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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

Following out this line of reasoning, if we consult the ablest physicians of the day, we are told that many kinds of disease are simulated and communicated by fear, even when there are no physical conditions to give rise to the disease. We are informed that fear can not only kill, but cure (in cases where nothing short of a fright will arouse a person); that many cures are wrought by medicines which have no virtue whatever, bearing Latin names, and given because the patient demanded something; that faith in the physician oftentimes has more to do with a cure than any kind of treatment the doctor can administer; in fine, that the mind has far more influence in the cause and cure of disease than any physician has yet been able to discover.

Have we not been mistaken, then, in attributing so much power to germs, contagious atmospheres, medicines, and physical conditions? What is it in us which feels all our conditions, thinks about them, brings its beliefs and fears into play, anxiously awaits the doctor's verdict, is swayed this way and that according as faith wavers or hope enters? Is it not the mind? And what thinks, wills, and acts through the mind, compelling it to change its beliefs, to cast off fear and the bondage of physical sensation, declaring that it will be well? It is the soul, the invisible man, the real power behind the throne—in the majority of men still the slave to its own subjects.

Surely, these physical features are not the man. It is not the body which feels. The soul expresses

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