Russell Shorto Quote
Relying on physical remedies alone was often seen as downright ungodly: in England, Puritan minister John Sym advised caution that people dote not upon, nor trust, or ascribe too much to physical means; but that we carefully look and pray to God for a blessing by the warrantable use of them. To do otherwise—to rely on a physic or powder alone—would be to put the material above the spiritual. That was why a strictly mechanical approach to medicine was considered dangerously atheistic.
Russell Shorto
Relying on physical remedies alone was often seen as downright ungodly: in England, Puritan minister John Sym advised caution that people dote not upon, nor trust, or ascribe too much to physical means; but that we carefully look and pray to God for a blessing by the warrantable use of them. To do otherwise—to rely on a physic or powder alone—would be to put the material above the spiritual. That was why a strictly mechanical approach to medicine was considered dangerously atheistic.
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