+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | #Back Numbers# | | | | If readers who possess copies of the first number of _The | | Healthy Life_ (August 1911) will send them to the Editors, | | they will receive, in exchange, booklets to the value of | | threepence for each copy. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ THE HEALTHY LIFE The Independent Health Magazine. 3 AMEN CORNER LONDON E.C. VOL. V DECEMBER No. 29. 1913 _There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and philosophers will all speak the same language and understand one another._--CLAUDE BERNARD. AN INDICATION. There are some statements, the very simplicity and truth of which create a shock--for some people. For instance, there are certain seekers after health who ignore and are shocked by the very obvious truth that "brain is flesh." A brain poisoned by impure blood is no fit instrument for the spirit to manifest through, and "mental suggestion" must inevitably prove of no avail as a cure if the origin of the impure blood be purely material. It is just as futile, on the other hand, to treat the chronic indigestion that arises from persistent worry, or indulgence in passion, by one change after another in the dietary. The founder of homoeopathy insisted that there was no such thing as a physical "symptom" without corresponding mental and moral symptoms. "Not soul helps flesh more than flesh helps soul." Thus the Scientist and the Poet come to the same truth, albeit by different ways.--[EDS.] PLAIN WORDS AND COLOURED PICTURES. While most of us would at first sight find fault with Mr G.K. Chesterton's sweeping advice-- "And don't believe in anything That can't be told in coloured pictures," many would probably end by endorsing it. But we should do so only because we were able to give a very wide and varied meaning to "coloured pictures."