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(MESMER, speaking before the Commission convened to investigate the validity of his cures, addresses the panel of narrow-minded doctors bent on discrediting him)
FRANKLIN: We can’t embrace an unfounded hypothesis, Herr Mesmer. It places the cures themselves in doubt.
MESMER: You want an explanation that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently than you are accustomed to.
FRANKLIN: We want the truth, sir!
MESMER
SOME MEN WOULD RATHER ASSUME THEY ARE WRONG
THAN TO RISK BEING CAUGHT IN AN ERROR.
TOO MANY MEN ARE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH,
SO THEY FLEE FROM IDEAS IN A TERROR.
WHY MUST WE LIVE IN A CLIMATE OF FEAR,
LETTING DOUBT EAT US UP LIKE A CANCER?
WHY NOT INSTEAD BE A BOLD PIONEER
AND BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWER?
IT TAKES AN ACT OF FAITH.
YOU NEED THE GRACE OF COURAGE
TO SEE WHAT’S OUT OF SIGHT,
TO KNOW WHAT’S TRULY RIGHT,
TO UNDERSTAND THE LIGHT.
YOU SIMPLY ASK YOUR HEART
AND LET YOUR THOUGHTS BE SILENT.
A VOICE INSIDE OF YOU
WILL SPEAK WHAT’S TRUE.
THEN YOU’LL KNOW WHAT TO DO.
YOU’LL TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH
INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWABLE.
THIS UNIVERSE, YOU SEE,
IS FULL OF MYSTERY.
WE MUST NOT CLOSE OUR MINDS.
AND WITH THIS FAITH, WHAT WE BELIEVE
BECOMES WHAT WE ACHIEVE.
THE WORLD IS FULL OF TRUTHS
WE HAVEN’T YET DISCOVERED.
WE MUST NOT FEAR TO TREAD
WHERE REASON CAN’T BE LED.
THE DREAMS THAT MEN PURSUE
DEMAND A TRUE
ACT OF FAITH.
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