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CURATIVE AGENCIES. 291
As diseases consist of exhaustion and impurity; as
exhaustion causes impurity, and impurity produces ex
haustion, two things are requisite to a cure. These
two should be written in letters of —Invigoration
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and Purification.
Let me make this emphatic by two definitions :
—Exhaustion Pathology.
and impurity, resulting in
disease and death.
—
Therapeutics.
Invigoration and purification, result
ing in health and life.
The reader must have been struck with the constant
division of every part of our subject into three terms.
I have not sought it—it has come in spite of me. And
here a third term is wanting, which I have no language
to express. It belongs to the domain of psychology, or
the science of the soul. It lies back of exhaustion, and
its curative agency must precede invigoration. The
pathological term I shall call inversion, to express the
discordance of the soul, which is the cause of exhaust
demonstrations. It is a con
ing passional and physical
dition of ignorance, unbelief, and desperation. The
opposite psychical therapeutic agency is one of in
sight, hope, faith, and loving confidence in nature and
in God. It is a state of concordance or harmonization.
We may now more clearly express the whole subject
in this triple formula; and I prefer to let it stand, just
as I have worked it out, as I have been penning these
sentences :
—Harmony Physiology
in the soul; energy in the
vital or nervous power ; purity in the organism. Unity
of God, man, and nature.
—Inversion in the soul ; exhaustion of
Pathology