INOCULATION
Jesus taught that human lives can be redeemed from sterility to fruitfulness, by an infusion of diverse life. Why should not this principle be even more valuable in morals than in nature?
"To inoculate sterile ground and make it
bring forth fruit in abundance is one of the
latest achievements of American science,"
says G. H. Grosvenor in The National Geographic Magazine. "Some of man's most
dread diseases—smallpox, diphtheria, plague,
rabies—have been vanquished by inoculation,
and now inoculation is to cure soil that has
been worn out and make it fertile and productive
again. The germs that bring fertility
are mailed by the Department of Agriculture
in a small package like a yeast-cake. The
cake contains millions of dried germs. The
farmer who receives the cake drops it into
a barrel of clean water; the germs are revived
and soon turns the water to a milky
white. Seeds of clover, peas, alfalfa, or
other leguminous plants that are then soaked
in this milky preparation are endowed with
marvelous strength. Land on which, for instance,
the farmer with constant toil had obtained
alfalfa only a few inches high, when
planted with these inoculated seeds will produce
alfalfa several feet high and so rich
that the farmer does not recognize his crop."
(Text.)
(1628)
INSANITY
Felix was so crazed by sin as to be incapable of judging of Paul's sanity. Here is an analogy from nature:
The abominable Mexican plant known as
the loco-weed has the peculiar property of
making irrational both men and beasts who
partake of it. Horses and cattle out on the
prairies after grazing upon it go crazy, and
a "locoed" pony will perform all kinds of
queer antics. It is said that if a man comes
under its spell he never regains his senses,
the insanity produced by it being incurable.
It is said that the loss of mind of the ill-*fated
Carlotta was no doubt due to the fact
that some enemy drugged her with a preparation
of loco, altho history has it that she
went insane by reason of her husband's
execution.
(1629)
See Concert, Lack of.
INSANITY CURED
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An instance of a family of insane dependents illustrates the operation of stress and strain to render a psychopathic family helpless and make it dependent upon the State. This family consists of an inebriate father who married a normal woman with two insane brothers. The father has an insane brother. From this union sprang three children, all of whom have been insane from time to time, and who alternated in residence at a State hospital as committed insane patients, joined at intervals by their uncles, and once by their father. The superintendent of the hospital retained the father in custody until he could put him in good condition, mentally, morally and physically, and discharged him in such form that for the first time in the recollection of the family he has been sober, industrious and kind. He has paid off a mortgage on the farm and is putting money in the bank. The conditions of this family are shown in above chart.
The two sons are working and there is an atmosphere of peace and happiness in the
