[1] Proverbs xxx, 8.
[2] I had arranged with the editor of the New York Medical News for the publication in that journal of a paper on Christian Science, and had so informed Mrs. Stetson.
[3] These medical histories are a part of my serial paper in the New York Medical News of January 28, 1899, et seq.
[4] New York Times, June 24, 1899.
[5] Science and Health.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Science and Health.
[9] The Arena, May, 1898.
[10] The commissioners "have no confidence in any system of inquisition or system which requires assessors to be clairvoyants; to ascertain things impossible to be ascertained by the agencies provided in the law; to ascertain the indebtedness of the taxpayer; to ascertain or know who is the owner of property at a given time that can be and is transferred hourly from owner to owner by telegraph or lightning, and that may be transported into or out of the jurisdiction of the assessor with the rapidity of steam, or that requires assessors or taxpayers to make assessments on evidence not admissible in any court, civil or criminal, in any civilized country where witches are not tried and condemned by caprice or malice on village or neighborhood gossip."