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16 Mistaking his origin and nature, we make man both matter and Spirit, — Spirit being sifted through matter, carried on a nerve, exposed to ejection at the hands of matter. Think of it: the intellectual, the moral, the spiritual, — yea, Intelligence itself, — subjected to non-intelligence!

Is civilization but a higher stage of idolatry, that man, in the nineteenth century, should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels and baths, to diet, exercise, air? Nothing is able to do for man what he can do for himself with omnipotent aid.

The idols of civilization are far more fatal to health and longevity than the idols of older forms of heathenism. They call into action less faith than Buddhism, in a supreme governing Intelligence. Even the Esquimaux restore health by incantations, as effectually as civilized practitioners by their modus operandi. Whatever teaches man to have other rulers before Jehovah is anti-Christian. The good matter is supposed to do is evil, for it would rob man of God, Omnipotent Mind. Truth is not the basis of Theogony. Modes of matter form neither a moral nor spiritual system. The inharmony that calls for them is the result of faith, already exercised, in matter rather than Spirit.

Did Jesus apprehend the economy of man to a less degree than Graham or Cutter? Christian ideas certainly embrace the Principle of man's harmony, which human theories do not. “Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die,” contradicts not only the systems of man, but points to the self-sustaining and eternal.

The demands of Truth are spiritual, and reach the body through Mind. The best interpreter of man's needs