Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1898).djvu/78

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.






CHAPTER II.


PHYSIOLOGY.


Therefore I say unto you: Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Jesus.


He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. — Psalms.


PHYSIOLOGY is one of the apples from the Tree of Knowledge. Error declared that eating this fruit would open man's eyes, and make him as a God. Instead of so doing, it closes mortal eyes to man's God-given dominion over the earth.

To measure intellectual capacity by the size of the brain, and estimate strength by the exercise of muscle, Man not structural. is to subjugate intelligence, make mind mortal and place this mind at the mercy of material organization and non-intelligence.

Obedience to the so-called physical laws of health has not checked sickness. Diseases have multiplied, since man-made theories have taken the place of primitive Truth.

You say that indigestion, fatigue, sleeplessness, cause Causes of sickness. distressed stomachs and aching heads. Then you consult your brain, in order to remember what has hurt you, when your remedy lies in for-