Man's Many-Sidedness

WE started with the proposition that
man is a soul and has a body ; that
the two are intimately related for
wise and beneficent purposes. Soul or mind
primarily has power over the body, as its lifeforce,
for its weal or woe.
We found that physicians have put this
truth in the following form : The mind has
a powerful influence over the body for health
or disease. The fact thus stated we all know
from experience.
It thus appears that the mind can work in
opposite ways on the body, one way for its

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