It is a pleasant thing to die, when the death is natural, because the soul "makes a Sabbath day's journey" toward Deity-gets nearer to the central Fountain of everlasting life— nearer in the sense of realizing more love and acquiring a higher knowledge concerning the spiritual laws of the universe. The kindling fires of infinite life light up the trans-mundane pilgrim with a larger and diviner comprehension. The great cycles of the world's progression appear like changes in the performance of an operatic drama. The rise and fall of empires seem not more important than the shifting of scenes in a theater-the lights and shades of an immortal picture. It is a pleasant thing to die, and to get out of the prison of engrossing and heavy matter, because its chemical transactions emancipate the spirit from the imperative besetments of hateful appetites. Although the soul retains the effects, sad and many, arising from the multifarious transgressions of the principles that are indispensable to its progression; yet, by the fact of chemically altering the relations subsisting between soul and body, the spirit is measurably empowered and inspired to rise above its ruling earthly passions. With the body goes tobacco, alcohol, stimulants, &c.; and with death comes the power to be larger and happier. Some minds are vicious because of physiological defects. Brains sometimes are imprisoned by a malformed skull, and spirit is embarrassed by a hampered brain, and chacter is deformed as a consequence ; so that, in contemplating our common humanity, it is wisest to put down a large amount of evil to externals, which, in this life, are positive in begetting personal manifestations. An accident has been known to jar into life certain portions of a long-slumbering brain, whereby the prosy person was at once converted into a poetic genius and partial musician. Imperceptible alterations in the cerebral polarities will be followed by special shes I be summer mi bahis if the individual. Sorrowand gay; drunkards shange mu te invest amples i emperance; vulgar souls tri nu te was of Siemenr and is, “in-the twinkling a' is ressine dr Zeu ere the character and maiti ne prerumites if a mun. Even here, under the magu much of kumsa magiecsm, erant soul is suddenly and zen "ersed mar de endoŭment if spassing intelligence ; Jy means of de sme zusten.ag frence, the mouth of the Dund s zoeneà, mì he su▼ ungreis made to move with the Sgà ting fushës, të kopnenee. Za few passes of the human Jami zau wiek dangos si astaranecas and so marvellous upon a tuman sud, wile ma i de body, what are we not authorised a expect when Fuad less de “prison-house of clay," and gives the metal gewers Ženy to run to and fro “through the hand of createa,” a the natural exercise of all constitu tional rights and inclinations ? Yesterday we climbed to the loftiest summit of a dark, broad, and beautiful meunain We sought a solitary dwelling place beneath the shadow of many trees. The beetling cliffs lifted their stately summits on either side. The music of the deep valleys below filled the temple with sacred melody. The far-off silvery clouds, floating between our upturned eyes and the summer sun, seemed to welcome our thoughts to the worlds on high. We there obtained a wondrous vision of truth, and law, and soul, and matter; and, for the thousandth time, we acquired a lesson from Mother Nature to this effect—“ it is a pleasant thing to die.” DIAGNOSES AND PRESCRIPTIONS. THE leading pathological propositions set forth in this volume, by which we trust all progressive physicians and patients will be guided in the application of our various prescriptions, are: 1. That all diseases originate in a disturbance of the soulprinciple, which consists of Motion, Life, and Sensation. 2. That the effect of such disturbance is a development of local suffering, invariably in the region of the greatest previous weakness, or where there is the most constitutional tendency to disease. 3. That the concomitants are. an increase of motion and of temperature, or else a reduction of temperature and a diminution of motion, in the fluids and forces of the parts assailed. From the above propositions we are authorized to conclude that all diseases are characterized by active and passive symptoms or states; and we hereby suggest, with all due deference, that friendly physicians and all patients be regulated by these principles in the administration of appropriate remedies. Spring Time Diseases.. When we emerge from the Winter months into the terrestrial thawings and atmospheric changefulness of the coming Spring, the eccentric action of this peculiar season upon the fluids and solids of the body, is irregular and disease-generating. Dense fluids descend. from the brain and lungs, and disperse through the lower viscera laying the foundation for various stomach, membranous, and liver disorders, resulting in obstructions, diarrhoea, congestions, and inflammations. Meanwhile the |