A Subliminal Miscarriage.

Abstract

Rockford, Ill., April 10, 1899. <h3>To the Editor:</h3> —Probably more errors occur in subliminal argument through inductive conclusions, from the employment of indifferent or false data than is realized in our common philosophy; conclusions are drawn and made positive from simple parallels or seeming coincidences, and applied in theory as though actual facts; especially is this true where narrow ardor or impoverished avidity seeks to gratify a pretense, or fit a vacuum. In no phase of philosophy is this truer than in the interminable maze of psychiatry where we deal with those attributes which make man kin to Deity and "only a little lower than the angels"; where the border line between mediocrity and madness is as meager and tortuous as the tracks of the sea in a tempest; where Hahnemann was, and Eddy and Dowie are now floundering; and the foam and spray they raise is wrecking by its