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Rh and disorder, into which the infernal spirits operate to "take away man's vital happiness, make his sleep sordid, and entering by intimate correspondence into his organs, debase their lives, and make their functions vicious and disorderly."

This is also an explanation of the effects of our anxieties, fears, and unbelieving flutter and fuss over unresisting and impressionable children. We surround them with a sphere of distrust and foreboding that invites and attracts the evil spirits who love to iuduce what we anticipate, and are thus able to possess their mortal brains and bodies. We therefore take them out of the care of their angelic guardians, and immerse them in evil spheres. This explains also why a calm, confident, trustful ministry from physician or nurse will restore the spiritual equilibrium, with manifest effects in the condition of the body and the equilibrium of its functions. It explains also the Doctor's assertion which presumably all will admit.