Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
BENJAMIN RUSHMania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ’till he returns to them again.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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