RELIGION OF NATURE.

PRINCIPLES ARE STEDFAST.

course.

the folly of men our respect for Wisdom-nor the weakness of men our reliance upon strength. But these false appearances would rather convince us of the reality which lies behind them, as the shadow is a revelation of substance. These seemings are, then, to be received as masks, and forms of disguise, beyond which the eternal principles of Love and Truth, and Right, still exist, and still remain unchanged, however much the forms of their representatives may have shrank away from the full measure of the garments they wear.

AMONG all the mournful instances of change which are of We must consider ourselves a part of the Universe. Seated daily occurrence, it is really cheering to be able to look through in my chair, and with such a contemplation, what care I for any all these divergencies, to the great Centre, which is Truth—and specialities of religion that cannot be reconciled with natural is, emphatically, "the same, yesterday, to-day, and forever." things? I have not to trouble myself about such matters. I find Were it not for this, we should sometimes lose all confidence, myself related to Nature, to this planet, to my fellow-men, my and drift away on the tide of life, without chart, or compass, or interests at one with their interests, and theirs with mine, and it anchor. Happy is the mind that does not trust its hope, nor should be my only object to perfect the connection. This is all bind its faith, to secondary manifestations; but, rejecting all I have to do. Great injury is it, to suppose man's highest inter- mediate influence in its deep and beautiful faith, lays itself to est lies without this simple sphere, in some mystery of religion, rest on the bosom of God. Then the errors of men will not or of faith, which is set forth as a speciality above Nature. As shake our confidence in Right-nor the falsehood of men our bewell might the planets, supposing them conscious, set to work lief in Truth-nor the selfishness of men our faith in Benevoto find out their higher duty in departing from their regular lence-nor the wickedness of men our love of Goodness-nor Or as well might the planets, or the animals, set out to have a religion according to laws not recognized in their respective kingdoms. And what a curious and confused scene would present itself to see a convocation of animate and inanimate nature, not recognizing gravitation, chemical affinity, capillary attraction, and electrical influences, as their supreme laws and highest interests, but setting out to find some higher and sublimer matter wherewith to dignify their nature! So diminutive and unwise seemeth human nature, in its attempts to get out of and away from itself. We must consider ourselves a Though every object in life manifests but the elements of part of the Universe. Our fellow-man is our associate planet. change-though gold should turn to ashes, silver to dust, and The human family is the higher nature. The laws of our being gems to worthless pebbles--though even the North Star should are moral gravitation, affinities, and all kinds of finer and spir- deviate from its true position-yet, looking over the billows of a itual attractions. Simple goodness, then, is our highest religion. troubled sea, the eye of Faith may pierce the great Light-founWhat we want, is, to make men feel their natures. Every at-tain; and we shall perceive that the beams are true which shine tempt to divert them from this is fraught with evil. Men never will love one another, associate on terms of justice and harmony, make it their highest aim to seek out and remove the miseries of the world, till they feel this simple attraction. After all the plants and planets are our highest teachers; they taught Jesus, and they should teach us. Teach man that he is a part of a connected whole, and that nothing else concerns him, and assuredly he will go about seeking his place. Teach all men so, and you have about accomplished the work of their unity. Human

charities and little goodnesses would spring up like grass. On the contrary, teach them to rely on some speciality out of and above the race-some great thing done once, and done forever, for which Nature is not at all accountable, and you strike men with moral paralysis. You bewilder them. They wait, then, for that great thing. They rely on it for unreasonable aid.

We must consider ourselves, I say, a part of the Universe-a part of Nature-a part of the unbounded system of things. Then, and with every other thought banished, how natural would be the growth of goodness, how connecting the influences, how sweet and agreeable the affections. The plants and planets would have no higher order; justice would be one with the law of gravitation; goodness would be simple attraction; truth would be harmony; man would be redeemed. How much has every religion, other than this, involved the human race in misery. It is for the want of such a whole thought, that we live so miserably divided and distracted. Our religion is a partial affair, not the wholeness of Nature; our God is set apart to bewilder the imagination and divide the mind; our goodness partakes of the same partial and fragmentary character. Let us, for once, strive to break away from such fractions, get well into the Universe, and feel something of the harmony and connection of the Divine Mind. Then may we hope for such a unity of mankind, and of the elements of mind and feeling, as is a full and real correspondent to the glorious harmony of the heavens above, and of the manifold nature beneath us.

W. M. F.

THE bird can not sing its vernacular song in a cage; nor can the lion be himself in a menagerie. So the genius can not utter its native self when cramped in a creed, and conventionalities.

through that star, and it is only by the medium through which they are manifest that they become distorted as a flaw in glass will cause refraction. Then we know that our hope and faith are sure, though the star, itself, should be blotted from the firmament, and only darkness fill its place.

Perhaps this idea of the mobility of all things, was induced by the reflection that I am now, probably for the last time, addressing the readers of the Univercælum. It is sad to think so; for all transitions are painful; and for months my spirit has revulsion cannot be otherwise than felt. flowed out into that channel so pleasantly---so freely---that the

with earnest zeal, both in season and out of season, with such The evidences are before you that I have labored to do good, measure of power and will as God and Nature have given me; and if I have not been successful it was my misfortune, and not my fault; for I have literally taken my life in my hand, counting nothing as loss, but a neglect of duty. There are some kind hearts, and true spirits, I know, who will appreciate my efforts

or, at least, my wish to serve the cause of Truth. With this sweet assurance, and, moreover, believing that the elements of Right are immutable and eternal, I now bid you a kind and fraternal adieu.

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The Physician

FEVER AND AGUE;

ITS CAUSES AND CURE.

WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVER COLUM.

BY A. J. DAVIS,

distinct or indistinct remittant fever,---and next, as the ultimation and concentration of them all, a Typhoid or decomposing fever. At this point, a residence in the natural or in the spiritual world, is a question which is very summarily decided upon by the retreating or advancing symptoms and temperature of the organization. Again, if we follow the opposite of fever to its ultimate point or state of concentration, we shall pass through the natural and progressive gradations of the cold or negative state, until we arrive at the severest form of CHOLERA. The Typhoid fever is the extreme of a slight fever; and the Cholera coldness is the extreme of a slight Ague. The CHOLERA, therefore, and TYPHOID fever, are in exact antagonism and are a gen

Intermittent FEVER, or fever and ague, illustrates my whole theory concerning the origin and philosophy of human diseases. It will be seen, by what is said respecting these points in the chapters on Cholera and Small Pox, that the temperature of the body is thrown into a positive state by certain electrical condi-eral representation of all the antagonism there is existing in tions of the atmosphere, and into a negative state by others. The Negative condition is cold, and the Positive warm. In other words, the positive state is the feverish condition, and the negative state the chilled condition. Fever and chills in the atmosphere, therefore, develop and strengthen fever and chills in the human system. This atmospherical condition can and does exist a long time in some seasons and countries, before the resisting power of the human body is overcome. But the physical structure, like the metnal structure, is ever subject to the influence of surrounding conditions and circumstances; and the power which these conditions and circumstances possess, is not only sufficient finally to overcome the resisting power of the body, but to throw the mind itself out of health, harmony, and due proportions.

Thus it is that the body becomes diseased. Now the healthy temperature is precisely half way between a chill and a fever,just as between the extremes of joy and sorrow is ever found the holy condition of Happiness and Contentment. Joy is a fever; Sorrow is a chill. The reader may understand these two spiritual conditions, as corresponding in every possible particular to the two physical conditions. Joy is caused by a positive condition, so is a fever. Sorrow is caused by a negative condition, so is a chill. An excessive ferer results in physical change and disorganization; so does excessive joy remove the spirit from its physical habitation. An extreme chill results in the same; so does extreme sorrow. As between the extremes of the two mental conditions we find the state of Happiness and Heaven-even so between the excesses of the two physical conditions do we find Health. Extremes in all things are improper and dangerous, and therefore let us strive to avoid them.

It is plain, therefore, that fever and ague exemplify the whole nature and origin of physical disturbances. The pendulum when suspended in the center, represents the fixed condition of health; and its oscillations to opposite extremes, represent the varying and antagonistic conditions which are embraced in the familiar phenomena of fever and ague. I would have physicians, and patients, and my readers generally, internally convinced that Nature is the only reliable Medical Book, as well as the only reliable Religious Book, in being; and in order to read and associate understandingly with its teachings, we must divest our minds of prejudice and become simple hearted. Thus, and only thus, we may commune with Truth and the Deity.

the nature, relations and constitutions of things. The Typhoid
is the extreme or excessive Positive and warm state; and the
Cholera is the excessive Negative and cold state. The Positive
state is owing to a superabundance of Atmospherical Magnetism
the Negative state to a superabundance of atmospherical
electricity. [See the explanation of the causes of Cholera.]
I think these principles will appear to the reader as simple
extracts from the Medical Book of Nature. But I wish the
reader to comprehend another simple and universal principle in
Nature, because it lies at the foundation of all true knowledge
concerning true medical science. That principle is this-The
Negative of any thing always influences it to a state of Contrac-
tion, and this repels; and the Positive of any thing always influ-
ences it to a state of expansion, and this attracts. Learn, there-
fore, to fix in the memory these three words, for they grow out
of, and succeed, one another, as do cause and effect.-viz, NEGA-
TIVE---
---CONTRACTION--REPULSION; and, again,-PosITIVE-EXPAN-
310N-ATTRACTION. This principle of action is equally manifest
and powerful in the animal and human body, in the Universe of
Worlds, in the intercourse of mind with mind, and in the rela-
tions of the Divine to more material things. Having, as I think,
satisfactorily shown that Fever and Ague furnishes a Key by
which may be unlocked the various mysteries of disease, I am
prepared to proceed to an investigation of the secondary causes
which develop the chills and fever in the various portions of
the world.

1. THE CAUSES. Scientific men-and I almost hesitate to write such down as scientific-have extended their researches far into the Philosophy of visible effects and phenomena. But their motives have been generally not to discover facts and principles and reduce them to common sense and universal application, but to gratify a kind of marvelous curiosity-like the boy who explores the cave, because of the romantic and legendary associations which are connected with it. This want of a superior and fraternal motive;.this want of an expansive purpose in the minds and movements of modern scientific men-induces me to regard the most of them as merely divertionary experimenters. But sometimes the world is favored with an embodiment of earnest motive, of fraternal love, and of practical science. A Franklin was an exemplification of these-he was himself a science. So with others who have existed, who are existing, and who will exist. Among the various discoveries which have accidentally been made, many of which are no discoveries at all, is to be found this important one-" water is a conductor of electricity." This is important to the inquirer into the causes, and the sufferer under the disease, of fever and ague, or intermittent fever.

Thus intellectually conditioned, how easy and natural it is to comprehend what constitutes health, and what is its opposite state or negation. How easy it is to understand that when the physical temperature is thrown out of its healthy state into a Positive state, by peculiar atmospherical, miasmatical, or other conditions, the first natural development of symptoms is a FE- The principal causes of this disease are low marshy lands VER—that, when a reaction takes place, the symptom is a CHILL! where accumulate water, and decomposed animal and vegetable Now proceed a little farther in this direction, and see if the in-matter, and liquid substances. In such localities there is genernumerable varieties of disease have not their foundation and ally a great profusion of damp meadow and swamp plants, and explanation in these opposite states of physical temperature.

weeds, and grass; also various kinds of inferior animals, such The first natural symptom of a disease is a simple general fe- as fish, toads, snakes, lizards, &c, &c., which generate and mulver, next—according to local organic weakness and constitutional tiply themselves, and die, and decompose; and all this tends to predisposition is developed a local or billious fever,-next a breed pestilence. The vapors arising from these localities are Lung fever,---next a Typhus fever,---next a Yellow fever,---next a heavy, watery, and highly attractive to the gross portion of the

If an individual has once have had chills and fever, he is liable to a repetition or the recurrence of the disease at any time, especially when a heavy cold is taken or the temperature is changed. The disease is simple, however, and its cure is correspondingly easy and natural.

electrical element. In some portions of the Chinese Empire, the physicians will at times not allow their patients to work or walk out, owing to the nnhealthy effluvia which are exhaled from damp, uncultivated grounds. And although the Chinese physicians know but little of real medical science, they are in some respects, far in advance of modern practitioners, because 3. THE REGIMEN. To the intelligent reader it will appear they never bleed, and seldom fail to cure or arrest disease. In self-evident that to take gross and heavy nourishment while the Germany, and especially in the Western Countries of the Uni- system, especially the internal organs and actuating muscles, ted States, are to be found these unhealthy and miasmatical re- are laboring with warmth and fluids, and materials, which have gions. Many portion of Ilinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, been repelled from the surfaces, is doing injustice to, and injuMichigan, and Wisconsin, not to speak of Western New-York, ring, the digestive processes. Therefore, avoid coarse food; viz, are exceedingly productive of fever and ague. Indeed, many swine's flesh, imperfectly boiled potatoes, rice and other vegetaplaces in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, are considera- bles. Coffee, or tea, or chocolate, when very strong and very bly well qualified to generate fevers and cold, chronic complaints, hot, are injurious. It is not the tea, nor the coffee, that is injusuch as glandular, liver, lung, scrofulous, and rheumatic disturb-rious to the constitution, but it is their strength, their too great ances. In a word, in any place,---whether in the east, west, heat, and their excessive use. Cold coffee is a pleasant and north or south, where coldness, dampness, and electricity pre- highly valuable tonic. Tea is not very injurious, and weak Cocoa ponderate over warmth, and sunlight, and magnetism, the dis- and Chocolate are both important beverages in some lingering ease under consideration will be developed, or some of its more and nervous complaints. advanced and differently named modifications.

The abounding dampness and electricity,--(which is Negative,) contracts the cuticle glands and the relative membranes, and serous surfaces of the organization, and this repels the warmth and fluids which reside and circulate through them in the healthy temperature. The consequence of long continued disturbances of this kind, is a chill, which soon reacts into fever; and thus is established the intermittent complaint. The fever is occasioned by a partial return of the warmth and fluids to their appropriate places on the external surfaces.

in an extraordinary degree susceptible to the influence of the lands and climate to which they are perhaps quite unaccustomed, soon after entering, and all the while they remain in, the Western country. The patient will remember to avoid so far as circumstances will permit, the excessive use of warm or hot cakes, and the too sudden and unnatural transition from the damp grounds and cold atmosphere without, to the dry floor, and hot atmosphere within, the cabin or more comfortable residence.

In some portions of the western United States the people, though enterprizing and laborious, are not judicious in the selection and preparation of their food, nor in the treatment of their constitutions. In almost every place in the western states I find the people in the constant habit of eating very hot bread and cakes; and when they return to their homes, after having ploughed all day in the cold ground, (which in Missouri and Illinois, is the chief cause of regular and irregular attacks of chills and fever,) they sit by a blazing fire and become excessively warm. This is wrong, because it changes the physical tempera2. THE SYMPTOMS. This disease begins, like every other ture too rapidly, and increases the susceptibility to colds. It derangement of bodily temperature, with the general aching and must be remembered that those frequent and unnatural chandisagreeable symptoms accompanying a cold. At first, the pages in the bodily temperature are the fertile causes of daily and tient experiences a pressure and headache; soreness and tender-hourly Agues which some individuals have, owing to their being ness of the muscles; a coldness and chilliness throughout the entire system; and an occasional trembling of the muscles which actuate and govern the jaws. This tremulousness or shivering soon spreads wherever chillness and coldness have opened the way, and these generally pervade the whole body. Now the patient is racked with involuntary shiverings and shakings in every joint and muscle. The fire is powerfully attractive, but its heat seems only to increase the sensations and paroxysms. If the patient is placed in bed, and all the clothes, blankets and quilts, that can be found are thrown upon him, he will continue to shake, and complain of the cold. All efforts to create a bodily heat seem of no avail. But after the individual has suffered from one to four hours in this agonizing, provoking, and sometimes mirth-exciting manner, (for some good natured persons will laugh at their own awkwardness and calamities) the chill ceases. The patient becomes weak, sick, and feverish. Perspiration, and sometimes delirium, is the symptom of an exacerbation; and the patient gradually glides from this unpleasant state into a calm or disturbed slumber. The day and night pass, and on the following morning the system is in a temperature and state of quietness compatible with comparative health. But on the day succeeding this, at precisely or near the hour of the pre- From what has been said it is plain that the chill is the germ vious attack, the patient will recommence complaining of cold- and parent of that extreme negative state termed Cholera; and ness and aching, and soon will shake and shiver, and go through that a similar but simpler treatment is alone required. Therethe same torturing experience which is above described as ush-fore, to cure the fever and ague, I would give the following preering in, and indicating the progress of the fever and ague. All the difference there is between intermittent fever and other spasmodic complaints, consists in this: in fever and ague there occurs an incessant succession of spasmodic motions during the whole paroxysm; while in other affections these motions are more concentrated and conspicuous: but in every spas-about half the quantity quite above the temperature of the modic disease, the same muscles are affected in the same manner, and by the same primary causes, differing from chills and fever only in degrees of violence and frequency, according to which difference they have been branded with a Greek or Latin name by the medical profession.

4. THE CURE. The fever and ague will not entirely cease to exist until its causes are banished from the earth-but the mission and duty of medical science are to protect and assist those who are, by civilizing and fertilizing the lands and countries of the world, accomplishing this important and glorious end. It is highly desirable that the rough places should be made smooth, the crooked straight, and that the wilderness, or in other words, the western lands and territories of the United States,

and the now uncultivated regions in other parts of the world, should be made to blossom like the rose; and to this end I direct my medical energies. To assist and protect, therefore, the subjects of this disease, is my present intention.

scription, which must be kept in readiness: Good brandy, two quarts; gum of camphor, one table spoonful; pulverized ginger root or mustard seed, two table spoonsful; these ingredients must tincture in the brandy three or four days, and the preparation should be shaken several times. When the chill is coming on, heat

hand. Saturate flannel, or other woolen cloths, with it, and place them on the stomach, and bowels, and feet. Now give the patient a tea spoon half full of the liquid, and repeat and increase the portion every two or three minutes, if it seems to agree with the stomach, until fifteen or twenty doses are admin

istered. Continue to change and re-saturate the flannel cloths in the hot liquid, until the chill is broken. I have known five applications of this preparation to cure cases of periodical fever and ague of eight years standing.

But some individuals require different treatment; and for such I recommend the following syrups: Prickly ash, bayberry, and peach tree barks, of each eight ounces; elecampane, comfrey, and black snake roots, of each four ounces; blood-root, and rhubarb root, of each one ounce; carbonate of iron, one ounce; pound the roots and bark into small pieces, and put them into an iron vessel with three gallons of water, and one gallon of molasses; boil the whole gradually down to about six quarts, and strain it immediately. When it is quite cold, add one quart of good brandy, and the preparation is complete. Keep it in a jug or some other tight vessel, far removed from any heat. Dose: One wine glass half full every morning and night. If the stomach will permit it, increase in one week to a wine glass full, and continue until the whole is gone.

astray. She pointed to the gentle Ella, his destined bride, and asked if she was not worthy of other than a cottage home; and when he lent a willing ear to her teachings bade him seek the crowded city and win gold and fame for a bridal offering. The youth, forgetting that the priceless jewel, affection, would be a far more acceptable gift, obeyed her promptings. With this unholy passion kindled in his heart, and away from the gentle influences of his pure home, he entered eagerly into the inglorious struggle for Wealth, neither was Fame forgotten. Both were won through the same channel. He held the ready pen of a genius, and its sparkling productions won him golden opinions. Bright gems of thought and feeling sparkled amid drossy emanations, showing that occasionally sordid motives were forgotten, and his former self gained the ascendency; but alas! that these were so often o'ershadowed with the rank growth of foul weeds that sprung up so plentifully around them! With increasing wealth came leisure, and then followed gayety and dissipation, and finally youth, beauty and innocence were trampled It may be necessary, in some confirmed cases, to combine the on and destroyed. The warm affections of pure young hearts latter preparations and treatment, according to the directions. were won, worn awhile, and then cast aside as utterly worthAnd not until the primary causes of the disease are removed less. And this night, while he, than whom the meanest wretch will some individuals be emancipated from its agonizing symp-in yon crowded city is not more debased, is courted and flattertoms and consequences. It may be judicious and expedient, therefore, for such patients to change their residences,-generally to seek a more permanently warm and magnetic climate.

Miscellaneous Department.

LUNA'S CONFESSION.

WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERCŒLUM,

BY LIZZIE.

THE EVENING was calm and serenely bright. No clouds, save one, dimmed the glory and beauty of the heavens, that one dark cloud hung lowering over the fair scene, as if frowning on the beauty it could not overshadow. Our favorite orb, Luna, wore a calm but, as we thought, sad smile, and as we looked anxiously for indications of an unusual sorrow, we were sure a tear-drop glistened mournfully in her sweet thoughtful eye. Just then, and while we were wondering at this new phase in our beloved Luna, she stretched forth her hand and drew that ominous looking cloud over her face as if to screen herself from the gaze of idle curiosity.

We could keep silence no longer, but addressed her with, "What great sorrow, O Luna, causeth thee to robe thyself in that dark veil? Hast thou a faithless lover, a harsh and cruel father, or weepest thou in thy compassion over the sorrows of some poor mortal?" Slowly she removed the veil from her pale, sweet face, and low and sad were the tones in which she replied,

"I have been grieved, oh mortal, at the waywardness and fickle purposes of man. Years since," she continued, "as I in my passage noted objects on your earth, I marked with pleasure a rosy, smiling boy, whose heart seemed bursting with warm and generous impulses, and whose future promised to teem with all things pure and beautiful. With ever increasing delight I watched the growth of the boy Hermann, and fondly believed my dream of manly perfection, truth and nobility, was to be realized. And for a long time the youth did deport him well. He was guided by the precepts of his father, and paid good heed to the counsel of his mother. Not purer than his heart were the flowers he tended, and the thoughts to which he gave utterance were sweet and innocent as the breath of morning. Love mingled with the dreams of the youth, and my hopes grew brighter still; for the maiden whose heart he had won was pure and beautiful as the lily of the valley. But alas! Ambition came, and her perverse whisperings led the heart of the youth

ed by the fashionable and the gay, one of his frail victims,-because, forsooth, of the virtuous indignation of this same class,— makes a death-pillow of the cold, cold earth. Alas! for the consistency of human society !”.

Thus saying, Luna wiped another glistening tear-drop from her eye. “But what of Ella, dear Luna; surely she disappointed not thy fair hopes ?"

A smile radiant as that which lights the face of creation when first she greets the morning sun, brightened her countenance as she replied, "In her, indeed, I found a fountain of truth and purity which swept away much of the bitterness of my sorrow. For a time she was pale and sad, and mourned much the abreached her ear, and then she roused herself, and struggled sence of Hermann; but at length, news of his impure habits heroically in the fearful combat between Love and Duty. It was a fearful trial, and long did her woman's heart rebel: but its purity conquered at last, and when her once idolized lover sought her side, and would fain have transplanted her to his gorgeous home, she spurned from her the unfeeling libertine who had wantonly trampled beneath his feet hearts once pure and joyous as her own."

We mused long and somewhat sadly on Luna's mournful tale, and regretted that the truthfulness of the picture forced us to acknowledge the justice of her reflections on the inconsistency of human society. We would that our own sex, at least, might look after their acts, and not remain open to her future animadversions. Strange that hearts formed for love and gentleness should treat with stern cruelty the unfortunate victim of perfidy, and smile on him who wrought the ruin. There is no sight so melancholy as that of the deceived and broken hearted victim of man's infidelity. No being so utterly bereft of sympathy and kindly treatment as she of the crushed heart and tearful eye, who dares not raise her head in the presence of her sister mortals, through fear of forbidding frowns, and harsh, rebuking words. God help her, and speedily remove the necessity for the anxious question, "How long shall these things be?"

TIME FOR STUDY.

BONAPARTE, with Europe at his disposal, with kings at his antechamber begging for vacant thrones, and at the heads of thousands of men whose destinies were suspended on his arbitrary pleasure, had time to study books. And young men who are confined to labor or business during the hours of the day, may take an hour and a half of what is left for study, and which will amount to two months in a year,