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272 generating, the fœtus must be kept mentally pure, and the period of gestation have the sanctity of virginity.

The entire education of children should be such as will form habits of obedience to moral and spiritual law, whereby they may meet and master that belief in so-called physical laws which breeds disease.

If parents create in their babes a desire for incessant amusement, to be always fed, rocked, tossed, or talked

to, those parents should not, in after years, complain of their children's fretfulness or frivolity, which they have themselves occasioned. Taking less “thought for the body, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink,” will do much more for the health of the rising generation than you dream of. Children should be allowed to remain children in knowledge, and become men and women only through growth in the understanding of man's spiritual existence.

We must not attribute more and more intelligence to matter, but less and less, if we would be wise and

healthy. Mind, which forms the bud and blossom, will care for the human body, even as it clothes the lily; but let no mortal interfere with God's government, by thrusting in the laws of human belief.

The higher nature of man is not governed by the lower. This would reverse the order of Wisdom. Our

false views of life hide eternal harmony, and produce the ills of which we complain. Because mortals believe in material laws, and reject the Science of Mind, this does not make materiality true, or the so-called laws of sense superior to the law of Soul. You would never think that flannel is better than the