The combination which shows itself in persons in the form of an opinion,
indicates its character by a peculiar show of wisdom superior to its
followers, and when disturbed by Wisdom or Truth, it dies, but when not
opposed, its opinions are sown into the minds of others, like seed in the
ground, which comes forth in some form.

This form which follows the disturbance of the mind the doctors call
disease. Here is where all the error lies; they take the effect for the
cause. We confound the error and truth together; we take an opinion for a
truth. This is an error, for what we know we have no opinion of. Knowledge
is the destruction of an opinion or disease. Disease is what follows an
opinion, it is made up of mind directed by error, and Truth is the
destruction of this opinion.

These ideas, and hundreds of others, have been given to explain the effect
of the mind. All admit the mind on thing and disease another. This theory
that mind is one thing and disease another, has left the people in darkness
and caused more misery than all other evils put together. It has always
been admitted that a theory that cannot be put in practice is not good.

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