We have not yet forgotten "Confessio Medici," that volume of delightful medical essays that proved their author to be not only a wise physician, but a gentle and humane philosopher, as well versed in the arts of kindness as in the lore of the schools. It is said that "Confessio Medici" was written by Dr. James Paget, and the statement is at least consonant with a reputation that will not suffer from his present assault upon "The Faith and Works of Christian Science." It is indeed time that some one of understanding should ...
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We have not yet forgotten "Confessio Medici," that volume of delightful medical essays that proved their author to be not only a wise physician, but a gentle and humane philosopher, as well versed in the arts of kindness as in the lore of the schools. It is said that "Confessio Medici" was written by Dr. James Paget, and the statement is at least consonant with a reputation that will not suffer from his present assault upon "The Faith and Works of Christian Science." It is indeed time that some one of understanding should speak out with no uncertain voice. Here we have a physician of wide experience and of general philanthropy, a scientist of broad sympathies who is well abreast of his times in the best that those times have produced, one who recognizes gratefully the benefits of mental therapeutics, and who yet condemns Christian Science, not in obedience to professional prejudice, but after an elaborate research into its fruits. Nothing is more evident in his book than the conscientious care with which it is compiled, nothing more obvious than his desire to render credit where credit is due and to avoid alike the suggestion of the false and the suppression of the true. It is impossible to read what he says without a new recognition of an imposture that in its cruelty, in its destruction of heart and conscience, exceeds all other impostures and infamies of its day. But it is not only as a physician that the author makes his appeal to the sanity of civilization. The philosophic student who may be enamored momentarily by theories, that, whenever plausible, are always stolen and distorted, will find much to attract him in these pages. The religionist will find still more. He will find here some reasons for a protest already strangely belated against a terminology and an interpretation which, as the author well says, produce a feeling of physical nausea. He may even be brought face to face with the fact that Christian Science is not merely an eccentric heresy, a weird and twisted graft upon the original stem, but a negation of Christianity itself, and that to the destruction of the body it joins the starvation of the heart, and of the sentiments and emotions that make life tolerable. Its God is the "God of Being Supremely Comfortable," and it seeks its God not in pity and compassion, but in cruel, contemptuous and neglectful denial of whatever can interfere with its selfish complacency and its Satanic self-righteousness.... - Southern California Practitioner , Vol. 24
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