86 A MANUAL 



giaus' " sin " and the political-economists' " crime " 

 are as much diseases and as curable as the medical 

 man's "cholera" and "typhus." He will further 

 get to realise the old proverb that " Prevention is 

 better than cure," nay, that (taking man as a whole) 

 it is the only true cure. He will thus, if he be more 

 than a word-maker and a theorist, strive to place his 

 own soul and body, and those of his brethren, within 

 the influence of those conditions of existence which 

 only are true because only from God. 



He will avoid mental and bodily infection, con- 

 tagion, malaria and the like ; nay, he will avoid 

 medicines which cure by exciting disease, for when 

 he has once arrived at a conclusion on the subject 

 of the law^s of health, he will know that, if they be 

 unbroken, neither disease nor medicine — its conse- 

 quence — need ever be incurred. He will be content 

 if he can attain his "' summum bonum," the " mens 

 Sana in corpore sano ; " he cannot be too thankful 

 if he be allowed upon earth to exercise perfectly his 

 perfect faculties in strains which may thus be best 

 trained for the choruses of eternity. 



In a word, then, he will ensure to himself, his 

 fellow-man, and all created objects with which he is 

 in relation, those conditions of healthy existence 

 which have been constituted such by an all-wise 

 Creator; he will thus apply all hisenergies in pro- 

 moting the spiritual well-doing and well-being of the 

 whole race of mankind, and in glorifying the God of 

 the natural and the invisible world. 



