Yet this was the actual condition of the afflicted all over the world at the time Dr. Hall's pamphlet made its appearance, with physicians of all schools and professions dealing out drugs for all classes of disease, and even not intimating this wonderful drugless remedy which they knew all about! This is rather a cool testimonial for Mr. Root unwittingly to publish in favor of the honor of the medical fraternity! made it known to Root during all the years is worth many times the $4 charged for it to he has been consulting them about his health? any one who will carry it out according to Dr. Why did not some of his numerous acquaint- Hall's instructions, yet as soon as he had read ances, also in constant consultations with the pamphlet and had become satisfied by a various physicians, get even a hint from them test that it was more than was claimed for it, concerning this marvelous remedy, so as to and that he had struck a bonanza for the cure communicate it to Root and not leave him in of all forms of disease, he saw what a splendid total ignorance of it during all the years of chance he now had to create a sensation in his his life, until he chanced to learn of Dr. Hall's paper and reap a harvest of subscribers if it Health-Pamphlet, and was induced to buy it was not for that unfortunate pledge of honor! for $4? So the infamous thought struck him that as it must be a crime for Dr. Hall to sell a discovery for $4 that was so essential to suffering humanity, therefore it would be no crime for him to sacrifice his honor by making it known through his paper, especially as he could thereby make a pile of money out of the discovery under thesham plea of a philanthropic interest in the sick and suffering! Eureka! shouted the old hypocrite as he chuckled to himself— "I've struck it!" And the conscience-seared Bee humbug proceeds to write his editorial revealing the treatment and imploring his subscribers' forgiveness for his shameless act, which he hopes will be condoned in conse-dis-quence of the priceless revelation he is about to make to a suffering world, thereby largely to increase his subscription list! And then with half-suppressed crocodile tears for the afflictions he was about to relieve, and with a merciless cut at the mercenary Dr. Hall, for ignobly trying to make money out of the discovery that had cost him forty years of investigation to prove, he shuts his eyes as he hands the seal of his condemnation to his printer, and then staggers back home to take another treatment! Is it not vastly more probable that medical practitioners were in the same ignorance as to the scope, details and therapeutical value of this treatment that Dr. Stevens, of Syracuse, N. Y., was, when Dr. Hall revealed his covery to him twenty-three years ago and startled him with the revelation? But Dr. Stevens was an honest man, and lost no time in admitting Dr. Hall's discovery to be new to the medical world, whatever hints had been printed to the contrary notwithstanding. Accordingly he at once adopted it personally and in his practice as a genuine revolution in therapeutical science. And the same precisely has been the case with more than one thousand other practicing physicians whose names Dr. Hall has on file, and many of which have appeared in the MICROCOSM, who have received the new treatment as a beneficent revelation to a suffering world, and who unhesitatingly declare that nothing like it as a practical remedial system was previously known to the profession. It is now too late for conceited upstarts and plagiarists like Kellogg, and mendacious bigots like Scott, after Dr. Hall has brought the medical profession to his feet and compelled them to adopt his remedy, to try to create the impression that this discovery was old and well known. Both Kellogg and Scott knew that what little inkling of this treatment had appeared in print, previous to Dr. Hall's full disclosure of the remedy, was so imperfectly elaborated and so limited in its scope and application to cases of emergency, that it had made no impression on the doctors of the country by which to induce its adoption or arrest the dealing out of drugs. As soon, however, as Dr. Hall's Health-Pamphlet had set forth the full treatment-not to meet a desperate emergency and then be dropped until another similar emergency occurred, but to be employed as a permanent and persistent health-restoring and health-preserving process-then lo, and behold, the doctors had always known all about it! No Root may thus try to ease off his half-paralyzed conscience for the violation of his solemn pledge of honor not to reveal the treatment outside of his own family unless it should be paid for like any other prescription, but it will end in his total self-stultification as a man. Notwithstanding Root knew he had thus pledged his sacred honor, and notwithstanding he knew and acknowleges that the treatment If my moral sensibility and discrimination between right and wrong had sunk to such a low ebb as that of A. I. Root, I would sell out my whole conscience for much less than $4 and regard it as a speculation. But Root never thought to ask himself the question, which came readily to the mind of every intelligent subscriber to his journal, if it is criminal for a man to sell the knowledge of his own discovery for a small fraction of its real value, what must it be for a man, after obtaining that knowledge under a solemn pledge of honor, to violate his oath in order to make money out of the discovery by revealing it in his paper, thereby to increase his patronage? But this is not the worst phase of the wretched Bee-fancier's predicament. In casting about for reasons to satisfy his subscribers concerning such an act of infamy he seeks, as before hinted, to strengthen his cause by trying to show that Dr. Hall was anticipated in his discovery by a book which he quotes, and then unwittingly admits was not in print till a year after the date of said discovery, and even when the book is quoted it does not contain one of the complete and essential phases of Dr. Hall's system of treatment! A more barefaced and pitiable indifference to truth and imposition upon the public has never appeared in print with the exceptions of that of Dr. Kellogg, of Mich., and E. D. Scott, of Minn., before referred to, who audaciously quote the same identical book and deliberately date it three years back, to prove that Dr. Hall stole his discovery from that publication! And even with its real date one year after the discovery made by Dr. Hall, there is not the slightest proof that this early edition contained one: word of what those miscreants quote, as was shown by Dr. Hall last month. They evidently THE ANNULAR THEORY. BY PROF. I. N. VAIL. I have referred to the Egyptian Deity Typhon as a conspicuous annular fossil, and I want to direct the reader's attention to this fact while I proceed to show that he was a serpent in the heavens. Let us also keep this other fact constantly in view, viz.: The serpent or dragon was the ancient-symbol of celestial waters, which, serpent-like, "coiled around the earth." The "serpent in the sea" is, even in the sacred writings, made the emblem, or rather the genius of the world of waters, as every scripturean knows. With this knowledge we turn to the monumental inscriptions of the eastern world and read them in a marvelous flood of light. rise But Root manifestly had not the same kind of motive to damage Dr. Hall which actuated Kellogg and Scott. Theirs was a mingling of Typhon was worshiped in Egypt as a God, revenge, envy, malice, jealousy, avarice and and under different names. All the hierohate, but from different standpoints and on glyphics representing him, were aquatic chardifferent grounds; while Root's was pure av-acters, as the crocodile and hippopotamus, arice mingled with an insatiate desire for creat- thus directly connecting him with the watery ing a sensation in his paper while glorying in element. One of his names, Apop or Epep, the shame of violating his sacred pledge, under which means to "mount and mount," or the hypocritical pretense of benevolently wish- continually;" which at once affirms that he ing to give the world the benefit of so valuable was a perpetually rising feature, and one a discovery!! therefore, that revolved about the earth and in the heavens. But his name, Apophis, from "Ap." to mount, and Aphis, a serpent or dragon makes him the mounting serpent, and in this attitude he is represented again and again. Another of his names is Sat or Set, which links him with high or lifted waters, and in later times his name is associated with the northern heavens, in connection with Tat, the "world pillar" (concerning which the annular theory has in store the only possible solution), but the guardian of the "world's pillar," in all eastern legends is a serpent. Typhon then is a serpent! Yet this same benevolent, Christian, conscienceless reprobate and sham philanthropist, declares in his March article that it was the fact of his having "paid $4 for the secret " that induced him to go ahead and try it thoroughly, and as he now confesses, he was agreeably surprised" at the great improvement it made in his health. 66 If it were possible for Root to tell the unadulterated truth, he would say what thousands of others have said—that it was solely on account of having paid the $4 for the secret, that he now enjoys the marvelous benefits of the treatment, and that if he had casually seen He was also a feature in the sky, for, as all it in some paper as a free gift to the public he Egyptologists know he was the perpetual would never have tried it at all. Yet for work- enemy of the sunlight under the name of ing out this system during forty years of pa- Osiris. He was accustomed to force the sun tient experimentation, thereby to demon- into his "coffin," or "Soros," and Plutarch strate in his own person its effects on longev-and other ancient writers say that Typhon ity; and for effectually organizing a successful method of presenting the remedy to the public by requiring a pledge of honor and a small fee, thereby to insure its thorough trial, this unscrupulous maligner, without one word of just praise to Dr. Hall for thus promoting the health and saving the lives of thousands, wickedly condemns him as an extortioner. So highly, however, does he now value the remedy that he declares had he known of it one night when he was neardying at Madison, Wis., and that thereby "I could have perfect relief in three minutes without using any sort of drug or medicine, I would willingly have given ten dollars for the privilege!" (page 185, second column). Yet this ingrate publishes Dr. Hall as about the chief of sinners for charging $4 for what would have been worth "ten dollars" to him for a single application!!! Poor Root; as an act of philanthropy, we leave him in the congenial company of the two arrant frauds, Kellogg and Scott, as a trinity of the most detestible characters to be met with in all history. Old subscribers should not forget that if they have not renewed for volume VIII this is the time, as the volume is half out. Three new subscribers entitles the sender to one copy free. made war upon the other gods and drove them from the heavens. That he slew the sunlight and imprisoned Jupiter the storm god and thunderer. Now, it is as plain as the noon-day sun, that annular vapors only, in the shape of a canopy, could do any of these things. Only a canopy of vapors could force the sun into his coffin! Only a canopy could slay him. Only a canopy could drive Jupiter, the rain and storm god from his domain, the sky. In this very legend then we have a memorial of an annular feature whose name was Typhon, and whose domain was the sky. This conclusion, however, can be proven again and again by other evidence. For instance, if Typhon was a canopy, hiding the sun and banishing the other celestial deities, that feature must have passed away, as a new-born and conquering sun came into power-as Jupiter again regained his freedom. Well, is it necessary for me to tell the classic student how that "Horus, son of Osiris," a new-born sun in the fullness of time, came into power, marshaled his solar cohorts, made war upon Typhon and put him to death? Is it needful for me to tell him how, that in this "war of the gods," Jupiter "crushed Typhon with his thunder"? I could fill a dozen pages with this. kind of proof which can have but one mean ing. Turn to ancient Greece and we find this erected upon the ruins of serpent-worship, the same tragedy of tragedies enacted, only under other names. Typhoeus is slain as the serpent Python which Euripides denominates, "That huge wonder of the world," and slain, too, by a solar deity; and here, too, Pytho is a watery agent, for he produced the flood of Deucalion. I find the same scene in the shanameh of ancient Iranean thought. I find it in ancient India. It is a world wide history that the serpent or dragon was the genius of celestial waters, an annular canopy, that away back in immemorial antiguity, overarched the earth for the last time, and because it banished the burning sun, and with it the storm-king, and winter and all the other agents of ill, it was looked upon as the world's protector and worshiped as a beneficent deity. As a philosophic result the serpent was then the universal monarch and deity of the earth. Accordingly, we find upon the Egyptian monuments temples and tombs, every sign of Typhonic adoration. Not in Egypt alone, but in Assyria, ancient Persia, Turan, India, Chin, or ancient China, we find this one universal monotheistic worship of the Agothodæman, or good demon. Even in both Americas and in Scandinavia, monuments and legends attest the universal practice of Ophiolatry, proving that primitive man gathered around the good dragon or serpent in demonstrative adoration. Now let us for one moment look back upon the human race in that venerative attitude, and behold their astonishment and amazement upon seeing that canopy pass away,-upon seeing their protecting deity vanishing amid all the essentials of majestic disorder and ruin, which annular decline necessarily involved. It is very plain that deluded mankind would characterize the dragon or serpent now as an agent of evil and no longer as a good demon. Do we find any evidence of this change on the old monuments and in the ancient legends? If we do, what does it mean? No sooner do we go in search of this evidence than we find it shining through enveloping clouds of centuries, and it tells us too plainly to be misunderstood, that Typhon ceased to be the god of Misriam and "received the earnest imprications" of mankind. "His very name, says Rowlinson, "was effaced from the monuments." The change has been characterized "remarkable" and "inexplicable.' In the light of this theory all the mystery vanishes. It is not a little remarkable that the Egyptians, as this canopy passed away to the north, made its serpent-genius the abode of Satan; in short, Typhon, as the eastern scholar well knows, become the Egyptian devil, and there is abundant testimony that all nations, after about the time of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, looked upon the northern heavens as the abode of Satan. Of this, more hereafter. As the Typhonic canopy passed away the sun came into power, and the reader knows, without telling, what primitive mankind would turn to, as it turned from the serpent. What deity would then receive the adoration of man? It would be unphilosophic to suppose that man would not at once worship the genius of the sun. Now, if we find this to be the fact, we can do no other than to admit that the sun came into view as the serpent vapors passed away. And when the united testimony comes from around the circle of the whole earth, that sun worship, sun temples and sun idols, were order of annular declusion is shown so conclusively, that to doubt the fact, would seem more than supercilious. The sudden change from the practice of Ophiolatry to that of Heliolatry, has a momentous meaning; and I say the world can explain it only by the calcium light of the annular theory. In concluding this paper, I will give my readers a test by which they can satisfy themselves that my arguments are no "dreamy effusions, but that under them is the fundamental rock of truth. If I slip occasionally from that rock-bed, the rock nevertheless will be there forever. If the Typhonic vapors passed away they went polarwise from the equator. Those peoble who lived north of the Tropics, as in the latitude of Greece, would necessarily see those grand annular arches, like huge serpents, congregating in the north-polar_heavens. Here was the last battle-ground of Typhon as he passed away in stormy terror. There he stood for centuries, overarching the polar world as he received the declining vapors and precepitated them upon the earth. There he was known as the mid-guard serpent, overspanning the polar stars. I want my readers to imagine this Typhonic arch, with the clear heavens in the north under it, and then turn to the twenty-sixth chapter of the book of Job, seventh verse, and read: "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place," etc. I ask the reader to trace the word "north" to its root and find its Hebrew meaning. If it is found to be a proper name, and derived from a word that would imply the ability to hide the sun, as Typhon did, I ask him to give the annular theory and its humble author due credit, and we will ere long be ready to proceed with the Eden narrative. Elsinore, San Diego Co., Cal. EFFECTS WITHOUT CAUSES. BY THOMAS MUNNELL, A. M. Wave-theorists do not hold that wavelets are produced by sound, light or heat, but that said forces consist in wavelets or small undulating motions through and in air and ether. Whatever differences there may be in the phenomena of these three different kinds of wavelets they are nevertheless but similar movements propelled through the same media. The effect of one of them is realized in the ear, that of another in the eye and that of the other upon the whole body. Sound-waves can not address the eye nor can light-waves address the ear. Each kind attends to its own business and never interferes with the business of another. Light undulations have no more effect upon the ear than sound has upon the eye; and the question comes up: If neither of these three kinds of motions is anything-a mere motion being absolutely nothing-how can they each produce a different effect and fill a different office? That is, in what do their different abilities consist if they are all nonentities? And even if waves are real substantive things that have like the soul an existence after the excitement ceases, they are not intelligences and could not of themselves make choice of the very different offices they fill. And as no wave-theorist contends that they are immaterial entities like gravitation or magnetism, the question remains, how can one nonentity do anything different from another non entity, or do anything at all? Do you reply that it is not the mere motions that cause the different effects, but the natural forces that produce them-a knock on the bell causes it to communicate its vibrations to the surrounding air; the excited and tremulous surface of the sun sends its tremors through space? But the question still returns, if the sun sends forth nothing but wavelets and the bell does the same, why does one kind of waves produce heat, and another sound, if neither of them is anything but a slight atmospheric or etheric disturbance? To admit that it is the great natural forces lying behind each of these three kinds of waves which cause their different phenomena, is to surrender the wave-theory, for then light is not mere motion, but motion plus the quality imparted to it by its driving force and together producing its special phenomenon. So if the solar heat rays after reaching the earth are nothing but motions, why should they be anything else in the sun itself? Then it follows that our King of Day" is itself nothing but a conglomerate of motions so agitated by each other that the friction of their decellions of nothings illuminates and warms all the planets and all their innumerable tenantry and does it all with what? with an orbecular collection of nonentities! If such a position is not sufficiently absurd, where would you find one?-one that makes the same thing (motion) both cause and effect of itself. 66 Now, a motion is only a motion in whatever number of ways it may be produced. Wavelets are only wavelets, whether started by a gong, a bell, a tuning-fork, an explosion, a thunder storm or solar rays, and here returns the original question: Why should one motion or nonentity address the eye, another the ear, and another the whole body? Substantialism steps up and says it is because air-waves are not sound-waves, but that sound being an entitative existence belonging to the great and exhaustless reservoir of force in nature is, under certain circumstances, released as sound and starts with a kind of electric intuitiveness to the organ for which it was intended by its Creator in the beginning. How can an unintelligent light-wave fly with the directness of intelligence to the eye and not the ear if both are but motions of matter? In brief, why should not all kinds of mere waves of matter have the same effect, and how can we account for their elective ability if they are nothing but temporary disturbances in the atmosphere or ether? Solar rays, consisting of both light and heat, when they leave home fall upon the moon and are there analyzed, the heat staying there and the light leaping across its 240,000 miles alone, and if the light from sun to moon consists of nothing but waves, in what does it consist from moon to earth? If the same why should there be any difference between solar and lunar waves? If not the same, what makes the difference, if not the absence of the real substantive entitative thing we call heat. Do you say that solar and lunar waves are of different forms and therefore of different effects? Well, prove it, and we will agree to believe it. Or do you say the intensity of solar light is reduced when the heat is left behind? But this resort surrenders your Malakoff, for how could heat or anything else be left behind that has no substantive existence? You can neither add nor subtract cyphers, motions, nor any other nonentities. Now, is it not a comfortable thought that, although the wave-theory has so long ministered to sad and doleful materialism, and though many of the stoutest hearts were cast down by its apparently invincible arguments, Substantialism comes to the front bowing and smiling, but with power to smash said arguments to fragments and grind them to dust and deliver those who, through fear of materialism "were all their life-time kept subject to bondage."-Paul? A TREMENDOUS INDORSEMENT. We copy the following testimonial-engraving and all-from the Farm, Field and Stockman, of Chicago, Ill., the leading agricultural paper in this country. How noble and manly thus to hear testimony to the truth! And how contemptible in contrast are the jealous and envious ravings of such bigots as Kellogg, Scott, Root & Co !-ASSOCIATE EDITOR. A FRIEND OF HUMANITY. We publish on the next page a portrait of Dr. A. Wilford Hall, the author of Hall's Hygienic Treatment for the cure of disease, preservation of health and the promotion of longevity, without medicine. Dr. Hall is, also, the author of the "Problem of Human Life," and a number of other works on scientific and religious subjects; also, the editor of the MICROCOSM and the originator of what is known as the "Substantial Philosophy," or "Substantialism" of which the MICROCOSM is the organ. The story of the discovery of what is known as Dr. Hall's Health System, often mentioned in these columns, and offered by us as a premium, the principles of which are fully set forth in the first named work, is the story of the doctor's life. Unlike the average physician, Dr. Hall believes in and takes his own medicine, if medicine it may be called. It may be as well here to invite attention to the proper title-Ph.D. and LL. D.-indicating advanced scientific attainments. Before venturing to give his discovery to the public he practiced upon himself for about forty years, and in this way effectually_demonstrated its value and practicability. In his case the trite saying, "Physician heal thyself" is accomplished fact. His malady was that most terrible of all diseases, consumption, with its usual forerunners or accompaniments, indigestion, dyspepsia, torpid liver, and kidney failure. His case was about as desperate and helpless as could be. One lung was partially gone, and racked with a terrible cough and reduced almost to a skeleton, he was compelled to give up all work and retire to the house, with scarcely strength enough to walk a block without sitting down to rest. His younger brother, Samuel, had a short time previous died of consumption; and his family physician, who was also his warm friend, advised him to settle up his business affairs as there was but little prospect, if any, that he could survive over a year. His case was identical with that of his brother's who had just died. A consultation of experienced physicians did not afford a ray of hope. Every thing which drug, medicine or science could dohad been done and failed. In this desperate strait he decided to take the matter into his own hands and, to use his own words, "I resolved not to die by the triumphant power of consumption and its noncomit ant ills, but at once to enter upon such a conflict with the insidious destroyer as either to break his hold on my vitality or to take the victory out of his grasp by falling under the effects of my own desperate experimentation." In these experiments drugs and established medical practice were entirely eschewed and a new system sought for, as he says: "I knew from my brother's recent experience that drugs could accomplish nothing in such an extremity, and consequently my whole scheme of organic reconstruction, aimed solely to aid and abet the physical laws of my being; thereby to counteract, if possible, the work of disease and practicing this discovery on himself as an experiment, we quote: "I began perceptibly to improve both in weight and physical vigor. At the time described I weighed 120 pounds. In three or four weeks I had gained about five pounds, with a glow of healthy color beginning to come to my face. My cough also began to subside, my pains left my kidneys and my pleurisy ceased to trouble me, and all symptoms of dyspepsia had left me never to return; and so it went on every month adding to my weight and physical vigor, till finally some twelve or more years ago, I had reached the maximum weight of 225 pounds of the firmest muscular * * destruction going on in my system. To go into the details of his experiments which happily for him were successful from the start, would be to give away the system, which before we could obtain a knowledge of it ourselves we signed a pledge of honor binding us not to do. These details are set forth in full in the above named work. The results are what we are interested in. To use the doctor's own words after he began *structure probably of any man living, young or old, and that too without any undue corpulency in the common adipose sense of the term." About twenty-three years ago Dr. Hall made known the secret of his discovery to Dr. R. F. Stevens, of Syracuse, N. Y., who with keen insight saw at once that it was a discovery worthy of this progressive age, and began its practice both upon himself and his patients, with what success the following extract from a letter written by him to a friend in New York City over two years ago will answer. (See this important testimonial in our March |