In April she gave a public lecture in Warren, contrasting mental healing with Spiritualism, entitled : " P . P . Quimby's Spiritual Science healing disease, as opposed to Deism or Rochester Rapping Spiritualism ."
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Podmore's text " Mesmerism and Christian Science : A Short History of Mental Healing " received a positive review in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which referred to it as " an excellent account of this interesting and important subject ."
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According to Horowitz, mental healing and positive thinking theories for prosperity were joined by late 19th century trends such as Transcendentalism and a belief in the power of science and that " All these currents came together, and this philosophy that we call'New Thought,'was born out of them.
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Mr . Walter stated in his booklet " Our Plan " that'the Walter Method, which is nothing more or less than a plain and practical explanation and application of the method of mental healing given the present age by Mary Baker Eddy, and the further unfoldment of actual life as taught in the science of last things, Eschatology .'
