Miracles of Healing - A Dissertation #250347

To the ends suggested our method is to be historical in so far as we study the development of beliefs regarding the healing art, comparative, that we may gather the common elements of the various beliefs; and psychological In attempting to discover some laws of mental life by means of which the phenomena observed may become more intelligible. In order to determine with some degree of accuracy at what stage of his mental evolution man began to have thoughts about disease and its cure it seems necessary to Sketch in brief outline the steps by which he developed, through reaction to a world full of movements, sights, and sounds, a mentality ofa higher order than that of his animal ancestry.