It is fallacious, I think, to assume that there are fields of knowledge which are perfectly safe. None is. Every science and profession is good only in so far as it is used for good purposes. Human genius has been known to turn the best things into sources of evil and destruction. Explosives, airplanes and submarines can be used to promote civilization or to take human lives in war. Industrial inventions can be operated to increase prosperity or to deprive people of the means of livelihood. Drugs can be and have been used not to restore health but to impair it. Laws can be and are being made to dispense injustice rather than justice. Political power can oppress or liberate. These facts give us no reason, however, to repress research and experimentation. The benefits of science, in all its forms and branches, outweigh immensely its occasional detriments. This surely holds true of hypnotism, too. Hypnotism is one of the sciences, with everything that this word implies. It is harmless in itself, as has been fully demonstrated in the above pages, but in certain cases of negligence or evil intention it becomes, like all good things, a source of harm.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
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