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146 was of vastly more importance in a religious point of view. They made it the foundation of a system of theology; it showed them, as they thought, the true source of all moral disorders, and pointed out the remedy by medication. The British Journal of Homœopathy says that this is "that discovery which forms the most beautiful gem in the immortal crown of Hahnemann." But, alas for Hahnemann, and alas for Homœopathy! the discovery of the little acarus scabiei overthrew at the same time all their proud systems both in medicine and theology, and buried, in contemptible oblivion, "the most beautiful gem in that immortal crown." He and his disciples toiled and labored for twelve long years to find the common source of all the numerous streams and rivulets of human ills, and when they had arrived at the supposed goal, and gazed in delirious exultation upon the mystic fountain, the chimera vanished and left them in total darkness.