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Rh the human organism should specially qualify them and inspire them for this study, there is the bondage of tradition and weight of materialism. One thing may be affirmed, namely: That those who aspire to the study of mind and its correspondence with the body, must be students also of the bodily organism; and those who would practice from a love of use to men, the art of mental healing, should approach it through a study of mind and body, and add to the most complete physiology attainable the psychology revealed for the New Jerusalem. Approached by such avenues of preparation it will probably be found that most pathological conditions, and even physical changes of structure, "are only organic insanities or spells which only require the right word of the physician to dissipate them; and that, although if they went on they would kill by their virulence, yet are they amenable by a simple impression from without," that is, from an outside personality as the centre of a re-adjustment of spheres. Meanwhile, "next to the self control of the patient, which is the top of mortal medicines, we may reckon the mental control of the doctor, who makes use of his own