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resources when they must have gone down, for nearly all my time I have done little else than try to change this vile nature in them and to sustain them and the cause. Go...
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with its frequent accompaniment of physical manipulation, “Here is a power that can be turned to good account or perverted to evil” (p. 273). In Mental Medicine, on the other hand, he argued that t...
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sense, an exercise, a gymnast’s struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, must be on the alert, must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argume...
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In contrast with a passage such as this, some of the writing seems to be a rush and tumble of words, as though the writer’s thoughts were flooding ahead of her pen. Sentences are chaotic, punctuati...
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generalize, using a basic, technical vocabulary which covers the largest possible number of concrete instances. At the same time any work of Christian inspiration draws lifeblood from the enormous,...
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It was an unlikely name for a textbook of metaphysics, but then there had never before been a metaphysic that healed. Several months later Dorcas Rawson brought her a copy of the Wyclif Bible in wh...
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that day, as “S. P. Bancroft. Scientific Physician. Gives no Medicine.” Circulars were sent to Harvard professors and prominent clergymen in the community, but none of them responded. Plans were ma...
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Spofford was a gentle, idealistic person, then about thirty-three years old. He had had to work hard since boyhood but had educated himself and was gifted with a reflective and winning temperament....
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And whereas, by the wilful and wicked disobedience of an individual who has no name in Love, Wisdom or Truth, the light was obscured by clouds of misinterpretation and m...
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June 6, and other meetings followed on the four successive Sundays. Sometimes they were characterized in the paper as meetings, sometimes as services, and Mrs. Glover was variously described as pre...