The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-08-11

Ill UiUloHS, w HeIelil Ill GA pcIl VI lHt sCItiCt
will take possession of the weaker, i'm
pressible mind, and bend it obediently to
his will; will even change the material
senses, making heat to seem cold, pleasure
to seem pain, sweet to seem sour, and
sharp pungent odors to change to the per
fumes of ''Araby the BEST This mes
merle power is no occult force, but simply
the excessive cultivation or development
of power inherent in every one.
A proper recognition of this force will
tend to make us our own masters, instead
of the blind slaves of the will of another.
In the experiments given a year or
more ago by Bishop, the mind-reader, the
governing force of combined minds was
clearly demonstrated.
In England they have a Society for
Psychical Research, composed of eminent
men in every department of science and
literature. The committee on Thought
Transference. in their published report,
tell us that ideas in one mind can be re-
produced in another mind almost with
perfect accuracy, and this too without ac-
tual contact; sometimes the eNperimenters
being miles apart. 1t is on this principle
of thought transference that popular
belief as to certain maladies have power
to harm the afflicted. There are laws
laid down in medical books and preached
in medical schools that bind the suffering
people like chains of iron. The books
say this to the doctors, and the doctors
say that to the people, unit! hope is killed
out and the reactiye power of the spirit
is crushed beneath load of opinions.
In the case of President Garfield. every
throe of the sufferer every probe of the
lancet, every drop OF pus which oozed
from the wound, every variation of the
pulse, was duly chronicled to the waiting
nation. The people hoped, but the people
feared as well, and the fear preponderated.
Twenty millions sat in judgment on the
case, led by a coterie of learned doctors,
who could not realize the power of peo-
pies thought concentrated upon this noble
sufferer. Now [ do not suppose the
learned doctors would treat my opinion
with any show of courtesy, but if Presi-
dent Garfield had belonged to me, | would
have given him into the charge of a re-
liable surgeon who knew enough to do his
duty, provided rest cheerfulness and quiet,
and left the rest, to the reactlve force of
his own pure nature. Nobody took into
account the long mental strain that Gar
field had labored under. The cares of his
official station. the Misrepresentation of
his enemies, and the multitude Of burdens
he carried depressing influences all Of
then-but when this new burden of a
nations anxiety was laid upon him, trans
mitted by mistaken sympathy, the
wonder was that lie lived as long as he
did
Many an old soldier pulled through as
dangerous an injury. We who were IA
miliar with the hospital wards in that
memorable time know how little interest
or sleei'i y nil'"ths 'ile Mouii''e' soi''ltl
leceiNe"' l. was SilaPiN 0i'e i'i''h IN sucli
ward ana suel d ped whose 'tllle'lohs
We're oileliS Itcoi''go on 'lie NIUE c'l" Ill
'iie he'' VI ms oeo': whom 'ile surgeon
visited according 70 reSul.tlohs, 'ook tlie
prescribed 'lle. ana ileuicl1 e Wne'her ne
linz" II VI MOI 'iia so "til u ne so''p,,
4 nc 10Y ny "nAio,ls olitS ~ tnJ lat oil
iiote soui'' ne1el mo" VIZ I: ''et'lis ~ ms
su ~, gay 10y ''"A' iiis o"ilir'"ts IA
"iiie'ioh "ele 'uo wen "ecus.oile't W
eueii W ieei ii'oie eii''" passing 'iA-
i"i ms ~ iieiiNe INC elili'
"i,i'iii was '1'i' ~ us o"n proper "oih,
unii"iiil'e ny 'ie "elSn0 vi ti'nsiiii,'eu
'n A,e'iSe W ie"is' 10 ho, "isi " lll-
pis ny 'iis ,i'' ei,o'.iu i'i!ilo!'l y ii'a-
'llS from lie sich' pt. 90 HISS. lnat III
sho''io ut i1e"l'h9 Giieeiil'i, upiiltins y III
Pa'Is, alio no, .he iearlul depressing
Pi'S "hioll 80 "l'en l'''sses lol - iiip''hS,
we Want proper unoelstan''ins VI
no" 70 - lhpa,l,ze Ml1n tlie sick. IL our
irlenu Oh lle4snpoi i'ils sich We 20 lot
Van. W coup liis ''se win 'ii'' VI a.
W. 10, VI ~ no ''let' q ''1oll1h " q Se'l ~.
"e 20 ho' "al' " ieie'ise we SeNeiitS
OF MS symptoms OF speculate on the
1 ,I " MS recover, even III .llouSn'.
we 90 not want 10 let our MINDS owen ior
ah instant on MS Piop'ple properly or ms
immaculate l1e'rs' neither no we wan, 10 go
ilto MS SICK room WIN cheell!ll "ofo
upon our ups nu. Win depressing iear
III 'he heai'' II Is ilo' eIle expression we
give o''' 'iie ini,"'e II, iiic,l "oes 'ne
WORK. anu IL tlle ups give ,ile lie 10 tlle
near'. s"tll deception aNaiIs put NIUE;
ne SIGN ilel' Is III d hGS"'iNe st'te' ana
o'ti stronger Posl'lNe 'HouSit MAKES JUS
deeper impressions, ~ our hiehtai inter-
course WIN we slck' " Siiotin" argue ~
ways IN the dlreelloh ~ our hopes instead
OF our Tears. IN l'et, we Silouip suporhl-
maze 1ear 70 the hlghef upllltlh9 actlon
OF iath anu trust III oiie VINO Is hl@hty 10
save
Le' us Take loi eAaiiil' ne d case ol CON
SUMPTION Me'1cai BOOKS ooctor oplh-
IONS, 'he people NefuicI, are aii against
the suHefer. FROM lne Ifst ieeilh2 OF
ianSuor' ana 1he sllSht pfohehlal irritation
down TO the last SAD stages the popular
lillla mas cohoeliine'l tl1e man; NE doc
fnI II t,