New ideals in healing / by Ray Standard Baker ; with twelve full-page illustrations from photographs.

  • Ray Stannard Baker
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: New ideals in healing / by Ray Standard Baker ; with twelve full-page illustrations from photographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    panied the world over by a wave of so-called “ rationalism,” infidelity and agnosticism, among the people, so the present wave of idealistic philosophy finds expression in a number of most remarkable popular move- ments. Every philosophy has its correlated faith: the faiths of the materialistic nine- teenth century were pessimistic, negative, deterministic, while the new faiths are opti- mistic and positive. “ I do not ” and “ I can- not ” are superseded by “ I do,” “ I know,” “ I will.” They are expressed in the spreading and significant Christian Science and New Thought movements, in the rise to power of leaders of the type of Dowie, in the revival in interest in spiritualism as a religion, in the idealistic side of socialism. At the very time that the philosophers and psychologists were thinking their way to the new philosophy, P. P. Quimby and Henry Wood and ]\Irs. Eddy and Dowie and many others were feeling their way toward new popular faiths. The world was weary of the old materialism, and the revolt, which some men reasoned out while others only felt, came alike to all.