Religion & insanity / by Charles Williams.

  • Williams, Charles
Date:
1909
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Credit: Religion & insanity / by Charles Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I RELIGION AND INSANITY. comforting doctrines of the Christian Re- ligion, they would know that their beloved one has not, as looks to be the case, gone from them for ever but only for a short time after which they will see him or her again, and would be comforted accordingly. Fortunately in all the circumstances I have alluded to. Religion proves itself, for the majority of people, the prophylactic I am claiming it to be, and although it is un- fortunately true that insanity still not in- frequently results from these causes, yet, if it were not for Religion and its prophylactic virtues, I am quite sure that I am not exaggerating when I say that the annual number would be increased at least a hundred-fold. Then again see what great prophylactic virtue there is in Prayer. Apropos,vn a work published last year entitled, “ Religion and Medicine,” and written jointly by two gifted