Practical Science
What is lacking in the field of practical science, as authoritatively voiced by the
unprogressive faculty of today, is an absence of chemical knowledge, especially on
the part of the physician and the naturalist; and, as likewise, the so-called scientific
farmer upon whose assurances we so naturally rely for the wholesome production
of food is woefully ignorant on matters of agricultural chemistry, the logical
consequence is that in all civilized countries great mistakes have been
unconsciously made and perpetuated, detrimental to the health of man and beast
alike and vitally prejudicial to the healthy sustenance of the race.
Where are the most vitally necessary mineral substances
to be found in nature?
It is an established fact that the fields, on which our nutritive salts or cell-foods—
our vital sustenance—are grown, were originally formed from decayed primitive
rock and this primitive earth-crust matter is composed of the same mineral
substances that are found in normal blood.
Therefore, our physical welfare and our capacity to resist disease is clearly dependent upon the condition of our fields. We
must always bear this in mind—the old truism—that,
"AS A MAN EATS, SO IS HE."
We are thus, directly, the products of our fields.
Wrongly fertilized, our fields must produce sickly vegetation, and this in turn will
produce a sickly race and disease in cattle.
Primitive rock consists of granite, porphyry, gneiss and basalt, deposits which are
still found upon the earth in immense quantities, and in the same condition as
thousands of years ago.
As a matter of fact, proposals have been made by noted scientists to utilize
pulverized rock of this kind as compost to assist the fields in a natural way, and so
to restore them to their former producing power, which would thus enable plants,
animals, and man, alike, to regain those substances indispensable to proper
sanguification and general growth.
The agricultural experiments performed with this stone dust fully confirm this
assumption.
One of the most important tasks of today is to indicate to the farmer new ways and
means of promoting and increasing growth for the food supply of the nations.
Why, then, I imagine I can hear it asked, if this fact be true and demonstrated, has it
not been applied?
This question may be answered by another. Why does not the natural system of
Hygienic Dietetic Healing find general application in cases of sickness, since its
success is so obviously greater than even that claimed 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 last vestige of
public respect for the sciences would be shaken, and many wise theories would fail
of their imaginary virtues and succumb, before humanity's best birthright—the
quality of healthy blood, kind nature's ample gift to all,—could be wrested from the
selfish hand of tyranny and mankind enabled to secure from nature's willing hand
the succour that an Infinite Providence offers to disease.
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