There was no place in my mind for a jarring body.
I had no consciousness of time or space or persons; but only of
love and happiness and faith.
"I do not know how long this state lasted, nor when I fell
asleep; but when I woke up in the morning, I WAS WELL."
These are exceedingly trivial instances,[64] but in them, if we
have anything at all, we have the method of experiment and
verification. For the point I am driving at now, it makes no
difference whether you consider the patients to be deluded
victims of their imagination or not. That they seemed to
THEMSELVES to have been cured by the experiments tried was enough
to make them converts to the system. And although it is evident
that one must be of a certain mental mould to get such results
(for not every one can get thus cured to his own satisfaction any
more than every one can be cured by the first regular
practitioner whom he calls in), yet it would surely be pedantic
and over-scrupulous for those who CAN get their savage and
primitive philosophy of mental healing verified in such
experimental ways as this, to give them up at word of command for
more scientific therapeutics.
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