§4 Natural Salvation. 



communication, now effected by mails, telegraphs, and 

 telephones. Not only will messages and general news be 

 transmitted, electrically, but be accompanied by photo- 

 graphic and phonographic representation of passing events. 

 But of far greater significance to life, its prolongation and 

 improvement, will be the conquest and extirpation of 

 those teeming hordes of bacteria which infest the animal 

 organism and render all organic life abnormal and pre- 

 carious. Human life in the future is to be liberated not 

 only from known "germs of disease," but those swarms 

 of less deadly, but yet deleterious micro-organisms of 

 which the human body is the host and which, by their 

 presence and products, enfeeble life and maintain diseased 

 conditions. The human body must be regarded not only 

 as living amidst and externally exposed to microscopic 

 life of a hostile and noxious character, but as being in- 

 fested by such life which entering the blood-circulatory 

 either with food, water, or air, penetrate to every tissue 

 and organ. 



Ninety per cent, of all human casualties are either 

 directly from the presence of micro-organisms, or induced 

 by the more or less remote effects of their activity. The 

 extirpation of bacteria will be a long step toward the 

 achievement of vastly prolonged life. Like all the others, 

 it is a purely physical problem and only waits combined 

 action on a great scale on the part of mankind. The 

 habitat of man has to be purged and cleansed from these 



