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44 The science (so-called) of physics would have you believe that both matter and mind are subject to

disease, and that, too, in spite of mind's protest, This view is as evidently erroneous to the author, and will be to all others at some future day, as the practically rejected doctrine of the predestination of souls to damnation or salvation. The doctrine that man's harmony is governed by physical conditions all his earthly days, and that he is then thrust out of his own body by the operation of matter, — even the superiority of matter over Mind, — is both shocking and absurd.

The hosts of Æsculapius are flooding the world with diseases, because they are ignorant that the human

mind and body are one. To be sure, they sometimes treat the sick as if there were but one factor in the case; but this one factor they represent to be body, not mind. Omnipotent Mind could not possibly create a remedy outside itself. Erring, finite, human mind has an absolute need of something beyond itself, for its redemption and healing.

Great respect is due to the motives and philanthropy of the higher class of physicians. We know that if

they understood the Science of Mind-healing, and were in possession of the enlarged power it confers to benefit the race physically and spiritually, they would rejoice with us. Even this one reform in medicine would ultimately deliver mankind from the awfully oppressive bondage now enforced by false theories, from which multitudes would gladly escape.

Mortal belief says that death has been occasioned by