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202 there is less sickness among the uncivilised races and among animals than among the highly cultivated classes. "The less mind there is manifested in matter, the better. When the unthinking lobster loses his claw, it grows again." If man would believe that matter has no sensation "then the human limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster's claw." "Epizootic is an educated finery that a natural horse has not." "The snowbird sings and soars amid the blasts; he has no catarrh from wet feet."

"Obesity," Mrs. Glover wrote, "is an adipose belief of yourself as a substance." "All the diseases on earth," said Science and Health, "never interfered for a moment with man's Life. Man is the same after, as before a bone is broken, or a head chopped off." But for the present, Mrs. Glover advised, if such accidents seem to occur one might as well seem to call a surgeon. "For a broken bone, or dislocated joint," she wrote naïvely, "'tis better to call a surgeon, until mankind are farther advanced in the treatment of mental science. To attend to the mechanical part, a surgeon is needed to-day . . . but the time approaches when mind alone will adjust joints and broken bones, if," she added, "such things were possible then."

Food is not necessary to nourish and sustain the body. "We have no evidence," said Mrs. Glover, "of food sustaining Life, except false evidence." "We learn in science food neither helps nor harms man." Yet Mrs. Glover took care to warn her readers not to be too radical on this point. "To stop utterly eating and drinking," she said, "until your belief changes in regard to these things, were error," and she