Of meditation and health / Adela M. Curtis.

  • Curtis, A. M. (Adela Marion), 1867-
Date:
1910
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Credit: Of meditation and health / Adela M. Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To-day the old story is repeating itself, and it remains to be seen how the orthodox pastors and masters of this century will deal with the present crisis in mental evolution. In one respect their task is easier than it was for their forerunners, because it is not now a question of personality. The difficulty hitherto has been that man’s intelligence was not evolved far enough to prevent him from clinging to the personality of his teachers. Every reformer has found that his followers were no sooner free from their old slavery than they bound themselves over again by attachment to their deliverer. Happily the new development of Christianity cannot be traced to any individual man or woman. There is no single leader whose personality can obscure the Truth. It has appeared simultaneously in so many different parts of America, and in so many different forms, that it seems to have sprung from the soul of the nation, as a spontaneous expression of its collective consciousness. For this reason alone it is worthy the con- sideration of the thoughtful. It is too widely spread a movement to be long ignored by those who are interested in their fellow men. The new