Q. What will produce mental consentment? A. A full and complete realization of the truths of the HARMONIAL PHILOSOPHY. Q In what way may we obtain pure air in a sickly district or low country? A. By breathing habituaily through the nose, with the mouth closed; at night, hang a wet sheet or blanket near the open window of the sleeping apartment. Q. What is the effect upon the air of breathing it through the nose? A. Its temperature is immediately raised, which acts upon impure air just as boiling acts upon impure water, thus preparing the air for the uses of the lungs. The wet sheet unloads the air of its diseasing miasm, such as carbonic acid and various animal emanations, by which the lungs are depressed and the vital system poisoned. Q. Should the common air always enter the lungs through the nose? A. Yes, unless while taking violent exercise, such as running and jumping, when the heat of the mouth and throat is sufficient to purify and prepare the air for the lungs. It should be remembered that the nose is to the lungs what the mouth is to the stomach. As you would not think of swallowing food unmasticated, so you should not permit yourself to inhale air unpurified. The teeth and mouth, with their juices, accomplish the one'; and the nose, with its various compartments and fluids, performs the other.. Q. Besides air, what is the next most important agent of health? Q. What is the evidence that water is thus important? A. It completely pervades the earth outside of man, and forms over four-fifths of his physical constitution; it forms more than ninety per centum of his blood; is absorbed by every membrane in his body; is the element on which all the particles float from part to part; is essential to all digestion, secretion, breathing, perspiration, and purification. Q. Is water the best medicine in a case of Disease? A. The human body is never healed by any one agent or element. This book will impart a correct knowledge of the best general treatment for diseased conditions. Q. Is it possible to live in this world entirely free from bodily ailments? A. No. The most careful and obedient person will not always escape slight functional disturbances. Q. Why is this so ? A. Because the globe is yet young, and untamed or uncultivated. Its water, soils, plants, animals, and air, are not yet sufficiently refined and purified to prevent disease. Q. Will the time ever come on earth when Disease shall be no more? A. Yes. And even "Death" will one day be swallowed up in victory. Q. How will this be possible? A. There will be no "Disease" when the globe shall have become perfectly subdued and gardenized by man; and there will be "no Death" when the earth's inhabitants shall perfectly realize the nearness of the Summer Land. Q. What is the common object of life? A. Happiness. Q. Why are not more persons happy? A. Because the mass of mankind err as to the true means of happiness. Q. What are the true means of happiness? A. This all-important question is earnestly analyzed, and, we trust, philosophically answered, in the four hundred and twenty pages which compose this volume. And to the vast Brotherhood of mankind, therefore, the contents of this book are fraternally dedicated by THE AUTHOR. NEW YORK, October-15th, 1861. CHAPTER I. THE PEARLY GATES OF SCIENCE. NATURE's harmonious, eternal heart, is incessantly throbbing with the almighty energy of omnipotent principles. Sweetly bloom the progressive truths and immortal beauties of the Infinite. They come gracefully out from their invisible sanctuary, and shine steadily and lovingly into the gloomy abysses of igno rance. As a brief definition, we may say that Science is a knowledge of Facts and Forces. What is Art, then, but the intellectual and manual power to control such forces for the gratification and benefit of mankind? There is a plain difference between Art and Science. The latter is the embodiment of intellectual discoveries; the former is the archangel which puts theory into practice, for the world's permanent good. If Science is the glory of mind, then Art is its crown of immortality. But mankind are admonished to travel for forty years in the wilderness of facts not only, but to traverse and reverse their contemplations of the Universe forever, in quest of the countless treasures which lie within the bosom of the Summer Land. When the pilgrim arrives at the goal of Scientific Knowledge, no matter what path he may have pursued, the angels bring forth and place upon his brow a royal diadem, in these days called "COMMON SENSE!" ing powers against the assaults of weakness and superstition. Facts are foundation stones in the crystal palace of human knowledge. But, remember, he foundation—below the facts and temple of Progress is composed of Eternal Principles. Facts are but the incarnations of these immortal Verities. Yet it is ordained, in the system of moral and intellectual growth, that each mind shall pass through the pearly gates of Science. But human ignorance is demoniae darkness of the blackest degree-reflecting none of the rays of wisdom-hence it does not comprehend the sublime import of truth. To the dullminded man, the physical world seemeth dull and dirty-no light is flowing for him from every well-spring of wisdom, in field and forest-and yet no murmurings, no evil voices, no sobbing complaints, ever break from Nature's seemingly neglected Soul. But the miserable millions of earth groan and weep-and why? Not because they have faithfully labored in the vineyards of Progress, and failed to realize great crops therefor, but because they erringly have chosen the delusive slumbers of idleness and ignorance. They have not accepted of the "golden key to ope the palace of Eternity”—have not sought to comprehend the developments of endlessly progressive principles-but have, instead, dwelt idly and willfully in the mysterious shadows of mental blindness and bigotry. Say to the world, in tones as mighty as the thundering voice of earthquakes, that "Salvation from all disease and discordsphysical, social, political, and spiritual-is possible only by and through personal obedience to every known requirement of the law of love and justice," and how many of those who believe in salvation by and through the blood and sufferings of an ancient Martyr, would respond "Amen"? Only those would accept of oh terms who wisely love truth and justice. All the idle and |