The Quimby Manuscripts
EDITED
BY
HORATIO W. DRESSER
Author
of “The Power of Silence,”
“A History of the New Thought Movement,” Etc.
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
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EDITOR'S PREFACE
TO THE SECOND EDITION |
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PUBLISHERS' NOTE |
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BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH |
7-18 |
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HISTORY OF THE
MANUSCRIPTS |
19-26 |
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QUIMBY'S
RESTORATION TO HEALTH |
27-35 |
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THE MESMERIC
PERIOD |
36-48 |
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THE PRINCIPLES
DISCOVERED |
49-62 |
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THE INTERMEDIATE
PERIOD |
63-72 |
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EARLY WRITINGS To the Sick in Body and Mind; Spiritualism and Mesmerism; Letter to a Patient; To a Patient; Mr. Quimby's Method. |
73-85 |
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CONTEMPORARY
TESTIMONY |
86-108 |
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LETTERS FROM
PATIENTS |
109-116 |
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LETTERS TO
PATIENTS |
117-132 |
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LETTERS TO
PATIENTS AND INQUIRERS |
133-151 |
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MRS. EDDY:
1862-1875 |
152-164 |
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS |
165-178 |
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CHRIST OR
SCIENCE Mind is Spiritual Matter; What is Disease? How does the Mind Produce Disease? Mind is Not Intelligence: Is the Curing of Disease a Science? Is Disease a Belief? Life and Disease; Disease; Love I; What is My Theory; Clairvoyance; Love II; How Dr. Quimby Cures; Another World; Your Position; My Theory; Establishing a Science; Two Sciences; Christ and Truth; Difference Between My Belief and Others; True and False Christs; Your True Position; My Religion; Happiness; Prayer I; Prayer II; How I Hold My Patients; How I Cure the Sick; Do People Really Believe What They Think? Jesus and Christ; Wrong Use of Words; Harmony I; Harmony II; Difference of Opinion About the Dead; Resurrection; A Communication; My Use of the Word Mind. |
179-229 |
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THE WORLD OF THE
SENSES To the Reader; False Reports Concerning My Religious Belief; Mind; The Scientific Man; The Natural Man; Death of the Natural Man; The Senses; How the Senses Are Deceived; The Senses and Language; Man's Identity; The Effect of Mind on Mind; Imagination; How the Opinions of Physicians Operate; Obstacles in Establishing a New Science; Mind and Disease; Do We Know All We Write or Say? |
230-274 |
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DISEASE AND
HEALING The Reception of this Great Truth; Concerning Beliefs; Works the Fruit of Our Belief; The Relation of this Truth to the Sick; Parable; Answer to a Question; Cures; Is There Any Curative Quality in Medicine? Outlines of a New Theory for Curing Disease; Disease; Disease, Love and Courage; What Do I Impart to My Patients? Experience of a Patient; The Silent Method; Treatment of a Child; The Healing Principle; Health and Disease; Learning to Heal; Strength; Mind and Disease. |
275-322 |
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GOD AND MAN On Wisdom; The Christian's God; Man; Love. |
323-349 |
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RELIGIOUS
QUESTIONS Defence Against an Accusation of Making Myself Equal to Christ; Religion in Disease; Jesus' Healing and His Message; Religon; The Effect of Religion on Health; Controversy About the Dead; The Resurrection; Another World; What is Religion; The Other World; Defence Against an Accusation of Putting Down Religion. |
350-381 |
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SCIENCE, LIFE,
DEATH Science; Christian Science; Life; Man and Woman; Light; Death; Thoughts; Editor's Summary. |
382-428 |
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List
of Quimby's Writings. The Quimby-Eddy Controversy. |
429-438 |
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EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
FOR
many years a mass of documents of interest to Christian Scientists and to
their critics as well, has been withheld from publication, although earnestly
sought. These documents were written by Dr. P. P. Quimby, of Portland, Maine,
and contain his views regarding mental and spiritual healing. They became
familiar to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy when she visited Dr. Quimby as a patient, and
it has been charged by her critics that many of the ideas later promulgated in
her teachings were born of the Quimby theories.
In
order to set this controversy at rest, many attempts have been made to gain
access to the Quimby manuscripts, but heretofore without success except in
piecemeal or disjointed form. The present editor, however, has been fortunate in
securing from Mrs. George A. Quimby, owner of the manuscripts, permission to
print the documents in full. Many of them now see the light of the printed page
for the first time. Others give a full and authentic version of material from
which only short extracts have previously appeared.
The
editor's point of view is that of the expositor, never critical save as the
author of the manuscripts might have criticized his own work. All subject-matter
in brackets is by the editor, also all footnotes. Italics and quotation-marks
have been introduced to a slight extent. Scriptural quotations have not been
corrected, because Dr. Quimby was in the habit of paraphrasing in order to show
how he interpreted the Bible. Some of the articles have been condensed to avoid
repetition, but no material changes have been made. The terms Science, Truth,
Wisdom, have been capitalized throughout in conformity with the usage in some
of the articles in which these words are synonyms for Christ, or God. The same
is true of the general terms for Quimby's theory, the Science of Health, the
Science of Life and Happiness. The term Christian Science is used with reference
to the growth of the original teaching of Jesus.
In this edition several errors have been corrected and Chapter twelve has been
re-written.
The
book as a whole contains an adequate statement of Quimby's original theory as
found in his manuscripts, 1846-65. The volume also contains the writings,
hitherto inaccessible, which Mrs. Eddy borrowed during her stay in Portland
as Quimby's patient. The editor is a son of Mr. Julius A. Dresser, who was the
most active of Quimby's followers at the time Mrs. Eddy was under treatment and
who loaned Mrs. Eddy the copy-books which made her acquainted with the Quimby
manuscripts.
