The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-09
IIIIn CUE SYSTEM LEARNEDLY EXPOSED
A>o3 rue ana accurate Account of How a Horse Doctor
Cured Tim Of a Pain in His Stoma h and a
Cold in the Head.
one TURNED 10 Bolts, THE OTHER TO BLIND STACCERS
Cold in the Head.

l%usions, but must pay no attention to
them. she wants you to particularly re-
member that there are no such things as
hunger and thirst and pain"
She does. does she?'
1T is what she said"
Does she seem to be IN full and
functional possession Of her intellectual
| plant, such as it is?"
DO they let her run at large. or do
they tie her up"
Tie he1 GD?"
There, goodnight. run alons; you are
a good girl, but your mental Goschirr is
not arranged for light and airy conversa-
ten. Leave ne to my delusions."
Il.
It was g night Of anguish, Of course-at
least, l supposed it was, for it had ell
the symptoms OF it-but it passed at last.
and the Christian Scientist came. and |
was glad. She was mfddle-aged, and
large and bony, and erect, and had an
a~Ustere face and a ~resolute Jaw and a
Roman beaE, and was a widow in the Third
degree, and her name was Fuller. l was
eager to go to business and find relief, but
she was distressingly deliberate. She un-
pinned and unlocked and uncoupled her
upholsteries one by one, abolished the
wrinkles with 2 dirt of her hand and
hung the articles up, peeled Off her gloves
and disposed Of them, got a book out of
her handbag. then drew o chair to the
bedside, descended into it withcH hurry.
and / hung out my tongue. She said.
with pity but without passion:
Return it to its receptacle. We dea;
with the mind ccly. not with its dumb
servants"
i could not offer my pulse, because the
| connection was broken: but she detected
the apology before I coulI word it. and
indicated by a negative tilt OF her head
that the pulse was another dumb servant
that she had no use for. Then I thought
I wouid tell her my symptoms and how
felt. SO that she would understand the
case; but that was another inconsequencc,
She GiG not need to know these things;
moreover, my rcmark about how ! felt
was an abuse OF language, a m.saHpiica-
ton Of terms
"Cne does not feel she explained;
| there IS no such thinG IS feeling: there
| fore, to Speak of a nop-oxistent thing IS
existent IS contradiction. Matter has
no e~xistcncc; nothing exists but Taind; the
aird cannot fecltEain; it can only mag
lac IT,"
"But if it hurts, just the same"-
1t doesn't. 4 thing which IS unreal
cannot exercise the functions of reality.
Pain is unreal; hence, pain cannot hurt
Il making q sweeping gesture TO indi-
cate the act Of shoOin8 the Illusion Of pam
out of her mind, she raI;ed her haGd on q
pin in Lcr dress. said OUGHT" and went
TRANQUILITY on with her talk. You should
never allow yourself to speak Of how you
feel. nor permit others to ask you how
YOU are feeling; you should never concc9e
41o+ --o1, ,,n ~ nor or1pi n+9CTS 10 talk
about disease or pain or death or similar
inconsistencies in your presence. Such
talk only encourages the mind to continue
It's emDty i~maginings." Just at thai point
the Stu5enmadchen trod on the cats tail.
and the cat let fly q frenzy CT cat-pro-
family. / asked. with caution:
Us a cats opinion about pain valu-
able?'
"A cat has no opinion; opinions pro-
cecd from mind only; the lower animals,
being eternal,y pecishabie, have not been
granted mind; without mind, opinion IS
imoosstblc.'
she merely imagined she felt a pain
the cat?"
she cannot imagine a pain, for mag
nation is an effect Of mind; without mind,
there is 10 imagination. \ cat has no
i~macination.'
- mem SiIC l.I4 Il l&LtA 1880
81 have already told you there IS nc
such thing as real pain.
..It is strange and interesting. | dc
wander what was the matter with the
co+ Because. there being no such thing
&c , real pain. and she not being able
~ Imagine an imaginary one, It Houi'
eecm that God in his pity has compensated
the cat with some kind Of a mysterious
oootion disable when her tail IS troanef
:. ,rbicb for 2 moment joins cat and
trictians in one common brotherhood
Of
She broke in with an irritated~
uPcace, mo cat feels nothing, the
Christian feels nothing. our eh!p'y 'ho
foolish iaagiCinSs are proldii|l!o' ~ ~,
b.e~heny and can do you an injury. II
Is wiser and better ana hole' Z 50
and confess that there IS no suon onns
as disease or pain or death.
ct an full of imaginary tortures'
eaid but do not think l coulu DC "hy
~aorn uncomfortable il thc3 were re"-
ones. What must | 90 70 80 !"
the1a?' =, :,
l1rhoro is no occasion to Get rio O
sincc they do not exist. They arc
;nunions ~rroragatcd by matter, ana mat
- 49,. po existcnce; there IS no SucL
thing as matter :.
ms l~s eo,5nds right and clear, but yet :
socms IN a degree elusive; II seems % 9ill
onn,c1, i,1st wien you thinA you arl
getting q grip on i.
"Explain." e M sucI
- n,attn~ how can matter propd'
cate hings?' uost sniled
In her compassion Snc 49, .yara IN,
she would haze shliicu
zach thing as q 6nlie. .+be fun
e enec explain it, ana they are s,s anldll nropo.
e i che four following self-eviden' piop0