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elastic condition of the healthy limb, and is God the
lawgiver?
You say, "I have burned my finger." This is an
exact statement, more exact than you suppose; for mortal
mind, and not matter, burns it. Holy inspiration
has created states of mind which have been able to nullify
the action of the flames, as in the Bible case of the three
young Hebrew captives, cast into the Babylonian furnace;
while an opposite mental state might produce spontaneous
combustion.
(Restrictive regulations)
In 1880, Massachusetts put her foot on a proposed
tyrannical law, restricting the practice of medicine. If
her sister States follow this example in harmony
with our Constitution and Bill of Rights,
they will do less violence to that immortal sentiment of the
Declaration, "Man is endowed by his Maker with certain
inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness."
The oppressive state statutes touching medicine remind
one of the words of the famous Madame Roland,
as she knelt before a statue of Liberty, erected near the
guillotine: "Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy
name!"
(Metaphysics challenges physics)
The ordinary practitioner, examining bodily symptoms,
telling the patient that he is sick, and treating the case according
to his physical diagnosis, would naturally
induce the very disease he is trying to cure,
even if it were not already determined by mortal
mind. Such unconscious mistakes would not occur, if
this old class of philanthropists looked as deeply for cause
and effect into mind as into matter. The physician agrees
with his "adversary quickly," but upon different terms
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