Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1899: Vol. LVI, November, 1899 to April, 1900Various
Science
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1899: Vol. LVI, November, 1899 to April, 1900
Various
Science -- Periodicals; Technology -- Periodicals
"'N. N. N. The body says, "I am ill." The reports of Sickness may form
a coalition with the reports of Sin and say, "I am Malice, Lust,
Appetite, Envy, Hate." Treat a belief in sickness as you would
sin--with sudden dismissal. If it were not for what the human mind
says of the body, the body would not be weary any more than an
inanimate wheel. _Nihil nemini nocet._'
"On the sixth day the president greeted me with her serenest smile.
"'We have now reached the point, my dear,' she said, 'when we must
abandon Pharmaceutics and take up Ontology, the science of Abstract
Being. In this we have many rivals who echo the cry, "Why art thou,
NEMINISM, come hither to torment us before our time?" Among the
systems that thus cry out are many whom this world deems successful.
Animal Magnetism, Atheism, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Agnosticism,
Pantheism, and Infidelity are antagonistic to Mentiphysics and fatal
to the demonstration thereof, and of Neminism, its noblest
culmination; and so,' she continued, 'are some other systems.'
"She warned me especially against Pantheism, 'the worship of the
sylvan god Pan,' a cult reputed to be especially rife among the
members of our club at Alcalde.
"I tried to explain to her the difference between Pantheism and
Sciosophy, but I did not succeed very well, for she grew impatient. In
her judgment, I discovered, Sciosophy was grossly impractical, and the
views of Mr. Abner Dean would take the bread from the mouths of better
men than he. 'I am told,' she said, 'that Mr. Dean actually signed
that wicked paper[15] of those Washington soreheads, who call
themselves the Reformed College of Neminism.' With this, she would not
listen to another word about Sciosophy.
[Footnote 15: In this document it is asserted that Neministic
Science and Astral Health with a Key to the Stars "and all of the
inspired writings shall be free--i. e., free from the love of the
lust of gain and that the charging of three dollars for Science
and Health, etc., when it can be printed and sold for less than
fifty cents per copy, is wrong in principle, and, in effect, shuts
the doors of this beautiful truth upon the poor by thus putting a
prohibitive price upon it....
"We hold that in the giving of class instruction the teacher is
entitled to a reasonable compensation, and give our opinion that
such compensation should be ten dollars, and we do condemn the
present practice when they charge one hundred dollars for a series
of twelve lessons. Take a class of thirty--which is not
unusual--the teacher receives about $258 per day for two hours'
work. This is unjust, and especially so, because many of these
teachers are unable and unfit for teaching.
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