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 nutshell, — a power that nine in ten can exercise without airy foreign or extrinsic aid whatever, if we except the aid of a magnetic bandage, nor is that even absolutely necessary.

V. In the same way, one can determine the diseases of another, the sex of an unborn child, and many other things; because, when prayerfully directed to dive, the soul brings up truth, and truth only. This power cannot be used for any selfish, mean, immoral, or wrong purpose whatever, for such motives dim the vision and utterly obscure it. That the unhappy state of woman results from errors of judgment in love matters is notorious. It would not be so if the matter were tested before false or unwise steps were taken. But when girls are properly educated, fed, exercised, worked, and clothed, there will be developed a ripeness of perception and judgment, that will enable them, not merely to look forward to the wedding-dress and honeymoon, — and there stop, as now, — but to look afar clown the valley of life in the clear light of immutable principles. VI. Girls or wives, who suffer a great deal of mental anguish, which they attribute to affectional, conjugal, or domestic causes, often do so wrongly; and four-fifths of them will disappear before the magic charm, continually resorted to, of well-filled lungs, of sun-warmed air, a clear skin, active liver, and thoroughly purified scalp and teeth, loose garments, few sweets, hearty food, open-air exercise, and the hygienic use of music and laughter!

VII. All crime, error, wrong action, results from the flow of blood and nervous aura into wrong cerebral and other organs; and these effects can gradually, physiologically, be changed; that is, a normal change and circulation be effected; for well-filled lungs and an active heart are the elements of physical, moral, mental, and amicive, as well as passional, power. A contracted heart and collapsed lungs mean illness and vice. VIII. American women have plenty of nervous intensity, but wofully lack in. They often rush to quacks and dangerous nostrums to procure the means of governing family increase, and kill themselves by so doing; wholly oblivious of the fact that the bath, robust health, and the exercise of the will and proper periodical caution are the only necessary methods, — practised for countless ages by Oriental women, — crimeless, sinless, stainless. Illustration: The soul and body interchangeably affect