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Excerpt from Christian Science and Other Superstitions: Being Selected Chapters From "Faith-Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred Phenomena" The essays herein contained were printed in the "Century Magazine" that on Faith Healing in June, 1886, and that on Christian Science in July of the following year. Afterward these, with several others which treated Dreams, Nightmare, Somnambulism, Presentiments, Visions, Apparitions, Astrology, Divination, and Witchcraft, were published by the Century Company in a volume entitled Faith Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred Phenomena, which has had a wide circulation. They excited much discussion, but neither the authenticity of any fact nor the accuracy of any quotation has been impeached. In the intervening time the author has given close attention to the moral, scientific, and legal phases of the subject, some of the results of which may be found in the Supplementary Paper prepared expressly for this publication. Faith Healing and Christian Science are not, as many seem to think, "much the same thing." Faith Healers and Christian Scientists agree in rejecting all medical treatment, but in scarcely anything else. Faith Healers acknowledge the existence of diseased conditions and also the action of remedies; Christian Scientists deny both, affirming that the body, disease, the influence of medicine, and death are "delusions of mortal mind." Faith Healers believe sickness to be the work of the devil; Christian Scientists consider that theory a delusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.