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72 is gained only in proportion as man is found, not wearing his own righteousness, but reflecting the divine nature.

Every medical method has its advocates. The preference of mortal mind for any method creates a demand

for that method, and the body then seems to require such treatment. You can even educate a healthy horse so far in physiology that he will take cold without his blanket; whereas the wild animal, left to his instincts, sniffs the wind with delight. The epizoötic is a humanly evolved ailment, which a wild horse might never have.

Treatises on anatomy, physiology, and health, sustained by what is termed material law, are

the promoters of sickness and disease. It is proverbial, that as long as you read medical works you will be sick.

The sedulous matron — studying her Jahr, with homœopathic pellet and powder in hand, ready to put you into a sweat, to move the bowels, or to produce sleep — is sowing the seed of sickness day and night, and her household will erelong reap the reward of this error.

Descriptions of disease, given by physicians, and advertisements of quackery, are both prolific sources of sickness. As mortal mind is the chief husbandman of error, it should be taught to do the body no harm, and to unweave its own webs.

The patient sufferer tries to be satisfied when he sees

his would-be healers busy, and his faith in their efforts is somewhat helpful to them and himself; but in Science one must understand the