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"Yes, tell me," said the other, still staring out at the softly rolling landscape.
"Well, first," began the old priest slowly, "in the last fifty years we've classified almost exhaustively everything that nature can do.

We know, for instance, for certain, that in certain kinds of temperaments body and mind are in far greater sympathy than in others; and that if, in such a temperament as this, the mind can be fully persuaded that such and such a thing is going to happen--a thing within the range of natural possibility, of course--it will happen, merely through the action of the mind upon the body." "Give me an instance." "Well" (he hesitated again).

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