| Show A GREAT TRUTH OR IN ili our editorial of august ath treating on the subject of nutrition we e made use of these remarks the athe action of food on the human system may yet be proven different in some respects to that which is now ac accepted as the process it may be shown that its effects are such as to incite the system to absorb electric atmospheric and other agencies that stimulate and support life and to accomplish as much by arousing ng the vital energy to grasp and ind assimilate them as by actual material supply we notice that this has been set down in print as amere mere verbiage and speculative nonsense we should pay no attention to this kind of thing the resort of shallow minds incapable of comprehending or unable to refute by argument but we wish to amplify a littlejon litt little leon on thesus the subject at which we merely hinted in th the paragraph we have reproduced we are not unacquainted with the commonly accepted theory of waste and repair the elimination of effete tissue and the assimilation of food the process of digestion and the action of nitrogenous and carbonaceous bonace ous combinations ons ona but it does not follow because certain physiological doctrines have mn been accepted by the scientific world that they are infallible or positively correct the science of one age has leen been frequently overturned bonx onn tu d by that of the next in each successive period the leading minds imagine that to them is vouchsafed the key of knowledge while their predecessors were feeling for the door in tile the dark but they all make mistakes and circuns circumstances lances and facts sometimes arise which laugh their established theories to bc scorn beorn orn and though they hold to them with a stubbornness which is very natural they have to give way in time or be classed SS ed a among mo the g gres greb and incurables we do n not ot make cheso remarks out of any disrespect U to learned men who go down dawn into the depths of things for the purpose of searching out causes and bringing up to the light tight hidden princ prine principles ll 11 es and obscured truths but merely to show that in many things human jeci science ence enee Is as fal tal fallible lible as man made religion now low accordia according to the generally adopted theory when a man eat a piece of beefsteak beefs beens teak after it has gone gono through the chemical changes wrought upon it in the body portions of that meat masticated in salivated deglutinated chy mined etc are conveyed to the various parts of the system take the place of cast off particles and enter into the actual composition of the individual it is on this theory that it is claimed that the materials of the tiie human body are entirely changed charig od in seven years but the prophet joseph smith made the following emphatic statement as recorded in hi his history april 1 1843 I 1 there is no fundamental principle belonging toa to a human system that ever goes into another in tilts world or in the world to come I 1 care eare not what the theo theories theoples iles ples of men ihen are we have the testimony that god will raise us up and he has the power to do it if any one supposes that any part of our odies bodies that is the fun id da mental parts thereof ever goes into another body ho he is mistaken this may not be considered very good authority by the scientific world it is however to the lat ter day saints the seer of the nineteenth century bad means of lea iea learning the fhe secrets of nature as well as of theology about which the most profound thinker and most experienced pennen perien ced eed bookworm know nothing whatever he was not in the hab habit it of speaking so positively unless he knew whereof he spoke he gained his knowledge from the eternal fountain of intelligence and asked and received wisdom from a source that never errs president brigham young ina in a sermon delivered in this city october 8 1875 endorsed this declaration of the prophet in these words some esome have asserted that the human body changes every seven dr jor ten years this is not correct for it never changes that is the substances of which it is composed do not pass off and other particles of matter come and take their place neither can the particles which have comprised the bodies of men become parts of the hod bod bodies es of other men or of beasts fowls fish insects or vegetables divided fA latter matter ma may y bo be divided into an infinitude of atoms until they pass beyond the power of the microscope to discover them and the most skillful chemist who dwells upon the earth knows not whither they go my position is and which I 1 declare to the latter day saints it is beyond the power of man without revelation from god with all his science to know whether these particles that compose our bodies go into other creatures to form the component parts of their bodies or whether they merely pass into tl the ai e already organized body to io resuscitate it and contribute to its sustenance some persons on reading or hearing such sentences as those we have gnot quoted edwill will denounce them as ammere Inere verbiage or speculative nonsense and think no more about them others will reflect upon the ideas they contain so contrary to the generally received theory in relation to the human body and may gain further light on a very important subject which reaches into the future and bears upon the glorious doctrine of the resurrection from the dead we have attempted to make no amert assertions ions lons explanatory of the action of food upon the body but have merely officered ered some suggestions touching on views that we e entertain derived from the positive assertions sert ions of inspired men the human system is yet an enigma even to the best surgeon phy physiologist siolo gist or biologist of or this learned age the chemical changes that are efrece effected ad upon substances introduced into i its interior may be noted and determine ed so with the apparent effects of the tile chemically prepared prefab material but that the chyle which is sucked up uv by the lacteals lac teals or the chyme that is absorbed by the capillaries capil laries actually takes the V place I 1 of particles cast oss off from the body dwy is not yet demonstrated and if the doctrines of ot the authorities we have quoted are true titie never can be proven we have briefly suggested what map may be the action of digested food and we have not done so without reason the process by which vitality is maintained in animated nature is not yet understood by the most scientific minds who can explain to us the vital force tell us whence it cometh and whither it goeth in what we call life and death the tile body may be sustained and vitalized vitali zed by influences that are beyond the microscopic lens the ehe che chemick chemical mice mici al te test t the dissecting knife and theana theaDa the analytic mind unaided by divine revelation dr alexander wild of new york touching on the question of vitalizing sustenance says why may not the auras ether and unseen forces of the earth and atmosphere penetrate the body and accomplish the matter matten it esthe force the energizing principle 1 in IL food that constitutes its power ian lan landset and dYet yet the scientist hanot banot baa haa not readied hla his hia by the microscope or evolved it b by y manipulation this r force is derived from the great eos cos mos and from aught we know t the contrary may inay sustain the tic the tha hibernating animal or insect without being furnished by the medium of food the Infinite space has more corb resources than we benov Of and we may as well be modest enough to acknowledge the tha fact i the power of mind over matter the action of the will apont the W ph ya 1 I part pirt of our being the jark nib mib th that t unseen forces play plan in sustaining gt the he human economy are little understood eteh eveh even by those very tery wise ase persons who vvhs attempt to th ridicule that which does doea nt with their modicum um are ard more moro things in heaven annj and edrah than are dreamt of in their pallo sophy and our to them is do no not t be jn too great aberry W reject eide vide ct aneti anything ing because e it ap appears beam contrary to soine sohie selent selen iha tine dogma abi nor non to rush into print with p plain 1 am proof proofs s of limited research anc noi non lack jack of independent thought 9 J 1 |
