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162 ing to his own hypotheses, which are generally the merest blunders in naturalism."

"The allopathic practice casts out devils or evils, by Beelzebub, the prince of devils. 'Resist the devil and he will flee from you.' The homeopathic practice—'like to like'—is the true emblem-cure—the cure by correspondences—'Resist not evil.' Whoever understands this scripture paradox can see how both Allopathy and Homeopathy have their uses."—Page 38.

A paradox indeed the above must appear standing as it does unexplained; and it may be doubted whether there is not a fallacy lurking in this form of statement. But to those who have grasped the general doctrine of Correspondence the fundamental idea may be easily explained, and will throw some light upon the fact that Divine Providence does concur with both Allopathic and Homeopathic treatment, while yet all efficient causes of disease and cure are wholly spiritual.

Recall these truths: that all things in the three kingdoms of nature which are poisonous and hurtful to man are produced from hell; that like things are in the hells and flow forth by correspondence from the evils of those there; that evil spirits have thus by correspondence not only conjunction with such things in nature, but that their evils animate them and give to them their essential properties. Recall further, that all