Mesmerism, or System of Interactions

Association, and the threatened punishment was actually carried out against a few disobedient ones.

"Under pressure, however, the resistance of the steel spring always grows; all these persecutions served only as a stronger impulse for me to redouble my zeal for the triumph of truth. Instead of seizing the opportunity given to me for pointless strife, I proceeded firmly and unconcerned by the taunts of envy, to the use of my new doctrine, and every contradiction was answered with an undeniable fact.

"In order to make the beneficial practice generally useful through dissemination, and to secure my doctrine against the chicanery of those physicians and the stubborn resistance generated by it, I made the decision to share the necessary knowledge with philanthropic individuals of various classes, though conditionally, outside the domain of the faculties, and to introduce the same through specifically appointed teachers trained by me into twenty philanthropic institutes established within the scope of the entire kingdom (the Society of Harmony, which had as its ultimate goal to maintain the doctrine I had provided in a closed association in its pure form by observing the experimental measures I prescribed). The patients, who