Part 24

That drugs of themselves cure.

That there are contagious diseases.

That vaccination prevents small-pox.

That quarantine prevents the spread of disease.

That boards of health are useful in preventing disease.

That medical experts are possessed of knowledge.

That two “experts,” who swear directly opposite to one another, are both experts.

That modern science is scientific.

That an “authority” knows whereof he talks.

That the experts on hypnosis who write for the New York papers know whereof they write.

That the psychologists who investigated the phenomena (without the phenomena) of Mrs. Piper are psychologists, or even thinkers.

That Mental or Christian Scientists are fools.

That the ten commandments have benefited mankind.

That attending church will reserve for you a place in heaven (?).

That a professor of Christianity will not “do” his neighbor.

That in attempting to simulate you deceive others than yourself.

That there are idolatrous religions.

That sensuality is love.

That blushing is a sign of purity.

That colleges graduate practical men.

That physical and mental traits are inherited, per se, from the father.

That one is born with a thirst for liquor (yet takes milk straight without an objection).

That the American public desires to be deceived.

That there is more than one way to hypnotize.

That man can travel, build a following, and earn a living through fraudulent methods only.

That the performing of orificial work, particularly circumcision, is a sin, for, “What God gave, no man should take away.”

NOTE.—This being true, although the Nazarene was circumcised, the cataract should not be removed from an eye, because “God” gave man the cataract. A child, born blind, deaf or dumb, should not have its senses established, because “God” has made the child that way. An individual God would be too busy to look after us as separate beings; but God is good, and what God does is perfect. If a personal God made each one of us, we would be in His image, each of us would bear His features, and therefore be perfect physically, perfect mentally; but God is the Law of Suggestion, and those of us who have been circumcised find that we are better than those who claim they should keep all that “God” gave them. If we can better the animal’s physical condition, so then should physical condition be changed in man, as the necessity for circumcision is a result of the irritation of the mother, her irritated ganglion teaching the ganglion of the child to build redundantly.

Stupid superstition is as rife to-day as it was in the alleged “dark ages.”