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46 to heal him, and recovered accordingly. Such a fact illustrates our theories.

The author's medical researches and experiments had prepared her thought for the metaphysics of Christian

Science. Every material dependence had failed in her search for Truth; and she can now understand why, and can see the means by which mortals are divinely driven to a spiritual source for health and happiness.

Her experiments in homœopathy had made her skeptical as to material curative methods. Jahr, from

Aconitum to Zincum oxydatum, enumerates the general symptoms, the characteristic signs, which demand different remedies; but the drug is attenuated to such a degree that not a vestige of it remains. Thus we learn that it is not the drug which expels the disease, or changes one of its symptoms.

The author has attenuated natrum muriaticum (common table-salt) until there was not a single saline property

left. The salt had “lost its savor;” and yet, with one drop of that attenuation in a goblet of water, and a teaspoonful of the water administered at intervals of three hours, she has cured a patient sinking in the last stage of typhoid fever. The highest attenuation of homœopathy, and the most potent, steps out of matter into Mind; and thus it should be seen that Mind, or metaphysics, is the healer, and that there is no efficacy in the drug. This discovery leads to more light. You say a boil is painful; but that is impossible, for matter without mind is not painful. The boil simply