manured with this stone dust? I imagine I can hear you ex¬ 
claim. 
“This question may be answered by another. Why does not 
the natural or hygienic dieting method find general application 
in cases of sickness, since its successes are so much greater than 
those achieved by medical science? 
“To this vital question upon which so much of human life 
and happiness depends, the weak and degrading answer must 
suffice to the effect that the foundation of public respect for the 
sciences would be shaken, and many wise theories would have to 
be robbed of their imaginary virtues before humanity’s best birth¬ 
right of healthy blood,—kind nature’s free gift to all,—could be 
freely secured, when men would be enabled to cure themselves 
naturally from disease, and with naturally fertilized fields to 
gather from the bounteous earth in natural nutritive vegetation 
the just guerdon of their toil. 
“A physician to whom I explained, one day, my nutrition 
theories, listened to me for fifteen minutes and then said, ‘Well, 
and so you want to create healthy blood in this way?’ ‘Yes, 
surely,’ I answered. ‘We have no use for that,’ he callously ex- 
c’aimed, ‘there would be no business in that.’ 
“Hence, Mankind must degenerate and disease of all 
kinds ride rampant through the land, rather than upset the 
firmly rooted fallacies of the past or foil the ghoul-like greed 
of a certain class of conscienceless practitioners. 
“To the former of these two classes I would address the 
terse Latin satire: 
‘Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius 
Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putaf 
( Terentius) 
‘ Who is there so unreasoning as he, that learned drone, 
Who reckons nothing perfect save what he himself hath known * 
(M. B.) 
To the latter I have naught to say—save this: 
‘May their shadow never increase 
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