"The adaptability of drugs," says Dr. Henry Wood, "to heal disease is becoming a matter of doubt, even among many who have not yet studied deeper causation. Materia Medica lacks the exact elements of a science. The just preponderance, for good or ill, of any drug upon the human system is an unsolved problem, and will so remain.... After centuries of professional research, in order to perfect "the art of healing," diseases have steadily grown more subtle and more numerous.... Only when internal, divine forces come to be relied upon, rather than outside reinforcement, will deterioration cease. Said Plato, 'You ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul.'" CHAPTER VIII. 1888. HELPERS ON THE ROAD, AND HINDERERS. Blindfolded and alone we stand, With unknown thresholds on each hand: The darkness deepens as we grope, Afraid to fear, afraid to hope. Yet this one thing we learn to know Each day more surely as we go: That doors are opened, ways are made, Burdens are lifted, or are laid By some great law unseen and still Unfathomed purpose to fulfil. "Not as I will." The next "helper on the road" was an Austrian nobleman, the Chevalier Griez de Ronse, who printed a series of papers on Keely's discoveries in a journal in Vienna, then owned by him--The Vienna Weekly News. One of these articles mentions that the attention of Englishmen of science had been drawn to Keely's claims, in regard to having imprisoned the ether, by Professor Henri Hertz's experiments in ether vibrations at the Bonn University. "Keely, like the late Dr. Schuster," says The Vienna Weekly News, "claims on behalf of science the right to prosecute its investigations until a mechanical explanation of all things is attained. The public are still but the children of those who murdered Socrates, tolerated the persecution of Galileo, and deserted Columbus. This remark is now illustrated by the imprisonment with felons last month of Inventor Keely in Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia, where Judge Finletter committed him for contempt of court, without the shadow of an excuse in the opinions of men who had followed the proceedings against him.