SUGGESTIVE THERAPEUTICS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14447, 13 February 1909, Page 5

SUGGESTIVE THERAPEUTICS.

Sir,—This idea lia s evidently "rauglit' on." and is, or is becoming, popular ;uul interesting. Dm; o[ the most interesting of the many letters '.vhicli liavo appeared on the subject is that of '• Uorlox " in this morning's issue of yoiir oiml perhaps the most interimhiii; pari of that letter is his reference io " menial idiosyncrasy." There avo various kinds of idiosyncrasy, most of them mental. One kind leads its victim to sit in his cosy armchair in his spacious study, and. gnzin™ round oji that vast universe, io say 10 himself: "Here is found all that is no-wi'ole of wisdom and knowledge; outside of here are gullible people, dupes." Closely allied to this kind is another, which limls utterance ill some such form as this: "Nothing which I do not- believe can bo true, and, although you may prove your statement by evidence wJiidi to oilier minds would 1)2 coercive, I will not believo it, and therefore it cannot bo true." These two kinds of idiosyncrasy seemed to dominate "Curtox." There are other kinds —one, for instance, which leads a man wlicn he seas a. truth to maintain it, and to express it if lie thinks it. will do his follows good—so did Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton, —and another which impels ,1 man to do what he can to alleviate human misery, even although he may thereby forfeit the Socj! opinion of such men as "Cortex." This was the idiosyucracy of Abraham Lincoln and George Mullcr, "f Bristol.

If the oxfe.nl of " Cortex's " acquaintance with the person of whom ho speaks is to Do gauged by the accuracy of liis statements about. Dowie's tabernacle, etc., we may safely say that that acquaintance is only of the tewing order—somewhat distant,— and that the information he gives may bo of no greater value.

Hill, Sir. why should human testimony bo disbelieved?—testimony which has stood the tost, of cross-examination in the law courts, as in tho case of Dorothea, Trudcll and others. I s wcryouo dccoived but the man who won't believe? And why should God's Word by disbelieved?—l am, etc., DuniHlin, February 11. Os.