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irritation, unhealthy substances, toxins, in the blood, poison the fine and delicate nervefibre, and disturb and check cerebral activities. Inflamed intoxicated nerves set up a reaction of their own, clashing with voluntary activities that we initiate in the brain. Irritated nerves are like so many goads constantly and harassingly pricking a quiet horse, who being thus pricked, fails to understand which way he is required to go. He goes in a direction his master does not want him to go. The aim of fasting is to remove these intoxicating substanes from the system, which do not allow the brain to obey its real master and make itself loyal to its lord and thus render it a useless and mischievous instrument...
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It cannot he emphasized too strongly that over-feeding is always an injurious process, whether the over-eater is well or ill. When we eat more than we can digest and assimilate the undigested portion, in passing through the intestines, constantly throws off poisons which are absorbed into the blood stream which they thus devitalize and render impure. The nervous system thereby is tasted and the reserved forces of body called upon to get rid of this surplus of food and in addition, the poisons have the the effect of deadening that exuberance of life that makes a man full of Vim, energy, snap and force..
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We shall study this question of fasting from another standpoint. In accordance of the views of the Modern Science, the body is a cell-republic- a
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