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prevent mankind, in happy ignorance of what the cycle of life really is, from
awaiting some other solution of the problems. In doing this futile thing
mankind may watch, and hope, and pray, until the crack of doom; but all in
vain. Even if the scientific solution were to dawn upon official research, it
could—in this universe, at all events, and as it is constituted—be none other
than that offered by Nature! No denial can any longer have the smallest value
against the supreme truth, that when properly—that is, scientifically—applied,
the pancreatic ferments, trypsin and amylopsin, being the most powerful things
in the whole range of organic nature, are efficacious agents against cancer.
At
the present time science and scientific research are not things to be made
light of, to be scoffed at and jeered at in the market-place, or to be ignored.
With the publication of the facts contained in this book, the responsibility is
shifted to other shoulders than those of the scientific observer. All I ask is,
that these truths of Nature, which she has given as a revelation of boundless
and priceless import to a world which was not ready for them—that these shall
not be denied, but be received reverently as what they are—true facts of
Nature. Cancer is a natural phenomenon, not a disease; although it may bring
disease in its train. Its treatment—that of a natural phenomenon—has been
committed legally, logically, rationally, and scientifically not to the hands
of the scientific observer, who has discovered its origin and nature, but to
those, the surgeons, who believe it to be “an incurable disease,” and who
confess, publicly even, that they know nothing at all about its origin and
nature. It is the business of the scientific observer, not that of the medical
man or surgeon, to study and elucidate natural phenomena. Let the truth be
acknowledged