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countries it is because people do not know the rules for diet that we have recourse to artificial means. It is better to follow the rules of diet in the beginning : and not have any kind of artificial medicines at all. We have to know so many things even in regard to food, and how much more in regard to the mental, moral, and further on the spiritual nature !
Take the mind in its ordinary conditon ; it can think on so many subjects, and many run in different directions at different times. After being fixed on one point the result is that the mind can be consentrated on one subject more easily. This may be the result either of food or of a different way of living, with regular hours of sleep, a proper amount of exercise, thinking of subjects which excite the mind. The general rule with regard to the develop ment of the mental nature is that we should be compelled some how or other to coucentrate our attention on one thing. A person employed in any department of life who is not able to center his thoughts on this department, on his duties, will be dismissed. Even in our business affairs that concentration is necessary, and if for the purpose of making a little money it is necessary that we should do this, how much more is it true in spiritual things ! It is not an easy thing if money is the object, which it takes so much time and labor to accumulate; it is much more difficult to acquire the spiritual knowledge. This brings us to the science of con
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