Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 HEALTH BY MEANS or MENTAL CONTROL 325
that the ants even keep slaves, and cows which they
milk. All this is a manifestation of mind,-a manifestation
which may be followed thru all grades' of animate
life down to the protozoa. Out of this realm of mind,
whose activity is confined to the instincts of the physical
body, has grown a reasoning intelligence, and that intelligence
having obtained all that it possesses from the
lower realm of mind, is inclined, in its more mature
phase, to turn round, and, as it were, look back over the
road by which it has come, to question each and every
attitude, to trace out the connecting links between the
higher and lower intelligence, and, in the examination
of the lower phases of mind from which it has arisen,
to discover the laws governing life, hoping thereby to
become acquainted with the causes of failure. disappointment,
sickness, sorrow, and death.
The moth has not yet discovered that the light of fire
will burn it, and, consequently, it rushes into the flame
and is consumed. The higher order of animals have
learned that fire will burn, that water will drovi n, that
falling will injure or kill. Man has learned that many
other things are sources of injury; but the majority of
the race have still to learn that the violation of the law
brings disease and death, that the keeping of the law
will guarantee perpetual life, health, and peace. The
faculty of preserving the body from the ravages of disease,
is one of the most marked characteristics of the
animal world and of human instinct, yet it is strange
that so few of us intelligently recognize the basis upon
which this faculty rests- which is. that all life is a struggle,
a combat, a perpetual resistence, and that this resistence,
properly directed, is capable of overcoming all
diseased conditions to which flesh is heir.
We see the animal world in
constant effort to resist
death and its influences, and we know also that the per-