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E.S.P Floods Homoeopathy Lightning PROTESTANT RELIGION SUPERSTITION Utopia

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7. What is Homoeopathy?

Homoeopathy is an alternative method of treatment of several diseases. It is based on the nature’s Law of Cure, namely ‘Like Cures Like’. The truth of this law was discovered by a German scientist Dr.Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. It has been verified experimentally and clinically for more than 200 years. Homoeopathy is the revolutionary, natural medical science. Homoeopathy is gentle and effective system of medicine. The remedies are prepared from natural substances to precise standards. It acts as a catalist. It works by stimulating the body’s own healing power.

6. HOW DID THE PROTESTANT RELIGION BEGIN?

Early in the sixteenth century a religious revolution called the Reformation began. Out of it grew the many Protestant religions. As both words Reformation and Protestant, indicate, the basis of this religious revolution was a desire to change what was then happening in the Catholic Church.

What did these people want to change and why? —One thing they objected to was the kind of lives many of the clergy led. They felt that the clergy were not concentrating enough on spiritual matters and were too concerned with material things.

The reformers also objected to the sale of indulgences. These were statements releasing people from punishment for their sins. Many of the people were jealous, too, of the huge possessions held by the monasteries, even though many of them were good landlords.

There were other forces at work at this time, too. Many people followed the reformers largely for political and economic reasons. Nationalism was rising, and with the feeling of nationalism, there came the desire for a national church.

Another factor was that the authority of the Pope was being questioned as far as it concerned non-church affairs. And there was a great division when two or more popes disputed the right of the others.

In 1517 the sale of indulgences by dishonest agents became so widespread that Martin Luther, a German scholar of the order of St. Augustine, protested. He was excommunicated and condemned as a heretic, but his doctrines spread.

In 1530 he drew up the Augsburg Confession, which contained twenty-one articles of the Protestant faith. This resulted in a complete break between the Lutherans and the Catholics. In time, the reformed doctrines, on which the Protestant churches are based, were accepted in various forms and in different countries.


5. WHAT IS UTOPIA?

We love our Mother, Father, Wife and children so much. Some like our own country, and our way of government, and the people of our country. We know it isn’t perfect. In fact, there never has been a place on earth where everyone who lived there felt it to be perfect.

But many people have often dreamed of living in a perfect place. What would it be like? No one would be poor. But nobody would be rich either. There would be no need to be rich—since everyone would have all their needs. Everyone would be happy all the time. There would be very little need for a government, because the people would be considerate of everyone else.

But no one ever really expects to find such a place. We know it’s “too good to be true.” Such a place therefore is “nowhere”—and that’s exactly what the word “utopia” means. It’s made up of two Greek words meaning “not a place”—or nowhere! But the way we use the word “utopia,” we mean a perfect place to live.

The word “utopia” was first used by Sir Thomas More, an English writer who lived in the sixteenth century. He published a book in 1516 called Utopia in which he described a perfect island. His book became very popular.

The idea of utopia, goes back long before this book. In fact, More got the idea for his book from the famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who wrote a book called “The Republic,” in which he described what would be a perfect state.

There were also many legends among such people as the Norse, the Celts, and the Arabs, about a perfect place that was supposed to exist somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. When the exploration of the Western world actually began, most of these legends were no longer believed. But’with More’s book, “Utopia,” it became common for writers to tell of an imaginary place that was perfect. It existed only in their fantasy.

Today, when people describe certain changes they want to make in government or society, these ideas are sometimes called “utopian.” This means they fail to recognise defects in human nature that make a perfect place to live practically impossible.