| The pleadings state that John O'Gull, |
| With envy, wrath and malice full, |
| With swords, knives, sticks, staves, fists, or bludgeon, |
| Beat, bruised, and wounded John O'Gudgeon. |
Wrath may injure the body fearfully through mind, as well as through muscle.
Bulwer's apothegm, —
| For in the hands of men entirely great, |
| The pen is mightier than the sword, — |
may be truly paraphrased, —
| For in the use of men entirely base, |
| The mind is crueler than the knife. |
These words of Judge Parmenter, of Boston, in the decision of a suit to collect a note given by a student of mental healing, are destined to become historic: “I see no reason why Metaphysics are not as important to medicine, as to mechanics or mathematics.”
He who uses his developed powers like an escaped felon, to commit fresh atrocities as opportunity occurs, is never safe. God will arrest him. Justice will manacle him. His sins will be millstones about his neck, weighing him down to the depths of despair; until suffering balances the account, loosens the cold grasp of remorse, subdues the perverse will, and quenches in agony the fires of hell. The aggravation of error foretells its doom, and confirms the ancient axiom, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
Animal magnetism is condemned by God, and doomed to return to its native nothingness. It is destitute of power and intelligence. Knowing this, nobody need fear it. Without this knowledge the error continues, and does all the more harm, because the source is unseen.
