Solar Biology

SOLAR BIOLOGY.
CHAPTER I.
PRELIMINARY PHILOSOPHY.
THIS system
is the philosophy of life, in its relations
to the physical, or earthly existence, as governed by
the solar fluid of the solar system.
animal relation to the
First, we consider man in his
physical world ; second,
in his mental relation to the
physical world and the solar system; third, in his
spiritual nature, and its relation to this world and to
the universe.
Between man's physical and his spiritual nature
there is a perfect line of gradation, from the grosser
physical to the higher spiritual, so that the mental
and spiritual are wholly dependent upon the physical
for their conscious relations to this world, as a house
is
dependent upon
its foundations.
We consider the physical body as a chemical laboratory.
The food we take into the stomach passes
through various stages of transmutation in the process
of digestion
: first
becoming chyle, then blood, when
it is thrown into the generative functions and becomes
seed ;
then the seed, through the action of the same
functions, is changed to lymph a transparent, color-