…as though it was the gospel, but I don't know if it is the gospel. I mean, I think it is perfectly possible that both Bates and Helmholtz are right, that both the lens and the general shape of the eyeball are being altered. And I don't know why it…

…are being altered. And I don't know why it causes such immense pressure on this thing. Incidentally, it's quite irrelevant whether the Bates system works or not, because the Bates system is essentially a thing which starts from the mind and goes out I…

…it causes such immense pressure on this thing. Incidentally, it's quite irrelevant whether the Bates system works or not, because the Bates system is essentially a thing which starts from the mind and goes out I mean, most, of course, the oculists think…

…I think? I heard of it from, first of all, by somebody I was staying with in North Carolina who had been benefited by Bates. And then I happened just by chance to see the name of the man here who was practicing it, who unfortunately was no good…

…W.H. Bates, who died in, I think, 1930. I've been amused, as I say, to find many of the ideas set forth by Bates and later by myself, and for which we were both called fools and charlatans, being adopted by those who are professionally concerned with…