the waste of the body. It is the successor of chyme. Chyme is manufactured from the food in the first departments of digestion. It is a pulpy mass, impregnated or charged with electricity of the vitallic kind. When it passes downwards into the second stomach, or duodenum, the pancreatic fluid and the bile at once combine with it, adding a positive element, by which chyme is transformed into a milk-white liquid (the chyle) which, with the residuum, flows steadily into and through all the small intestines.

What next? The numerous mesenteric glands, with the lacteal vessels, commence their work of forming incipient eggs from the chylic fluid. The unchylified portion (the residuum)

meantime passes onward into the larger and lower bowels, and is thence rejected with the broken-down blood globules in the shape of bile and relative excretions. This material is wholly excrementitious. Now the thoracic "duct," so called, attracts the chyle from the lacteal passages and mesenteric glands, and pours it into a vein, which, from behind the collar-bone, discharges its contents into the positive side of the heart. Here the chyle is mixed with the negative portion of the blood. This venous blood is no more nutrient than the chyle; neither can give strength and repair waste, unless cleansed and electrified.

THE PURIFYING ORDEAL.-How is this accomplished? By means of the pure air of space! Yes, when heaven's divine breath enters the air-chambers, the chyle is converted at once into nutritious blood adapted to the multifarious necessities of the arterial system, and the cold venous blood is at the same moment unloaded of its death-burdens, in the form of carbonic gas and useless water. Carbon is the principal element of decay and death; yet it is essential to life, and a good conductor of electricity. This carbon is seen in the dark color of the blood. It must be disengaged and repelled from the body, or disease will ensue. The vegetable world wants the carbonic element. Death and life in the same organism!

So, therefore, the heart wisely and energetically throws both the chyle and the venous blood upon the entire responsibility of the lungs. When the invisible air is instinctively drawn into the pulmonary structures, the eternal life of the divine and infinite enters also, whereby the chyle is changed as by magic into a constructive principle for the soul's good, while the newly purified blood, re-baptized and confirmed in the ways of righteousness, hastens upon its mission of benevolence to all parts of the physical temple.

It is generally known that, although the element nitrogen remains nearly the same as to quantity, whether inspired or expired, yet the quantity of oxygen is lessened by every inhalation of air, and the quantity of carbonic acid is increased with every exhalation, all which, without argument, goes to establish the fact that human beings cannot with impunity breathe over and over the confined air of improperly ventilated apartments-that small quantities of air will not suffice to keep up the dynamic processes of beautiful health. One hundred and forty-six Englishmen were imprisoned in a room about eighteen feet square. The ventilation was insufficient, there being but two small windows, in one side, to admit the atmosphere, and the effect was very soon fully manifested. Only twenty-three of the one hundred and forty-six strong men were alive ten hours after their imprisonment in the dungeon! From this terrible circumstance the place received an appropriate epithet: "The Black Hole of Calcutta."

MORALITY OF PURE AIR.-How many superficial breathers are there, whose lungs never receive the full ventilation required? Many a human system, we think, being filled with broken-down blood globules, and other deadly impurities, may, with propriety, be styled, "The Black Hole of Calcutta!" School-houses, churches, bed-chambers, legislative halls, and every habitation, in short, occupied by organizations with lungs, should be constantly supplied with plentiful quantities of air, composed of twenty-one per cent. of oxygen to seventy-nine per cent. of nitrogen-otherwise it will be impossible for the best Doctors of Divinity to keep their congregation out of Perdition, and equally impossible for Doctors of Medicine to rescue their families and patients from the trials of private Purgatory. No true breathing for remedial purposes can occur unless accomplished by the WILL. It is strictly a Pneumogastric exercise,

regulated by design. Any one acquainted with the physiology of respiration knows, that with every expansion and contraction of the lungs—or whenever the air enters and departs from the chest-many motions and changes take place in the abdominal cavity, alimentary canals, stomach, liver, diaphragm, intercostal. muscles, &c., &c.

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There is a deep and beautiful philosophy behind all this, which our weak and feeble Brothers and Sisters would do well to study and heed. Food cannot impart a particle of strength independent of the lungs. Do you believe this assertion? Do you believe that no amount of finely-prepared and costly nutrition can be nutritious, until the lungs perform their appropriate offices in the premises? It is even so, dear doubtful reader. Open the clear eyes of your Reason and see for yourself. Look straight into the breathing department, and judge whether these things be so or otherwise.

Gross matter does not, cannot, strengthen the living, vital, nervauric, immortal Principle. Your weakness is not structural. The bones are not suffering, but the life of them is yearning for an increase of energy; so of your internal organs the tissues, the membranes, filaments, fibers, nerves, and muscles. These fine ponderables are destitute of the imponderable principles. You fancy that matter in large quantities will strengthen you. Hence you breathe little and eat much. If you should exercise you would of necessity breathe more air; then, indeed, it would seem that the food does strengthen your body; but, believe us, the facts are that the imperishable elements of strength are drawn more from the air than from the materials consigned to the stomach.

Let us look into this for a moment. It is undeniably true that the food we eat seems to undergo chemical decomposition independent of the pulmonary functions, but there is

no mistake more fatal to a correct comprehension of the lifegiving processes. The story is a short one. Food is of no consequence as a strength-generating substance, until, in the form of chyle, it visits the pulmonary department and receives copulation and prolification from the electro-magnetic principles of the air. Oxygen is the royal conveyance, by which the deeper vitalizing principles drive into the constituents of chyle. As soon as a fructifying and impregnative conjunction is formed between the chyle and the air, then, and not a moment before, the food is prepared to build up and, re-make the ponderable organism. If the air is impure in quality, or limited in quantity, the effect is instantly impressed upon the fluid material. That our strength is not dependent upon the amount of nutritious food we eat, is established, beyond the possibility of mistake, by the fact that persons with lung diseases, consumption, &c., usually eat far greater quantities of food than perfectly healthy individuals, who yet have forty times the volume of strength.

CONCLUSION. We need not further amplify. The facts must be self-evident. Strength is born of the imponderable elements of immensity. The great receptive mechanism-made up of cells, blood-vessels, pneumogastric and sympathetic centers, vegetative ganglia, and bronchial tubes, ramifying in every direction-is situated in the chest. The right side is more largely supplied than the left, in order to give adequate space and action to contiguous parts and organs. The atmosphere of space, on entering this beautiful mechanism, empowers the food to supply waste and to gratify the bodily needs. Strength is the natural issue of such supply and of such gratification. Digestion is never perfect unless the respiration is full, and performed in the baptismal font of pure air, which is a vast ocean of life and energy at least fifty miles deep, and equal on