to the joy of living. Life does not thrill them: nothing quickens
their blood: they have no moments of vivid ecstasy--in other words,
they do not live, they merely exist at a poor dying rate.

Again, the majority of people are susceptible to infectious diseases
and epidemics, yet, if they were really well, they would be immune.
Instead, however, of seeking immunity through health, they are seeking
it through the use of vaccines and serums, thus adding to the burdens
which the body has to bear. All attempts in this direction are bound
to end in failure, for, as fast as one disease is suppressed another
one will appear.

Many people look upon disease and sickness as inevitable, yet the
truth is that health is the normal state and ill-health an
abnormality. In tracing back ill-health to its source, we find, first
of all, that it is due to disobedience of natural law. Large numbers
of people break nearly every known natural law of health, and are
surprised that they become ill. Yet the wonder is that they are as
well as they are. Yet, while obedience to nature's laws and the use
of nature-cure methods will carry us a certain part of the way, we
find that there must be causes even deeper than those which are
physical. We are confronted by the fact that there are many people
who obey every known physical law of health, who bathe, exercise,
breathe, eat and drink scientifically, who adopt nature-cure methods
instead of drugs and serums, who yet cannot find health. Therefore
we must search deeper and go to the mind in order to discover the
cause of ill-health.

When we look to the mind we find a prolific cause of sickness. Man
thinks himself into ill-health and disease. It is well known that
thinking about disease and sickness produces them in the body. People
who are for ever thinking about disease, illness, operations and other
morbid subjects, become a prey to these things. Those who believe
that sickness is inevitable, manifest it in their life. Morbid
thinking produces a morbid state of the body, causing it either to
fall an easy prey to infection or to break down into chronic