However, to reach this ideal of perfect physical, mental and moral health, succeeding generations will have to adhere to the natural ways of living and of treating their ailments.  It cannot be attained by the present generation.  The enthusiasts who claim that they can, by their particular methods, achieve perfect health and live the full term of human life, are destined to disappointment.  We are so handicapped by the mistakes of the past that the best which most of us adults can do is to patch up, to attain a reasonable measure of health and to approach somewhat nearer Nature’s full allotment of life.

Wild animals living in freedom retain their full vigor unimpaired almost to the end of life.  Hunters report that among the great herds of buffalo, elk and deer, the oldest bucks are the rulers and maintain their sovereignty over the younger males of the herd solely by reason of their superior strength and prowess.  Premature old age, among human beings, as indicated by the early decay of physical and mental powers, is brought on solely by their violation of Nature’s Laws in almost all the ordinary habits of life.

Health Positive—­Disease Negative

The freer the inflow of life force into the organism, the greater the vitality, the more there is of strength, of positive resisting and recuperating power.

In the book~ Harmonics of Evolution~ we are told that at the very foundation of the manifestation of life lies the principle of polarity, which expresses itself in the duality and unity of positive and negative affinity.  The swaying to and fro of the positive and the negative, the desire to balance incomplete polarity, constitutes the very ebb and flow of life.

Disease is disturbed polarity.  Exaggerated positive or negative conditions, whether physical, mental, moral or spiritual, tend to disease on the respective planes of being.  Foods, medicines, suggestion and all the other different methods of therapeutic treatment exert on the individual subjected to them either a positive or a negative influence.  It is, therefore, of the greatest importance that the physician and every one who wishes to live and work in harmony with Nature’s Laws should understand this all-important question of magnetic polarity.

Lowered vitality means lowered, slower and coarser vibration, and this results in lowered resistance to the accumulation of morbid matter, poisons, disease taints, germs and parasites.  This is what we designate ordinarily as the negative condition.

Let us see whether we can explain this more fully by a homely but practical illustration:  A great many of my readers have probably seen in operation in the summer amusement parks the “human roulette.”  This contrivance consists of a large wheel, board-covered, somewhat raised in the center, and sloping towards the circumference.  The wheel rotates horizontally, evenly with the floor or ground.  The merrymakers pay their nickels for the privilege of throwing themselves flat down on the wheel and attempting to cling to it while it rotates with increasing swiftness.  While the wheel moves slowly, it is easy enough to cling to it; but the faster it revolves, the more strongly the centrifugal force tends to throw off the human flies who try to stick to it.