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Simply because every one of your cures can be traced as justly to the 

 strange, mysterious, recuperative powers of nature as to your particular 

 nostrum or form of self-hypnotism. 



Thousands of invalids have got well after being given up by phy- 

 sicians, and got well without crossing their fingers and reading your 

 book. In fact, most people, some time in their life, have miraculously 

 recovered when it seemed they should have died. 



Hence, if you bottle Chicago river water and get enough people to 

 " just try " it, you can collect innumerable testimonials. But doubtless 

 if you published these you would not include in your report the equally 

 innumerable cases where the victim did not get well. 



No, ladies ; I appreciate your kindly interest in my bodily health 

 and my soul's salvation, but I'm going to stay honest and see what 

 happens. 



When I am met by a proposition that is based on facts, and not on 

 the ignoring of them, that is reasonable and convincing, and that is 

 substantiated by the known laws of evidence and squares with common 

 sense, I will embrace it. Otherwise, no ; and thank you all the same. 



Nothing doing on the esoteric, the fuzz-wuz/y, the ecstatic, the self- 

 hypnotic, the what-if-it-is-true-after-all-you-can't-tell. 



My intelligence may be pretty poor, but it 's all I have. I'm going 

 to stand by it and refuse to prostitute it, no matter what the bribe. 



The web of destiny is complex, I know, and none of us knows the 

 secret springs of life and events ; but I have a notion that if a man 

 sticks to the truth as he sees it, and declines the lure of truth as he does 

 not see it, even if the latter promises health, wealth, and a happy here- 

 after, he will be likely to come out about where his Creator intended. 1 



Using a library. The best investment any community can 

 make is to buy, catalogue, and keep up to date a library 

 relating to its interests and industries ; and, in any modern 

 sense of the word, that one is most efficiently educated who 

 best knows how to use such a library. If our local and school 

 libraries are properly managed and catalogued, it ought to 

 be easy to find quickly all that is known on every subject 

 discussed in this book. If every member of the class is col- 

 lecting bulletins up to date and doing his share to help, 



1 By Dr. Frank Crane, in the Associated Newspapers. 



