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The Years of Trial
Culture and Probity | page 284

●   ●   ●    including the efforts of several writers to give mesmerism a biblical basis, formed the context of Quimby’s thinking. Far from emphasizing this fact, the Dressers did their best to conceal it, attributing Christian and metaphysical meanings to terms which Quimby actually used in a wholly empirical and psychological sense.