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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: and it may be again mentioned that one of the most up-to-
date treatments--the use of a prolonged and exclusive diet of
MILK as a means of giving the organism a new start in severe
cases--has really come down to us through the ages from
this early source.[1] The real medicine-man, Mr. Marett
says, is largely a 'faith-healer' and 'soul-doctor'; he believes
in his vocation, and undergoes much for the sake of
it: "The main point is to grasp that by his special
initiation and the rigid taboos which he practises--not
to speak of occasional remarkable gifts, say of trance and
ecstasy, which he may inherit by nature and have improved
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