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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

days of more sensitively organised men and women medicine has repeatedly failed, and man has begun to think and to discover that disease is a disturbance from within, and that if the organism is in good condition he need not fear disease. Thus when wisdom has been brought more and more into play, and displaced drugs. For more depends on the may a man conducts himself, upon his regulation of the forces within him, than upon any external condition by a which he can possibly be surrounded.

Thus when wisdom began to accomplish what drugs could not, man became sufficiently alive to his necessities to investigate the whole subject of the influence of mind upon the bodily organism. The question flashed over his mind, What is the greatest power in man, the physical, the intellectual, or the spiritual? Why is it that the mother's love sometimes comes to the rescue and saves her child, when the doctor declares that the child must die?

Why do people rise up and declare that they "will get well," when there is apparently no hope? Why do the fearless sometimes go where contagious diseases are rampant, and come away unharmed? And whys superstitious people healed by faith in sacred relics?¹' Surely, there is a principle here; and that which is wrought unconsciously might be accomplished consciously by one who understands the laws of mind—so man has reasoned.

For the detailed account of such instances, see The Influence of the Mind on the Body, by D. H. Tuke, M.D. Philadelphia: H. C. Les, 1884.

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