The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909Besant, Annie
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The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909
Besant, Annie
Theosophy; Theosophy -- Study and teaching
on goats, many human deaths would have followed on the result of that
particular use of the experimental method. What is being done with all
these miserable results of this mistaken and blinded science, all these
serums and toxins, and all the rest of the things which they are now
pouring into the human body? They are lowering the vitality of the race;
they are diminishing the disease-resisting power of the man. I do not say
that you cannot make a man immune for a time by slowly poisoning him,
so that when a dose of the poison comes it will have no effect. You can
do it with arsenic; you can put so much arsenic into a human body that
the arsenic-poisoned person can take a dose of arsenic without death.
Do you tell me that is health? I say it is disease, and that all these
miserable methods are lowering the vitality of the human body, and making
it a prey to innumerable diseases under the pretence of saving it from a
few. Health is not got by poisonings, however carefully graduated. Health
is brought about by pure living, pure food, moral self-control, and by
becoming the master and not the slave of your appetites and passions. It
is a road that leads to death, and not to life, when you want to live
evilly, and be cured of the results of evil living out of the things
which are wrung from the tortured bodies of the animal kingdom. And
so there again there is a deadlock, for even the vivisectionists are
beginning to be a little afraid of the results that they have drawn from
their investigations. There are answers to the problems of disease, but
they do not lie along this line.
III.—ART.
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