CHAPTER X.
HOMŒOPATHIC THEOLOGY.
If any one were asked to point out the greatest or the least of the absurdities of Homœopathy, he would be unable to do either—if its theological speculations are not the greatest, it is difficult to believe them to be the least. This part of the scheme is not probably so generally understood in the United States as in Great Britain, as no direct pecuniary value is attached to it in this country. It is nevertheless no trifling part of the whole plan, although it might be hardly safe to lay it before the public without ample documentary evidence to sustain it.
Hahnemann and his early associates, besides aiming to overthrow everything that was true in medicine, sought also to connect Homœopathy with Theology. After twelve years of laborious investigation, Hahnemann informs us that he made the important discovery that the greatest
