ind."

"Do you deny that great progress has been made in the curative arts?"
he demanded. "See what we have done with diphtheria, with typhoid,
with smallpox, and malaria!"

"Surely, Doctor, you can not believe that the mere temporary removing
of a disease is _real_ healing! You render one lot of microbes
innocuous, after thousands of years of experimentation, and leave
mankind subject to the rest. Then you render another set harmless. Do
you expect to go on that way, making set after set of microbes
harmless to the human body, and thus in time, after millions of years,
eradicate disease entirely? Do you think that people will then cease
to die? All the time you are working only in matter and through
material modes. Do you expect thereby to render the human sense of
life immortal? I think a sad disappointment awaits you. Your patients
get well, only to fall sick again. And death to you is still as
inevitable as ever, despite your boasted successes, is it not so?"

He broke into a bantering laugh, but did not reply.

"Doctor, the human mind is self-inoculated. It suffers from
auto-infection. It makes its own disease microbes. It will keep on
making them, until it is educated out of itself, and taught to do
better. Then it will give place to the real reflection of divine mind;
and human beings will be no more. Why don't you realize this, you
doctors, and get started on the right track? Your real work is in the
_mental_ realm. There you will find both cause and cure."

"Well, I for one have little respect for faith cure--"

"Nor I," she interposed. "Dependence upon material drugs, Doctor, is
reliance upon the _phenomena_ of the human mind. Faith cure is
dependence upon the human mind itself, upon the _noumenon_, instead of
the _phenomenon_. Do you see the difference? Hypnotism is mental
suggestion, the suggestions being human and material, not divine
truth. The drugging system is an outgrowth of the belief of life in
matter. Faith cure is the belief of life and power inherent in the
human mind. One is no higher than the other. The origin of healing is
shrouded in mythology, and every step of its so-called progress has
been marked by superstition, dense ignorance, and fear. The first
doctor that history records was the Shaman, or medicine-man, whose
remedies reflected his mental status, and later found apt illustration
in the brew concocted by Macbeth's witches. And think you he has
disappeared? Unbelievable as it ma