ADVANCES IN SCIENCE.
ADVANCES IN SCIENCE.
Extraordinary Progress Made in Recent Years Great Interest Shown by all Classes of People.
There is a universal interest at the present day among intelligent classes in every country, in the great problems of the soul in its scientific relation to the physical world. Probably no branch of science or philosophy has absorbed the attention of thinkers to such an extent since the time when Spencer and Darwin first clearly presented the theory of evolution. Scholars the world over are studying and writing on spiritual laws in the material world, experimenting with the remarkable and puzzling phenomena which can only be accounted for as an explication of higher laws, laws more subtle and more powerful than those which effect the ordinary senses.
The students of the psychology class are familiar with the flood of literature in the leading magazines at the present time, which touches directly or indirectly upon this stupenduous problem. Few people can be found who are unfamiliar with the mysterious evidences of this higher power of the soul over the body and its surroundings, and the intellectual are ready, even eager, to accept the science or philosophy which will comprehend and solve them. Dr. Carson, who has made a profound study of pyschic-sorcology, or the relation of the soul to the body, for many years, has founded a school where this inspiring subject is for the first time dealt with as an entity. He has developed a science of pathology which, as a realization of the dreams of sages and philosophers, is commanding wide spread attention.
The students of the University are more or less acquainted with Theosophy and the many cults which are advocated as a solution of apparently miraculous phenomena, and have probably read the series of articles in the current numbers of the Agora on the the teachings of the adepts of India and their wonder-workings. Religions and philosophies have been founded upon the known evidences of a hidden and mysterious power residing in man, apparently conflicting with nature herself and ascribed to various
sources, from the earliest times to the present day. These evidences have given rise to blind worship and the bewilderments of witchcraft until the majestic laws of man's spiritual nature have been hidden beneath the dark shadow of superstitions. Erroneous theories have numerous followers at this age, and they are encouraged by the large amount of fiction appearing in our magazines, surcharged with reference to the mind and soul power of one being over others and their environments.
There is truth, constant and effulgent in its brilliancy, behind it all. The curtain has been drawn but once and then by Him whose knowledge of the spirit's laws, the soul's sphere on earth, came in a dark age of ignorance and superstition. The fuller glimpse of that light of truth which should "make you free" was meant for a more enlightened age.
Many will be surprised to know of the practical demonstrations of this science of therapeutics and pathology which Dr. Carson has practiced for years, little less than miraculous and giving ocular proof of his wonderful power.
The beauty and grandeur of such a teaching at once inviting the devout contemplation and almost repelling in its sublimity insures for it the fair consideration of the liberal minded. When spiritual laws, the noblest work of God, and deduced after years of study the psychological phenomena and applied unerringly to the healing of the flesh there can be no doubt left of the adequacy of the science or its efficacy to triumph over physical infirmaties. The soul and the body are inseparable. As Dr. Joseph Rhodes Buchanan, the author and scientist says, the schools of medicine which treat the body with drugs without reference to the brain, have an authoropology without a head; they take the vast important of the whole. In his school Dr. Carson has cured thousands by the agency of the mind, and those who have walked out of the canitarium at Ninth and Broadway, in Kansas City, cured, are evidence of the consummation of the aspirations psychologists who have sought in vain for this goal.