●   ●   ●    and philosopher) had written the Boston Transcript in regard to Christian Scientists and the “mind curers” whom he lumped together with them: I assuredly hold no brief for any of these healers, and must confess that my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories, so far as I have heard them given. But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.