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Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.

  	    We say that one human mind can influence another and
21	in this way affect the body, but we rarely remember that
  	we govern our own bodies. The error, mes-	                              The evil of
  	merism — or hypnotism, to use the recent term	                      mesmerism 
24	 — illustrates the fact just stated. The operator would
  	make his subjects believe that they cannot act voluntarily
  	and handle themselves as they should do. If they yield
27	to this influence, it is because their belief is not better
  	instructed by spiritual understanding. Hence the proof
  	that hypnotism is not scientific; Science cannot produce
30	both disorder and order. The involuntary pleasure or
  	pain of the person under hypnotic control is proved to be
  	a belief without a real cause.