TO BE WELL

BY

CHARLES BRODIE PATTERSON
Author of "The Measure of a Man,” “Seeking the Kingdom,”
"Beyond the Clouds," "The Library of Health,” “New
Thought Essays," and "Dominion and Power." and
Editor of MIND

PREFACE

The age of materialism is passing away; and the pessimism and infidelity of the past, with which it was so closely associated, no longer fill the minds of men with discord and unrest. As a transitory condition it was doubtless necessary, because the real side of life is made evident through contrast. Probably the world has never seen nor known an age that has been more densely materialistic than the one just passed; not that it was altogether physical in its nature, but the intellect of man was used to subvert and subordinate the spiritual sense to the intellectual reasoning and sense desires.

On the physical side of life the world has been ransacked for every kind of mineral poison with the expectation that through their introduction into the physical organism health and strength would be the result.

In man's intellectual and religious world the spirit has played no part. Dogmatic utterances, binding creeds, and the degradation of himself to a "worm of the dust" and a miserable sinner," have served to fill up the sum of his intellectual vagaries.

But this is all passing away before the coming of a newer and higher conception of life; and