But, in physical “cures,” we often have to distinguish carefully
between the temporary effects and the ultimate effects. Too often
there is recommended some way which produces almost immediate
exhilaration--or at least freedom from the sensation of worry or
depression--by driving toxins etc., which had been in the blood and had
thus tended towards depression, etc., not out of the body altogether,
but only out of the blood and into the tissues, where, as Mr. Collings
has been able to prove, they remain stored,[F] to work mischief in the
body and blood and mind in the future.
The passing sensations of ease, if not of positive satisfaction, may be
brought by such means as a cup of tea or coffee, some aspirin, a smoke,
a cold bath, and so on. But this is not an avenue to Happiness. It is,
rather, a patch that crosses the avenue to Happiness at one point, and
then leaves it again.