cal, and psycho-physical, which are all impersonal and
general in character. Nothing individual accomplishes anything in the
universe save in so far as it obeys and exemplifies some universal law.
Should you then inquire of them by what means science has thus
supplanted primitive thought, and discredited its personal way of
looking at things, they would undoubtedly say it has been by the strict
use of the method of experimental verification. Follow out science's
conceptions practically, they will say, the conceptions that ignore
personality altogether, and you will always be corroborated. The world
is so made that all your expectations will be experientially verified
so long, and only so long, as you keep the terms from which you infer
them impersonal and universal.

But here we have mind-cure, with her diametrically opposite philosophy,
setting up an exactly identical claim. Live as if I were true, she
says, and every day will practically prove you right. That the
controlling energies of nature are personal, that your own personal
thoughts are forces, that the powers of the universe will directly
respond to your individual appeals and needs, are propositions which
your whole bodily and mental experience will verify. And that
experience does largely verify these primeval religious ideas is proved
by the fact that the mind-cure movement spreads as it does, not by
proclamation and assertion simply, but by palpable experiential
results. Here, in the very heyday of science's authority, it carries
on an aggressive warfare against the scientific philosophy, and
succeeds by using science's own peculiar methods and weapons.
Believing that a higher power will take care of us in certain ways
better than we can take care of ourselves, if we only genuinely throw
ourselves upon it and consent to use it, it finds the belief, not only
not impugned, but corroborated by its observation.

How conversions are thus made, and converts confirmed, is evident
enough from the narratives which I have quoted. I will quote yet
another couple of shorter ones to give the matter a perfectly concrete
turn. Here is one:--

"One of my first experiences in applying my teaching was two months
after I first saw the healer. I fell, spraining my right ankle, which
I had done once four years before, having then had to use a crutch and
elastic anklet for some months, and carefully guarding it ever since.
As soon as I was on my feet I made the posit