his rare humanity and sympathy one could write a

sonnet.

I had already experimented in medicine beyond the [20]

basis of materia medica,—up to the highest attenuation

in homoeopathy, thence to a mental standpoint not un-

derstood and with phenomenally good results;[7] mean-

while assiduously pondering the solution of this great

question: Is it matter, or is it Mind, that heals the [25]

sick?

It was after Mr. Quimby's death that I discovered,