Part 20

Good wires leading to Creditable aims in life. profitable uses.

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Good insulation or isolation Concentration of purpose. of circuit wires.

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Resistance Coils. Self-Control. Reserve force.

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Success, evidenced by Success, evidenced by profit. energy conserved and happiness secured.

UNPROFITABLE DIRECTION AND USE OF ENERGY

Small wires leading Aimlessness of purpose anywhere or nowhere. and timid, lazy or selfish isolation from sympathetic currents and constructive occupation.

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Current carelessly Energy wasted in idleness grounded and electricity or worry. wasted.

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Crossing of wires resulting Crossed temper--Anger--wasting in waste of power valuable energy and and possibly causing fire. possibly leading to rash acts causing life-long regrettable foolishness.

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Placing flat cars on Importing worry an electric trolley line, through anticipated evil for instance, loading them on an hundred-to-one with pig iron and chance of its being realised, purposelessly running them thereby wasting aimlessly around the circuit, energy and paralysing the thereby wasting the digestive and repair electricity and wearing out functions of the body; the cars and the line. painfully wearing out the body itself.

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Allowing cars to run Permitting Anger to wild instead of keeping run away with cool them under control. discretion.

TELL-TALE EXCRETA

It is unfortunate that the perpetuation of early ignorant abuses of Nature's pure intentions has led to a too prudish attitude toward the one infallible evidence of health conditions as shown by the refuse of repair and digestion, as it is only by the excreta that ultimate indication of the results of nutrition are observable. They are the reliable report relative to the most important thing in health--digestion--and they must be understood in order to be read.

There is no knowledge so valuable in its relation to health as that which enables one to read health bulletins by means of the excreta.

Different foods contain different elements of waste material and to be able to identify or judge the economic value of food previously consumed a knowledge of its digestion-ash is essential.

A child should be taught the difference between healthy and unhealthy excreta in order to be on guard at the first warning of disorder, rather than be allowed to remain ignorant until disease has taken firm hold of the system. The knowledge is not complicated and can be easily acquired by even young children.

When the possibility of perfect protection in the matter of nutrition is generally known, one mission of the physician will be to teach prevention of abuses of feeding by evidence of the excreta.

The healthy fæces of many wild animals is comparatively dry, odourless and cleanly; and a farm barn yard or a decently kept city stable is not an offence to even prudish prejudice.

Not so the vicinage of an open receptacle for the waste of human indigestion.

In animals, offensive egesta are evidence of digestive disturbance owing to some unintelligent feeding on the part of attendants; in humans the cause and effect of offensive excreta are the same.

When a race-or work-animal shows digestive disturbance the least intelligent owner or keeper knows that it is not fit for work or racing, and yet this symbol of unfitness is common to the human race.

One of the most noticeable and significant results of economic nutrition gained through careful attention to the mouth-treatment of food, or buccal-digestion, is, not only the small quantity of waste obtained but its inoffensiveness. Under best test-conditions the ashes of economic digestion have been reduced to one-tenth of the average given as normal in the latest text-books on Physiology. The economic digestion-ash forms in pillular shape and when released these are massed together, having become so bunched by considerable retention in the rectum. There is no stench, no evidence of putrid bacterial decomposition, only the odour of warmth, like warm earth or "hot biscuit." Test samples of excreta, kept for more than five years, remain inoffensive, dry up, gradually disintegrate and are lost. The following observation by an eminent eye specialist and litterateur illustrates the opening paragraph of this chapter.