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Rh and air, earth and water, and no longer receive the nourishment appointed for them by nature. Therefore our domestic animals are much more subject to sickness than the animals of the forest.

When we look at nature with an open, unprejudiced, mind, and are not blinded by the teachings of science, we must arrive at the clear conclusion that man has become sick and miserable only because he no longer heeds the VOICES OF NATURE, and has thus everywhere transgressed the laws of nature, and lost his way.

Nature is forever unassailable in her justice; she punishes every transgression of her laws, but likewise rewards every return to obedience.

In all cases, and in all diseases, therefore, man can recover and again become happy only by a true return to nature: man must to-day strenuously endeavor, in his mode of living, to heed again the voice of nature, and thus choose the food that nature has laid before him from the beginning, and to bring himself again into the relation with water, light and air, earth, etc., that nature originally designed for him.

Nature speaks intelligibly and gives her precepts plainly to all creatures; to the animals as well as to man.

Nature does not intend man to remain in such great ignorance and confusion concerning the true course of life and the true methods of cure that he will fall out with his fellowmen in discussing these subjects and become a victim of tormenting care and doubt. We must only no longer listen to men, but go for information to nature.

But nature speaks in a different manner than man. She offers her lessons not in books, not in dusty tomes; she expresses her will to her creatures plainly and clearly through instinct, the organs of sense, etc.

In addition to these, rational man is also gifted with conscience.

Primitive peoples in distant parts of the earth still preserve these only safe and sure guides on the road of life. It is well known that these children of nature are gifted with such keen