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ington soreheads, who call themselves the Reformed College of 

 !Neminism.' "With this, she would not listen to another word 

 about Sciosophy. 



" Then I regretted that I had said anything, for this pleasant 

 lesson came to an abrupt end, and left me without even the cus- 

 tomary card to ponder over. I still wondered what could be the 

 secret meaning of X. !N. N., nihil nemini nocet. 



" On the next day the storm had blown over, or rather, like 

 all other storms, it had no real existence, and the smile of the 

 president at the closing act of the lesson was the sweetest 

 I had ever seen, the most perfect witness to the truth of her 

 teachings. 



" She took up the subject of Materia Medica. After reading 

 from a printed book the names of a host of poisons, from Abacus 

 to Swamproot and Sandalwood and Zygadene, she warned us 

 against them all. All are alike evil. All alike hJlve no real ex- 

 istence. Therefore the student will do well not to learn their 

 names. It will only interfere with his serenity of mind, and per- 

 fect serenity is the sole symptom of success. 



" ' Surely this is better,' she said, ' than to support the popular 

 systems of medicine, when the physician may be perchance an 

 infidel and lose ninety-aud-nine patients Avhere ISTeminism cures 

 its hundred. Is it because Osteopathy and Ostariopathy are more 

 fashionable and less spiritual? Even business men have found 

 that ISTeministic Science enhances their physical and mental powers, 

 enlarges their perception of character, gives them acuteness and 

 comprehensiveness, and an ability to exceed their ordinary busi- 

 ness capacity,' 



"Then she gave me this card: 



"''N.'N.'N. In 1866 this discovery was made by me and by 

 me alone: "The erring Mortal misnamed Mind produces all the 

 organism and action of the mortal body." This led to the demon- 

 stration that Mind is All and matter is naught, and being nothing, 

 nothing hurts nobody. Nobody hurts nothing, which proves it 

 plainly by inversion. Nihil nocet nemini; nihil nemini nocet.'' 



" On the eighth day the president discoursed on Anatomy. Re- 

 ferring briefly to the pernicious notions of the ' ancients,' as with 

 a broad sweep of her hand she designated the professors in Bos- 

 ton and Cambridge, concerning the structure of the human body, 

 she called it the nightmare of undigested learning. ' Wliy should 

 we care where the jugular vein goes, when we know that there is 

 no jugular vein? What of bones and muscles, and teguments and 

 integuments? " Toil fatigues me," you say; but what is this me? 

 Is it muscle or Mind? Which is tired, and so speaks? Without 



