lighter and rarer fluids ascend from the bowels and liver, and diffuse themselves through the solids and nerves of the throat, face, and brain. These currental and vitalic changes occur in every human body, just as surely as the upward flow of sap in trees, at the very beginning of the Spring months. In the perilous passage between Winter and Spring more children get sick, and more adult invalids depart for the next Sphere before they should, than during any other season of the year.

PREVENTION AND REMEDIES: May holy angels throw their strong, white arms around the multitudinous little ones of earth; and may the understandings of all parents be opened to the true ways of life and health. Especially do we pray for the protec tion and conservation of the diseased, the suffering, the famishing, and the unhappy. Let them organize themselves into systematic, thorough-going, wide-awake defenses against the approaches and invasions of the ruffian, Gen. De Bility. Each human being is provided by the Father and Mother with ample constitutional means of resistance. Whole troops of WILLPOWERS are garrisoned in every visceral organ of the body; indeed, it is literally true to say that every organ-from the top of the head to the depth of the abdomen—is naturally an impregnable fortification.

Incredible as it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that man's body is a strong tower of defense, a fort of marvellous construction, which no atmospheric changes can affect or touch, if the proprietor but understood the shielding power and vast sweep of the invisible Will. Faith, knowledge, imagination, affection, intuition, and fidelity, enter as ingredients into the composition of WILL. It is not what phrenologists term Firmness, it is not an obstinate and dogged principle of stubbornness in the mental constitution-not a "will" and a 66 won't" propensity-quite otherwise; by Will we mean the concentrated whole-hearted.

ness of the brain and soul-life flowing like sunlight within the blood to any desired part of the physical economy, distributing the fertilizations of sublime health and strength through every crevice, and tissue, and nerve of the dependent frame.

We admonish each of all our readers to put forth this regenerating, this anti-suicidal, this immortal energy of the spirit. Suppose that Spring is about to burst upon you, with its varied terrestrial and atmospheric characteristics; with its fickleness of sunlight, hesitancy of temperatures, and with its changefulness of electrical and magnetic currents. Go forth, then, armed with well-balanced manhood! Like a strong, wellformed, beautiful woman, go forth lovingly to greet and cheer on the Spring; do not remain in the house all day, whether sick or well, but walk forth, panoplied with the WILL-POWER, and thank the universal God of Nature that in him you "live, and move, and have a being." Be always very thankful; let your face shine with gladness, your cheeks blush with youthful vigor, (although the record may be that you are more than sixty years old,) and the host of overseeing intelligences will drop a "new lease upon life" in your heart, which will then steadily beat against your bosom as the nearest friend you have. Do not get a "bad cold;" do not permit yourself to cough; do not get the habit of taking on rheumatic pains. All these ailments may be prevented. Bathe your feet in cold water before walking; keep them protected against the dampness of the ground; breathe deeply while walking, allowing the breath to escape only through the nostrils; swing your arms, firmly shutting and opening your hands occasionally; be strong and energetic, not flexible as India rubber, in putting forth muscular effort; get honestly warm and generally fatigued-earn and deserve your weariness-then, on returning to thy habitation, go into thy chamber, lock the door against every external intruder, and

resign thyself to the nourishment of slumber. Nature will faithfully awaken you at the right moment; then, whether sleepy and rested or not, arise and resume the business ́of the hour.

During Spring months it is better to eat almost no meat. Whether sick or well, this counsel is applicable to you. Eat various kinds of simple puddings for dinner, only one compound, with bread and butter, at any meal. Farmers and merchants, mothers and children—each and all, better keep “Lent” and grow healthy by fasting in the early Spring months. The following is a good dinner for two days of each week: "Take half a pound of bread crumbs, half a pound of potatoes, boiled, quarter pound of suet, chopped fine, two eggs, well beaten. Mix with milk, and boil three hours." A large family, of course, would require a larger pudding than these proportions indicate.

Abolish the demon, "coffee." Do not spend another copper to obtain this copper-colored enemy of lung, liver, stomach, bowels, throat, brain, and reproduction. Nature will allow you to use black tea, not too strong; never oftener than twice a day, seldom at night. Let all families manufacture a beverage for Spring drinking; to be used at any time, even at meals, instead of warm drinks, ale, or porter; for it will give a healthy fluidity to the blood before warm weather, open the bowels moderately, and assist the feeblest digestion.

A SPRING BEVERAGE.-Eight ounces of sarsaparilla, three ounces of liquorice, six ounces of wild cherry bark, half ounce of mandrake, one ounce of gentian, and half a teaspoonful of each cinnamon and red pepper. Boil in three gallons of rain water until the quantity is about half reduced. Let children and adults drink a wine-glass of this whenever thirsty. Do not sweeten it much; nor allow yourself or little ones to indulge in

sweets.

Better eat an orange before breakfast than at any other time during the day. Give your little children oranges without the pulp or seeds. They cannot easily eat too many oranges in the Spring. They contain very rare properties of strength to the sick and debilitated. Dyspeptics would do well to walk before breakfast, and eat a couple of oranges, breathing as directed in the meantime. Consumptive and bilious persons may obtain much relief from the free use of oranges anywhere between early rising and the second meal. Let every reader of the New Philosophy give evidence of the glorious faith within him.

Origin of Skin Diseases.

Our philosophy of diseases of the skin differs, in several essential particulars, from the received theories of high medical authorities. It is deemed necessary to explain our impressions concerning these distressing afflictions, in order to answer, at one and the same time, scores of letters from persons sorely afflicted with external diseases.

The opinion most generally received is that all eruptive affections originate from unhealthy conditions of the blood. Pimples, pustules, blotches, scabs, itch, rash, salt rheum, measles, scarlatina, fever sores, scrofula, cancers, tumors, erysipelas, small pox, &c., are attributed to depraved and poisoned conditions of the blood. Thousands of patent nostrums are manufactured expressly to take pecuniary advantage of this prevailing error and consequent weakness among men respecting the blood-origin of all skin diseases. There is no exaggeration in the statement that, notwithstanding the barrels of empirical syrups and quack tinctures made and swallowed per annum, in order to cleanse and purify the blood, the number, and variety, and intensity of skin diseases, are constantly and alarmingly on the increase. All through civilized society we

observe the palpable evidences of scrofula, erysipelas, cancer, small pox, &c., and the victims, as a general thing, receive but little assistance from the leaders of medical science. Manufacturers and venders of infallible medicines require their patients to take their medicine according to printed directions on the label. These printed directions, being literally translated from the mysterious depths of the internal sense, in which their authors wrote them, would read thus: "The manufacturer and proprietor of this Sovereign Remedy (for all skin diseases) cannot guarantee a permanent cure unless the directions be faithfully and strictly followed; and these important and authoritative directions are, that this infallible preparation be shaken and taken internally and eternally,' on which conditions alone the proprietor hereby promises to refund the price of the bottle if a perfect cure be not effected."

The primary origin of skin diseases is the disturbed condition of the vital principle within the blood, by the positive and negative operations of which, the bodily fluid is kept warm and ceaselessly in motion. This position is established by the fact, everywhere well known and acknowledged, that all persons are not susceptible to the same skin diseases. Certain temperaments do not absorb small pox, the itch, salt rheum, &c.; while others will take on these and yet other skin diseases at the slightest exposure. The depravity, or derangement, originates first in the life principle; then, as a logical sequence, the external will receive the form and embodiment. The soul (which is the vital covering of the immortal spirit,) is primarily disturbed; and other consequences will follow," as the night the day," until the effect itself becomes a disease, and subsequently the cause of like disturbances within the soul. The blood is a dependent subject of the controlling, animating prin