The Agnostic in Medicine

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Excerpt from The Agnostic in Medicine: Presidential Address Delivered at the Sixty-Sixth Annual Session of the American Institute of Homopathy Held at Pasadena, July 11, 1910In realizing that at all turns our progress can only come through independence of thought and freedom of action. It is in the hunger to know the objective truth of things, in the immense impetus given to the scientific spirit, in the fresh awakening in the inductive study of the real world, that the intellectual inspira tion of our epoch in medicine has centered. Closely allied to these elements of progress, is the present social movement towards idealism. We detect the marvelous wave, intense, determined and widespread, moving towards the ideal in medical reform. It is a movement we cannot stem. It ought not to be stemmed. It should not be stopped, - rather assisted and directed. It is a revolt against the tyranny in medical practice of the old school, and the shiftless practice of the new. It is a recoil against materialism in practice and an application of idealism in method. We cannot deny that to-day medicine as a whole is in the trough of the wave, where nothing is seen but unrest. The world's cry is ever for more light and the prayer ever for more truth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.