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tual self-adjustment of a new needle to a new pole. And thus, 

 however high we rise, the problem of health, or some difficulty of 

 being well, may be expected to recur to us. The beasts are better 

 off, and worse. They are acclimated from the first, or if they need 

 change of air or season, they are naturally bi-climatic, and run along 

 the magnetic streams to light and warmth, caring little for earth, 

 but very constant to summer. Then again the cup of their heart's 

 blood is measured to objects, and they are drunk with no desires but 

 those which nature prospers. Their muscles also are full of spirit, 

 and do not tear from contrariety of minds. And even if instinct 

 be wrong on one track, and disorder them, animal magnetism is 

 their physician, and like clairvoyants they run to grass and herb, 

 and nibble their healing leaves out of the pharmacy of things. In 

 a word, their potent life burns up sickliness, and makes medicine of 

 little avail; excepting indeed in those cases where a false domestica- 

 tion denaturalizes them. So far they have a superior lot, and earth 

 is their heaven. But on the other hand, brute life and health are 

 not enviable for us. The beasts are nature's simpletons who are 

 pleased with a little, and that little, of the lowest order. They are 

 well with their world, because it is so single and small. Could they 

 have another shown them, by those other eyes which we possess, 

 they would pant and struggle as we do to the ever new adjustment. 

 Instead of living on the bare surface, they would dig in the mines, 

 and build up their palaces of sanity. Such is undoubtedly the cause 

 and object of human diseases — to carry us deeper and higher than 

 brute health can go ; or to make the health of soul, mind and body 

 inseparable and coordinate. For this reason, there is no joyous in- 

 habitation of the earth for man, unless the inner man also be right 

 with his world, and the social with his ; or unless wholeness be 

 fulfilled. Our maladies therefore are warnings and signs of a lost 

 integrity, which is to be sought, and found again ; and where cure 

 does not come, it is an evidence that the problem has been stated 

 and worked on some partial ground, and that a further view and a 

 higher sacrifice are asked. We may terminate the comparison be- 

 tween man and beasts by saying, that the health of the latter is 

 already complete and natural, while the human can never be com- 

 pleted, but is always integral and progressive. If reason shows un- 



