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92 doing this. Matter is going out of medicine, and mortal mind — of a higher attenuation than the drug — comes into the pellets.

Metaphysics, as in Christian Science, is the next stately step beyond homœopathy. There matter disappears from the remedy, and Mind takes its rightful place. Homœopathy takes mental symptoms largely into consideration in the diagnosis of disease. Science deals wholly with the mental cause, in judging and destroying disease. It succeeds where homœopathy fails, solely because the principle of healing is Mind, and the whole force of the mental element is employed in the Science of Mind, never sharing its rights with weaker matter.

The human mind acts the more powerfully to offset the discords of matter (the ills of flesh) in proportion as it puts less weight into the material scale and against Spirit, — against its own interests. Homœopathy diminishes the drug. Its potency increases as the drug disappears.

Metaphysics, as in Christian Science, exterminates the drug, and employs Mind alone as the curative Principle, — this Divine Mind having all power. The pharmacy of homœopathy mentalizes a drug with such high attenuation of belief that it becomes more like mortal mind than its substratum, matter, and its power to heal is proportionately increased.

As the crude footprints of the past lose themselves in the dissolving paths of the present, we should understand the Science that governs these results, and plant our footsteps on firmer ground. Every so-called pleasure of sense gains a higher or lower definition, with the lapse of time. This unfolding should be painless