The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-24

ported miracles, in some of which he
believes because he thinks he has an
explanation of them, thus:
Explanation Of Healing
1.-THE fact is, the most materialistic
medicine man going uses constantly
with his patients. wholly unconscious
ly, curative influences of the mind.
His very cocksuredness, his exactti-
sense manner all profoundly impress
the patient.
81 think IL clear that faith and
quack healing of all sorts could never
have attained the position they have
in the leading centers of civilization
and intelligence were not the cures
numerous and in very many cases
genuine.
After allowing full discount for the
forged and false testimonials, for pure
ly imaginary disease and the credulity
of mankind. and even for the lesser
functional disorders, there remains
large rcsiduum that can not by any
ingenuity be explained away.
1.-THE greatest Of the latter-day mys-
tics was undoubtedly the Rev. Mary
Baker Eddy, whose ponderous work
on Christian Science is the text book
OF the entire sect. numbering a mil
lion and more followers far above the
average in wealth and culture. many.
alas! having formerly been among the
most lucrative OF the physicians pa.
tients. This book Is appointed to be
read by Mrs. Eddy in all her churches
side by side with the Bible.
with the dogmas one need not in
terfere. Cures are detailed and vouch-
ed for by the healed at every meet
ing, and though to some judgments
Christian Science contains neither
Christianity nor science. as generally
understood, these cures can not all be
doubted or explained away.
what about Lourdes, or. IL that be
a center of imposition-which II is
and isn't-what about our own faith
healing centers. uncontaminated by
the least sympathy with Roman Catho-
lie or saint worship?
Minds Power Over Body
"What about cures at continental
spas. with their eternal round of sui
phur and baths?
what is the one effectual agency
in quack cures of all kinds. in faith
cures, in relics. in charm and idol
cures, in spas and water cures-in
doctors cures. perhaps more than he
suspects: after allowing fully for the
intrinsic quack remedy: for the mys-
tic formulate of the million.h dilution
or of purismatic electricity: for the
sulphate of soda or magnesia, and ev-
en- for the value of the B. p. drugs?
One must answer: 1T Is mainly and
primarily the power of the uncon.
scious mind over the body
1t is related of Charles Darwin that
though he had infirmities of body
which would have deferred most men
from attempting any work. mental or
physical. and which ordinarily, 1t is
said. would have acted as a check up
changed the science of the world by
said that he accomplished this by Civ
ing care to his brain, to resting it and
to keeping it employed by varying
tasks that would not tire it. He
wrote to friend confiding that when
he worked two hours. and then went
out for a few hours and then returned
II was as If day had interviewed, and
then his mind was able to accomplish
another days work.
Darwin wrote this poor estimate of
himself:
II have no great quickness of appre-
hension nor wit which is SO remarka-
BILE in some clever men. I am a poor
critic. My power to follow a long
and purely abstract train of thought
is very limited, and. therefore. I could
never succeed with metaphysics or
mathematics. NY memory is extensive.
yet hazy. II suffices to make me eau
tious by vaguely telling me that l
have observed or read something op-
posed to the conclusion which am
drawing. or. on the other hand. in ia.
vor of IL. So poor in one sense is my
memory that I've never been able to
remember for more than a few days a
single date or line of poetry"
The gist of the somewhat modern
philosophy Of some OF tohse quoted
and others is that the brain is not to
be considered as an immaterial thing
that can work and thrive without ma.
terial assistance. II is supposed to
need food and rest and due attention,
and the body is supposed to conform
to it's stern demands.
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