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160 should address himself to the work of destroying it through the power of the divine Mind.

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 in it, 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

secretion of the viscera. When this so-called 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 so 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?

Unless muscles are self-acting at all times, they are never so, — never capable of acting contrary to mental direction. If muscles can cease to act and become rigid of their own preference, — be deformed or symmetrical, as they please or as disease directs, — they must be self-directing. Why then consult anatomy to learn how mortal mind governs muscle, if we are only to learn from anatomy that muscle is not so governed?

Is man a material fungus without Mind to help him? Is a stiff joint or a contracted muscle as much a result of law as the supple and