quisition: You accept our creed, or you
shall go to hell--after we have broken you on the rack! Why, the
thought of subjecting this people to years of further dosing and
experimentation along the materialistic lines of the 'regular' school,
of curtailing their liberties, and forcing their necks under the yoke
of medical tyranny, should come to them with the insistence of a
clarion call, and startle them into such action that the subtle evil
which lurks behind this proposed legislative action would be dragged
out into the light and exterminated! To permit commercialism and
greed, the lust of mammon, and the pride of the flesh that expresses
itself in the demand, 'Who shall be greatest?' to dictate the course
of conduct that shall shape the destinies of a great people, is to
admit the failure of free government, and to revert to a condition of
mind that we had thought long since outgrown. To yield our dear-bought
liberties to Italian ecclesiastics, on the other hand--well, Doctor,
_it is just unthinkable_!"

"H'm! Well, at least you are delightfully frank with me. Yet you have
the effect of making me feel as if--as if I were in some way behind a
veil. That--"

"Well, the human mind is very decidedly behind a veil--indeed, behind
many of them. And how can it see God through them? Mankind just grope
about all their lives back of these veils, not knowing that God is
right before them all the time. God has got to be everything, or else
He will be nothing. With or without drugs, it is God 'who healeth all
thy diseases.' The difficulty with physicians is that they are densely
ignorant of what healing means, and so they always start with a
dreadful handicap. They believe that there is something real to be
overcome--and of course fail to permanently overcome it. Many of them
are not only pitiably ignorant, but are in the profession simply to
make money out of the fears and credulity of the people. Doctor, the
physician of to-day is in no way qualified to handle the question of
public health--especially those doctors who say: 'If you won't take
our medicines we'll get a law passed that will make you take them.' To
place the health of the people in their hands would be a terrible
mistake. The agitation for a federal Department of Health is based
upon motives of ignorance and intentional wrong. If the people
generally knew this, they would rise in a body against it. Make what
laws you wish for yourself, Doctor. The human mind is c