● ● ●  errors invented by man, and believed in as true and of independent origin, and to cure it intelligently and in the most beneficial way to mankind, is to destroy the error on which it is based. Then he lifts disease from its pretended basis of truth, and places it on its proper basis of error; consequently in his reasoning, disease is not the ruling power, and he does not admit it, except as a deception. In demonstrating this position, he comes in contact with prejudices which are as strong as our existence, and in many cases meets with opposition from the strong and bitter religious prejudices, which are so common in the community. He cannot admit a disease and then cure it any more than a court can pronounce judgment on a criminal without trying the case. Dr. Quimby gives the sick the same chance for their health as an indicted supposed criminal has for his life, and if he, by analysing his symptoms, can destroy the evidence of disease, then the patient is cured. In this he follows no track before trodden by man, and ventures into a field entirely unknown to the regular physicians, and hence he cannot be ranked with any association of practitioners. . . .

Then when it is asked by what power Dr. Quimby cures disease, it is answered, by the knowledge of the wisdom that gives man the control of his body, and the understanding of which produces health and happiness. Just according as man walks in the knowledge of this truth, he is wise and happy; but any deviation from it, admitting matter superior to man, creates an error, which really imprisons him.

Ages of education have condensed these errors into living facts, and now nothing is plainer to those who still are young, than the inevitable approach of many sorrows and trials. To free the burden of life of one of its greatest evils, and prepare the way for greater works of the same plan, is the effect of the establishment of Dr. Quimby’s system. In a brief communication like this, it is impossible to do justice to a subject like this. Time will prove that his cures are wrought under a principle, that must work out the redemption of mankind from disease; and his system will be found based on eternal principles, and as capable of being explained and understood, as the science of astronomy, or music.¹