know your science, or who only know it
imperfectly, should not judge it without having seen the results it
gives and the good it does. Believe me to be your faithful admirer.

M. L. D----,
_Nancy, November,_ 1920.

THE MIRACLE WITHIN

_(Reprinted from the "Renaissance politique, litteraire et artistique"
of the 18th of December,_ 1920)

HOMAGE TO EMILE COUE

In the course of the month of September, 1920, I opened for the first
time the book of Charles Baudouin, of Geneva, professor at the
Institute J. J. Rousseau in that town.

This work, published by the firm of Delachaux and Niestle, 26, rue
Saint-Dominique, Paris, is called: "Suggestion et Autosuggestion".
The author has dedicated it: _"To Emile Coue, the initiator and
benefactor, with deep gratitude"._

I read it and did not put down the book until I had reached the end.

The fact is that it contains the very simple exposition of a
magnificently humanitarian work, founded on a theory which may
appear childish just because it is within the scope of everyone. And
if everyone puts it into practice, the greatest good will proceed from
it.

After more than twenty years of indefatigable work, Emile Coue
who at the present time lives at Nancy, where he lately followed the
work and experiments of Liebault, the father of the doctrine of
suggestions, for more than twenty years, I say, Coue has been
occupied exclusively with this question, but particularly in order to
bring his fellow creatures to cultivate _autosuggestion._

At the beginning of the century Coue had attained the object of his
researches, and had disengaged the general and immense force of
autosuggestion. After innumerable experiments on thousands of
subjects, _he showed the action of the unconscious in organic
cases._ This is new, and the great merit of this profoundly, modest
learned man, is to have found a remedy for terrible ills, reputed
incurable or terribly painful, without any hope of relief.

As I cannot enter here into long scientific details I will content
myself by saying how the learned man of Nancy practises his
method.

The chiselled epitome of a whole life of patient researches and of
ceaseless observations, is a brief formula which is to be repeated
morning and evening.

It must be said in a low voice, with the eyes closed, in a position
favourable to the relaxing of the muscular system, it may be in bed,
or it may be in an easy chair, and in a tone of voic