Part 22 (2/2)

If any one perceives the danger, he may by this mere fact find himself in the way of salvation The so-called white slaves, held in scorn by society and oppressed by punishht of the universe, and cover mankind with shame; but they are not the really lost--they are not the only slaves He who is lost is the innocent, well-educated young radation, takes advantage of a hu who is made a slave for hi the voice of conscience which admonishes him: ”Why beholdest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye? Cast out the beam which is in thine own eye” This man, who seeks, perhaps, to protect his own body froh very often it is not possible to escape the, suicide of his own person and of his species; and who only cares to seek a social position for himself and an honored family--this is the man who is really lost in darkness, and reduced to slavery

And his mother is also a slave, for she cannot follow her son, whoht up with so ood with all the passionate love of her heart; she is a slave, when her son is forced away froo perhaps to death or to the ruin of his physical health, and to descend intobut watch hi that her dignity and purity forbid her to follow her son in these paths It is as if she were to say, ”There is ; but I cannot follow hiht dirty my boots” Where is the heart of a true mother? How can nified and pure,” cries Mada up her son in such a way that he will never have anything shameful to confess to his mother”

The mother who has lost all her authority is herself lost

Maternal dignity, on the other hand, is great and powerful Behold in ancient times the Ro heard that her son, a traitor to his country, was co to attack Rome at the head of an alien ar walls of the city, advanced towards the powerful leader through the hostile host, and asked him, ”Art thou my son, or art thou a traitor?” At those words Coriolanus renounced his unworthy undertaking

In the same way, in these days, the true mother should pass beyond the walls of prejudice and the frontiers of slavery, and have sufficient dignity to be able to confront her son, saying to him: ”Thou wilt not be a traitor to huht to bear on a wo her son? and what can have so weakened affection as to lead a youth to despise theman?

It is this death of the soul and not external facts which pronounce our sentence

If positive science, which has limited itself to the study of the external causes of eneration, and has confined itself to the inculcation of physical hygiene--that is to say, the protection of ely to morality, how much more may we hope for moral elevation from a positive science which concentrates upon the protection of the ”inner life” ofthe truth by exact research, has arrived at the social realization of Christian principles, we may presume that its continuation, conducted with the same loyalty and exactitude of research, will in likeup the voids which still exist in modern civilization

This is, I believe, the clearest and most direct reply to those who ask what can be hoped for in the enerations, from our ”pover-ositive”back to the causes of diseases, has succeeded in solving the problems which concern health, an experimental science which concentrates upon the study of normal man's psychical activities should lead to the discovery of the superior laws of life and of the health of mankind

This science has not yet been established, and awaits its investigators; but we ives huuide to physical life, has come froiene which will give to all uidance in moral life

And if positive medicine arose in the hospitals, where sick people were collected by private and public generosity, with charitable intentions and under the guidance of empiricism, this science should, above all, concentrate and find its experiences in schools: that is to say, in the places where all children are gathered together for their social elevation, and with the euidance of education

What was the elevated note of scientific radually superseded the empiricaland blistering, scientific medicine elevated and illustrated the ancient principle which had been forgotten, and which contained all the neisdom in a synthesis: the medicinal force of nature, _visand conquering illness exists in the living organism, and it is to this that we must look in order to construct rational medicine; he who believes that the doctor and the medicine cure the sick is an eanism” that can produce the cure, and that therefore we ives for our salvation, is a scientist

Now the sum of treatments necessary to protect the natural forces of defense and reorganization in positive medicine, are much more minute and are diffused in reat nule type of doctor of the last century, is sufficient to emphasize the enormous difference in practise which the new tendency involves

It is interesting also to give a glance at the progress which has been un to cure diseases; and thence it has gone on to discover the laws of normal physical life, and to show the healthy how to preserve their health When it reached this point it found that the sa health are the best for curing disease; because it is the saives health and the _vis medicatrix naturae_ Thus, for exaienic measure which all should adopt in order to keep themselves in health, but the most important factor in the cure of illness Dietetics, whether for the victira, fever, tuberculosis, or diabetes, is of primary importance; lithia salts, caffeine, and creosote are useless in comparison The ether, and to substitute the natural reymnastics, hydropathic treatment, and, above all, cliy have introduced the treatent activity, to give occupation to individuals who begin to show signs of ress is ” will triumph--the ever clearer conception, that is to say, of the forces which sustain life

It is only Nature which can do everything, and if the doctor is to become useful hefidelity

It is natural that investigation should lead to atte these forces upon which health depends, and these studies of ”immunity” have been the most brilliant, widely diffused and scientific of all medical studies

When Metchnikoff believed he had discovered that the leucocytes in the blood absorb and digest microbes and thus save man froht had illuated than it was demolished by the successive studies in which it was subjected to a destructive criticis anism are requisite in order that they may have this power, and so the knotty point was merely shi+fted Moreover, it is not the actual microbes which cause disease, but their toxines Thus the theories of toxines seeuide for researches; but then we entered into a sea of complications, and it is obvious that only ”aspects” and ”attributes” of immunity are accessible to us, but that the substance, the last word, underlying all those aspects which research has revealed is: mystery

For this reason, there is silence to-day as to questions of immunity; that which was once fa the obscure studies which not even the students of the university should approach

Nevertheless, it is ”impossible” that the medical science founded upon natural forces should develop, unless the i the mystery of life which conceals its source, but continually expands its forces

The invisible but real source of health and healing is always there, at the clis inexhaustibly therefrom is the only reality whichThis medical science and this mystery cannot but form a unity