“What ‘happiness’ can men know when disease is at the door, 
ready to call or jeopardize the lives they hold most dear?—Must 
not this, then, be the direction from which ‘salvation’ comes?— 
Is not such the example of the Christ, through whom the voice 
of nature speaks to us, now as in the olden time? 
“Let me still quote the same philosopher:— 
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, 
rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith ! 9 
“This, therefore, is the cynosure towards which my ardent 
gaze is turned,—the pole-star by which my course is shaped, the 
central object of a faith sure-founded and legitimate. 
“Consistently with this design, my present object is to demon¬ 
strate to you, my students,—and through you, eventually, to the 
outside world, the possibility of the prevention and healing of 
constitutional disease by methods dictated by biological laws, 
supplemented by the matured experience of the great masters 
and thinkers of the day and days gone by, attested as it is by 
my own research prosecuted throughout a period of many years 
devoted to the closest personal observation and experiment in 
every branch of biological science. 
“The triple basis of the truth on which I take my stand is— 
knowledge, intuition, independence, backed and sustained by the 
practical results of more than thirty years’ experience and ardent 
solitary study of the natural. Comprised therein concurrently 
I count also experiments, extending over many years, in agri¬ 
culture, horticulture, aviculture and the like, forming at length 
one homogeneous whole, the deductions being practical, conclu¬ 
sive,well defined. Only the greatest masters appealed to me as 
teachers and I held myself unhampered by the dogmatic theories 
of the schools, with which, however, I was intimately conversant, 
none the less. 
“My principles and theories were put to the severest tests in 
every imaginable form before I felt that I dare give them to the 
world, and, working, as I do, impartially in the varied fields of 
science, wherever life affords new features for research, experi¬ 
ments were made with vegetables of nigh 600 kinds, with poultry 
to the full extent of 15,000 birds,—all made to finally demon- 
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