bathe (dry bath), gesture, sit, stand, sleep, talk and have sex. Edgerly claimed a scientific basis for all this. In 1900 Edgerly joined forces with the founder of Purina Food Company, which took the name Ralston Purina Company (which would later become Nestlé Purina PetCare). It made whole wheat cereal that Ralstonites were to consume. The food company Edgerly founded evolved into what is now called Ralcorp which was the original manufacturer of cereal brands including Chex and Cookie Crisp. Between 1894 and 1895, Edgerly bought large areas of farmland along the northern slope of Hopewell Valley, New Jersey, where he founded Ralston Heights in 1905. A house he designed was built to contain a community of Ralstonites he meant to be a core of a future City of Ralston. The contours of the estate followed Edgerly's conviction that sudden stops and walking in straight lines would cause leakage of vital force. Edgerly planned to expand to hundreds of lots, sixteen small farms, seven palaces and a Temple of Ralston. This community did not materialize, at least not in the form Edgerly intended. Much of the estate still exists, albeit in ruined condition. In 2020, a fiction novel entitled, "Ralston Heights," was published by James Betz, an author from nearby Pennington, NJ. Albeit supernatural horror, Betz' story was influenced by Webster Edgerly's Hopewell Valley residence along with the Ralstonism movement. References External links Writings of Webster Edgerly at oddbooks.com Life building method of the Ralston Health Club; "All nature" course at archive.org Book of general membership of the Ralston Health Club at archive.org Magnetism Manual of the Magnetism Club of America (archived) (formerly at neurolinguistic.com) at google.com Health movements Diets Social movements in the United States Social philosophy Pseudoscience Ralston Purina Eugenics organizations White supremacist groups in the United States