In turning now to examine some of Dr. Holcoinbe's suggestions in regard to the cure of disease, and to turn the light of the doctrine of Correspondence upon the whole problem, two quotations are offered as embodying such plain good sense, as to constitute a canon of criticism. The first is from an able article on "Psychopathy" by R. N. Foster, M. D.
"In all departments of organized being, conscious or unconscious alike, there is operative a constant connatus toward a harmonious state of being, a connatus, which incessantly and spontaneously, or voluntarily and intellectually, as the case may require, acts to supply all want, to ward off all danger and to repair all injuries."—Mind in Nature, Vol. 1, p 50.
This endeavor and effort in nature and in spirit is the influx and operation of the Divine love and wisdom in and according to the correspondence of all things with the Lord, and their harmony with each other; conspiring to universal order, and restraining and governing all disorder by corresponding opposites. The second quotation is in distinct acknowledgment of this Divine source and spiritual cause of all health and healing by the means of both mental and physical, and of both ordinary and unusual conditions. It
