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(19) Is Nature Cure in Conformity with the Constructive
Principle in Nature?

Nature Cure is in conformity with the constructive
principle in Nature because:

It teaches that the primary cause of weakness and
disease is disobedience to the laws of Nature.
It arouses the individual to the study of natural
laws and demonstrates the necessity of strict compliance
with these laws. It strengthens the consciousness
of personal responsibility of the individual for his
own status of health and for the hereditary conditions,
traits and tendencies of his off-spring. It encourages
personal effort and self-help. It adapts surroundings
and habits of life to natural laws. It assists
Nature’s cleansing and healing efforts by simple
natural means and methods of treatment which are in
no wise harmful or destructive to health and life,
and which are within the reach of everyone.

Chapter III

What Is Life?

In our study of the cause and character of disease
we must endeavor to begin at the beginning, and that
is with life itself, for the processes of health,
disease and cure are manifestations of that which
we call life, vitality, life elements, etc.

While endeavoring to fathom the mystery of life we
soon realize, however, that we are dealing with an
ultimate which no human mind is capable of solving
or explaining. We can study and understand life
only in its manifestations, not in its origin and real
essence.

There are two prevalent, but widely differing, conceptions
of the nature of life or vital force: the material
and the vital.

The former looks upon life or vital force with all
its physical, mental and psychical phenomena as manifestations
of the electric, magnetic and chemical activities
of the physical-material elements composing the human
organism. From this viewpoint, life is a sort
of spontaneous combustion, or, as one scientist expressed
it, a succession of fermentations.

This materialistic conception of life, however, has
already become obsolete among the more advanced biologists
as a result of the wonderful discoveries of modern
science, which are fast bridging the chasm between
the material and the spiritual realms of being.