The harbinger of health : containing medical prescriptions for the human body and mind / by Andrew Jackson Davis.

  • Andrew Jackson Davis
Date:
[1861]
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Credit: The harbinger of health : containing medical prescriptions for the human body and mind / by Andrew Jackson Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thus Facts lead away into Principles, which are the rest and delight of the harmonious mind. We are, therefore, admon- ished to observe and follow the lead of Scientific Facts. Men should teach their children to know some facts not traditional, but which are absolutely and unequivocally Scientific. Other- wise the mind is chaotic, confused, uncertain, and exposed to the epidemical influence of priests and superstition. Ministers who believe only in the facts of tradition—who refuse the liv- ing facts of a living Age—are certain to take possession of minds not fortified with absolute Facts. The drifting affections of the ignorant are wafted by every wind of doctrine. A few well-ascertained and positive facts in Magnetism, for instance, have proved “an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast;” while a neighboring bark has been driven by the gusty breath- ings of a prayer-meeting upon the rocks of Bigotry and Despair. The priest-paralyzed Galileo was not killed, because a shield of faets hung between him and his persecutors. The Alpine storms of priestcraft could not drive him ashore. His mind stood firmly upon a foundation of astronomic facts, and amid the deafening thunders of the Vatican he cried—“the world does move!” In like manner we may record the progressive development of all Sciences and Arts, as also of their masters. The burning breath of an hundred theological Saharas could not put out the eyes of Newton. Neither did the world of frowning superstition weaken the energies oPSpinoza, Kant, Gall, Spurzheim, Combe, and more familiar minds, who have wrought so bravely for the advancement of common sense and mankind. Put a few positive Facts before your child’s mind, not dryly and severely, as though each fact was a “stubborn thing,” fit only for headstrong boys, but gently teach your child facts and truths of the world in which we live, and thus fortify the reason-
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