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action just as strongly as does the truth. There 
are more martyrs to false theories than to true 
principles. What is Truth? seems as difficult to 
answer now, as when the Roman Governor of Judea 
propounded this momentous question. Toleration, 
or rather mental liberty and emancipation from dog- 
matism, is a rare and heavenly virtue born of the 
Saviour, but has neither apostles nor disciples. It 
has no saints, no shrines, and few true worshipers. 
That Indians are controlled in their conduct 
through life by a different philosophy from that which 
governs educated Christians is very evident. It is par- 
ticularly noticeable in their treatment of the sick, but 
less so in their surgical practices. Most of their reme- 
dies are administered or accompanied by some incanta- 
tion and ceremonial jugglery. However, from the 
testimony of reliable persons who have lived for years 
among them3 as well as from written history, they have 
always had practitioners, taught by experience how to 
administer medicines with more or less judgment. 
With some tribes the physician is held to a responsi- 
bility that is equivalent to an obligation or contract 
to cure, not merely to treat his patient according to 
the best of his ability. This is to be inferred from the 
fact that some of them held the physician accountable 
for the recovery of those intrusted to his care; and 
when death instead of recovery took place, the disap- 
pointed friends had, and occasionally exercised, the 
right to take the life of the doctor. This cruel treat- 
ment is no doubt in part based on the prevalent belie f 
that the physician has the power to inflict disease as 
well as to cure it. But we know enough of human 
