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remember that the healing power is present in the body, ready to restore all hurts, and that, if one will keep still, like the animals, the result will be   very different. On this plane one is in need of a wise counsellor to restore confidence and allay   fear. The healing power meets with little or no resistance in the child; and, if medicine is kept   away, and no disturbing influence or fear be allowed to interfere with the natural process, the   mother can better fill this office than anyone else.
 
The best, the most lasting process of self-help, then, is the gradual acquirement of the wiser   mode of life for which this whole volume pleads; for it is what we think and dwell upon habitually that is effective in the long run. Our inquiry has taught us to look beneath matter to its underlying Reality, and behind physical sensation to the mind by which it is perceived. We have found the origin of man, first, in the immanent Life of which he is a part, and of which he is an individual expression; and, secondly, in the world of mind, where his beliefs and impressions gather to form his superficial self. To know the one Self from the other, to be adjusted to its resistless tendency, to obey it, to do nothing contrary to it, as far as one knows, is the highest righteous- ness, the most useful life, and the truest religion. Here is the essential, the life that is most worthy of the man aware of his own origin and of his own duty.