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..... The Drink of Plants.

We have never seen more satisfactory growth than cases where the only water obtainable was constantly charged with manurial matters; yet the liquid was so far from being what we called "strong" that there was no indication to the senses of the peculiar properties of the fluid. Manure may be given in this weak state to almost [crossed out] (all) any and every plant in cultivation with safety and benefit, and th constant use of such a fluid has a far more satisfactory effect in the end than the adoption of a stronger solution for a season only.

............................ Public Opinion.

Monsieur Cabasson says the Pall Mall Gazette has presented to the French Academy a curious essay on the effect of diet on the moral and intellectual faculties of man. Its influence is, in his opinion [crossed out] (so) very great. Cabasson has dived deeply in to the subject of testing its Truth, in his own experience with various articles of food - coffee taken on an empty stomach seems to have produced most startling effects ... He informs us that immediately after imbibing it his ideas acquired unusual profundity, his style in writing was cold but correct, while, on the other hand his Temper underwent a pernicious change; he became morose,

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egotistical, and generally disagreeable. A moderate breakfast restored him to his normal state, and the disappearance of intellectual profun- dity was compensated for by an influx of genial and generous ideas ... The theory is as yet too undeveloped to admit of the prescription of a particular diet for every vice, but, as a general rule, M. Cabasson assures us that a diet of milk & vegetables is conducive to moral and intellectual superiority, and quotes Lamartine, who, in one of his prefaces, states that he attributes to this diet "the purity of feeling, the felicity of expression, and the exquisitive serenity" which always characterized him

................................... Public Opinion.

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Arabic was the tongue of science and philosphy for centuries, during which Europe was barbarian

The remains of its literature to this day are among our richest treasures. The Arabic language has 500 names for a lion ... 400 for misfortune ... 200 for a snake and 1000 for a sword

........................... "Stones Crying Out."

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.......... Observe how He is touched [crossed out] (with the feelings of our) by our infirmities --- with a separate, special discriminating love. Here is not a single throb, in a single ^ [added above] (human) bosom that, that does not thrill at once, with [crossed out] (a) more than electric speed up to the mighty heart of God. You have not shed a tear or sighed a sigh, that did not come back to you exalted and purified by having passed through the Eternal bosom. ............. Robertson.

We are on the brink of the world unseen - on the very verge of the spirit realm. Every where around us is God.

...................... ibid

For there is always a craving in the soul of man for something supernatural, an irrepressible desire for communion with the unseen world.

....................... ibid

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..... Reign of Law. Argyll.

There are cetain results [crossed out] (of which,) for the attainment of which the natural instincts of individual men not only may be trusted, but must be trusted as the best and indeed the only guide. There are other results of which as a rule those instincts will take no heed whatever, and for the attainment of which, if they are to be attained at all, the higher faculties of our nature must impose their Will in authoritative expressions of Human Law ... In ^ [added above] (all) that wide circle of operations which have for their immediate result the getting of wealth, there is a sagacity and a cunning in the instincts of labour and in the love of gain, compared with which all legislative wisdom is ignorance and folly ... But the instincts of labour, having for their conscious purpose the acquisition of wealth, are instincts which, under the stimulus and necessities of modern society, are blind to all other results whatever. They override even the love of life, ... they silence even the fear of death ... Trades in which the labourers never reach the beyond [crossed out] (the) middle life --- trades in which the work is the work

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