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Now, the fact is, microbes produce fermentation, and 

 no fermentation of any kind is wanted in the human 

 body. Tapeworms, trichinae spirahs, flesh worms, and 

 the like are parasites and not microbes. They may eat, 

 even pierce holes, but they can never bring about fer- 

 mentation, although they may bring about a condition 

 in which the microbes can more easily cause fermenta- 

 tion. Buttermilk is full of- microbes, and so is beer. 

 We drink them to nourish our body. As our system 

 has not the ingredients of milk or beer, these microbes 

 die. Hence they are harmless. There are thousands 

 and thousands of so-called good microbes that we eat, 

 drink, or inhale, but none of them grow in our body or 

 blood, consequently they are harmless. When we are 

 sick we do not fight the good microbes, but those which 

 propagate and grow in our body and are generally called 

 disease germs. 



There is so much nonsense written or told about mi- 

 crobes to patients by men in the profession who do not 

 know anything about Nature, that I am forced to pro- 

 duce stubborn facts of Nature, over which they may 

 ponder a little. The question has also been asked, if 

 we can kill all the microbes in the human body, will 

 this not kill the generative microbe ? 



My answer is that there are no generative microbes, 

 there is no generative fermentation. The seed in man 

 or woman is no more microbe or disease than the seed 

 of a plant or tree is a disease. When a plant is sick the 

 flowers and seed will never be perfect ; in most cases the 

 seed will be hollow. When a man or woman is sick their 

 seed, too, is not perfect, and in some cases not fruitful. 

 To cure a man or woman of incompetency and nervous- 

 ness, their blood must first be purified from all microbes, 

 so that they may become healthy. Then plenty of seed 

 wiU be produced. The whole process observed in the 

 propagation of plants by seed acts in the very same 

 manner as in the propagation of mankind. In fact, 

 whatever I learned in raising plants through hybridiza- 

 tion, cultivation, and curing them of disease, can safely 



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