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them frightened. The capitalist and laborer still appeal to fear. But little by little the futility of it all is appearing.
Employers and employed are learning to appeal to the free co-operation of each other.
When men half-knew gods they trembled at them. Timor fecit deos-"fear made the gods." The race today fears and dreads God less because we are nearer Him than in the past,
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POISONING THE CHILD MIND
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NE of the recent discoveries in the art of healing is the therapeutic value of suggestion. That is to say, the physician, by suggesting to the patient, particularly the patient suffering from nervous disorder, sane and helpful thoughts about himself, can work a cure better oftentimes than by the use of drugs.
The force of mental suggestion is so great that many fads, and even new religions, have arisen which are based upon it.
If the influence of good suggestion be so great, the influence of bad suggestion is even greater.
I wish to call attention to one form of
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character poisoning of which parents are frequently guilty.
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