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I could see no reason, as I perused this, to be sure that I had served as the model for this successful work of art, unless the white dress and the lilies of the valley, which I had certainly worn at Cannes, were sufficient authority for for such a conclusion Still I felt quite a curiosity about the picture--the more so as I could foresee no possible chance of o to Rome on purpose, and in a few days it would be in the possession of Prince N----, a personage whom in all probability I should never know I put the newspaper carefully by, and then turned my mind to the consideration of quite another subject--namely, the contents of my parch the private instructions of Heliobas to myself for the preservation of my own health, and the cultivation of the electric force within ly simple, and yet so wonderful in their simplicity, that I was surprised
They were based upon the plainest and h for a child to understand Having proive the slightest hint of their purport; but I ed word, that if these few concise instructions were known and practised by everyone, doctors would be entirely thrown out of eer cumber the streets Illness would be very difficult of attain each individual would kno to treat hied easily and co, of course, accidents by sea, rail and road, or by deeds of violence But it will take enerations before the world is UNIVERSALLY self-restrained enough to follow such plainof my benefactor, Heliobas--even if it be ever self-restrained at all, which, judging from the present state of society, is much to be doubted Therefore, no more of the subject, on which, indeed, I am forbidden to speak
The other document, called "The Electric Principle of Christianity," I found so curious and original, suggesting so ion which has civilized a great portion of humanity, that, as I am not restrained by any proive it here in full My readers h to jump to the conclusion that I set it forward as an explanation or confession ofto do with anyone save myself I simply copy the manuscript I possess, as the theory of a deeply read and widely intelligent man, such as Heliobas undoubtedly WAS and IS; a s--earnest and thoughtful Orientals, ere far wiser in their generation perhaps than ith all our boasted progress, are in ours