Practical Instruction on Animal Magnetism

...without examination, and they exert great influence on public opinion. We have partisans only among those to whom we have rendered service, and most of them do not dare raise their voices; fortunately, their number increases every day, and that should sustain our courage and our hopes. Let us, therefore, continue to work together to propagate magnetism, without contest, without fear, without a spirit of system; let us cast aside the abuses and dangers that may accompany its use; let us gather the materials of a beneficent science: the moment must arrive when a man of genius will unite all these materials and will construct an edifice that time will not be able to overturn.