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Rh effects produced by mortal mind, and not from the disease or the operation.

The medical schools would learn the state of man from matter, instead of Mind. They examine the lungs,

tongue, and pulse, to ascertain how much harmony, or health, matter is permitting to mind, how much pain or pleasure, action or stagnation, one form of matter is allowing another form of matter.

Ignorant of the fact that a man's belief produces disease and all its symptoms, the ordinary physician must of necessity increase disease with his own mind. Then he addresses himself to the work of destroying it, through the power of matter.

The systems of physics act against metaphysics, and vice versa. When mortals forsake the material for the spiritual basis of action, drugs lose their healing force; for they have no innate power. Unsupported by the faith reposed therein, the inanimate drug becomes powerless.

The motion of the arm is no more dependent upon the direction of mortal mind, than are the

organic action and secretions of the viscera. When this mind quits the body, the heart becomes as torpid as the hand.

Anatomy finds a necessity for nerves, to convey the mandate of mind to muscle, and cause action; but what

does anatomy say when the cords contract and become immovable? Has mortal mind ceased speaking to them, or has it bidden them to be impotent? Can muscles, bones, blood, and nerves rebel against mind in one instance, and not in another, and become cramped, despite the mental protest?