THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN CHRISTIAN HEALING
By W. Yorke Fausset, M.A.
The psychologists teach us that a man's
'self' is a larger thing than the 'me' which,
we might say, a child has in view when it puts
out a hand to get a sweetmeat for itself. As
Professor W. James says, 'The old saying
that the human person is composed of three
parts—soul, body, and clothes—is more than
a joke'; and he goes on to include in that self
the man's immediate family, his home, the
property he has collected.[1] And then we
think of Aristotle's definition of man as a
'political' or social animal—the social self
with its wider or narrower reach—for 'properly
speaking a man has as many social selves as
there are individuals who recognise him.'
(i) All this has an important bearing on the subject of health and disease. We are all influenced by our environment for better or
- ↑ Text Book of Psychology, pp. 177, 178.
