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Title: Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
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GEORGE BARTON CUTTEN, Ph.D. (Yale) President Of Acadia University
[Illustration: BAS-RELIEF REPRESENTING THE GALLIC ÆSCULAPIUS DISPATCHING A DEMON]
Copyright, 1911, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published February, 1911
HE HID FROM US HIS HEART WHILE WE THOUGHT THAT HE LOVED ONLY HIS STUDIES; WE LATER LEARNED THAT HE LAID EMPHASIS ON THAT WHICH HE LOVED ONLY LESS--TRUE KNOWLEDGE, IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT INTRODUCE IT TO THOSE THAT HE LOVED MOST--HIS PUPILS. HE TAUGHT AS NONE OTHER
XI. The Healers of the Nineteenth Century 273
The present decade has experienced an intense interest in mental healing. This has come as a culmination of the development along these lines during the past half century. It has shown itself in the beginning of new religious sects with this as a, or the, fundamental tenet, in more wide-spread general movements, and in the scientific study and application of the principles underlying this form of therapeutics.
Many have been led astray because, being ignorant of the mental healing movements and vagaries of the past, the late applications, veiled in metaphysical or religious verbiage, have seemed to them to be new in origin and principle. No one could consider an historical survey of the subject and reasonably hold this opinion. It is on account of the ignorance of similar movements, millenniums old, that so much, if any, originality can be credited to the founders.