from the ,google ,print project47 ,,the ,,church ,,of ,,st4 ,,bunco ,a ,,drastic ,,treatment ,,of ,a ,,copyrighted ,,religion--,,un-,,christian ,,non-,,science ,,by ,,gordon ,,clark ,,the ,abbey ,press ,,publishers #aad ,,fifth ,,avenue ,london ,,new ,,york ,montreal ,copyright1 #aija1 by ,,the ,abbey ,press ,,contents4 ,,chapter ,,page ,preface #g ,i4 ,a ,bird's-eye ,view of the ,thing #aa ,,ii4 ,the ,origin of the ,new ,thought #ae ,,iii4 ,dr4 ,quimby's most ,distinguished ,patient #da ,,iv4 ,a ,great ,metaphysical ,novel #ei ,v4 ,a ,soft ,set of ,critics #gd ,,vi4 ,the ,precious ,volume #gh ,,vii4 ,key to the ,eddy ,scripture1 ,science and ,health #ie ,,viii4 ,christian ,science ,organizing ,forces #ajh ,,ix4 ,the ,one ,true ,mother ,church #abj ,x4 ,a ,martyr to ,science #aca ,,xi4 ,metaphysics #aee ,,xii4 ,further ,analysis of the ,universe #afe ,,xiii4 ,a ,special ,look at ,space and ,time #ahj ,,xiv4 ,creative ,mind ,further ,probed #ahf ,,xv4 ,the ,genesis of ,transcendental ,ideas #aic ,,xvi4 ,the ,grand ,result of ,dissecting ,phenomena #aif ,,xvii4 ,some ,sequences of ,absolute ,idealism #bjf ,,xviii4 ,various ,schools of the ,new ,thought #bai ,,xix4 ,an ,advanced ,healer of ,to-day #bcb ,,xx4 ,conclusion #bdh ,,preface4 ,the purpose of this book is not to deny the power of mind over matter1 or of the human mind over the human body1 but to show that the foolish and pestilent thing termed ,christian ,science is a leech fastened upon these great truths1 mostly1 if not wholly1 to batten on them4 ,there is no use of saying this to ,christian ,scientists themselves--an obedient chain-gang in hypnotic servitude4 ,but people who are not already in ,science 7to use the shibboleth of those who are71 ought to be prompted not to get there4 ,the best way in general1 ,i think1 is to show that even the historical and biographical claims at the base of the movement are false4 ,if the personal veracity of the head of a church cannot be trusted1 divine revelations1 miracles and mental medicine1 proceeding from such a source1 will naturally be accepted only by the very soft1 or else by the very hard for solid considerations4 ,is there no sincerity1 then1 in ,christian ,science8 ,of course there is4 ,even the discoverer and founder of it undoubtedly believes certain of its asseverations4 ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,eddy must be credited1 for instance1 with the conviction that she has some knowledge of metaphysics--a conviction that is nothing worse than a pitiable mistake1 which is exploded here at some length4 ,when1 as a result of this mistake1 she teaches that matter is nothing--not even a condition of anything--only sincerity can account for such lunacy4 ,yet herein ,christian ,science has its whole rational1 or rather irrational1 breath of life4 ,some ,christian ,scientists sincerely believe in an equivalent for black magic4 ,as1 in their view1 concentration of mind can cure disease1 they think it can also throw disease upon enemies1 or upon backsliders from science4 ,it has been suggested even to the present writer that illness might be cast upon him if he antagonized the true faith4 ,according to certain dissidents from ,christian ,science1 black magic1 though with much talk of chastening love--7every crime of religious hypocrisy is always committed in the name of love7--has been persistently tried on heretical wanderers4 ,in the natural course of time some of them are dead2 but those whom ,i have met are not only living1 they are comfortably fat4 ,as ,christian ,science has to me no genuine basis1 either in facts1 science1 theology1 metaphysics or therapeutics1 but is a mendacious1 contradictory1 pretentious humbug1 ,i do not hesitate to use such weapons1 whether narration1 logic1 or satire1 as are adapted to puncture it4 ,we hear that ,christian ,science has done good4 ,so it has1 in some instances1 but only through means which it pretends to repudiate1 and through the trustful ignorance of those who have been duped by it4 ,we hear1 also1 that ,christian ,scientists are specially educated and intelligent4 ,i deny it4 ,no one of them seems ever to have heard of the history of philosophy--a cemetery in which have long lain buried the most of ,mother ,eddy's divine revelations1 original discoveries and absolute demonstrations4 ,her followers can doubtless read1 or they would not be available as purchasers of her ,science and ,health2 but1 if they could think1 they never would have read the book through4 ,from beginning to end1 it is simply a batch of self-contradictions and self-nullities4 ,these are capped with the most impudent claim ever uttered on earth--the claim that the human mind in its natural state cannot comprehend the divine mind incarnate in the author4 ,if caustic is applied to such nonsense1 there is no need of apology4 ,the only doubt is that the malefaction is worth the burning4 ,g4 ,c4 ,,the ,,church ,,of ,,st4 ,,bunco4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,a ,,bird',s-,,eye ,,view ,,of ,,the ,,thing4 ,the date of this writing is the year #aija4 ,about a quarter of a century ago1 ,boston1 the city of modified ,puritans and keen business thrift1 evolved a new religion4 ,modern ,boston1 however1 being nothing if not scientific1 the new religion tipped its wings with the new time1 and soared aloft in the name of ,christian ,science4 ,in a world not quite converted to this science1 facts sometimes fall behind assertions4 ,but the sect of ,christian ,science now claims to number in its fold a million sheep4 ,the mother church1 of course1 is in ,boston2 but daughter churches of every age and size are budding and blooming throughout the earth4 ,at headquarters ,christian ,science has its official weekly organ1 its official monthly magazine1 and its official publishing house4 ,the cult has issued innumerable books1 but specially the multifarious editions of ,science and ,health1 the chief work of the adored mother and founder of ,christian ,science1 ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,as the latest edition of this sacred book is always the best1 and as the holy author carefully recommends it as such to all the faithful--whatever other editions they possess--its very high price1 under copyright1#a as compared with undivine books1 has rendered it a magnificent source of income4 ,then1 as the average fee for blessing a disciple of ,christian ,science with a dozen lessons in metaphysics and healing has been three hundred dollars1#b a grateful providence through long years1 has not only provided food and raiment for ,mother ,eddy1 but a rich abundance1 too1 of such worldly goods as should adorn and stimulate perfect piety1 not excepting the whitest of diamonds1 as symbols of purity1 for herself and the elect of her household4 ,why not8 ,her devotees are strict adherents of ,scripture--always as she interprets it for them--and she believes1 for all the text will yield1 that the laborer is worthy of his hire4 ,now1 apart from the name and the church of ,christian ,science1 there are many people in ,boston and its universal radiations--very intelligent and honest people1 too--who utterly discard ,mrs4 ,eddy and her teachings1 yet hold the general doctrine on which she speculates--the now well-known doctrine that mind governs matter1 and that the soul can cure the body of disease4 ,the teaching of these people may simply be termed mental healing1 though they say also mental science1 sometimes metaphysics and comprehensively the new thought4 ,of late much has been said and written against ,christian ,science2 but adverse criticism has proceeded mostly from physicians in the interest of their schools and theologians in the interest of their creeds4 ,these good souls have taken ,christian ,science seriously1 like the innocent followers of ,mrs4 ,eddy herself4 ,but as soon as a general investigator touches the fad1 especially the history of it1 he sees that1 whatever its effects may have been--good1 bad or indifferent--it began in false pretenses1#c has been pushed for money1 and is one of the most shallow humbugs that ever tricked an epoch in the cloak of religion1 or reduced metaphysics to lunacy4 ,hence our title4 ,the ,church of ,st4 ,bunco is the name for the thing4 ,christian ,science1 properly named1 is simply ,un-,christian ,non-,science4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,the ,,origin ,,of ,,the ,,new ,,thought4#d ,christian ,science1 ,mental ,healing1 ,metaphysical ,treatment of ,disease1--where did these things come from1 and how did they get here8 ,the facts are peculiar2 they are partly unpleasant2 they are sometimes amusing2 but they are not far to seek4 ,in #ahcf1 ,charles ,poyan1 a ,frenchman1 introduced into the ,united ,states the practise of ,mesmerism4 ,in #ahdj it was taken up1 with great earnestness1 by a ,maine ,yankee1 named ,phineas ,parkhurst ,quimby4 ,he was a watch and clock maker1 an inventor1 and a natural reformer4 ,in making his mesmeric experiments1 he soon found an extraordinary subject of them in the person of a young man1 ,lucius ,burkmar1 with whom he traveled several years1 giving1 it is said1 some of the most astonishing exhibitions of mesmerism and clairvoyance that had ever been known4 ,as the substance of mesmerism1 though under the newer name of hypnotism1 has now been fully substantiated by the ,french ,academy of ,medicine1 the highest authority in the world on such subjects1 there seems to be no longer any reasonable question of its general claims4 ,on taking up mesmerism in ,new ,england1 ,mr4 ,quimby had been very ill and given up by his physicians to die4 ,by inquiring into his own condition through his clairvoyant subject1 ,lucius1 and by the young man's laying-on of hands1 ,mr4 ,quimby1 as he tells the story1 recovered immediately from a long-standing and dangerous malady4 ,partly as a result of this cure1 but much more because his whole life shows him to have been a natural exemplar of the good physician1 he took to healing the sick4 ,he held no diploma from any college of medicine2 but his work and his thousands of patients inevitably conferred upon him the title of ,doctor4 ,at first he merely co-operated with the regular medical faculty1 who sometimes called upon him to have his subject1 ,lucius1 examine their patients4 ,being put into the mesmeric state1 young ,burkmar would describe the disease1 with the pains accompanying it1 and would then go on and prescribe remedies1 though he knew nothing about them4 ,as a participant and student of this process1 ,dr4 ,quimby came1 in a short time1 to the conclusion that the diagnosis of the clairvoyant was not necessarily the true one1 but was taken from the belief of the patient1 or his physician1 or some other person1 and was1 therefore1 an impression of incidental mind1 rather than a statement of fact4 ,such results would not do for a man like ,quimby2 so he dismissed mesmerism--such practise of it at least as depended on anybody but himself and those on whom he directly operated4 ,meanwhile1 according to the best of testimony1 there was developed in himself a faculty much more peculiar and effective than ordinary mind-reading and second-sight4 ,gradually1 too1 he formed an entirely new and original theory of disease4 ,in #aheg1 in a ,maine paper1 the ,bangor ,jeffersonian1 his faculty and his theory were described thus3 ,it is universally acknowledged that the mind is often the cause of disease1 but it has never been supposed to have an equal power in overcoming it4 ,quimby's theory is that the mind gives immediate form to the animal spirit1 and that the animal spirit gives form to the body4444 ,therefore1 his first course in the treatment of a patient is to sit down beside him1 and put himself en rapport with him1 which he does without producing the mesmeric sleep4444 ,with the spirit form ,dr4 ,quimby converses and endeavors to win it away from its grief2 and1 when he has succeeded in doing so1 it disappears1 and reunites with the body4 ,thus is commenced the first step towards recovery4444 ,this union frequently lasts but a short time1 when the spirit again appears1 exhibiting some new phase of its troubles4 ,with this he again contends until he overcomes it1 when it disappears as before4 ,thus two shades of trouble have disappeared from the mind1 and consequently from the animal spirit2 and the body has already commenced its efforts to come into a state in accordance with them4 ,in an article written by ,dr4 ,quimby himself 7in #ahfa71 he explained his procedure in this way3 ,a patient comes to see ,dr4 ,quimby4 ,he renders himself absent to everything but the impression of the person's feelings4 ,these are quickly daguerreotyped on him4 ,they contain no intelligence1 but shadow forth a reflection of themselves which he looks at4 ,this contains the disease as it appears to the patient4 ,being confident that it is the shadow of a false idea1 he 7,dr4 ,quimby7 is not afraid of it4444 ,then his feelings in regard to the disease1 which are health and strength1 are daguerreotyped on the receptive plate of the patient1 which also throws forth a shadow4 ,the patient1 seeing this shadow of the disease in a new light1 gains confidence4 ,this change of feeling is daguerreotyped on the doctor again4 ,this also throws forth a shadow1 and he sees the change1 and continues to treat it in the same way4 ,so the patient's feelings sympathize with his1 the shadow changes and grows dim1 and finally disappears4 ,the light takes its place1 and there is nothing left of the disease4 ,dr4 ,quimby was not an educated man in the technical meaning of the term2 but1 through his experiments in mesmerism and his personal experiences1 he was led directly to what in the history of philosophy is called absolute idealism4 ,until his own conclusions were fully reached1 he knew nothing1 from literature1 even of ,berkeley2 but when ,berkeley's writings were unfolded to him1 he at once said1 in his plain1 straightforward way1 that they were true1 and that he agreed with them4 ,to him1 the universe was mind1 and all things were ideas4 ,disease was an idea1 though he sometimes called it matter1 as being negative mind1 or that which could receive impressions and be changed by them4 ,hence he said3 ,the idea 7disease7 is matter2 and it decomposes1 and throws off an odor that contains all the ideas of the person affected4 ,this is true of every idea or thought4 ,now my odor comes in contact with this odor1 and ,i1 being well1 have found out by twenty years' experience that these odors affect me1 and also that they contain the very identity of the patient whom this odor surrounds4 ,this called my attention to it2 and ,i found that it was as easy to tell the feelings or thoughts of a sick person as to detect the odor of spirits from that of tobacco4 ,i at first thought ,i inhaled it1 but at last found that my senses could be affected by it when my body was at a distance of many miles from the patient4 ,this led to a new discovery2 and ,i found that my senses were not in my body1 but that my body was in my senses4 ,my knowledge located my senses just according to my wisdom4 ,if a man's knowledge is in matter1 all there is of him is contained in matter4 ,but1 if his knowledge is in wisdom1 then his senses and all there is of him are out of matter4 ,in #ahfj ,dr4 ,quimby used1 in ,portland and vicinity1 a circular addressed to the sick1 some copies of which have been preserved1 and from an original copy of which the following extracts are taken3 ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby would respectfully announce that he will attend to those wishing to consult him in regard to their health1 and1 as his practice is unlike all other medical practice1 it is necessary to say that he gives no medicine and makes no outward applications1 but simply sits down by the patients1 tells them their feelings1 c41 then his explanation is the cure2 and1 if he succeeds in correcting their error1 he changes the fluids of the system and establishes the truth1 or health4 ,the ,truth is the ,cure4 ,this mode of treatment applies to all cases4 ,if no explanation is given1 no charge is made1 for no effect is produced4444 ,if patients feel pain they know it1 and1 if he describes their pain1 he feels it4444 ,after this it becomes his duty to prove to them the cause of their trouble4444 ,this has been his mode of practice for the last seventeen years4 ,for the past eight years he has given no medicines1 nor made any outward applications4444 ,there are many who pretend to practice as he does2 but when a person1 while in a trance1 claims any power from the spirits of the departed1 and recommends any kind of medicine to be taken internally or applied externally1 beware6 ,believe them not1 'for by their fruits ye shall know them4'#e ,in #ahhg a short account of ,dr4 ,quimby and his work was published in a pamphlet entitled ,the ,true ,history of ,mental ,science1 by ,julius ,a4 ,dresser4 ,mr4 ,dresser had been a patient and friend of ,dr4 ,quimby1 who had looked to him to cultivate and extend the ,quimby system4 ,but the immediate accomplishment of that purpose had been prevented4 ,in #ahie ,mrs4 ,annetta ,gertrude ,dresser1 the wife of ,julius ,a4 ,dresser1 and1 like him1 a patient and personal friend of ,dr4 ,quimby1 gave to the public a small but comprehensive volume1 ,the ,philosophy of ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby4#f ,this excellent sketch of the man and his career contains part of an article upon him written by his son1 ,mr4 ,george ,a4 ,quimby1 for the ,new ,england ,magazine of ,march1 #ahhh1 the article being followed1 in ,mrs4 ,dresser's book1 by various newspaper notices and criticisms of ,dr4 ,quimby1 running from #aheg to #ahfc1 then by reminiscences of him1 an exposition of his theories1 and by selections from his manuscripts4 ,the newspaper articles were mostly prepared by grateful patients whom ,dr4 ,quimby had restored from sickness to health4#g ,among these patients were two daughters of ,judge ,ashur ,ware#h of ,portland1 ,maine1 one of whom1 ,mrs4 ,sarah ,ware ,mackay1 still lives to bless the good ,doctor's memory4 ,the ,ware sisters became so deeply interested in ,dr4 ,quimby's thoughts and cures that they persuaded him to write out his ideas and explain his practise4 ,as he was exceedingly busy1 his articles were rewritten by the two young ladies or by ,mr4 ,george ,a4 ,quimby1 and were then submitted to the ,doctor for correction4 ,his terminology was peculiar1 and sometimes inadequate to his meaning2 but due attention to his writings1 with those of his friends1 yields a clear conception of him4 ,one thing will never be questioned by any honest and sensible person acquainted with the facts3 ,dr4 ,quimby's biographers--his son and his trusted friends1 the ,dressers--have told the truth about him4 ,the information they give fully sustains their general estimate4 ,this estimate established1 we know that ,dr4 ,quimby himself was absolutely sincere1 and could be fully trusted just so far as he understood his own nature and what he was doing4 ,but this is not to say that he was always right4 ,it is not even to say that he was without the strongest of prejudices1 which may sometimes have misled him4 ,he was too broad and high a soul to be opinionated in any narrow1 selfish sense2 but he would stand for a conviction till the crack of doom4 ,the old gentleman1 says one who knew him familiarly for many years1 would argue a sitting hen off her nest4 ,reference has been made to his ill-health when he began to study mesmerism4 ,physicians had told him that his kidneys were partially consumed1 and that he had ulcers on his lungs4 ,on one occasion he says1 when ,i had my subject asleep1 he told me that one of my kidneys was half consumed1 and a piece three inches long had separated from it1 and was only connected by a slender thread4 ,this was what ,i believed to be true2 for it agreed with what the doctors told me1 and with what ,i had suffered--for ,i had not been free from pain for years4 ,my common sense told me that no medicine would ever cure the trouble1 and therefore ,i must suffer till death relieved me4 ,but ,i asked my subject if there was no remedy4 ,he replied1 ',yes--,i can put the piece on so it will grow1 and you will get well4'444 ,he placed his hands upon me1 and said he united the pieces so they would grow4 ,the next day he said they had grown together2 and from that day ,i never experienced the least pain from them4#i ,dr4 ,quimby's personal veracity being accepted by the present writer as unimpeachable1 his word must be taken as perfectly good for this remarkable story1 as he understood the matter4 ,but the various inferences he drew from his case may be questioned1 with no disadvantage to his character4 ,i concluded said he1 that the subject read my mind2 and his ideas were so absurd that the disease vanished by the absurdity of the cure4 ,it appears that this mesmeric subject1 though he could be forced1 under control1 to prescribe anything in the mind of the operator1 always did prescribe1 if left to himself1 some very simple remedy4 ,when ,i mesmerized my subject1 says ,dr4 ,quimby1 he would prescribe some little simple herb that would do no harm or good of itself4 ,in some cases this would cure the patient4 ,i also found that any medicine would cure certain cases if he ordered it4 ,this led me to investigate the matter1 and arrive at the stand that the cure is not in the medicine1 but in the confidence of the doctor or medium4 ,in his early invalid life1 ,dr4 ,quimby had been filled1 he tells us1 with calomel and other strong doses of allopathic poison4 ,as we read his description of ,lucius and the simple herbs1 the thought arises that the mesmeric subject might have had some power or aid after all1 that his good operator passed over too cavalierly1 and that the herbs might have appeared more efficacious1 if a reminiscence of vigorous blue pills1 in which ,dr4 ,quimby once had confidence1 had not still dwelt on his tongue4 ,it is certain that1 since his time1 some very sensible persons believe they have been cured of so dire an affliction as cancer by so innocent a concoction as clover tea4 ,dr4 ,quimby1 to use the language of his first biographer1 ,mr4 ,dresser1 progressed gradually out of mesmerism1 into a knowledge of the hidden powers of mind2 and he soon found in man a principle1 or a power1 that was not of man himself1 but was higher than man1 and of which he could only be a medium4 ,its character was goodness and intelligence2 and its power was great4 ,he also found that disease was nothing but an erroneous belief of mind4444 ,on this discovery he founded a system of treating the sick1 and founded a science of life4444 ,his discovery was not made from the ,bible1 but from natural phenomena and searching investigation4444 ,after the truth was discovered1 he found his new views all portrayed and illustrated in ,christ's teachings and works4 ,some of these claims were reaffirmed by ,dr4 ,quimby himself1 in a letter written in #ahfj4aj ,you inquire he says if ,i have ever cured any cases of chronic rheumatism4 ,i answer1 ,yes2 but 444 you cannot be saved by pinning your faith on another's sleeve4 ,every one must answer for his own sins or belief4 ,our beliefs are the cause of our misery1 and our happiness or misery is what follows our belief4444 ,you ask if my practice belongs to any known science4 ,my answer is1 ,no2 it belongs to a ,wisdom that is above man as man4444 ,it was taught eighteen hundred years ago1 and has never had a place in the heart of man since1 but is in the world1 and the world knows it not4 ,in ,the ,philosophy of ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 we are told that ,it was ,dr4 ,quimby's chief aim to establish a science of life and happiness1 which all could learn1 and which should relieve humanity of sickness and misery4 ,but after our various quotations1 we can readily perceive1 as his biographer maintains1 that by the word1 'science1' he always meant not what is commonly understood by that word1 but something spiritual4 ,by science1 in short1 or what he sometimes called ,wisdom1 ,dr4 ,quimby meant simply the principle of the universe1 the presence1 truth and power of ,god1 at the foundation of the human soul4 ,dr4 ,quimby said1 and his disciples have said after him1 that he never went into any trance1 and was a strong disbeliever in ,spiritualism1 as understood by that name4 ,pursuing this statement in detail1 we find that his criticism of the subject consisted mostly in his denying the accuracy of information derived from clairvoyants and spirit-mediums4 ,but1 in the words of one of his most intimate friends1 he considered our two states of physical and spiritual life as only a difference in dissolving views1 and he believed that his own thought and senses existed1 a part of the time1 out of matter1 or in the scientific world4#aa ,he even affirmed1 in connection with his view of disease as an impression of mind1 that1 transferring himself into the spiritual state of existence1 he had cured his own parents1 after death1 of ailments which had not left them when they departed from their physical condition4 ,to this strange man1 ,dr4 ,quimby1 the world of matter and the world of spirit were so interblended as to be only two phases of the same thing1 both of which he constantly experienced4 ,what1 he asks1 is this body that we see8 ,it is a tenement for man to occupy when he pleases4 ,but1 as a man knows not himself1 he reasons as though he were one of the fixtures of his house1 or body4444 ,what is the true definition of death4 ,death is the name of an idea4444 ,so the destruction of an idea is death4 ,man is dying and living all the time to error1 till he dies the death of all his opinions and beliefs4 ,therefore to be free from death is to be alive in truth4 ,in no other way than this1 would ,dr4 ,quimby even recognize such a fact as death4 ,when he came to die himself1 he said ,i am perfectly willing for the change4444 ,but ,i know that ,i shall be right here with you1 just the same as ,i have always been4 ,i do not dread the change any more than if ,i were going on a trip to ,philadelphia4 ,dr4 ,quimby1 then1 in his own way1 certainly did believe1 accept and avow what is commonly understood as ,spiritualism1 but he repudiated its frequently doubtful accompaniments4 ,i know said he just how much reliance can be placed on a medium2 for when in the mesmeric state1 they are governed by the superstition and beliefs of the person they are in communication with4444 ,the capacity of thought-reading is the common extent of mesmerism4 ,clairvoyance is very rare4444 ,this state is of very short duration4 ,they then come into that state where they are governed by surrounding minds4 ,all the mediums of this day reason about medicine as much as the regular physician4 ,they believe in disease and recommend medicine4 ,here we have it1 exactly4 ,dr4 ,quimby did not believe in disease1 except as an error of mind1 and did not recommend medicine4 ,so1 while he accepted spirit-condition1 to the fullest extent1 he refused to accept information from it at second hand4 ,he held that1 because a man had passed over to the other side1 as the ,spiritualists say1 he was not necessarily any wiser than he had been in mind reduced to a state called matter4 ,the invisible world said he opens all the avenues of matter1 through which to give the inhabitants communications2 but the natural man has possession of the mediums1 so that the scientific man is misrepresented in nine-tenths of all he says4 ,now to be in the scientific world is not necessarily to be wise1 but to acknowledge a wisdom above the natural man1 which will enter the world where wisdom sees through matter4 ,this is the condition of those persons who are thrown into a clairvoyant state4 ,to them1 matter is nothing but an idea1 that is seen or not1 just as it is called out4 ,all their senses are in this state1 but are under the control of the natural man4444 ,the explanation of the scientific world is given by these blind guides 444 who cannot understand science4 ,from this last quotation1 we can see precisely how ,dr4 ,quimby at once accepted and rejected ,spiritualism2 and we can see1 as well1 how he reached the posture of rational idealism4 ,as far as concerned his powers or gifts1 the good man was what would now be called a mesmerist1 a clairvoyant1 and a healing medium--only he was of so sensitive a spiritual nature that he could exercise these faculties in his senses1 or in what1 to him1 was a perfectly normal state4 ,if1 to his own direct vision and experience1 matter was nothing but an idea1 to be seen or not1 just as it is called out1 his conclusion could only be that all that is seen by the natural man is mind reduced to a state called matter1 and that there is no matter independent of mind1 or life4 ,but even if granting this posture as a philosophical premise1 is it a logical conclusion to insist1 with ,dr4 ,quimby1 that disease is merely a belief1 and that health is wisdom8 ,i deny disease as a truth1 said he1 but admit it as a deception4 ,disease is an evil that follows taking an opinion for a truth4 ,every disease is an invention of man1 and has no identity in wisdom4444 ,disease is the misery of our belief1 happiness is the health of our wisdom4444 ,false reasoning is sickness and death4444 ,the devil is the error of mankind4444 ,we are made up of truth and error4 ,disease is an error1 or belief2 the ,truth is the cure4 ,it is necessary to explain1 however1 that ,dr4 ,quimby found the cause of human misery not alone in the conscious mind and the opinions and beliefs about disease1 but in the mental influences and thoughts by which every person is surrounded1 and in the unconscious or subconscious mind4 ,he declared that he could tell an idea or cause of sickness from the sensation produced by it1 just as a person knows an orange by the odor4 ,as he was able to do this1 says ,mr4 ,dresser1 he always told the patient1 at the first sitting1 what the latter thought was his disease1 and never allowed the patient to tell him anything about the case4 ,in a later chapter of our book1 the hypothesis that because1 in the last analysis all things are mind1 all disease can be cured by mind while it exists in the body1 will be carefully considered4 ,meanwhile it must be admitted1 without reserve1 that under this doctrine1 which ,dr4 ,quimby himself believed with all his might1 he practised healing1 for many years1 with marvelous success4 ,he labored1 too1 under great difficulties4 ,fifty years ago1 the average inhabitant of ,new ,england was not quite so bigoted and superstitious1 perhaps1 as the ,jews in the time of ,christ1 but quite enough so to suggest a comparison4 ,dr4 ,quimby was not orthodox in his theology1 and was still less orthodox in medicine4 ,as ,mr4 ,dresser records the situation1 ,those who were then willing to try a practitioner outside of the medical schools1 were persons who had exhausted every means of help within those schools1 and1 when finally booked for the grave1 would send or go to ,quimby4 ,in the way of a grim joke1 the ,doctor himself said that his patients would send for him and the undertaker at the same time1 and the one who got there first would get the case4 ,and the worst of it all was that his power1 when acknowledged1 was frequently imputed to the devil4 ,still1 he had more work than he could do--so much that it wore him completely out1 and finally ended his life at the age of sixty-four4 ,in his busiest days1 he said3 ,i have sat with more than three hundred individuals every year for ten years1 and for the last five years ,i have averaged five hundred yearly--people with all sorts of diseases1 and every possible state of mind1 brought on by all kinds of ideas in which people believe4 ,religion in its various forms embraces many of these causes4 ,some cases have been occasioned by the idea that the patients had committed the unpardonable sin4 ,when asked what it was1 no two persons ever answered alike4 ,there is no doubt that ,dr4 ,quimby's patients were generally cured1 unless he told them at once that they were past his or any other mortal aid4 ,he saw through them at a glance1 as all who knew him agree in testifying4 ,to deceive him was impossible4 ,for instance3 ,a lady who scouted his special vision1 and was in good health1 went to him feigning illness1 and for the purpose of a test4 ,he received her1 as he would any one1 and1 after a few moments1 without a word having been spoken1 took his chair1 and1 placing it before her1 sat down with his back to her1 saying3 ',that is the way you feel toward me4 ,i think you don't need my services1 and had better go home4' ,a patient and friend--an eye-witness of unquestionable veracity--says3 ,people were coming to ,dr4 ,quimby from all parts of ,new ,england4 ,many of these came on crutches1 or were assisted into the office2 and it was most interesting to note their progress day by day1 or the remarkable change produced by a single sitting4444 ,i remember one lady who had used crutches for twenty years1 who walked without them after a few weeks4 ,there is now living in ,boston a gentleman who happens to be personally known to the present writer4 ,the gentleman is a college graduate of high culture1 of large experience1 and with the rest1 is an author of distinction4 ,when a young man he had a serious affliction of the eyes1 which gradually increased until he was threatened with blindness4 ,he was a man of means1 and no expense was spared to secure the best medical treatment4 ,it was unavailing4 ,he heard of ,dr4 ,quimby1 and1 as the usual last resort1 applied to him4 ,he cured me1 says the gentleman1 and ,i have had no trouble since4 ,but how he did it ,i don't know4 ,he sat and talked with me1 and sometimes touched my head and face with his hands1 moistened with cold water1 though declaring even this to be of no vital consequence4 ,he cured other people of all sorts of things1 as easily as he cured me4 ,here ,i am with two good eyes1 and you have the facts4#ab ,the ultimate value of ,the ,new ,thought1 or ,mental and ,moral ,healing1 is yet a problem2 but that ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby was the spring and fountain of the whole stream1 with its various branches1 is beyond all reputable dispute4 ,it rests on these grounds3 ,first4 ,he claimed it himself in the presence of all whom he met1 spreading the claim broadcast even in newspaper advertisements and business circulars4 ,second4 ,many of the most intelligent and trustworthy of his patients became1 as we have seen1 correspondents of the press to express their gratitude for his cures1 and scores of their articles have been preserved4 ,with no exception1 these articles substantiate ,dr4 ,quimby's declaration that he alone1 of all persons then living1 treated disease through the normal action of the human mind4 ,third4 ,dr4 ,quimby had a son1 ,mr4 ,george ,a4 ,quimby1 who acted for years as his father's secretary4 ,this gentleman is living1 and is a well and widely known citizen of ,belfast1 ,maine4 ,his distinct claim for ,dr4 ,quimby is that up to his time1 no man1 since ,jesus1 had attempted and succeeded in curing the sick1 without medicine1 applications1 mesmerism1 hypnotism or spiritualism1 simply mentally--through the mind and sense--and who further claimed that he did it in a scientific manner which could be taught to others1 444 and was in a normal state of mind all the time1 as also was his patient4 ,fourth4 ,a number of ,dr4 ,quimby's patients and close friends long survived him1 and several of them still live4 ,with a single exception1 every one of these people has said1 in substance1 exactly what ,mr4 ,george ,a4 ,quimby states in detail4 ,fifth4 ,the single exception is a lady who once said what all the rest say--and who is completely on record as saying it--but who1 for reasons easy to understand and explain1 has since taken a lady's high and mighty privilege of changing her mind4 ,we will inspect this change4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,dr4 ,,quimby',s ,,most ,,distinguished ,,patient4 ,dr4 ,quimby was at the height of his career during the early days of our ,civil ,war4 ,among his patients at that time was one who has since become the most celebrated of them1 and who now bears the name of ,mary ,baker ,glover ,eddy4 ,then1 however1 the patient was known as ,mary ,m4 ,patterson--an incident which occurred through her being a very energetic and pious woman1 who has attracted to herself a considerable variety of husbands4#ac ,it was in #ahfb1 says ,dr4 ,quimby's biographer1 ,mrs4 ,a4 ,g4 ,dresser1 that ,mrs4 ,eddy1 author of ,science and ,health1 was associated with ,dr4 ,quimby2 and ,i well remember the very day when she was helped up the steps of his office on the occasion of her first visit4 ,she was cured by him1 and afterward became very much interested in his theory4 ,but she put her own construction on much of his teaching1 and developed a system of thought which differed radically from it4 ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,patterson 7since ,mrs4 ,eddy71 was greatly surprised at her cure1 and naturally grateful for it4 ,she at once said so in print4 ,it was in an issue of the ,portland ,evening ,courier1 of ,november #gth1 #ahfb4 ,her account was this3 ,three weeks ago ,i quitted my nurse and sick-room en route for ,portland4 ,the belief of my recovery had died out of the hearts of those who were most anxious for it4 ,with this mental and physical depression1 ,i first visited ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 and in less than one week from that time ,i ascended by a stairway of one-hundred and eighty-two steps to the dome of the ,city ,hall1 and am improving ad infinitum4444 ,i have employed electro-magnetism and animal magnetism1 and for a brief period ,i have felt relief 444 but in no instance did ,i get rid of a return of all my ailments1 because ,i had not been helped out of the error in which opinions involve us4 ,my operator believed in disease independent of mind2 hence ,i could not be wiser than my teacher4 ,but now ,i can see1 dimly at first1 and only as trees walking1 the great principle which underlies ,dr4 ,quimby's faith and works2 and just in proportion to my right perception of truth is my recovery4 ,this truth1 which he opposes to the error of giving intelligence to matter and placing pain where it never placed itself1 if received understandingly1 changes the currents of the system to their normal action1 and the mechanism of the body goes on undisturbed4 ,that this is a science capable of demonstration becomes clear to the minds of those patients who reason upon the process of their cure4 ,the truth which he establishes in the patient cures him 7although he may be wholly unconscious thereof71 and the body1 which is full of light1 is no longer in disease4 ,the communication of ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy--then ,mrs4 ,mary ,m4 ,patterson--which she published in the ,portland ,courier1 was criticised1 the next day1 ,november #hth1 #ahfb1 by the ,portland ,advertiser4 ,in reply to that paper she said3 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby stands upon the plain of wisdom with his truth4 ,christ healed the sick1 but not by jugglery or with drugs4 ,as the former speaks as never man before spake1 and heals as never man healed since ,christ1 is he not identified with truth1 and is not this the ,christ which is in him8444 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby rolls away the stone from the sepulcher of error1 and health is the resurrection4444 ,but light shineth in darkness1 and the darkness comprehendeth it not4#ad ,dr4 ,quimby having died on the #afth of ,january1 #ahff1 ,mrs4 ,m4 ,b4 ,g4 ,patterson--not to be ,mrs4 ,m4 ,b4 ,g4 ,patterson ,eddy until #ahfg--sent to me1 says ,mr4 ,julius ,dresser in his ,true ,history of ,mental ,science1 a copy of a poem she had written to his memory4 ,with the poem was sent the following letter3 ,,lynn1 ,february #ae1 #ahff4 ,,mr4 ,,dresser3 ,sir1--,i enclose some lines of mine in memory of our much loved friend1 which perhaps you will not think overwrought in meaning3 others must1 of course4 ,i am constantly wishing that you would step forward into the place he has vacated4 ,i believe you would do a vast amount of good1 and are more capable of occupying his place than any other ,i know of4 ,two weeks ago ,i fell on the sidewalk and struck my back on the ice and was taken up for dead1 came to consciousness amid a storm of vapors from cologne1 chloroform1 ether1 camphor1 etc41 but to find myself the helpless cripple ,i was before ,i saw ,dr4 ,quimby4 ,the physician attending said ,i had taken the last step ,i ever should1 but in two days ,i got out of my bed alone1 and will walk2 but yet ,i confess ,i am frightened1 and out of that nervous heat my friends are forming1 spite of me1 the terrible spinal affection from which ,i have suffered so long and hopelessly4444 ,now can't you help me8 ,i believe you can4 ,i write this with this feeling3 ,i think that ,i could help another in my condition if they had not placed their intelligence in matter4 ,this ,i have not done1 and yet ,i am slowly failing4 ,won't you write me if you will undertake for me if ,i can get to you8444 ,respectfully1 ,,mary ,m4 ,,patterson4 ,the poem by the lady destined to become ,mrs4 ,eddy1 author of ,science and ,health1 was published by her1 with her name attached1 under the caption of ,,lines on the death of ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 who healed with the ,truth that ,christ taught1 in contradistinction to all ,isms4 ,did sackcloth clothe the sun1 and day grow night1 ,all matter mourn the hour with dewy eyes1 ,when ,truth1 receding from our mortal sight1 ,had paid to error her last sacrifice8 ,can we forget the power that gave us life8 ,shall we forget the wisdom of its way8 ,then ask me not amid this mortal strife-- ,this keenest pang of animated clay-- ,to mourn him less3 to mourn him more were just1 ,if to his memory 'twere a tribute given ,for every solemn1 sacred1 earnest trust ,delivered to us ere he rose to heaven-- ,heaven but the happiness of that calm soul1 ,growing in stature to the throne of ,god4 ,rest should reward him who hath made us whole1 ,seeking1 tho' tremblers1 where his footsteps trod4 ,,mary ,m4 ,,patterson4 ,the complete identity of ,mrs4 ,mary ,m4 ,patterson with ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy has been fully established by the highest ,christian-,science authority in the world--,mrs4 ,eddy herself4 ,in a letter dated ,march #gth1 #ahhc1 addressed to the ,boston ,post1 she said3 ,in #ahfb my name was ,patterson1 my husband1 ,dr4 ,patterson1 a distinguished dentist4 ,after our marriage ,i was confined to my bed with a severe illness1 and seldom left bed or room for seven years1 when ,i was taken to ,dr4 ,quimby and partially restored4 ,i returned home1 hoping once more to make that home happy1 but only returned to a new agony to find that my husband had eloped with a married woman from one of the wealthy families of that city1 leaving no trace save his last letter to us1 wherein he wrote3 ',i hope some time to be worthy of so good a wife4' ,i have a bill of divorce from him4444 ,in her letter to the ,boston ,post ,mrs4 ,eddy made some other interesting assertions4 ,she said3#ae ,we never were a student of ,dr4 ,quimby4 ,dr4 ,quimby never had students to our knowledge4 ,he was somewhat of a remarkable healer1 and at the time we knew him he was known as a mesmerist4 ,we were one of his patients4 ,what an astonishing look these statements by ,mrs4 ,eddy in #ahhc have1 when compared with the statements of ,mrs4 ,mary ,m4 ,patterson from #ahfb to #ahff4 ,let us see4-- ,statement of #ahhc4 ,at the time we knew him ,dr4 ,quimby1 he was known as a mesmerist4 ,statement of #ahff4 ,dr4 ,quimby healed with the truth that ,christ taught1 in contradistinction to all ,isms4 ,rest should reward him who hath made us whole1 seeking1 tho' tremblers1 where his footsteps trod4 ,on ,march #gth1 #ahhc1 ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy made1 in the ,boston ,post4 ,this ,statement4 ,we had laid the foundation of mental healing long before we ever saw ,dr4 ,quimby4444 ,we made our first experiments in mental healing about #ahec1 when we were convinced that mind had a science which1 if understood1 would heal all diseases4 ,in ,october1 #ahfb1 the same lady1 through the ,portland ,courier1 made ,this ,statement4 ,i can see1 dimly at first and as trees walking1 the great principle which underlies ,dr4 ,quimby's faith and works2 and just in proportion to my right perception of truth is my recovery4 ,this truth1 which he opposes to the error of giving intelligence to matter1 changes the currents of the system4 ,the truth which he establishes in the patient cures him4 ,this is a science capable of demonstration to those who reason upon the process4 ,then1 in the ,portland ,advertiser1 came ,mrs4 ,eddy's extraordinary comparison of ,dr4 ,quimby's words and deeds with those of ,christ1 and ,this ,statement4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby rolls away the stone from the sepulcher of error1 and health is the resurrection4 ,on the publication of ,julius ,a4 ,dresser's ,true ,history of ,mental ,science--to which reference has been made in our previous chapter--,mrs4 ,eddy was greatly exercised over it4 ,in her ,christian ,science ,journal for ,june1 #ahhg1 she devoted the leading article1 under her own name1 to the ,dresser pamphlet4 ,this little thing was a calm statement of facts1 proved as they were given4 ,from the facts1 ,dr4 ,quimby's theory was drawn1 and ,mr4 ,dresser frankly recounted what the general reader would consider ,dr4 ,quimby's foibles and prejudices1 as well as his doctrines and gifts4 ,the pamphlet contained ,mrs4 ,mary ,m4 ,patterson's opinion of ,dr4 ,quimby in #ahfb1 and her poem of #ahff4 ,it agreed with what was then the substance of her own assertions1 by summarizing ,dr4 ,quimby as the first person of this age who penetrated the depths of truth so far as to discover and bring forth a true science of life1 and openly apply it to the healing of the sick4 ,but1 in criticising ,mr4 ,dresser's quiet monograph1 the amiable ,mother of ,christian ,science1 proclaimed that ,mr4 ,dresser had let loose the dogs of war42 had unleashed a pet poodle1 alternately to bark and whine at her heels2 and she identified the pet poodle with a certain sucking litterateur1 who had renounced allegiance to her4#af ,but when her preliminary high-tide had ebbed a little1 her pen dropped this3 ,did ,i write those articles in ,mr4 ,dresser's pamphlet1 purporting to be mine8 ,i might have written them1 twenty or thirty years ago1 for ,i was under the mesmeric treatment of ,dr4 ,quimby from #ahfb until his death1 in #ahfe4 ,he was illiterate1 and knew nothing then of the science of ,mind-healing2 and ,i was as ignorant of mesmerism as ,eve before she was tempted by the serpent4 ,those ,patterson-,eddy articles1 then--no possible mendacity being adequate to their extinction--have been grudgingly and angrily admitted by their author to be genuine4 ,but she would ignore them on the ground of mesmerism4 ,her head1 she says1 was so turned by ,animal ,magnetism and will power under ,dr4 ,quimby's treatment1 that she might have written something as hopelessly incorrect as the articles referred to4 ,but was ,mrs4 ,mary ,m4 ,patterson under mesmeric treatment1 or did ,mrs4 ,mary ,patterson ,eddy ever really believe she was under such treatment1 when with ,dr4 ,quimby8 ,and was she then a truly ignorant ,eve1 without a fig-leaf of knowledge pertaining to mesmerism8 ,in #ahfb she thought not1 and we have seen that1 in writing her first newspaper letter on ,dr4 ,quimby1 she turned her thought into these words3 ,i have employed electro-magnetism and animal magnetism1 and for a brief period ,i have felt relief 444 but in no instance did ,i get rid of a return of all my ailments1 because ,i had not been helped out of the error in which opinions involve us4 ,my operator believed in disease independent of mind2 hence ,i could not be wiser than my teacher4 ,mrs4 ,patterson continued her letter by saying what has already been quoted in full--that ,dr4 ,quimby cured her by a great principle of science1 through which he established the truth in the patient--a truth which he opposed to the error of giving intelligence to matter1 and placing pain where it never placed itself4 ,in ,mrs4 ,eddy's magazine article of ,june1 #ahhg1 she went so far as to say of ,dr4 ,quimby1 ,his healing was never considered or called anything but ,mesmerism4 ,well1 ,mrs4 ,mary ,m4 ,patterson1 from #ahfb to #ahff1 both considered and called the ,doctor's healing something wholly different from mesmerism2 and1 saying it was done by the truth which ,christ taught1 she considered and called it something in contradistinction to all ,isms4 ,meanwhile1 for more than three years of ,mrs4 ,eddy's close acquaintance with ,dr4 ,quimby1 all his advertisements1 even1 told her1 what she then fluently repeated1 that he cured disease by implanting truth in the human mind1 in place of error--the truth being the cure4 ,in other words1 everything around her proclaimed that ,dr4 ,quimby's cures were performed wholly by ,mind-healing4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's reversal of herself has been so agile and exhaustive since her comparisons of ,dr4 ,quimby with our ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 that she has latterly preferred to speak of the good old doctor1 who taught and healed her1 as unlearned--a mesmerist who cured a patient by rubbing her--an illiterate man who said that he was only ,john while she was ,jesus1 and whose scribblings she1 to a considerable extent1 wrote herself4 ,from all this it must be adduced that ,mrs4 ,eddy1 in her ,patterson days1 went to ,dr4 ,quimby to be cured of disease1 but taught him to do it4 ,it is true1 as we have noted1 that ,dr4 ,quimby was not an educated man1 in the sense of the schools4 ,it would have been impossible for him to write like ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,when1 for instance1 she excogitated that first letter of ,mrs4 ,patterson's to the ,portland ,courier1 she opened it in this way3 ,when our ,shakespeare decided that there were more things in this world 'than were dreamed of in your philosophy1' ,i cannot say of a verity that he had a foreknowledge of ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby4 ,and when the school ,platonic anatomized the soul and divided it into halves1 to be united by elementary attractions1 and heathen philosophers averred that old ,chaos in sullen silence brooded o'er the earth until her inimitable form was hatched from the egg of night1 ,i would not at present decide whether the fallacy was found in their premises or conclusions1 never having dated my existence before the flood4 ,no3 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 even if aided by all the freshmen and sophomores that ever lived1 could never have risen into the state of gorgeous1 ponderous culture evinced in the foregoing power-house and epitome of all learning4 ,besides1 when that incomparable paragraph was erected1 ,mrs4 ,eddy was young--not yet fifty years of age4 ,at sixty1 her literary style had lost something of its dazzle2 but1 in matter1 all her work1 especially her world-renowned book1 ,science and ,health1 compares beautifully with her grand production of #ahfb4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby was a plain man of great natural genius4 ,when he wrote--generally in great haste--he paid little attention to capital letters1 punctuation1 or form of any kind2 but his manuscripts were carefully revised1 under his own direction1 by his two faithful friends1 the ,ware sisters1 or by his son1 ,mr4 ,george ,a4 ,quimby4 ,mrs4 ,mary ,m4 ,patterson borrowed and read some occasional jotting--that was all4 ,in the possession of ,mr4 ,george ,a4 ,quimby are eight hundred pages of his father's writings1 prepared before ,dr4 ,quimby had the honor of knowing that ,mrs4 ,patterson 7to be ,eddy7 was on the face of the earth4 ,these writings contain the substance of all his thoughts4 ,the knowledge that such writings exist has much disturbed ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,glover ,patterson ,eddy4 ,on the #bast of ,may1 #ahhg1 she published1 through a ,boston newspaper1 an offer to print the ,quimby manuscripts1 at her own expense1 provided she should first be allowed to examine said manuscripts1 and to see that they were his own compositions1 not hers1 which she had left with him many years ago4 ,now ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 author of ,science and ,health1 filled with immortal mind and the only divine science ever demonstrated1 is of course an honest woman4 ,many delightful innocents of all sizes would take her word for anything she promised4 ,there is not a single member of her ,church-,scientist who is not sure that her little hatchet is infinitely cleaner and brighter than ,george ,washington's4 ,still1 the possessors of the ,quimby manuscripts1 not yet having teetered themselves above all earthly wisdom1 would rather not trust her with their property4 ,a few years ago1 the eldest of ,dr4 ,quimby's two devoted friends1 the ,ware sisters1 passed away4 ,with the younger sister she left the following statement1 in the form of an affidavit1 which is here printed with permission3 ,i1 ,emma ,g4 ,ware1 of ,portland1 ,maine1 in the ,united ,states of ,america1 do hereby declare that ,i knew personally the late ,phineas ,parkhurst ,quimby1 and that ,i and my sister1 ,mrs4 ,mackay 7formerly ,sarah ,e4 ,ware71 were his patients while he resided in ,portland1 between the years #ahei and #ahfe1 and that we both owe our restored health to his treatment or mode of teaching4 ,i have learned that attempts are being made to deprive him of the credit of being the first to introduce the method of healing through the mind 7or1 more correctly1 of applying moral philosophy to the cure of diseases71 and ,i make this declaration out of regard to him1 in order that the credit to which he is entitled may not1 without protest1 be assumed by others4 ,i know that while ,mr4 ,quimby resided in ,portland he wrote out his ideas on ,mental ,science3 he was not a scholarly man1 and on that account copies of his writings were made by my sister1 myself1 and by ,mr4 ,quimby's son1 ,george ,a4 ,quimby4 ,these copies were read over to ,mr4 ,quimby1 and such corrections made as he thought fit4 ,they are now in the possession of ,mr4 ,george ,a4 ,quimby1 who resides in ,belfast1 ,maine1 and my sister and ,i have also copies of a number of them4 ,beyond these1 there are no other copies of his writings1 if ,i except a few fugitive pieces which he gave away while he resided in ,portland4 ,the mode of reasoning pursued by ,mr4 ,quimby is not new1 but its application to disease as a remedy has not1 so far as ,i am aware1 been previously made in modern times4 ,his teaching may be thus summarized3 that all diseases1 whether mental or physical1 are caused by an error in reasoning1 and that correcting the error will remove the cause1 and restore the sufferer to health4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,a ,,great ,,metaphysical ,,novel4 ,as shown by our last chapter1 ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,glover ,eddy1 whatever divine attributes may have perched upon her1 has been endowed with some very human qualities4 ,but in one gift she has been strangely lacking--a good memory4 ,for1 in spite of her association with ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 his renovation of her broken system1 and all the mellifluous prose and poetry she devoted to him in his day1 the fruitful mother1 discoverer1 and founder of ,christian ,science1 when she came to set up her new religion1 entirely forgot that her old friend1 ,quimby1 was the real suggestion of her whole ,shekinah4 ,she not only failed to mention the fact1 but she has been so miraculously forgetful1 ever since1 as to repudiate her own record of it1 and to attempt the obliteration of it from sacred and profane history4 ,mother ,eddy's lack of memory1 however1 has had its plenary compensation4 ,her imagination has more than made up for it4 ,the surcharge of this illimitable faculty has enabled her to produce one of the greatest works of fiction ever conceived on earth1 or possible to any other planet4 ,this arch-angelic romance1 dimly and very distantly founded on fact1 bears the esoteric title of ,retrospection and ,introspection4 ,it is not in the usual form of a novel1 but was evaporated by ,mrs4 ,eddy as her corporal and spiritual biography1 after she had dropped ,dr4 ,quimby from her powers of research1 and had built up her grand theological and financial industry1 ,christian ,science4 ,from an attentive reading of this personally conducted and authorized volume1 we know the light in which the hallowed lady wishes to appear1 and we know a good deal more if we read between the lines4 ,at eight years of age--if we can only credit true piety hitched up with lost memory--a heaven-selected little girl1 ,mary ,baker1 repeatedly heard a voice1 calling her distinctly by name1 three times in an ascending scale4 ,at first she thought it was a human voice2 but in due season--for the call came many times--she1 her mother and her cousin1 ,mehitable ,huntoon1 learned better4 ,then her mother read to her the ,hebrew story of little ,samuel1 and advised her to respond to the voice1 saying1 ,speak1 ,lord1 for thy servant heareth4 ,finally the chosen virgin took this advice1 whereupon the voice came no more to her material senses4 ,its mission had been fulfilled4 ,such is the opening legend told to the marines of the ,church ,scientist1 in that juicy book1 ,retrospection and ,introspection4#ag ,still1 in these days of ,spiritual manifestations1 the numerous believers in messages from the summer land would account1 in a quite simple way1 for the voices calling little ,hebrew ,samuel and little ,new-,england ,mary4 ,but not so ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,am ,i a believer in ,spiritualism8 she asks4 ,i believe in no ism4444 ,as ,i understand it ,spiritualism is the antipode of ,christian ,science4#ah ,ah1 it was no voice of common1 finite spirit1 that came to the high and mighty founder of an absolutely scientific religion4 ,so there is but one conclusion she gives us to draw3 the voice was directly the voice of ,god4 ,the ,infinite and ,omniscient1 the ,all-in-,all1 spake to the girl of nine years1 as a miraculous call to her divine work4 ,at that time1 she tells us1 her father thought her brain was too large for her body4#ai ,the old gentleman was doubtless right4 ,it looks1 too1 as if the brain of his blessed daughter1 with the entire head containing it1 has been rapidly enlarging ever since4 ,from the metaphysical adventures of ,saint ,mary ,baker1 as told in her ,retrospection and ,introspection1#bj we find that when twelve years old she was admitted to the ,orthodox ,church of ,new ,england1 though she declined to accept the doctrine of predestination--a doctrine which so troubled her that a doctor was called1 who pronounced her stricken with fever4 ,it is told of ,martin ,luther that when a theological student once came to him half-crazy over the same doctrine1 the doughty reformer ordered him to go and get well drunk4 ,in the case of ,robert ,ingersoll1 his soul could only find relief from the tenet by such hard swearing that it brought him peace4 ,but we are assured by our divine lady of the ,church ,scientist that she took the better as well as the usual course prescribed for such trials4 ,she wrestled in prayer4 ,for she felt sure that the ,creator of the ,universe1 who had once descended in person and spoken to her by name1 could not fail to possess the faculty of hearing and the usefulness of help4 ,behold it was so6 ,instantly the fever was gone and health was restored4 ,the physician marveled1 she says1 and ,john ,calvin lost his power4 ,in #ahgh ,rev4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy was called to preach at the ,baptist ,tabernacle of ,boston4 ,the congregation increased beyond the capacity of the pews1 and it was no uncommon occurrence for the sick to be healed by her sermons4 ,cancers were cured1 and many pale cripples went into the church1 leaning on crutches1 who went out carrying them on their shoulders4 ,mrs4 ,eddy says so4#ba ,by the same authority--in her ,retrospection and ,introspection--it is stated that her ,science of ,divine ,metaphysical ,healing1 otherwise ,christian ,science1 was discovered by her in #ahff4 ,the day and date are not given4 ,but it was some time after ,february #aeth2 for at that time one ,mary ,m4 ,patterson was occupied in putting on poetic mourning for ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 and in begging ,mr4 ,julius ,a4 ,dresser to visit ,lynn and heal an injury to her back from a fall on the ice4 ,it is not well to wear mourning too long4 ,in the spring of #ahff it must have occurred to ,mrs4 ,eddy that weeds of poetry would not pay1 and she hustled them off4 ,dr4 ,quimby having gone to heaven and slipped out of a decayed memory1 his obituary poetess just then realized that she had spent twenty years in tracing physical effects to a mental cause4 ,then came the scientific certainty that all causation is ,mind1 and that every effect is a mental phenomenon4#bb ,what ,christian ,scientists mean by scientific certainty is proof by healing4 ,take the revered principle of cosmogony that the moon is made of green cheese4 ,if one who holds the doctrine1 heals anybody1 the proposition is demonstrated4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's scientific works are all filled with this unanswerable logic4 ,mortal ,mind--a thing which she utterly reprobates--may find difficulty in accepting the conclusion2 but it is doubtless quite as well founded as most of the healing itself4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's own case is an illustration in point4 ,a bed-ridden invalid for years1 she was snatched from death1 she has told us1 by ,dr4 ,quimby1 and within a week of his first mental treatment she climbed to the top of a city hall4 ,the writer has read a series of ,mrs4 ,eddy's unpublished letters1 which show that for some time she had varied nervous and spinal relapses4 ,when not with ,dr4 ,quimby1 she wrote to him for absent treatments1 and sometimes saw him appear to her--or said she did--in response4 ,finally she was cured4 ,then she fell on an icy sidewalk1 was nearly frightened to death1 and wrote her letter beseeching ,mr4 ,dresser to undertake for her4 ,but1 having been taught mind-healing by ,dr4 ,quimby1 she demonstrated over herself1 and got up4 ,the ,doctor's original cure appears to have been so effective that her fall on the ice was mostly a jar of her imagination and a contusion on her veracity4 ,for1 in her ,retrospection and ,introspection1 she solemnly affirms that her accident caused an injury far beyond the reach of medicine or surgery1 which she repaired by application of the ,divine ,spirit4 ,this experience1 says ,mrs4 ,eddy 7scientist71 was a falling apple of discovery to her4 ,thereupon she went out into the wilderness of ,boston--withdrew1 that is1 from society--for three years--that she might search the ,scriptures and find ,science4#bc ,at the end of her retirement1 she had learned that ,mind reconstructs the body1 and that nothing else can4 ,how it is done1 she adds1 the ,spiritual ,science of ,mind must reveal4 ,her charge for a course of ten lessons in this divine science was soon fixed at only three hundred dollars4#bd ,of the genuine original ,christian ,science--the sole and undivided discovery of ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy--she says3 ,i named it ,christian because it is compassionate1 helpful1 and spiritual4 ,god ,i called ,immortal ,mind4 ,that which sins1 suffers1 and dies1 ,i named mortal mind4 ,the physical senses1 or sensuous nature1 ,i called error and shadow4 ,soul ,i denominated ,substance1 because ,soul alone is truly substantial4 ,god ,i characterized as individual entity1 but his corporeality ,i denied4 ,the ,real ,i claimed as eternal2 and its antipodes1 or the temporal1 ,i described as unreal4 ,spirit ,i called the reality2 and matter1 the unreality4#be ,on the hash and rehash of theology1 here announced1 we need not dwell just now1 but will consider1 for the moment1 how much of ,mrs4 ,eddy's individually discovered and copyrighted creed was first expounded1 though not copyrighted1 by one ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby4 ,dr4 ,quimby never thought of pushing his thought and work under the special name of ,christian ,science1 though his writings show that he used the term4#bf ,he was not in pursuit of money by truckling to current preconception or prejudice4 ,we recollect1 however--for our own memory has not been laid in the tomb of our piety--that after his truth was discovered he found his new views all portrayed and illustrated in ,christ's teachings4 ,we recollect that he said of his practise1 ,it belongs to a ,wisdom that is above man as man4 ,it was taught eighteen hundred years ago1 and has never had a place in the heart of man since4 ,he said1 ,there is a bread which1 if a man eat1 he is filled2 and this bread is ,christ or ,science4 ,in #ahfe the ,portland ,advertiser said of ,dr4 ,quimby3 ,by a method entirely novel and at first sight quite unintelligible1 he has been slowly developing what he calls the ',science of ,health'2 that is1 as he defines it1 a science founded on principles that can be taught and practised like that of mathematics1 and not on opinion or experiments of any kind whatsoever4 ,prior to the issue of ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,retrospection and ,introspection she had1 of course1 written her other great and better-known work of religious fiction1 called ,science and ,health4 ,now the title of that book--the term ,science and ,health--is quite different from ,dr4 ,quimby's term1 ,the ,science of ,health4 ,still1 the chief distinction between them1 considering what ,dr4 ,quimby taught1 is that the latter came first and the former afterwards4 ,it does not appear that ,god--who in our day has been personally known by ,mrs4 ,eddy only--and in an interview which ,he took the trouble to seek--was ever technically defined by ,dr4 ,quimby as ,immortal ,mind1 or characterized as individual entity1 with corporeality denied4 ,it may have been so2 for all the obligations derived by ,mrs4 ,eddy from ,dr4 ,quimby have not yet been published4 ,by all competent theologians and metaphysicians1 since the beginning at least of human records1 ,god has been conceived and proclaimed as ,infinite ,spirit1 one with ,immortal ,mind1 and above corporeality1 which has been accounted a temporary phase of finite things4 ,plato was pretty nearly made of this conception in philosophy1 and ,st4 ,john in religion4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby was neither a ,plato nor a ,saint ,john2 but he agreed with them1 in his literal1 honest fashion1 as he said he did with ,bishop ,berkeley4 ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy had ever read a history of philosophy before she instituted a religion1 she would have found that ,spinoza honored her advent1 some two hundred years in advance of it1 by postulating ,substance as the ,soul of things4 ,incidentally1 too1 he postulated matter as an unreality of sense1 and thus1 in a way1 as error and shadow--the product of mortal mind4 ,dr4 ,quimby said1 with the utmost possible distinctness1 ,i believe matter to be nothing but an idea belonging to the senses2 and it will be found1 when his writings get published1 that he said the same thing in some hundreds of different ways4 ,but all this was known to the thought of ,india1 even before books were written1 and the original authorities for it had then been lost4 ,but now3 in one point of doctrine--and to her the most important one--,mother ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy does stand completely original1 solitary and alone4 ,she holds of matter that it is not only not what it seems1 but is nothing at all save unreality4 ,to recognize it as anything whatever1 beyond shadow and error1 is to be buried in disease1 sin1 and death4 ,absolutely to deny the most palpable fact of daily existence is to ,christian ,science the one road to health and salvation4 ,to ,dr4 ,quimby1 matter was a state of things reduced from mind1 but the state and the things were here4 ,they were perfectly actual as a condition1 though not as an unrelated fixture of all time and eternity4 ,every idealist1 in every age1 has taken this view1 excepting only ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,of her own view1 no human being out of a refuge for imbeciles or the ,church ,scientist1 could possibly begrudge her the sole copyright4 ,in due order ,mrs4 ,eddy's theological speculation will be further considered4 ,from the ,arabian ,nights tales of ,retrospection and ,introspection1 we learn that1 before setting up her new church1 the revelator wandered through the dim mazes of ,materia ,medica4 ,she found1 in ,jahr's two hundred and sixty-two remedies1 the one pervading secret that the less matter and the more mind1 the better the work4 ,homeopathy taught her that in the higher attenuations of its drugs1 matter is rarefied to its fatal essence1 mortal mind4 ,her conclusion was that mortal belief1 instead of any drug1 governs the action of material medicine4 ,i claim1 says she1 for healing scientifically1 that it does away with all material medicine1 and recognizes the antidote for all sickness1 as well as sin1 in the ,immortal ,mind2 and mortal mind as the source of all ills which befall mortals4444 ,the mortal body being but the objective state of the mortal mind1 this mind must be renovated to improve the body4#bg ,considering the high moral perch on which ,mrs4 ,eddy has set herself1 and contemplating the cerulean nest in which she has laid the eggs of science1 it is really painful here to study her case of fatty degeneration of the memory4 ,for1 apart from mere phraseology and acquaintance with ,jahr1 ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby had reached the principle and practise of healing scientifically1 more than twenty years before she proclaimed it in ,science and ,health1 and he had applied it to ,mrs4 ,eddy herself1 thirteen years prior to that publication1 which descended from heaven in #ahge4 ,he did not mention mortal mind--by name1 that is--for he called the fact of it opinion of the natural man1 in the state of matter1 and so far of error4 ,he did not use the term1 ,immortal ,mind2 for he designated it as ,wisdom1 ,science1 and the ,christ1 as distinguished from the man1 ,jesus4 ,adopting the ,christ principle1 ,dr4 ,quimby aimed to follow1 persistently but humbly1 in the footsteps of ,jesus4 ,dr4 ,quimby1 in fact1 was covering1 both theoretically and practically1 the whole true and essential field of ,christian ,science1 while avoiding its nonsense and its humbugs1 at a time when ,mrs4 ,eddy1 as ,mary ,b4 ,glover1 was a writer of love stories for ,peterson's ,magazine4#bh ,,chapter ,v4 ,a ,,soft ,,set ,,of ,,critics4 ,we have now learned a little of ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy's celestial and terrestrial biography1 as derived from the supramundane novel1 ,retrospection and ,introspection1 and some other sources4 ,bare allusion has been made to her ,science and ,health4 ,but this1 she says1 is my most important work1 containing the complete statement of ,christian ,science4 ,the book1 as we have seen1 came among men--or1 more strictly speaking1 among less busy women--in #ahge2 and a thousand copies1 we are told1 comprised the first edition4 ,the critics1 ,mrs4 ,eddy informs us1 pronounced it wholly original1 but a thing that would never be read4 ,the foolish critics6 ,how little they knew about originality6 ,but they knew still less of ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,spiritual afflatus1 as she designates it1 in the fervency of which erudite systems of philosophy had melted2 nor did they realize her divinely appointed mission2 for1 in #ahia1 ,science and ,health had reached sixty-two editions4 ,then the critics said that ,bishop ,berkeley1 ,david ,hume1 ,ralph ,waldo ,emerson1 or certain ,german philosophers1 had originated ,mrs4 ,eddy's sole and well-monopolized ,science4#bi ,now if any critics ever did really shoot such soft intellectual putty as that1 they ought certainly to have been condemned to the most heroic sort of mind-healing4 ,think of ,george ,berkeley1 the most acute1 the most logical mind of his age1 standing with both feet on ,john ,locke's ,essay of the ,human ,understanding1 and attempting to pull himself up into the ,infinite by mouthing the shibboleth that there is no finite6 ,and ,david ,hume--the bonny skeptic1 ,david--whose keenness brought the philosophy of his age to a logical standstill1 and for the moment broke up all metaphysics6 ,poor ,david ,hume6 ,in the hands of what a critic it was1 who imagined he had ever furnished a speck of meat for such a haggis as ,science and ,health6 ,for the moment1 let us pass by ,mr4 ,emerson1 the ,puritan mystic of ,new ,england transcendentalism1 who beamed serenely down on mere critics1 and told them he hoped he had never said anything that needed to be proved4 ,but ,mrs4 ,eddy's phrase1 certain ,german philosophers1 is one that can only refer to ,immanuel ,kant1 with his school of followers1 who summed up the pure thinking of the modern world1 as ,plato and ,aristotle summed up the pure thinking of the ancient world4 ,history tells us that ,kant was a man who discovered the planet ,uranus by mathematics before ,herschel found it with a telescope1 and who had mastered all sciences to date when he lived4 ,ripe with the knowledge of sixty years1 he wrote his ,critique of ,pure ,reason4 ,this1 the most profound and far-reaching treatise of any age1 should have been named ,the ,analysis of ,mind and ,matter1 ,time and ,space2 for such was really ,kant's subject and achievement4 ,this extraordinary little ,german professor1 ,immanuel ,kant1 was the most regular and temperate of human beings2 but he had a touch of asthma1 for which1 before all the medicinal properties of mind-cure were known1 he took daily about a thimble-full of rum4 ,kant has been frightfully dealt with by his critics1 the most of whose heads he completely pulverized in connection with their activity in his behalf4 ,but suppose ,herr ,professor ,kant could have imagined that any critic on earth would ever accuse him of instigating the philosophy of ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy6 ,in that dread event1 the sage of ,koenigsberg1 who once lost the thread of a lecture when a button he used to finger was cut from his coat1 might have been so disconcerted1 so sunk in amazement and despair1 as to swallow his whole bottle of liquor1 instead of the twentieth of a gill1 and to burn his ,critique of ,pure ,reason in a fit of delirium tremens4 ,it is well he was tempted into no such catastrophe2 for1 on getting on a bit1 we shall find that every possible system of metaphysics1 to have any scientific foundation in modern thought1 must refer itself to ,kant's dissection of the universe4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,the ,,precious ,,volume4 ,in the world of books1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,science and ,health is the specially precious volume2 for she herself so designates and describes it at the head of a chapter in her ,retrospection and ,introspection4#cj ,to her1 indeed1 it is a very precious volume--more precious than even a goodly pile of the precious metals4 ,her devotees exchange these for it with sublime certainty that they get more than the worth of their money2 and being in great need of science1 to say nothing of health1 their profuseness may be forgiven4 ,but it should be said at once that ,christian ,scientists are neither a bad nor a specially crude sort of the world's queer inhabitants4 ,they are fanatically honest2 and1 as a whole1 they have just that little knowledge which has long been proverbial as a dangerous thing4 ,then they are quite incapable of looking through the veil worn by their beatific ,mother4 ,in the eyes of the unregenerate1 these children of hers frequently turn to ,science and ,health1 or to a picture of its author celestially touched up1 when it would be well to inspect their plumbing and wash their windows4 ,but this is no broad case against them2 for almost any sort of camp-meeting1 without regard to sect1 is apt to bring upon the wicked some small inconveniences4 ,as can readily be seen1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's lambs are often amusing1 and thus brighten life for less spiritual beings4 ,there is my babe-eyed friend1 ,mr4 ,tott4 ,he never committed a cent's worth of sin in his life4 ,he is a veritable piece of the salt of the earth1 a little over-salted4 ,but his youth has departed1 and his sight is failing4 ,he used to wear glasses2 but he discarded them for ,christian ,science and a dim1 economic light4 ,he sees a little yet1 though chiefly with the eye of the mind4 ,with this eye1 however1 he beholds marvels of healing going on all around him1 which he proclaims and verifies at the weekly meetings of his church4 ,he buys all ,mrs4 ,eddy's books and publications1 as fast as they come out4 ,by patient effort he deciphers something of their contents4 ,then1 as he contemplates an assertive text from ,science and ,health1 or some tale of ,jonah interpreted by ,mother ,eddy's ,key to the ,scriptures1 a celestial calm descends on his soul1 and folds it in a fabric softer than silk4 ,he knows that he is better in health than ever before1 that he sees better1 and that the entire universe is becoming unspeakably illuminated4 ,disease never touches his physical frame2 he has merely a belief of a cold1 or a belief of a corn4 ,in the etherialized ,mr4 ,tott only one thing ever suggests a remnant of wicked matter4 ,cast a doubt on the sainthood of ,mrs4 ,eddy1 then you behold an angel in anger4 ,he may not indulge in personal violence1 but he swiftly threatens that1 if once you breathe your unholy doubt aloud1 ,judge ,hanna1 or some other ,sampson of ,science1 will reduce you to a grease-spot4#ca ,but1 among all ,mrs4 ,eddy's followers1 her precious volume1 ,science and ,health1 is paramountly precious to those who have paid their three hundred dollars for imbibing the inmost knowledge of her unfathomable religion1 and have gone forth among the gentiles to teach and to heal4 ,to a missionary in science1 the precious volume cannot be too preciously bound4 ,let the daintiest white of the white-winged dove encase its inspired words1 printed on translated tissue of ethereal linen4 ,let the sheen of the gold standard furnish splendor for the edges of the leaves1 and letters for the cover4 ,let the book be held before the eyes of a new student or patient1 with abysmal solemnity and mystic silence4 ,hypnotism1 if you name it such1 is bitterly disallowed2 but the precious volume is so hallowed a thing that no danger can come from using it in the same way as the disk of a mesmerist4 ,impressiveness is the point--that self may depart1 and science become boundless4 ,almost every religious sect in all history has had its fetich4 ,christian ,science is not behind the procession4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,science and ,health is the fetich thereof4 ,in a plain garment1 for the poorer saints1 it may be had for three dollars and eighteen cents4 ,in the purest1 holiest1 most golden robe it costs six dollars4#cb ,let us look into ,science and ,health and see what it is2 though the author warns us that something more than mortal mind is required to understand it4 ,this she asserts and repeats with the voice1 as it were1 of a fog-horn grown eternal1 until a multitude of people have come to think that the sound really contains significance4 ,in her ,retrospection and ,introspection ,our ,lady of ,the ,precious ,volume says3#cc ,science and ,health is the textbook of ,christian ,science4444 ,when the demand for this book increased1 and people were healed by simply reading it1 the copyright was infringed4 ,i entered a suit at law1 and my copyright was protected4 ,the case of protected copyright to which ,mrs4 ,eddy refers1 took place in #ahhc4 ,a ,mr4 ,arens had practised some sort of mental healing1 without the consent of the papal mother of ,christian ,science4 ,in connection with such healing he had issued some pamphlets1 in which1 according to the court records1 he certainly came very near to reproducing certain sentences from ,science and ,health1 which had a commercial value in his line1 though they would not have sold for a cent out of ,science4 ,the man's defense was that ,mrs4 ,eddy's own works were not original with her1 but had been copied from writings by ,dr4 ,quimby4 ,now ,dr4 ,quimby1 as we have seen1 had sown the seed of the whole modern field of mental healing1 and ,mrs4 ,eddy1 as ,mary ,m4 ,patterson1 had told the whole truth about it4 ,but ,quimby's simple doctrine was that matter is a phase of mind2 and hence that the mind of man1 as an inlet of ,god's truth and power1 can change the body and cure disease4 ,appropriating this thought1 ,mrs4 ,eddy had stretched it out and blown it up into the ponderous misfit labeled ,christian ,science4 ,in #ahhc none of ,dr4 ,quimby's writings had been published1 and there was no convenient evidence to prove that ,mrs4 ,eddy had ascribed his mind-healing to the ,christ that was in him1 and to his establishment of ,truth in wrong-thinking sick patients4 ,as no such facts were presented1 and as ,mr4 ,arens had clearly plagiarized ,mrs4 ,eddy1 whatever she had done1 the court properly decided that her copyright be protected4 ,in other words1 the merits of the case were not involved1 though the decision has given ,mother ,eddy a chance to say1 with her usual candor and logic1 that the failure of ,arens to produce his proof is conclusive evidence that no such proof existed4 ,science and ,health is a book of nearly seven hundred pages1 containing somewhat less than two hundred thousand words2 but this brief of ,un-,christian ,non-,science includes ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,key to the ,scriptures4 ,the eighty-second edition of the precious volume is the particular issue here elucidated4 ,we shall make a few quotations from ,science and ,health1 but only just enough to verify our criticism of it as a pretentious1 untrue1 and unhealthy book1 which1 in the interest of the public1 needs to be exploded4 ,for these quotations we shall give ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy full credit4 ,it would be a crime1 indeed1 to accuse any one else of originating such capsules of metaphysical ipecac4 ,as laid down in ,science and ,health1 the fundamental propositions of the mumbo-jumbo termed ,christian ,science are four in number4 ,first3 ,god is ,all4 ,second3 ,god is ,good4 ,good is ,mind4 ,third3 ,god1 ,spirit1 being ,all1 nothing is matter4 ,fourth3 ,life1 ,god1 omnipotent ,good1 deny death1 evil1 sin1 disease4 ,disease1 sin1 evil1 death1 deny ,good1 omnipotent ,god1 life4 ,mrs4 ,eddy says that1 to her1 these are self-evident propositions4 ,they are proved1 too1 by the rule of inversion4 ,they are just as harmonious backward as forward4 ,there is a little hitch in ,number ,four1 which declares one way that ,god denies death1 evil1 sin1 and disease1 and the other way that these deny ,god4 ,but this one exception to the rule of inversion only confirms it2 for1 according to ,scripture1 ,god is true1 and every mortal man a liar4 ,for the corner-stone1 then1 of ,eddyism1 we have self-evident propositions--self-evident to the mind of ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy--and with these an appeal to ,scripture4 ,truly enough this must be ,divine ,science2 for no rational creature of modern times can suspect it of being human science1 whether true or false4 ,but1 says the great teacher of it1 no human pen or tongue taught me the science1 and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it4 ,well1 never mind the overthrow4 ,but1 when ,mrs4 ,eddy tells us that no human pen or tongue taught her the science of mind-healing1 we are obliged to infer that ,dr4 ,quimby was more than human4 ,how greatly would the plain but gifted ,quimby have been shocked1 had he foreknown that ,mrs4 ,eddy would thus apotheosize him4 ,through ,science and ,health we learn that ,christian ,science reveals1 incontrovertibly1 that ,mind is ,all-in-all--the only realities being the divine ,mind and idea4 ,we learn1 further1 that this divine ,mind is ,god1 that ,god's idea is ,man1 and that by authority of ,webster an idea is an image in mind4 ,it would be truly pitiable for any theologian1 or indeed for any believer in a spirit-principle of the cosmos1 to attempt the overthrow of these venerable revelations now protected by ,mrs4 ,eddy's copyright1 but which were hoary with age even in the days of the ,greek ,academy4 ,barring ,webster's definition of an idea1 these revelations to ,mrs4 ,eddy appear revealed in the ,bible1 though not copyrighted4 ,as logical metaphysics1 in recent times1 ,hegel reduced them to their utmost sublimation2 and ,hegel is excellent authority in many of our colleges1 as well as with the good ,dr4 ,harris1 our ,united ,states ,commissioner of ,education at ,washington4 ,let us say once more that there is no trouble in effecting a spiritual derivation of the universe1 except to our friends1 the materialists1 who have themselves refined matter to things not much like it4 ,the only trouble with an all-containing1 all-pervading ,spiritual ,source of ,existence1 is in the funny havoc sometimes made of it by half-baked people1 like ,christian ,scientists4 ,to ,dr4 ,quimby1 ,mind1 or ,spirit was the principle of all things4 ,to him1 ,matter was a condition of ,spirit--an idea1 he said1 reduced to a solid--a solid meaning a definite and real appearance to human sense4 ,but this conception1 which the old and regular school of metaphysicians have held for thousands of years1 would not do for the genuine original ,mother of ,christian ,science when she came to prescribe a dogma for the cure of all possible disease from leprosy to bunions4 ,it was necessary1 she thought1 to have a stronger pill4 ,she compounded it in the form that matter1 including the mortal body1 is not only the objective state of the mortal mind1 but that mortal mind is unmixed1 error1 entailing all sin1 disease1 and death4 ,yet error is really nothing2 or say something only to be denied4 ,the duty of life1 in ,science1 is to make this denial effective4 ,matter1 sin1 disease1 are absolute illusions and delusions of mortal mind1 which itself is just error1 to be wiped out4 ,now say so1 and they are all gone4 ,or if they persist in seeming to be anywhere1 be more firm with them4 ,sing the denial1 as well as say it4 ,keep it up4 ,let nothing else intervene for a second4 ,let every paragraph you write be made of it4 ,give it ten thousand different forms1 and each form ten thousand variations4 ,if you fully concentrate your whole mind on this divine business1 and pay the full price for learning it1 you will elevate yourself into perfect harmony with ,immortal ,mind4 ,when you accomplish this undertaking1 impurity and evil1 sin1 disease and death1 will disappear as the shadow of their original nothingness1 which they always are and ever were4 ,here is the whole real substance of the precious volume1 ,science and ,health1 including ,mrs4 ,eddy's marvelous ,key to the ,scriptures4 ,still1 the holy tome has some interesting particulars4 ,on opening it1 and journeying only as far as page #b1 one finds that1 while ,christian ,science is copyrighted property1 the ,divine ,spirit was the real author of it2 for ,mrs4 ,eddy explicitly declares that through ,christian ,science the ,divine ,spirit testified to her1 and that the testimony unfolded her one basic1 forever-echoed assumption that matter has nothing in it but falsity4 ,next comes up the ,platonic conception--which1 unfortunately for ,plato1 he neglected to copyright--that the ,principle of ,mind1 with its reflection or idea1 constitutes the real universe4 ,mrs4 ,eddy pronounces this philosophical conception a scientific fact2 but it was not proved to the senses--which1 by the way1 never perceive anything but error--until ,christian ,science revealed it4 ,then it was proved incontrovertibly1 absolutely and divinely1 by repairing ,mrs4 ,eddy's back after a fall on ice4 ,from time immemorial1 the history of philosophy has been familiar with the thought that the human body is a reflex and product of mind2 a practical reality for all earthly conditions and purposes1 but resolvable1 from the view of spirit1 into simply an objective appearance4 ,the thought1 too1 has been frequent in poetry4 ,three hundred years ago ,spenser sang3 ,so every spirit1 as it is more pure1 ,and hath in it the more of heavenly light1 ,so it the fairer body doth procure ,to habit in1 and it more fairly dight ,with cheerful grace and amiable sight4 ,for1 of the soul1 the body form doth take1 ,for soul is form1 and doth the body make4 ,yet ,mrs4 ,eddy claims this doctrine1 too1 as her discovery1 though1 with her1 it is not merely mind1 but the mortal or misnamed article1 that produces the body4 ,all such mind is unalloyed error1 and the body1 or apparition of this error1 is another error4 ,it was this discovery1 she says1 that led to her infallible proposition1 the all-inclusiveness of ,immortal ,mind and the all-nothingness of matter1 which she made the bed-rock of her all-healing ,science4 ,matter being ,nothing1 and our bodies being nothing but error1 there is great use1 notwithstanding1 for the one genuine medicine1 ,christian ,science4 ,physical healing1 with mental healing thrown in1 is the large wholesale business of which ,mother ,eddy is proprietor and director4 ,in the last analysis1 according to the preface of ,science and ,health1 this medicine is ,divine ,principle4 ,such a remedy naturally dispels the unfounded belief of matter1 the unfounded imaginings of sickness and sin1 which drop out of supposed reality1 and so out of existence4 ,as the term ,christian ,science is necessarily suggestive of ,christian history1 even ,mrs4 ,eddy has not quite claimed the whole product of ,christianity as originating in ,science and ,health4 ,she does admit1 with pious candor1 that ,god imparted the spirit of ,christian ,science to ,jesus and the ,apostles4 ,but the letter is another thing4 ,the absolute letter waited for ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy2 and1 were the blessed lady a living kaleidoscope1 she could hardly add to the combinations and varieties in which she presents this claim to her readers4 ,eddyism proclaims ,one ,god1 all-inclusive1 whose highest title is ,immortal ,mind4 ,but1 in ,science1 this ,god1 being all-inclusive1 as ,unity1 ,identity1 and ,goodness--so otherwise all-exclusive--there is no room anywhere for a ,devil1 or say1 rather1 the recognition of one4 ,if ,god is not only all1 but all-good1 no opposite to this principle can exist4 ,however1 there is mortal mind1 or sense1 with its image and creation1 matter1 and in these are sin and disease4 ,still1 mortal mind1 matter1 sin1 disease1 have no relation or reference to ,god4 ,he fills all ,space4#cd ,they subsist neither by ,his creation nor permission4 ,hence they can not be--they are just naught4 ,but hold6 ,christian ,science1 with ,science and ,health1 being present avatars to dispel sin and cure disease1 such a science and such a book necessarily admit sickness and sin1 both implicitly and explicitly4 ,now what is to be done in such a dilemma8 ,why1 mortal mind1 matter1 evil1 and all afflictions1 while nothing1 are a kind of nothing that may be mentioned as error and ultimate self-nullity4 ,thus1 while ,eddy ,science1 alias ,christian ,science1 has no real ,devil1 it has a very practical seeming ,devil1 and whips him from stump to stump with logic worse than himself4 ,finally1 as he is not substance1 but shadow1 you knock him out by calling him names4 ,but the doctrine of the ,trinity1 as demonstrated in ,science1 is the best abstract of the ,eddy theology4 ,this ,trinity consists of one self-identical ,father-and-,mother ,god2 ,man1 the ,idea or ,reflection2 then ,christian ,science1 the ,holy ,comforter4 ,the position of man1 as theologized by ,mrs4 ,eddy1 is1 if anything1 more terribly mixed than that of the ,devil4 ,man is the image of ,god2 but1 as ,god is ,all1 man has no real individuality4 ,he cannot have personality of his own1 as ,god has no separability4 ,still this ,god's idea1 named man1 somehow takes on an imaginary state1 named mortal mind1 and this imaginary state has a dream of error and misery named ,sense4 ,human individuality1 mortal mind1 and sense1 are all1 in reality1 null and void4 ,man1 however1 being ,god's idea and reflection1 can never lose his unpossessed true self4 ,the divine contradictions of ,science and ,health are here insurmountable4 ,let no man try to rationalize them4 ,mrs4 ,eddy well remarks in her ,retrospection and ,introspection1 that ,divine ,science demands mighty wrestlings with mortal beliefs1 as we sail into the eternal haven over the unfathomable sea of possibilities4 ,o ,lord1 how long6 ,oh1 bosh1 how strong6 ,the fact is that any long-continued reading of ,science and ,health1 with the innocence to imagine it either true1 difficult or profound1 is enough to turn a weak mind idiotic4 ,to a trained thinker1 the only danger from the book is an attack of nausea or a hemorrhage from laughing4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,key ,,to ,,the ,,eddy ,,scripture1 ,,science ,,and ,,health4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,un-,christian ,non-,science may be summarized as a caricature of her early ,new ,england ,orthodoxy1 crazily combined with ,new ,england ,transcendentalism1 coated with a kind of free-thought permissible only to her own divine ,science1 all overlying ,dr4 ,quimby's ,science of ,health1 and carefully put under copyright4 ,let us now see a few moonstone gems from her precious volume--just enough to illustrate our criticism of it and not infringe on her monopolized territory4 ,it may be explained1 by the way1 that the ,united ,states statute governing copyright precludes the reproduction and sale of books and pamphlets1 as wholes1 without permission of the authors2 and protects even parts of dramas1 pictures1 and other works of art--the intent being1 of course1 to protect1 also1 one of the ,ten ,commandments3 ,thou shalt not steal4 ,but1 if an untrue and injurious book could not be analyzed1 and a dozen extracts taken from it in proof of criticism1 no literary quack could be exposed1 in protection of the truth and the public4 ,in that case1 the ,copyright ,law would be worse than the old ,fugitive ,slave ,bill1 and it would be a sacred duty to get into jail1 if necessary1 for violating it4 ,fortunately there is no such need4 ,the law was not drawn in the interest of charlatans and malefactors1 and has never been interpreted against the decencies of justice4 ,following ,mother ,eddy's example in connection with our quotations from her ,science and ,health1 we shall interpret them in a strictly scientific light1 as she1 with miraculous nerve1 in her ,key to the ,scriptures1 has done with other sacred writings4 ,thus we shall illumine ,science and ,health in the same way that she has illumined ,genesis and ,the ,apocalypse4 ,science and ,health1 #g4ce--;,in the year #ahff ,i discovered the ,science of ,metaphysical ,healing1 and named it ,christian ,science4 ,god had been graciously fitting me1 during many years1 for the reception of a final revelation of the absolute ,principle of ,scientific ,mind-healing4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,history reveals to us1 for sure1 that ,mother ,eddy1 has always claimed to have discovered and founded the only genuine and original ,christian ,science4 ,though she was once a patient of ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 and at that time one ,mary ,m4 ,patterson said that ,quimby cured disease by mental truth--the truth that ,christ taught--this miserable episode has nothing to do with the case4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has told us that the ,patterson woman was a creature ignorant of ,science1 whom ,dr4 ,quimby used to mesmerize4 ,he cured her of a seven-years' complaint in the mortal body1 but so addled her head that she had no knowledge of what she talked about4 ,thus1 ,mrs4 ,patterson's impression that ,dr4 ,quimby was the modern founder of mind-healing has no weight4 ,the truth was not in her4 ,but ,mother ,eddy1 notwithstanding she herself was once that same ,mrs4 ,patterson1 discovered all truth and all science1 without regard to any of her previous statements4 ,science and ,health1 #dec4--;,a ,christian ,scientist needs my work on ,science and ,health for his textbook1 and so do all his students and patients4444 ,it is the voice of ,truth to this age1 and contains the whole of ,christian ,science1 or the ,science of healing through ,mind4444 ,it was the first published book containing a statement of ,christian ,science4444 ,it registered this revealed ,truth1 uncontaminated with human hypotheses4 ,other works1 which have borrowed from this book without giving it credit1 have adulterated the ,science4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,it is evident that everybody in ,science should buy its real ,bible1 ,science and ,health2 for the ,old and the ,new ,testament1 while it is policy to use them in the ,church ,scientist1 are in dreadful need of exegesis by ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,she is the one religious person1 altogether scientific1 that now exists in the world4 ,she is uncontaminated truth1 and anything that interferes with her abets larceny and spreads leprosy4 ,moreover1 it is a financial crime against her1 conducive to heart-disease4 ,let it again be stated that the precious volume1 ,science and ,health1 is cheap for cash1 ranging from only #c4ah to #f4 ,science and ,health1 ,pref4 ,,viii4--,the question1 ,what is ,truth8 is answered by demonstration--by healing disease and sin4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,that truth can only be set on its absolute end by curing megrims and other unhealthiness1 has been incontrovertibly settled by the religious experience of ,mother ,eddy herself4 ,when she rose into the revelation that matter is nothing--not even a phenomenal condition of anything--the truth instantly spliced her broken spine4 ,it was this demonstration by healing that transformed the ignorant1 deluded1 mesmerized ,mary ,m4 ,patterson1 into our holy1 scientific1 infallible ,lady of the ,precious ,volume4 ,science and ,health1 #b and #c1 passim4--,the divine ,spirit1 testifying through ,christian ,science1 unfolded to me the demonstrable fact that matter possesses neither sensation nor life4444 ,human experiences show the falsity of all material things4444 ,my discovery that erring1 mortal1 misnamed mind1 produces all the organism and action of the mortal body1 led up to my demonstration that ,mind is ,all1 and matter is naught1 as the leading factor in ,mind-,science4444 ,the revelation of ,truth in the understanding came to me gradually1 and apparently through divine power4 ,when a new spiritual idea is borne to earth1 the prophetic ,scripture of ,isaiah is renewedly fulfilled3 ',unto us a child is born 444 and his name shall be ,wonderful4' ,interpretation in ,science4--,that there is absolutely nothing in anything you see1 feel1 hear1 taste or smell1 is eternally laid down as the leading factor in ,mind-,science4 ,though the ideas of ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy are all wonderful1 this is the most surpassingly wonderful of all4 ,but ,mother ,eddy herself is much more wonderful than even her ideas4 ,as little ,mary ,baker she was wonderful in her likeness to little ,samuel2 as ,mary ,m4 ,patterson1 she was more wonderful as a mesmerized victim of ,dr4 ,quimby2 and1 as ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 she is most wonderful1 as the ,ark of the ,covenant of the only true ,medicinal ,religion4 ,all ,mother ,eddy's writings point1 all the time1 to this beautiful lesson4 ,science and ,health1 #e4--,no analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of ,agnosticism1 or ,millenarianism1 and the demonstrable truths of ,christian ,science2 and ,i find the will1 or sensuous reason of the human mind1 to be opposed to the divine ,mind1 expressed through ,divine ,science4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,all the ancient and modern isms1 except ,eddyism1 we must sit on and blot out4 ,the most of them are unpopular1 and don't bring us in anything4 ,but he who opposes ,eddyism contradicts the ,divine ,mind1 expressed through ,divine ,science1 which1 logically1 must be the production of our ,divine ,mother4 ,science and ,health1 #h4--,the phrase mortal mind implies something untrue1 and1 therefore1 unreal4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,this truth is to be taken as infallible on all occasions4 ,still1 the unreality1 mortal mind1 is a thing to be healed by ,christian ,science1 and there is money in the metaphysical pills4 ,science and ,health1 #ba4--,there is no physical science1 inasmuch1 as all true ,science proceeds from divine ,intelligence4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,shut up your arithmetic1 geometry1 physics1 and astronomy4 ,they amount to nothing4 ,there is no truly scientific book except ,science and ,health4 ,science and ,health1 #be4--,must ,christian ,science come through the ,christian churches1 as some insist8 ,this ,science has come already1 and come through the one whom ,god called4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,christian ,science1 my beloved1 is copyrighted property1 and can only spread through the owner and her deputies4 ,the one whom ,god called is ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,science and ,health1 #bdd1 #bde1 #dgc1 #bhd4--,the act of describing disease makes the disease4 ,warning people against disease frightens them into it4 ,this obnoxious habit ought to cease4444 ,the unscientific practitioner says3 ',you are ill2 you must rest4' ,science objects to all this4444 ,mind controls the body and brain4444 ,a cup of tea is not the equal of ,truth4444 ,a material body is a mortal belief4444 ,the medicine of ,science is divine ,mind4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,your doctor is a fool1 whether he be allopathic1 homeopathic1 magnetic1 or even of any unauthorized school of mind-healing4 ,dismiss him1 and send for a ,christian ,science ,m4 ,d41 authorized to practise by ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,if he can't cure you1 it will not be his fault2 it will be simply because your mind1 or the minds around you1 or both1 are out of tune with ,science and ,health and its ,key to the ,scriptures4 ,science and ,health1 #bei1 #dhj1 #dge4--;,electricity1 the offspring of finite mind1 is unreal4444 ,the physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals4 ,physical force and mortal mind are one4444 ,matter is neither self-existent nor a product of ,spirit4 ,an image of mortal thought1 reflected on the retina1 is all the eye beholds4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,that a force like electricity has no reference to any principle or power but finite mind1 will always be hard for an unscientized person to believe4 ,but ,mother ,eddy knows1 and her word must go4 ,still1 the unreality of electricity is not quite so to people out of science4 ,if one toys with a trolley-wire before he has read and understood ,science and ,health1 he may experience a slight shock of reality1 if he lives long enough4 ,but one who has purchased ,mrs4 ,eddy's great work1 and who reads it constantly1 need have no fear of electrocution1 or anything else4 ,his mortal mind has pretty nearly departed from him4 ,his physical universe is hardly a picture of conscious thoughts1 and his unconscious thoughts1 whatever such things may be1 will never lead him into much danger4 ,science and ,health1 #dhg4--,science reveals material man as a dream at all times1 and never as the real ,being4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,mortals are nothing4 ,the ,one and ,only ,being is the ,father-and-,mother ,god of ,christian ,science4 ,our ,mother is ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,science and ,health1 #daa4--,the ,scientist knows there can be no hereditary disease1 since matter cannot transmit good or evil intelligence to man1 and ,mind produces no pain in matter4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,on the ground that mind and matter are absolutely unconnected1 there can be no doubt of there being no hereditary disease4 ,on the same ground there can be no heredity itself1 and no world for heredity to exist in4 ,how true it is1 in ,science1 that all actuality has no actuality in it6 ,science and ,health1 #bh4--,the true ,logos is demonstrably ,christian ,science4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,we know1 too1 from ,mrs4 ,eddy's precious volume1 that ,christian ,science1 in addition to being the ,logos1 is the ,holy ,comforter4 ,thus her copyrighted religion is two-thirds of the ,trinity4 ,science and ,health1 #daa4--,the daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural or necessary than would be the process of taking a fish out of water every day1 and covering it with dirt1 in order to make it thrive more vigorously thereafter in its native element4444 ,water is not the natural habitat of humanity4 ,interpretation in ,science4--,don't take the trouble to wash the baby4 ,his body is only an expression of mortal mind1 and is thus so mussed up with error and nothingness that water will never get him clean4 ,his proper habitat is ,science4 ,scrub his conscious and unconscious thoughts with ,christian ,science1 and never mind the rest of him4 ,we shall make but one more quotation1 here1 from ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,divine comedy1 ,science and ,health4 ,there is no use of being too serious with it4 ,history will soon take it as mostly a grim joke on metaphysics1 theology1 and medicine4 ,but one thing must give us pause4 ,on approaching the ,lord's ,prayer1 one feels himself on solemn ground1 if such ground there be anywhere in life1 and for once1 if never before1 puts on the mantle of conservatism4 ,but1 to ,mrs4 ,eddy1 the words of ,jesus in devotion and supplication--at once the simplest and grandest words ever uttered--require her spiritual interpretation4 ,what1 in her index to ,science and ,health1 she terms the ,spiritualized version of the ,lord's ,prayer is this3 ,our ,father and ,mother ,god1 all-harmonized1 ,adorable ,one4 ,ever present and ,omnipotent4 ,thy ,supremacy appears as matter disappears4 ,give us grace for to-day2 ,thou fillest the famished affections2 and ,love is reflected in love4 ,and leavest us not in temptation1 but freest us from sin1 disease and death2 for ,thou art all ,substance1 ,life1 ,truth1 and ,love1 forever4--,so be it4 ,the author of the ,english ,bards and ,scotch ,reviewers tells of a poet who ,breaks into blank the ,gospel of ,st4 ,luke1 ,and boldly pilfers from the ,pentateuch2 ,and1 undisturbed by conscientious qualms1 ,perverts the ,prophets1 and purloins the psalms4 ,let any one not in ,science ask himself if ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,eddy has not gone farther and done worse4 ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,,christian-,,science ,,organizing ,,forces4 ,as ,mrs4 ,eddy has been a manufacturer and vender of ,christian ,science for a comparatively short time--only a quarter of a century--many good people who knew her at the inception of that successful industry are still on earth1 in an active condition of mortal mind4 ,they have volunteered to furnish for this brief book a variety of plain and ornamental information that is not essential to it4 ,but1 in justice to history and biography1 one point must not be omitted4 ,they all agree that ,mother ,eddy1 like ,caesar1 the ,standard ,oil ,company1 and the ,sugar ,trust1 has more organizing capacity than the sons and daughters of ,god1 to use her own phrase1 generally possess4 ,with this capacity1 it is also agreed that never a ,bonaparte1 never a ,jay ,gould1 never a ,pierpont ,morgan1 could be more handy in surmounting all over-nice impediments to practical success4 ,thus by her rare combination of terrestrial and celestial genius1 ,mother ,eddy has been able to hold her copyrighted religion1 ,christian ,science1 strictly under her personal regnancy1 and direct it to the highest financial1 doctrinal1 and healing ends4 ,she permits no tinge of private judgment1 no stain of unauthorized opinion1 and no mere finite criticism1 so far as she can silence it4 ,she is the ,church1 and membership is obedience4 ,hence she bitterly antagonizes all independent agencies of scientific salvation1 though with eyes rolled up1 and with fervent proclamations of unbounded love4 ,in her ,science and ,health1 she advises her readers not to read other scientific works1 as they are full of materialism1 and are not ,scientifically ,christian4 ,directly or indirectly1 too1 there is always the point that money can be much better invested in ,mrs4 ,eddy's own sacred and positively demonstrated writings4 ,it would almost seem that1 in her universal motherhood1 ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy must have borne ,mohammed's great soldier who burned the ,alexandrian library in devotion to the ,koran4 ,to a great organizer1 a wholesale business is always more attractive than retail trade4 ,it is handled quite as easily1 with less detail1 and thousands of small merchants contribute to the proceeds4 ,the able founder of ,christian ,science early realized this fact--in her case drawn from on high1 but sometimes reached through commercial experience4 ,having retired into the wilderness of her mind1 far from all monitions of sense2 having trained her memory to forget the existence of matter1 error1 and ,mary ,m4 ,patterson2 having taken a three-years' vacation with her only peers1 the ancient worthies and the ,scriptures2 ,mrs4 ,eddy came back at last1 among the human species1 with the metaphysics and curative formulas of ,christian ,science4 ,then came practical transactions in revelations and mental medicine1 which soon rivaled the sales of ,mrs4 ,winslow's ,soothing ,syrup and ,lydia ,pinkham's celebrated compound4 ,though ,mrs4 ,eddy has gradually taken into her service various literary experts1 theologico-commercial travelers and metaphysical auctioneers1 she has always supervised1 in person1 the wholesale department of ,christian ,science4 ,on her return from the skies1 she brought down a large collection of documents in which the whole science was condensed and canned1 and all the medical prescriptions required to fulfil a millennium of holiness and health4 ,with these documents in hand she formed classes of loyal students1 her definition of loyalty being allegiance to ,god 7as manifested in ,mary ,baker72 subordination of the human 7the student7 to the divine 7the teacher72 steadfast justice 7no wobbling over the cash72 and strict adherence to divine ,truth and ,love 7the ,mother of the ,logos and the ,holy ,comforter forever glorified74 ,to be more specific1 it was in the year #ahfg that ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,glover ,patterson1 freed by divorce from the last-named culprit1 and married to ,asa ,gilbert ,eddy1 began1 as she records it1 the teaching of ,christian ,science ,mind ,healing to one student4 ,here was a good seed sown in fructifying ground2 for1 in #ahha1 it had grown to be ,the ,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college of ,boston4#cf ,this vast institution was managed by ,mrs4 ,eddy as chief impartress of science1 her assistants being her husband1 her adopted son1 and a ,general ,bates4 ,these four scientists constituted the faculty4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's last husband is described1 by those who knew him1 as one of the most humble and obedient men that ever blest a perfect woman in immaculate matrimony4 ,his value as a college professor may be inferred from one reminiscence of him4 ,his supreme better-half once sued a poor young doctor who had fallen away from science1 and taken to homeopathy1 that she might collect her fee for having taught him ,christian ,science therapeutics4 ,her husband1 ,asa1 was a witness for her1 to prove the pecuniary value of her instruction1 and was asked1 among other questions1 ,what is ,man8 ,as near as ,i can make it out1 replied ,prof4 ,eddy1 ,man is an image4 ,mrs4 ,eddy lost her case1 as the court was too unspiritual to reduce her metaphysics to dollars and cents4#cg ,but the good ,asa showed that he was an image of ,mary2 and1 in her ,retrospection and ,introspection1 she has gratefully embalmed his memory in a text from the ,psalms4 ,mark the perfect man1 and behold the upright3 for the end of that man is peace4 ,the italics are not in the psalm1 but are ,mary's4 ,some further conception of the perfect man1 ,prof4 ,eddy1 and the value of ,mother ,eddy's estimate of him1 may be gathered from an item which appeared in the ,boston ,evening ,herald of ,december #g1 #ahgh1 stating that ,edward ,j4 ,arens and ,asa ,g4 ,eddy were indicted to-day by the ,grand ,jury for soliciting ,james ,h4 ,sargent to kill ,daniel ,h4 ,spofford4 ,it appears that ,spofford1 in order to probe the matter1 led on the conspiracy1 and so became technically involved in it himself4 ,thus the affair became so mixed up that1 according to the official court-record1 the ,district ,attorney concluded not to prosecute the indictment1 and ,arens and ,eddy were discharged on payment of costs4 ,the divine ,mother ,eddy surely could not have instigated a conspiracy to murder ,spofford 7a troublesome backslider from ,science71 though he and many other backsliders1 who know her well1 have long labored under the impression that the whole enterprise was hers4 ,the human head is a queer bulb1 and often seems to be a direct evolution from the squash4 ,this hypothesis1 illustrated by the researches of ,darwin and his school1 accounts for the rapid growth of ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college from #ahha to #ahhi1 when1 in the latter year1 she closed it4 ,at that time1 as she recollects things1 her college was not only filled1 but flooded with students from all parts of ,america1 ,europe1 and the world4 ,three hundred applications were on the list1 and the number was rapidly increasing4#ch ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy were not so far above the world and the flesh that her reasons for things seldom comport with a sub-lunar search into them1 it might be possible to believe that she discontinued her college because she feared that material organization1 applied to ,christian ,science1 would obstruct ,love's ,spiritual compact4 ,whatever it means1 this at least is what she says4 ,the success of her college had shown her the danger of placing people on earthly pinnacles2 and even mortal mind can see that such a setting-up might lead students away from the primal ,mother and the central contribution-box4 ,besides1 she had always had conscientious scruples against giving diplomas when she thought of those same earthly pinnacles4 ,it may throw some light on the sudden closing of ,the ,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college to note that1 notwithstanding ,mother ,eddy's conscientious scruples against granting mere diplomas1 she had issued hundreds of metaphysico-medical degrees at high prices4 ,according to a statement of hers1 she obtained her college charter from the ,state of ,massachusetts in #ahha1 with the right to grant degrees4 ,but the act on which this grant was based was repealed in #ahhb4 ,then1 in #ahhc1 the conferring of any diploma or degree by any corporation or association1 was made a legal offense1 punishable by a fine of not less than #ejj4 ,being the president1 not of any corporation or association1 but of a regular college 7with a faculty of three beside herself71 ,mother ,eddy's legal mind has held that this law1 if aimed at her1 failed to hit1 though it knocked out all other mind-healing colleges4#ci ,but1 in #ahhi1 when1 as persistent rumor has it1 the problem was about to be solved by legal process against ,mother ,eddy1 the subject was practically closed by the closing of her college1 and by her retirement to ,new ,hampshire1 where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest4 ,considering ,mrs4 ,eddy's kind of college-faculty and board1 together with her exhaustive copyrights and the hierarchical monopolies consequent upon them1 it is quite conceivable that when time was ripe she had no difficulty in unanimously passing resolutions to discontinue her flourishing school4 ,the little joker in this pack of resolutions soon came out in one of them4 ,it deftly touched the matter of organization1 and then propounded that the hour had come when the great need was for more of the ,spirit1 not the letter1 and that ,science and ,health was the spirit's nutriment4 ,it is not directly stated by ,mother ,eddy in this connection1 that ,god ,himself fixed the scale of prices for her book2 but she does say it was ,god who impelled her to set a price for her instruction in ,christian-,science ,mind-,healing4 ,the price was three-hundred dollars a head1 for a college course of three weeks4 ,at first she shrank from asking it4 ,but a strange providence led ,mary to these terms1 and ,god1 she asserts1 has since shown her1 in multitudinous ways1 the wisdom of her decision4#dj ,the strange providence and the multitudinous ways are not explained by her2 but the wisdom of gathering together fat bank-deposits is unanimously acknowledged in the ,church ,scientist4 ,when our republic was a hundred years old1 it had become worthy of having ,the ,first ,christian ,science ,association4 ,that body was accordingly organized1 on the fourth day of ,july1 #ahgf1 by ,mrs4 ,eddy and six of her head-light reflectors4 ,three years later1 the ,association balloted on forming a ,church1 and the ,eddyites won by a large plurality4 ,rev4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy was of course chosen its first pastor1 and during her ministration it prospered in numbers and popularity4 ,that is1 she says so in her ,retrospection and ,introspection4 ,but owing to tons of work1 which increased upon her1 she was unable to give the ,church sufficient attention1 and no son or daughter of ,science was competent to take her place4 ,her church was envied and molested by other churches1 and there was danger of ,christian warfare--which might have led to a diminution of proselytes1 and more horrible still1 a loss of shekels4 ,in such an extremity1 she recommended the dissolution of the ,first ,church ,scientist1 and again1 as ever1 her recommendation went through without a dissenting voice4 ,this measure1 she tells us1 was followed by a great revival in the way of mutual love1 with spiritual power and prosperity4 ,those1 we may be sure1 were money-making times4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's reasons for dissolving her church were doubtless infallible4 ,still1 that same church at once resurrected itself and exalted its horn--the ,mother ,church in ,boston1 and then children and grandchildren galore1 in hundreds of secondary ,hubs and their suburbs4 ,,chapter ,,ix4 ,,the ,,one ,,true ,,mother ,,church4#da ,it was in #ahhi1 says ,mrs4 ,eddy1 that ,i gave a lot of land in ,boston1 on which to erect a church edifice as a temple for ,christian ,science worship4#db ,the land1 she is particular to say1 was worth twenty thousand dollars1 and was rising in value4 ,as she has been careful to mention this increment of the rise--not hiding it under a bushel1 but setting it on top of the cover--we must be sure to add it to the sum of the original benevolence4 ,but how much labor could be saved by a meek historian if only ,mrs4 ,eddy's word could ever be safely accepted without looking behind it6 ,on consulting the official registry of such matters1 one finds that before ,mrs4 ,eddy gave her land to the ,church of ,christ ,scientist1 the ,church itself owned the land1 under a mortgage of nine thousand dollars1 four thousand of which had been paid off4 ,the balance was five thousand4 ,the provident ,mother bought this mortgage and foreclosed it4 ,she then conveyed the property to the trustees of the ,first ,church of ,christ ,scientist1 reserving the right to re-enter and repossess the land1 with improvements1 in case a church erected on it should not be run to suit her4 ,all this was specified in ten conditions1 which the angels have not recorded in her biography4 ,adjoining the ,eddy castle of metaphysics are two lots on which stand two buildings of the ,christian ,science ,publishing ,society4 ,this real estate was set down in ,february1 #ahih1 by the editor of ,the ,christian ,science ,journal1 to be worth not less than twenty-two thousand dollars4 ,on ,january #beth1 #ahih1 ,mother ,eddy generously conveyed it to the ,first ,church of ,christ ,scientist4 ,but1 three days before--on the #bast of ,january1 #ahih--the ,christian ,science ,publishing ,society1 for the sum of one dollar1 had conveyed it to her4 ,the string tied to her re-conveyance was that she should have and occupy so much room conveniently and pleasantly located in the establishment1 as might be necessary to carry on the publication and sale of her books and literature--a reservation of room which1 under legal stress might easily be interpreted to mean the whole thing--it being distinctively a publishing house4 ,with ,mother ,eddy's donation of ,january #beth1 #ahih1 she threw in ,the ,christian ,science ,journal and all the literary publications of the ,society--these having been turned over to her with other things1 for one dollar1 on ,january #bast1 #ahih--she saving to herself only the right to copyright the ',journal' in her own name--an excellent way to make it self-supporting1 with no liability on her part to incur its debts1 while yet she could hold it under her absolute dictation4 ,let us endeavor1 says the editor of ,the ,christian ,science ,journal 7,february1 #ahih71 to lift up our hearts in thankfulness to ,god 444 and to his servant1 our ,mother in ,israel1 for these evidences of a generosity and self-sacrifice that appeal to our deepest sense of gratitude1 even while surpassing our comprehension4 ,now such an evidence of generosity and self-sacrifice may intelligibly surpass the comprehension of any stipendary of ,mrs4 ,eddy' paid to write such stuff as the foregoing2 but ,mary ,baker ,eddy's real bounty1 generosity1 self-sacrifice and benefaction1 consisted in cancelling a mortgage of five thousand dollars1 by which1 on land thus obtained1 a church costing other people two hundred and fifty thousand dollars was soon built to her glory1 she keeping a ,shylock grip on the land1 church and the adjacent property of her functionaries1 with all its appurtenances that were good for anything4 ,when ,mother ,eddy casts a loaf of bread upon the waters1 it is always safe to look for a hundred loaves on the way back to her4 ,the ,first ,church ,scientist--the edifice erected on ,mrs4 ,eddy's donation of land--is a handsome structure of rough granite1 looking something like a small armory with a big tower4 ,this sacred castle of metaphysics is situated a little on the outskirts of residential fashion in the ,hub-,city1 the district thereof being the ,back ,bay4 ,it is accessible to the world1 when once in ,boston1 by the electrics and a short walk4 ,as a place of scientifico-religious assemblage1 the building seats twelve hundred actual scientists in the flesh1 and the sympathetic spirits of some twelve thousand other members1 absent throughout the country4 ,on this account1 some ,eddyites who have never seen it regard its size as rivaling that of the earth4 ,the ,cathedral 7scientist7 has much stained glass1 and on nearly every window is depicted some ,mary2 for all good ,marys1 particularly the ,marys of the ,bible1 inferentially point to ,mary ,baker ,eddy4 ,this ,mary's ,science and ,health is exceedingly prominent in the multi-colored glass1 and so gives countenance to all the representations taken from the ,scriptures4 ,an organ is prominent--a large1 harmonious present from a gentleman who thinks that somebody was cured of something by ,christian ,science4 ,the church has two pretty pulpits side by side1 from one of which the ,bible is read1 while from the other1 that ancient book is kept straight by the reading of its only true meaning from ,science and ,health4 ,singing the praises of ,immortal ,mind1 as discovered by ,mrs4 ,eddy1 constitutes a part of the services1 but there is no preaching--which is just as well1 perhaps1 but needs a word of explanation4 ,preaching used to be allowed in ,science2 but some of ,mother ,eddy's apostles1 having just enough knowledge for their creed1 yet great gifts of speech1 sermonized1 it is said1 with such honest zeal that their eloquence was in danger of casting an unglorified shadow on the ,mother herself4 ,it must be stated1 indeed1 that sundry who have listened to ,st4 ,mary 7scientist7 affirm that her divine pen has always been much more potent than her divine tongue4 ,and some go so far as to declare that her sermons1 when she preached1 were often dull to the non-elect1 even if they cured every disease within ten miles of them4 ,however these things may have been1 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 early in #ahie1 issued the following ecclesiastical edict3#dc ,humbly1 and as ,i believe divinely directed1 ,i hereby ordain that the ,bible and ,science and ,health with ,key to the ,scriptures shall hereafter be the only pastor of the ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 throughout our land1 and in other lands4 ,this edict prevented ,mrs4 ,eddy's theological subordinates from setting themselves up on earthly pinnacles4 ,mother ,eddy at the same time decreed this3 ,no copies of my books are allowed to be written1 and read from manuscript1 either in private1 or in public assemblies1 except by their author4 ,she included the commandment that ,the reader of ,science and ,health with ,key to the ,scriptures1 shall commence by announcing the full title of this book1 with the name of the author1 and afterwards repeat at each reading its abbreviated title4 ,directions followed regarding classes in ,christian ,science--the number of pupils each teacher might instruct1 and the annual number of classes--all to be taught from the ,christian ,science text-book4 ,thus ,mother ,eddy's edict of #ahie1 abolishing pulpiteers in ,science1 while it redounded widely to her own glory1 piously amplified1 also1 the proceeds of her precious volume1 ,science and ,health4 ,but to the innocent lambkins of her church1 she said3 ,teaching ,christian ,science shall be no question of money1 but of morals and uplifting the race4 ,so that lovely bird1 the ostrich1 still buries her head in the sand1 but leaves out much that ornaments the landscape4 ,in a rounded corner of the ,first ,church ,scientist1 but conspicuous from the main passage1 is a little apartment celebrated as ,the ,mother's ,room4 ,there is no use of mentioning the ,mother ,church in ,science1 without dwelling on ,the ,mother's ,room4 ,it is never done1 especially by any ,scientist4 ,the ,church is holy1 throughout2 but that room is the demonstrated environment of ,immortal ,mind4 ,the entrance to ,the ,mother's ,room is through a white-marble arch1 lustrous to behold4 ,over the door1 cut into the marble1 is the inscription1 ,,love4 ,it is not love of money1 or love of flattery1 but just ,,love4 ,on the floor of the entrance we read in mosaic3 ,mother's ,room4 ,the children's offering--which signifies that ,mother ,eddy knows how to attract the pennies of little ,scientists as well as the dollars of her larger infants4 ,as you enter the room1 you tread on white-marble mosaic1 sprayed with figs and fig-leaves1 and you feel an emanation of pale green and old rose4 ,if you know your business1 you are struck with awe on being in this holy-of-holies4 ,on your right is a mantel of white ,italian marble and gold1 with an open fireplace1 wherein to throw all your mortal thoughts1 that they may be consumed4 ,opposite the mantel on your left1 is a rather large painting1 set back in the wall1 but well lighted by electricity and divine science4 ,it shows the sacred chair in which ,mrs4 ,eddy sat when she wrote ,science and ,health4 ,the chair is empty--as typical1 perhaps1 of her departure from ,boston when she closed her ,metaphysical ,college4 ,as ,mrs4 ,eddy has no need of a table when she writes1 but can perform miracles of literature on a pad1 the picture shows this phenomenon4 ,sheets of her manuscript are scattered on the floor1 illustrating the logical chaos which fills them4 ,a part of ,the ,mother's ,room is fenced off by a ribbon1 to protect a rug made from the downy breasts of five hundred eider-ducks4 ,the legend1 as told by the guide1 is that no man's hand ever touched this rug4 ,it is sacred to the ,mother's immaculate foot4 ,but it was not manufactured by the ,audubon ,society4 ,a beautiful showcase1 of white and gold1 ornaments the room1 and in it are the white and gold editions of ,mrs4 ,eddy's works4 ,they are samples of what you can buy at the regular price1 and are very tempting to wealthy scientists4 ,the ,mother's room has a gorgeous bay-window1 or three windows in one1 of stained glass4 ,the ,mother herself is there1 searching the ,scriptures1 encircled by a halo from the star of ,bethlehem4 ,the ,christian ,science seal is emblazoned on the window1 and a little girl is there1 reading ,science and ,health to an old man4 ,the little girl must be ,mary ,baker and the old man1 probably1 is ,moses or ,abraham4 ,an alabaster bee-hive must not be forgotten1 which contains the names of the little busy bees in ,science--those children who squeezed out the cash to construct the room4 ,as you turn and go out1 you observe1 on the right1 an alcove1 which contains a folding bed1 to be pulled out into the main room in case of use2 for the alcove itself is almost as small as a mind that disagrees with ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,at your left--still going out--there is a toilet-room1 corresponding to the alcove1 but on the other side of the arch and doorway4 ,in practical construction1 this toilet-room is very much like other small inclosures adapted to the same ends4 ,the chief difference1 here1 is that all the water-pipes1 faucets1 and such fixtures1 are plated with gold4 ,thus ,mother ,eddy's lavatory proudly reminds her of ,solomon's temple at ,jerusalem4 ,it is said that ,mother ,eddy has never slept in ,the ,mother's ,room but once4 ,this one occasion1 however1 was quite enough to sanctify it forever4 ,,chapter ,x4 ,a ,,martyr ,,to ,,science4 ,christian ,science1 though its span be brief1 has produced one of the most exceptional martyrs that ever lived and prospered4 ,it is a woman1 of course2 for men1 as a rule1 have now become too mortal-minded for sacrificial victims4 ,the lady referred to is a ,mrs4 ,josephine ,c4 ,woodbury4 ,boston is her habitat4 ,she was long a follower of ,rev4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 and was a preacher of the gospel1 ,science and ,health4 ,she talked and prayed1 she wrote and traveled1 all in ,science1 until she became a public personage1 celebrated throughout the dominions of the ,eddyites4 ,then at last there was ,war in ,heaven--which is the title of one of ,mrs4 ,woodbury's books1#dd and she was excommunicated from the ,mother ,church ,scientist of the ,boston ,back ,bay4 ,now ,mrs4 ,woodbury is not a lady who can be excommunicated from a church without giving that church fair returns for the outlay4 ,mrs4 ,woodbury has a pen1 and there is black ink on it4 ,she has attorneys quick to exchange legal process for bank notes redeemable in gold4 ,the lady has turned her pen against ,mother ,eddy1 and cast ink-spots on the ,mother's religion1 not to say her personal character4 ,the ,woodbury lawyers have been let loose upon the ,mother to sue for ethical redress and monetary damages4#de ,mrs4 ,woodbury entered ,science very young--a fact on account of which let us excuse her1 as well as we can1 for ever entering it at all4 ,she thought she was one of the healed in the ,eddy faith1 and1 later1 she imagined that her reading a passage or two from ,science and ,health snatched one of her children from the jaws of death4 ,her ,war in ,heaven tells us this story1 and it may do no harm to trust it is true4 ,mrs4 ,woodbury has the reputation of never doing things by halves1 but of attending to business religiously1 and of attending to religion in a business way4 ,having once entered ,christian ,science1 she pursued that vocation with great metaphysical and financial success1 until suddenly1 on the #dth of ,april1 #ahif1 came the bolt of excommunication4 ,it can readily be understood that conventional respectability is a necessary and profitable department of ,the ,eddy ,church ,scientist1 and that so shifty an ecclesiastic as ,mother ,eddy can scent opprobrium from afar4 ,whereto applies certain ,christian-,science history4 ,soon after the excommunication of the apostle ,josephine--the latter part of the same year--she was attacked at law by a ,mr4 ,fred ,d4 ,chamberlain1 in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars1 on the charge that she had alienated the affection and companionship of his wife4 ,the case got into print1 and being displayed under large heads in the ,boston ,traveler of ,december #abth1 #ahif and thereafter1 a suit was instituted against ,mr4 ,chamberlain and that paper for libel4#df ,it appears from the files of the ,traveler that its industrious editor collected a large variety of statements1 letters1 and interviews1 for the purpose of showing his readers1 that1 among ,mrs4 ,woodbury's religious accomplishments--whether it were due to suggestion1 elective affinity1 hypnotism1 or ,christian ,science--she possessed a mighty gift of drawing simple souls--the rich invariably preferred--into the select congregation of her fleecy followers4 ,then1 at two hundred dollars a follower1 she was depicted as converting the sinners of other sects to ,christian ,science4 ,it will be observed that ,mrs4 ,woodbury seemingly dealt in metaphysics at cut prices1 the ,mother's regular rate for instruction being three hundred dollars1 not two hundred4 ,but1 for value received from ,mrs4 ,woodbury's loyal students--she1 like the ,mother1 so naming her disciples--from seven to ten lessons only1 according to the ,traveler1 were imparted to them4 ,then the course was indefinitely repeated1 in accordance with the demand that could be created for the healing staples4 ,here1 to be sure1 was something that might have greatly offended ,mother ,eddy4 ,yet daughter ,woodbury's cut prices were only colorable1 not actual2 for1 in the frequent repetition of the same wisdom and religiosity to the same loyal students1 she must have done less work for more money than was ever done even in the ,mother's college itself4 ,again1 if we follow newspaper files and court records in the case of the ,boston ,traveler1#dg we are told that ,mrs4 ,woodbury had a family interest in putting on the market certain stock in a hot-air engine--a kind of ,christian ,science stock in which1 if her loyal students took a religious flyer1 their secular dealings would be sure to turn up with the right end in the air4 ,this1 perhaps1 was a prime investment2 but1 on investigation1 one loyal student--plaintiff ,chamberlain of the suit we have touched--somehow received the impression1 though doubtless through mortal mind1 that the holy engine stock had a slight smell of the ,keeley motor4 ,unetherealized man that he was1 this affliction of his base common sense was the immediate cause1 he declared1 of all his trouble4 ,his pious wife was unable to bear such an affront to divinity in the person of her teacher1 ,st4 ,josephine ,woodbury4 ,so the teacher stuck to the wife1 and the husband was left out in the cold4#dh ,that ,boston newspaper1 the ,traveler1 in spreading the ,chamberlain unpleasantness1 was assiduously biographical4 ,particulars can be curtailed4 ,it is only necessary to say that the distinguished ,mrs4 ,woodbury was depicted as a self-made woman who had once been known to plain environments1 but who1 with preaching1 healing1 scientific religion and engine-stock1 had become financially as well as spiritually beatified4 ,finally she had reached a shining abode on ,commonwealth ,avenue--that kind of mansion1 in ,boston1 being the very next thing to a mansion in the skies4 ,her loyal students1 it is true1 were not represented by the ,traveler as having been enriched in the same way4 ,still1 if already wealthy1 as most of them were said to be1 what was the use of it8 ,might they not better come unto ,st4 ,josephine ,woodbury1 and cast upon her the dross and sorrow of their material accumulations8 ,as described in the ,traveler print1 these loyal students were1 for the most part1 rather young people1 rich in their own right1 or so endeared to their parents that neither gold nor silver1 if it could be given1 was denied to them4 ,once in the woods and groves of ,teacher ,woodbury's ,christian ,science paradise1 these charmed innocents were turned into missionaries to their families1 where souls might be saved and further possessions might accrue to a blessed instructor4 ,if the heads of these families would not turn from the wicked ways of the world and their own churches1 and bring gifts to the shrine of ,christian ,science1 then the loyal students were taught to shake the dust from their feet1 and depart from among the unholy4 ,thus were the ,scriptures fulfilled in ,science4 ,but the ,traveler made it to appear that such doctrine set daughter against father1 son against mother1 and wife against husband4 ,so1 indeed1 the doctrine was made to appear in a letter written by ,saint ,woodbury herself and published in the ,traveler over her full name4#di ,therein was this preachment3 ,the ,bible says that the teachings of ,jesus rightly practised1 will1 must1 set at variance the members of any household1 some of whom do1 and some of whom do not1 imbibe the faith4444 ,god's will be done4 ,the command is still on the elect to come out from the world1 and to separate and to shake the dust from their feet1 of any house which will not receive the peace bestowed4 ,mrs4 ,woodbury1 having thus justified her religion and her economics by ,scripture1 proceeded to justify ,scripture itself by the ,absolute--the example of ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,st4 ,josephine went on1 in her letter1 thus3 ,when the ,discerner of this ,science first apprehended the demands of this ,religion and system of ethics1 she was forced to withdraw from the ,congregational ,church4444 ,i have been informed1 also1 that not one of her family ever held her faith in anything but active contempt4 ,this latter revelation to ,st4 ,woodbury1 regarding ,saint ,mary ,baker ,eddy and her relatives1 is probably true4 ,others have received the same information4 ,but when the chosen one was rejected of the ,baker family1 particularly of its affluent members1 it is affirmed that the spirit of ,science arose within ,mary1 like a mighty tantrum1 and1 recalling her early likeness to ,samuel and the ,hebrews1 she exclaimed with immortal mind1 ,i will yet roll in wealth6 ,these words of the prophetess-,mother are sweet to the ear of ,christian ,science1 which admonishes its adherents to go and do likewise--assuring them that if steadfast in ,science1 they will be sure to stand solid in ,dunn and ,bradstreet4 ,it is well that our condition of existence1 whatever may be its metaphysical bases1 is not all tragedy1 but is relieved by a border of comedy4 ,according to a tale of ,christian ,science1 as told by the ,boston ,traveler1 ,mrs4 ,woodbury1 when in the prime of her healing illumination1 with its full returns1 felt on one occasion that piety would be advanced if a loyal student of hers--a lady of means--should add a promising husband to the true ,church4 ,it was done4 ,then1 the ever-watchful teacher sent forth on the wedding tour a third loyal student--a virgin with her lamp trimmed and burning--to see that neither of the other twain should lapse from grace and the certainty of further contributions4 ,the complaint against the ,traveler newspaper got into court on the #aath of ,january1 #ahig4 ,short work was made of it4 ,notwithstanding all the divine science incarnate in ,st4 ,josephine ,c4 ,woodbury1 ,his ,honor the ,judge1 ,dewey by name1 excluded her from the court-room1 that she might not contribute to the examination of her witnesses any eye-beams of hypnotism4 ,as this book is not designed to be improperly personal1 but simply an exposition of the claims1 doctrines1 and effects1 of ,christian ,science1 all unnecessary use of individual names must be avoided4 ,but a few are indispensable2 and people who are mentioned here have already got themselves corruscatingly into print4 ,the first witness for ,mrs4 ,woodbury--who turned out also to be the last--was a ,mr4 ,alfred ,m4 ,potter4 ,he testified that he was a brother of ,mrs4 ,fred ,d4 ,chamberlain--the lady said to be alienated from her husband--and that he and his sister boarded with the ,woodburys4 ,he was estranged from his family1 he said1 except that one sister1 but ,mrs4 ,woodbury was not the cause of it4 ,as the ,traveler summed up one point of the court-records1 ,mr4 ,potter1 in the past year1 had paid the husband of ,mrs4 ,woodbury thirteen thousand dollars outside of board and room4 ,he had paid ,mrs4 ,woodbury between a thousand and eleven hundred dollars for instructions for himself4 ,but1 in the summer of #ahif1 there was a ,european trip for ,mr4 ,potter and the ,woodburys4 ,how could a loyal student1 young and wealthy1 venture abroad without his teacher8 ,and why was not his money well expended for spiritual pleasures1 on the way1 if ,st4 ,josephine and ,mr4 ,woodbury took good care of ,mr4 ,potter1 and brought him safe home8 ,but the most extraordinary matter in connection with ,mr4 ,potter's depositions was a certain quasi-confirmation of a story that came to the ,traveler and had been published1 alleging that1 on the authority of ,mrs4 ,woodbury1 the ancient and most infinitely closed of all miracles1 the immaculate conception1 had been repeated under the advanced dispensation of ,mother ,eddy's religion4 ,such was declared by various loyal students of ,mrs4 ,woodbury to have been the claim of their exalted teacher1 to whom a son was born1 named ,prince1 an abbreviation of his full title1 the ,prince of ,peace4 ,mr4 ,potter came short of corroborating the whole of this miracle1 but gave substantially the version of it which ,mrs4 ,woodbury presented to the public1 after the trial1 in the pages of her ,war in ,heaven4 ,there she says3 ,on the morning of ,june #aath1 #ahij1 there was born to me a baby boy2 though1 till his sharp birth-cry saluted my ears1 ,i had not realized that prospective maternity was the interpretation of preceding months of physical discomfort4444 ,an hour after the birth ,i rose4 ,in the afternoon ,i was up and dressed1 and at night dined with my family4444 ,we named our boy ,prince ,woodbury1 partly because he came into our family as a veritable harbinger of peace4 ,witness ,potter testified that he understood1 through ,mrs4 ,woodbury1 that she had no knowledge of the birth of ,prince until she found him with her4 ,this circumstance1 he understood1 was through ,christian ,science4 ,when ,mr4 ,potter1 with a straight1 truthful1 honest face1 gave this testimony1 it naturally affected the gravity of the bench1 the bar1 and all others present1 except ,christian ,scientists4 ,there was reflected from one to another the sardonic smile of mortal mind4 ,but the case went on until presently a paper was put before ,mr4 ,potter1 by counsel for the defense1 that it might be identified4 ,the paper never got before the court4 ,but the contents of it were very peculiar4 ,the paper1 in fact1 was a brutally blunt form of retraction on the part of ,mr4 ,fred ,d4 ,chamberlain1 of every derogatory criticism of ,mrs4 ,woodbury he had ever made1 and a meek submission to her brand of ,christian ,science4 ,in the event of his not signing the paper1 he was given to understand that he must depart from the abode of his wife4 ,the document1 it appears1 was in the handwriting of the loyal student1 ,mrs4 ,chamberlain1 and was dictated by ,mrs4 ,woodbury4 ,but when it was presented to ,mr4 ,chamberlain for his signature1 he had not only declined to attach his name to it1 but had retained the document4 ,the ,woodbury counsel quickly protested against the admission of such evidence1 and the protest was judicious2 for was not the whole case of alienation substantially set down on that paper8 ,hence1 too1 what would become of the libel-suit8 ,but the court decided that the evidence was admissible4 ,then1 in such a shocking plight1 what could an able ,woodbury lawyer do but decline1 with virtuous indignation1 to go on further with the case8 ,the short of it was that ,judge ,dewey discharged the defendants1 reprimanded the prosecution1 and the noisy ,traveler had everything its own way4#ej ,as for the ,chamberlain suit for damages in ,science1 it was not pursued to the monetary end4 ,it was soon ascertained that the wife really had more affection for her delectable teacher than any loyal student could be expected to have for a mere husband4 ,as a business necessity1 a divorce was then procured by ,mr4 ,chamberlain1 on the ground of desertion1 and the twain went separate ways4 ,it was not proved in ,mrs4 ,woodbury's libel suit against the ,traveler that ,st4 ,josephine had claimed the full import of the ,traveler's story about her ,prince4 ,the proceedings1 we have seen1 were prematurely stopped4 ,but1 after the newspaper's legal victory1 it published sworn statements from a number of people who would have been its witnesses had the trial gone on4 ,the most important was one made by ,hon4 ,george ,e4 ,macomber1 an ex-mayor of ,augusta1 ,maine4#ea ,in the regular form of a legal deposition he declared that he had known ,mrs4 ,woodbury for several years1 his acquaintance with her having come through his wife1 who had taken lessons of her4 ,he said3 ,my wife came one day and said ,mrs4 ,woodbury had had a child down at ,ocean ,point which was a ',second ,christ1' was immaculately conceived1 and that it was the duty of her students to make presents to this ',second ,christ4' ,mr4 ,macomber declined to make presents1 and1 according to his statement1 his wife's eyes were opened1 after a while1 and she pulled out of ,science4 ,the ,traveler's other witnesses may pass4 ,it is only essential to say that they were numerous1 and that they all agreed with ,mr4 ,macomber4 ,one of them testified1 in an interview1 that he had once gone so far in neglect of his own family as to make a will in favor of the ,prince of ,peace4 ,but our direct point here is only this4--,there would seem to be no doubt that ,st4 ,josephine ,woodbury's loyal students1 far and wide1 were called upon to bear gifts to her celestial son4 ,hence1 his origin had palpable use as a financial mystery1 whatever may have been its precise theological bearings4 ,in ,christian ,science1 the doctrine here recorded has been logically coupled with another doctrine--that of inconnubiality in wedlock4 ,this tenet1 we can see1 like the former1 might result in money1 goods and bequests1 for some attractive teacher1 which might otherwise be squandered by a student in raising a family4 ,but the principle here imbedded in ,science has not been special to ,mrs4 ,woodbury4 ,mother ,eddy herself is the crystal background of all good things1 and this one1 with the rest1 must be credited to the fountain of universal originality1 ,science and ,health4#eb ,the pure simplicity of any being who can seriously read that book to the end1 inevitably fits him to maintain with ,christian ,scientists1 that1 if children be not given to parents under physical laws1 the science of perfect purity will ultimately evolve ,children of the ,soul4 ,my husband and ,i1 recently exclaimed a vestal matron of ,mrs4 ,eddy's following1 have long lived together as brother and sister3 isn't it beautiful8 ,perhaps it is1 replied another matron1 thus addressed1 but ,i am told it is generally impracticable1 except in ,boston4 ,when last heard from1 our contemporary ,prince of ,peace was a pretty school-boy of wit beyond his years4 ,may the world smile kindly on ,prince ,woodbury1 who is in nowise to blame for any new-fangled religion2 but may heaven preserve him from any further involution with the sacraments of ,christian ,science4 ,before bidding adieu to the heroine-martyr of our present chapter1 one more instance must be given of her work in a careless world--a very sad instance1 not to be treated lightly4 ,among ,mrs4 ,josephine ,woodbury's loyal students for some time preceding the year #ahig1 was a hand-maiden of ,christian ,science1 one ,mary ,nash4 ,the story of poor little ,mary was told in the ,boston ,traveler1#ec chiefly in the words of her father1 when that paper was sued for libel in ,science4 ,mary ,nash1 as we summarize that story1 lived at ,augusta1 ,maine1 and her father1 like our witness ,macomber1 had been a mayor of that city4 ,he was a busy man1 but one who loved his daughter1 and kept her in funds for what he regarded as harmless fads and amusements4 ,mary joined the loyal students4 ,then1 little by little1 she absented herself from ,augusta1 making frequent pilgrimages to ,boston4 ,the pilgrimages grew in duration1 until her home was seldom her habitation4 ,teacher ,woodbury had not only changed her heart1 but her whole tenor of mortal life1 and ,mary was completely born again into the most progressed fears and phases of ,christian ,science4 ,letters followed to her father1 asking for money1 and demanding that he and all his house should join the loyal students4 ,he forwarded the money as occasion required1 but his unregenerate neck stiffly declined ,science4 ,so ,mary went no more to her father for weeks and months together4 ,he sent her mother and brother to her1 with prayers that she return to the family hearth-stone1 if not to the family church4 ,but she was always sequestered from the influence of her relatives1 by some loyal student or other in the ,woodbury collection of dutiful freaks4 ,mary's soul was much disturbed at times1 notwithstanding the religio-scientific consolations of her surrounding guardians4 ,she began to demonstrate1 in her own scattered little person1 the one everlasting assumption of ,christian ,science1 that the human body is an illusion to be dispelled4 ,in other words1 ,mary ,nash was fast sinking into what ordinary doctors of medicine and divinity term illness1 and it became extreme4 ,then1 not for the first time1 her father1 went to ,boston himself1 to take1 if possible1 his daughter back to his care and her mother's heart1 at the ,augusta home4 ,but still1 still--unless by some accident of a moment--she was always under the eye and the power of a metaphysical keeper4 ,then ,mary said no--she could not leave the fount of ,christian ,science4 ,so she stayed in ,boston2 for she was of age1 and could select her castle and companionship while she had the ways and means to maintain them4 ,now what could a poor law-abiding citizen of ,new ,england1 who had once been a mayor1 do in such a case8 ,had ,mary's father been a wild citizen of the ,west or the ,south1 he might have taken his handy gun along with him1 and removed his child or cleaned out the ranch4 ,but ,maine and ,massachusetts are too subdued for such stringent remedies4 ,so ,mayor ,nash mourned of hypnotism1 and offered--the distracted father that he was--five hundred dollars1 to release his daughter from the blessings of her religion4 ,this mercenary offer was spurned1 as suspect perchance in legal and ecclesiastic form2 but the way was pointed out in which the money might be received for lessons in ,christian ,science1 at the ,woodbury cut-rates4 ,meanwhile1 it being ascertained that ,mary ,nash had a modest bank-account in her name1 the money was sent for1 by herself nominally1 but visibly through a person in the number seven shoes of a loyal student4 ,the bank men--who were not in ,science--declined to pay ,mary's demand1 and referred the matter to her father4 ,he agreed with the bank in holding the proceeds of his daughter's account1 and his very stomach1 not to say his soul1 rejected the thought of exchanging cash for religious instruction from ,mrs4 ,josephine ,c4 ,woodbury4 ,so little ,mary ,nash became of no further promise to ,christian ,science4 ,and there was no time to lose4 ,mary was plainly departing from the state of deception--certainly such to her--called earthly life4 ,hastily1 at last1 she was permitted to journey home with her father1 and presently the sad man laid his daughter away in what to him was death4#ed ,from the history of ,christian ,science--set down in these pages as the thing really is--it must be clear to anybody not quite emptied of all mortal sense that ,mrs4 ,josephine ,c4 ,woodbury has been the most logical sequence1 the most practical outcome1 of the whole firmamental illumination4 ,but1 that the ,church of ,st4 ,bunco should grow and prosper--or should even hold its own among its honest innocents--it has been necessary for ,mrs4 ,eddy not only to preach love and purity in general1 but to draw the line of practical conduct somewhere short of blackmail1 larceny and homicide4 ,st4 ,josephine ,woodbury never committed a sin in her life4 ,sin has no reality in ,science4 ,her loyal students would all have testified that she was equal to any of the angels1 if not better than the highest4 ,yet a hard world around her1 not understanding true religion1 began to fancy1 say in #ahif1 that she was not1 every second1 fulfilling all the ten commandments4 ,then1 besides her ,war in ,heaven1 the lady has written another book1 called ,christian ,voices1 in which1 the thought having been long imputed to her1 she asked the question1 ,who shall succeed ,mrs4 ,eddy8 ,as ,science and ,health declares there is no death1 and as ,mother ,eddy is specially immortal1 ,st4 ,josephine's carnal talk of the ,christian ,science succession was naturally regarded in ,science as worse than blasphemy4 ,thus many things worked together against ,st4 ,josephine ,woodbury1 until at last she sat on ,mother ,eddy's burning fagots and wore the crown of martyrdom4 ,thereat the world did not come to an end1 but went right on with the production of quacks1 dupes1 and loyal students4 ,,chapter ,,xi4 ,,metaphysics4#ee ,mother ,eddy and her flock in ,science derive a considerable part of their income from a glib use of the word ,metaphysics4 ,but what the ,church ,scientist has omitted to learn about the real import of that word would make a volume even larger than ,science and ,health4 ,as unreservedly admitted in our present essay1 there is no trouble about a spiritual derivation of the universe4 ,in the declaratory1 religious form1 the ,new ,testament is a sufficient example of this doctrine4 ,in the philosophical form the names of ,plato and ,aristotle1 both of whom resolved all things into the principle of ,mind1 summarized the subject for the ancient world4 ,the modern world has now given three hundred years to the same theme1 and1 however well or ill aware of the fact1 has reached the same end1 but wholly without the assistance of any pushing1 dodging adventuress1 with a little set of abstract ideas and much screaming of ,science4 ,leaving lighter themes for the moment1 let us venture on a brief survey of this ground4 ,there are just two possible ways of analyzing things4 ,one way is to set the world with its particulars before the eye1 look at it1 and accept what we see4 ,then we may go to work on phenomena1 dissecting and generalizing4 ,this is the way of physics--a road that never leads to meta-physics4 ,it is the common turnpike of material science--of positivism4 ,in it travel all such men1 say1 as ,dr4 ,ernst ,haeckel3 also all such men as the late ,parson ,john ,jasper1 the colored preacher of ,virginia1 who1 seeing the sun move round the earth1 settled the fact in that way4 ,the one other way of dissecting the universe is to examine the means through which things are presented to us1 and thus to ascertain what effect the means may have in the production and nature of the things4 ,this method of investigation has ultimated in what has been summed up as ,scientific ,idealism4 ,scientific idealism is the knowledge which every one may get even from his first lessons in optics1 that things of matter--the objects of our five senses--are constituted such through the structure and action of these senses themselves4 ,that is to say1 material things--whatever we see or feel1 hear1 taste or smell--while existent and real--while practically what every one takes them to be--are made so through relativity4 ,or1 as ,kant put it1 every phenomenon--meaning every object or fact of sensation--is a re-presentation2 that is1 some lot of effects on our sensuous nature1 bound together into a unity of them1 the unity thus formed becoming an object of awareness1 a percept4 ,scientific idealism does not question the given duality of the cosmos1 which appears to us as what we call mind and matter4 ,here are we2 out there1 indubitably apart from us1 are other things1 involving another source4 ,but scientific idealism has found that this source is itself quite other than the things we connect with it1 and can properly be described in this connection only as source of impact4 ,it has nothing to do with matter1 in the common acceptation4 ,it enters into matter1 being the ultimate non-ego1 the objective background1 of every phenomenon4 ,but1 in all material things1 this background is transformed by contact with subjective sense 7in us or other organisms71 and matter is really the fusion1 the compound1 the third term1 of these two elemental principles4 ,this momentous truth1 though mystically reached in the old tenet of ,india that matter is illusion1 and though touched understandingly by ,carneades in ,greece1 was first clearly seen1 in the manner of modern science1 by the remarkably solid ,englishman1 ,thomas ,hobbes4 ,qualities called sensible said ,hobbes are1 in the object that causeth them1 but so many several motions of the matter by which it presseth our organs diversely4444 ,because the image in vision1 consisting of color and shape1 is the knowledge we have of the qualities of the object of that sense1 it is no hard matter for a man to fall into this opinion1 that the same color and shape are the very qualities themselves4 ,but1 concluded ,hobbes3 ,the subject wherein color and image are inherent is not the object or thing seen4444 ,there is nothing without us 7really7 which we call an image or color4444 ,the said image or color is but an apparition unto us of the motion1 agitation1 or alteration1 which the object worketh in the brain1 or spirits1 or some internal substance of the head4444 ,as in vision1 so also in conceptions that arise from the other senses1 the subject of their inference is not the object1 but the sentient4 ,when ,john ,locke began his great ,essay on ,the ,human ,understanding1 and posited mind in its first estate as a passive nonentity--a blank tablet--he had no vital conception of scientific idealism4 ,but1 in the patient thinking of twenty years1 such a man could not fail to come upon the law1 though he saw it only in part1 and did not work it out4 ,this work was carried a great way beyond him1 by the acute and learned ,bishop ,berkeley1 who showed from practical science1 especially through his investigation of vision1 that nothing in the universe has any actual being1 apart from a universal element1 that1 wherever it may be posited1 can alone be called ,mind4 ,since ,berkeley1 no philosophical thinker1 perhaps1 of any significance1 anywhere in the world1 has questioned the ideality of material things4 ,even ,reid1 as the philosopher of common sense1 declared that ,no man can conceive any sensation to resemble any known quality of bodies4 ,nor can any man show1 by any good argument1 that all our sensations might not have been as they are1 though no body1 nor quality of body1 had ever existed4 ,hume's comprehension of ,scientific idealism was complete to his day1 and was completely stated4 ,he said3 ',tis not our body we perceive when we regard our limbs and members1 but certain impressions which enter by the senses2 so that the ascribing a real and corporeal existence to these impressions1 or to their objects1 is an act of the mind difficult to explain4 ,the idealism of recent materialistic philosophers1 such as ,herbert ,spencer and the school of ,positivists1 has been most carefully expressed by ,john ,stuart ,mill1 in his statement that ,matter is a ,permanent ,possibility of ,sensation4 ,if said ,mr4 ,mill ,i am asked whether ,i believe in matter1 ,i ask whether the questioner accepts this definition of it4 ,if he does1 ,i believe in matter2 and so do all ,berkeleians4 ,in any other sense than this ,i do not4 ,for an easy1 popular view of the principle of scientific idealism1 perhaps nothing has been better said than by ,thomas ,carlyle1 in his review of ,novalis4 ,to a transcendentalist says ,carlyle matter has an existence1 but only as a phenomenon4 ,were we not there1 neither would it be there3 it is a mere relation1 or rather the result of a relation between our living souls and the great ,first ,cause2 and depends for its apparent qualities on our bodily and mental organs2 having itself no intrinsic qualities2 being1 in the common sense of the word1 nothing4 ,the tree is green and hard1 not of its own natural virtue1 but simply because my eye and my hand are fashioned so as to discern such and such appearances under such and such conditions4 ,nay1 as an idealist might say1 even on the most popular grounds1 must it not be so8 ,bring a sentient being with eyes a little different1 fingers ten times harder than mine1 and to him that thing which ,i call tree shall be yellow and soft1 as truly as to me it is green and hard4 ,form the nervous structure in all points the reverse of mine1 and this same tree shall not be combustible and heat-producing1 but dissoluble and cold-producing2 not high and convex1 but deep and concave2 shall simply have all properties exactly the reverse of those attributed to it4 ,there is no tree there2 but only a manifestation of power from something which is not ,i4 ,the same is true of material nature at large1 of the whole visible universe1 with all its movements1 figures1 accidents and qualities4 ,scientific idealism1 as far as we have gone with it1 has now become one of the exact sciences--as much so as physics4 ,it has been simply the result of continuous and innumerable experiments in natural philosophy1 for three centuries4 ,there is no need of going into these physical particulars1 after they have been put into the school-books of children and explained in popular lectures4 ,one more quotation must suffice4 ,mr4 ,g4 ,h4 ,lewes1 in his ,biographical ,history of ,philosophy1 tells us that ,the radical error of those who believe that we perceive things as they are1 consists in mistaking a metaphor for a fact1 and believing that the mind is a mirror in which external objects are reflected4 ,but1 as ,bacon finely says1 ',the human understanding is like an unequal mirror to the rays of things1 which1 mixing its own nature with the nature of things1 distorts and perverts them4' ,we attribute heat to fire1 and color to the flower1 heat and color being states of our consciousness1 occasioned by the fire and the flower under certain conditions4 ,perception is nothing more than a state of the percipient1 a state of consciousness4444 ,of every change in our sensation we are conscious1 and in time we learn to give definite names and forms to the causes of these changes4 ,but in the fact of consciousness there is nothing beyond consciousness4 ,in our perceptions we are conscious only of the changes which have taken place within us4444 ,all we can do is to identify certain external appearances with certain internal changes4444 ,we conclude1 therefore1 that the world per se in nowise resembles the world as it appears to us4 ,perception is an ,effect2 and its truth is not the truth of resemblance1 but of relation4444 ,light1 color1 sound1 taste1 are all states of ,consciousness2 what they are beyond consciousness 444 we cannot know1 we cannot imagine1 because we can only conceive them as we know them4 ,light1 with its myriad forms and colors--,sound1 with its thousand-fold life--make ,nature what ,nature appears to us4 ,but they do not exist1 as such1 apart from our consciousness2 they are investitures with which we clothe the world4 ,nature1 in her insentient solitude is an eternal ,darkness--an eternal ,silence4 ,,chapter ,,xii4 ,,further ,,analysis ,,of ,,the ,,universe4 ,in a previous chapter1 some special reference has been made to a little ,german professor named ,immanuel ,kant4 ,he was born at ,koenigsberg1 in #agbd4 ,in #agha he wrote a book which he called ,the ,critique of ,pure ,reason4 ,this provokingly modest title1 as already said1 covered1 in reality1 the analysis of mind and matter1 time and space4 ,it was the most far-reaching piece of purely intellectual work that had ever been given to the world4 ,it has split the heads of hundreds of philosophers4 ,certain thinkers have fancied they have thought beyond it1 and have supposed it to be laid on the shelf of deceased philosophy4 ,meanwhile1 we are told1 the universities are returning to the study of ,kant4 ,better still1 some of them are even beginning to understand him4 ,here we shall take him straight1 paying no attention to any of the side issues in which he was apt to cover himself up4#ef ,kant1 so learned that he was said to know everything1 was completely acquainted with the whole trend of ,british philosophy1 from ,john ,locke to ,david ,hume4 ,he was saturated1 too1 with the physical sciences4 ,so his first real step in his ,critique of ,pure ,reason was to found himself on the all-inclusive law of scientific idealism4 ,immanuel ,kant did not fool with this law4 ,he did not test it1 prove it1 and then let it slip out of a loose1 greasy mind1 as an airy nothing of no practical consequence4 ,he grasped it1 and held it1 as the bed-rock of all thought and all things4 ,it is a pity he omitted to say so at the very first touch of his work4 ,but he said it clearly enough when he happened to get ready4 ,thus1 for instance3#eg ,in order to prevent any misunderstanding1 it will be requisite1 in the first place1 to recapitulate1 as clearly as possible1 what our opinion is with respect to the fundamental nature of our sensuous cognition in general4 ,we have intended1 then1 to say that all our intuition is nothing but the re-presentation of phenomena2 that the things which we intuite are not in themselves the same as our re-presentations of them in intuition1 nor are their relations so constituted as they appear to us2 and that if we take away the subject1 or even only the subjective constitution of our senses in general1 then not only the nature and relations of objects in space and time1 but even space and time themselves disappear4444 ,what may be the nature of objects considered as things in themselves1 and without reference to the receptivity of our sensibility1 is quite unknown to us4 ,again1 in closing his dissection of space1 ,kant said3 ,objects are quite unknown to us in themselves1 and what we call outward objects are nothing else but mere re-presentations of our sensibility1 whose form is space1 but whose real correlate1 the thing in itself1 is not known by means of these representations1 nor ever can be1 but respecting which1 in experience1 no inquiry is ever made4 ,once more3 ,the faculty of sensibility not only does not present us with any indistinct and confused cognition of objects as things in themselves1 but1 in fact1 gives us no knowledge of these at all4 ,on the contrary1 as soon as we abstract in thought our own subjective nature1 the object re-presented1 with the properties ascribed to it by sensuous intuition1 entirely disappears1 because it was only this subjective nature that determined the form of the object as a phenomenon4 ,after awhile1 under the maddening caption of ,the ,possibility of a ,conjunction of the ,manifold ,representations given by ,sense1#eh our ,german professor virtually crowded his whole work into this one paragraph3 ,the manifold content in our re-presentations can be given in an intuition which is merely sensuous--in other words1 is nothing but susceptibility2 and the form of this intuition can exist a priori in our faculty of representation1 without being anything else but the mode in which the subject is affected4 ,but the conjunction 7conjunctio7 of a manifold in intuition never can be given by the senses2 it cannot therefore be contained in the pure form of sensuous intuition1 for it is a spontaneous act of the faculty of re-presentation4 ,and as we must1 to distinguish it from sensibility1 entitle this faculty understanding1 so all conjunction1 whether conscious or unconscious1 be it of the manifold in intuition1 sensuous or non-sensuous1 or of several conceptions1 is an act of the understanding4 ,to this act we shall give the general appellation of synthesis1 thereby to indicate1 at the same time1 that we cannot represent anything as conjoined in the object without having previously conjoined it ourselves4 ,as to comprehend this paragraph is to analyze the universe1 let us grapple with it4 ,impatient ,dr4 ,sam4 ,johnson once kicked a stone to refute ,berkeley4 ,let us take that stone1 as a clump of matter1 and treat it with the head instead of the foot4 ,the manifold content in our re-presentations1 says ,kant1 can be given in an intuition which is merely sensuous4 ,this means simply that the various properties of the re-presentation or intuition called a stone are effects on the senses4 ,the color1 the texture1 the weight1 the size--every one of all such material attributes--exist1 as they are1 solely by relation to me1 or to some other being in whom is organized the element of sense4 ,matter is made of impact--impact between its objective background 7the noumenon or noumena7 and some sort or degree of subjectivity4 ,without these two terms1 their product of interaction1 their third term1 matter1 is not4 ,so the manifold content of a re-presentation--or1 what is the same thing1 the properties of a material object--are nothing but susceptibility4 ,by the form of intuition1 ,kant meant1 as he has repeatedly explained1 the plural quality of space and time4 ,space is made of spaces2 time of times2 and the plural contents 7always such7 of matter can only exist under the plural contents of space and time--that is1 in sections of space and sequences of time1 these sections and sequences being the intrinsic character1 the divisible quality1 the essential form of space and time as total units or completed things4 ,and the nature of space and time need not be anything more objective than the nature of matter in general1 but can be derived1 too1 from the mode in which the subject is affected4 ,but1 says ,kant1 all conjunction is an act of the understanding1 and can not be contained in the pure form of sensuous intuition2 by which he means that time could never be a conjunct of times1 space a conjunct of spaces1 nor a stone the conjunct of its properties--each a synthesis of a manifold content--unless made so by the synthetical unity of a priori mind4 ,kant attributes unconscious action to the understanding--the unconscious action of conjunction or synthesis4 ,his phrase has been a perpetual stumbling-block to his readers1 but he meant exactly what he said4 ,unconscious mental synthesis is what he afterward designated as the synthesis of apprehension4 ,by the term synthesis of apprehension said he1 ,i understand the combination of the manifold in an empirical intuition1 whereby perception1 that is1 empirical consciousness of the intuition 7as phenomenon71 is possible4 ,kant talks of making the empirical intuition of a house into a perception1 by apprehension of the manifold contained therein1 and says that the necessary unity of space and of my external sensuous intuition lies at the foundation of this act4 ,the manifold contained in an empirical intuition--take the stone we have used for an example--is simply the diversity of properties1 constituting the object--the color1 texture1 size1 weight1 and the rest of them2 and these properties are effects of sense4 ,every one of them is a relation to subjectivity1 a result of impact on subjectivity1 and is in the object only as reflecting or re-presenting there the sensuous nature of a subject4 ,but these various effects on various senses1 these merely subjective separates--how do they get united into one thing8 ,what constitutes the unity of sensuous manifolds8 ,every phenomenon being an essential plurality--a lot of sense-effects--what closes together the various effects on various human senses1 called the properties of a stone1 into the one phenomenal object1 the stone itself4 ,to this end there must be some common subjective ground of those subjective things1 effects on sense4 ,there must be some subjective unity in which those subjective pluralities all merge1 for only as merged do they get to be an object4 ,now1 a common subjective ground of various effects on various senses can only be a common awareness of them--a synthetical unity of apprehension1 or just instinctive1 automatic consciousness in the germ4 ,this must be common to all the senses together1 and to each sense separately4 ,what1 for example1 is seeing1 but the simple awareness of sight8 ,what is touch1 but the simple awareness of feeling8 ,what is any intuition1 which means any taking-in of any phenomenon1 but a common awareness1 however rudimental or developed1 of some conjoined diversity of effects on sense8 ,it must be added here1 as vital to the full comprehension of the genesis of matter1 that not only every material object1 like our example1 the stone1 is made of essential plurality of sense-effects1 but that every separate property of an object is also made of like plurality4 ,no object1 and no property of an object1 is1 or can be1 single1 unal1 or1 in other words1 anything1 until constructed so1 in sense1 by the unconscious understanding thereof--the synthetical unity of instinctive1 automatic apprehension4 ,to realize this fact1 it is only necessary to remember that every property of anything1 say the hardness of a stone1 is a compound relation between the impact of some ultimate non-ego on the sense of touch1 and the peculiar nature of the sense itself3 so the property of hardness must contain essential diversity1 something from each of two fundamental sources4 ,as ,aristotle1 from his ontological investigations1 found that matter1 if regarded as an absolute independence--an unrelated thing in itself--is no thing1 but only chaotic indeterminateness--formless potentiality--so ,kant1 from his psychological inquiry--his dissection of phenomena as existent through perception--found the same truth in deeper significance4 ,the entire principle of unity1 ,whether in a feeling1 a thought1 a material object1 or the universe as a whole1 can only exist through the principle of mind4 ,here is the very bottom of the discoveries of ,kant1 and the basis1 also1 of all things4 ,mind1 then1 in its lowest state1 is what ,kant1 to distinguish it from sensibility1 entitled unconscious understanding4 ,there used to be an old saw in philosophy--still1 indeed1 at work--to the effect that there is nothing in the mind that was not first in sense4 ,leibnitz1 adding a piece to the saw1 said3 ,except mind itself4 ,leibnitz affirmed1 that is1 that sense always contains mind--that mind is in sense as a component of it1 and that without mind there is no sense at all4 ,what ,leibnitz perceived and asserted1 ,kant proved by observation and induction--by analyzing phenomena under the law of scientific idealism4 ,mind in sense--the mind of sense--is just automatic animal awareness1 just simple apprehension1 undeveloped1 and in the lowest animal life not to be developed1 into apperception1 the conscious stage of understanding1 capable of forming a concept4 ,well1 in the genesis of a stone1 or any other material object1 certain effects on sense are merged in the unit they compose1 by reception into the synthetical unity of apprehension4 ,the stone is created in this way4 ,its own objective unity--its wholeness1 or form as a stone--is thus the derivation1 the manufactured product1 of subjectivity as a cosmic element1 an element a priori to the existence of any possible phenomenon4 ,the stone1 however1 is unmistakably objective--is just the palpable thing that everybody takes it to be1 out there in space4 ,this is a given fact of perception--something1 as ,kant said1 never questioned in experience4 ,as such fact1 how can it be accounted for1 when we know1 at the same time1 that the stone is nothing but a plexus of subjective states8 ,how does the bunch of internal impressions get externalized8 ,what is the cause of this reflex1 this re-presentation8 ,it must be something inherent in the principle of apprehension itself1 or the plexus of impressions would necessarily stay within us4 ,being wrought internally1 it would remain internal4 ,hence1 this apprehension--this element of instinctive synthetical awareness--must be in its nature a double--an entity which reproduces1 or throws out before itself1 whatever lot of sense-effects it receptively synthesizes1 or binds together in a sheaf1 known as some object4 ,but all this1 summed up1 means only that mind1 even in its lowest form of unconscious understanding--the simple automatic apprehension which shuts together certain effects on sense into a totality of them--must1 as being apprehension1 necessarily1 though instinctively1 apprehended its own product4 ,here is the full explanation of the amusing1 iron-clad conception of ,hobbes1 that an image1 or a color1 is but an apparition unto us of motion1 agitation1 or alteration in some internal substance of the head4 ,the self-reflexiveness of apprehension is precisely the same thing1 in germ1 that the self-reflexiveness of apperception is1 in full self-consciousness4 ,the self-reflexiveness of apprehension1 in the manufacture of phenomena1 was named by ,kant the transcendental synthesis of imagination--the word imagination standing on its roots1 and meaning the image-making faculty4 ,phenomena1 as reflex-conjuncts of sense-effects1 are produced--put out--by this second function of apprehension2 so ,kant said he sometimes called it productive imagination4 ,it is that function of pure elemental1 or a priori awareness1 which re-presents itself in the constitution of every object1 as its unity1 but a unity shaped according to some object's filling of senses-effects4 ,hence ,kant says3 ,this synthesis of the manifold of sensuous intuition1 which is possible and necessary a priori1 may be called figurative synthesis 7synthesis speciosa74 ,thus ,kant found mind in sense1 unconscious understanding1 the instinctive awareness of animal susceptibility1 as it existed in himself1 to be the literal objective basis of all phenomena--the first material unity of every material thing4 ,and he found this elemental source of all unity to be an innate self-activity--a self-seeing mirror1 as it were--a double of receptiveness and reflectiveness4 ,here1 at last1 was the actual1 living thing1 of which ,locke's blank-tablet had long been the still-born1 stone figure4 ,mr4 ,herbert ,spencer1 in his remarkable investigation of ,the ,principles of ,psychology1 posits mind as always implied in sentiency1 and as necessary to the genesis of any phenomenon1 even the first nervous shock of a sensitive being4 ,recognizing the law of scientific idealism1 he has seen1 too1 that our objective world is made up1 at the perceptional outset1 of such shocks4 ,again1 he has proved1 with great detail1 that the action of mind is always of one general nature1 whether in the lowest animal instinct or the highest conscious reason4 ,but back at the first nervous shock1 ,mr4 ,spencer stops with mind1 and says that at the next regress it becomes unknowable4 ,yet nearly a hundred years before this investigation ,kant showed precisely what this so-called unknowable is4 ,he showed that mind1 in all stages and states--mind in itself--is a synthetical unity of awareness4 ,in germ1 as unconscious understanding--as the mind of sense--its function is to be simply apprehensive of1 and thus to conjoin in its instinctive cognizance1 some manifold contained in a nervous shock1 or in various sense-effects1 into some unity2 which then1 as itself apprehended1 or made a reflex1 becomes an impression1 an image1 an object4 ,,chapter ,,xiii4 ,a ,,special ,,look ,,at ,,space ,,and ,,time4 ,through scientific idealism1 fully examined1 ,kant proved that matter is a manufacture of sense4 ,we have not followed the order of his work1 but have gone straight to the heart of it4 ,his own beginning was the dissection of space and time4 ,still1 he implied therein1 if only in one remark1 all that has here been stated4 ,if ,i take says ,kant from our representation of a body1 all that the understanding thinks as belonging to it1 as substance1 force1 divisibility1 and also whatever belongs to sensation1 as impenetrability1 hardness1 color1 there is still something left us from this empirical intuition1 namely extension and shape4 ,these belong to pure intuition1 which exists a priori in the mind1 as a mere form of sensibility1 and without any real object of the senses or any sensation4 ,students of ,kant have known1 in a general way1 that he attributed extension to bodies1 as derived by them from a priori mind4 ,space is so derived2 hence all things in space1 which is the form1 the condition of their existence1 must partake of its nature1 which is pure extension1 pure given quantity1 as he designates it4 ,but why does the shape of a material body belong to pure intuition1 and come from mind8 ,simply because the shape 7let it be of a stone7 is merely the objected synthesis of apprehension1 in which the properties of the stone1 as impressions of sense1 are unified1 but in accordance with their special variety4 ,the shape is their figurative synthesis1 their synthesis speciosa4 ,now1 in the meaning of ,kant1 and in the nature of the case1 space is made in precisely the same manner as a stone2 only the stone is full of diverse properties--special effects on sense1 got from some impinging background of matter--some noumenon--while space has no properties at all1 except additions and divisions of itself--spaces4 ,in other words1 the stone is a special relation between mental synthesis and sensuous susceptibility1 the latter being in particular impact with some noumenal non-ego1 and being definitely filled from it4 ,space1 on the other hand1 is a general relation between the same mental synthesis and the same sensuous susceptibility1 the latter holding no contents from any noumenon1 yet being recipient to all possibility of noumenal impact4 ,hence1 space is just the synthesis of apprehension itself1 set in self-reflex1 objected1 phenomenated4 ,the stone1 in its unity1 its form1 its shape1 is this objected synthesis of apprehension1 filled with certain sensuous effects4 ,the synthesis of apprehension1 again1 as the condition of any special shape into which it may be stuffed1 is of course a priori to the stuffed shape2 so space is a priori to the stone in space4 ,once again1 space is the outward representation1 the very double to the eye1 of the synthesis of apprehension2 for space is just the visible synthesis of the apprehended--the transparent base of co-existence for all external things4 ,it must be remembered that the synthesis of apprehension1 as the mind of sense1 is itself a double1 containing the pure conjunctive unity of unconscious understanding as an active factor1 and susceptibility to impact as a passive factor4 ,in the conjoined relation of these two factors every material phenomenon gets to exist2 so there must be some relation of space to every external object1 and to all external objects--which is to say at once that space is infinite1 both in extent and divisibility1 so far as it can apply to objects at all4 ,and here1 too1 is the reason that the contained character1 the constituent quality1 of space--meaning what ,kant termed the form of the intuition--is essentially plural4 ,this constituent quality of space is a re-presentation of mind1 as at once active and passive1 receptive and reflexive--as fundamental a priori self-separateness4 ,but space itself1 as a whole1 is the synthesis of this self-separateness4 ,it is self-unity of self-separateness1 materialized4 ,space1 made of spaces1 is a thing identical in form and contents4 ,kant said3 ,space re-presented as an object 7as geometry really requires it to be7 contains more than the mere form of the intuition2 namely1 a combination of the manifold given according to the form of sensibility into a representation that can be intuited2 so the form of the intuition gives us merely the manifold1 but the formal intuition gives unity of re-presentation4 ,in the ',a,esthetic1' the first division of ,the ,critique of ,pure ,reason1 ,i regarded this unity as belonging entirely to sensibility1 for the purpose of indicating that it antecedes all conceptions1 although it presupposes a synthesis which does not belong to sense1 through which1 however1 all our conceptions of space and time are possible4444 ,by means of this unity alone 7the understanding determining the sensibility7 space and time are given as intuitions4 ,it is easy enough to follow out the genesis of time1 in the same way as the genesis of space4 ,the constituent quality of space and time is the same in both1 and is subject in both to the same act of synthesis1 in order that the essential plurality of the form of intuition may be created into the unity of the formal intuition itself--the single thing1 space or time4 ,but time is the form of in-ternal sense1 as ,kant put it1 while space is the form of ex-ternal sense--sense being to ,kant not its physical organs 7which are matter71 but mental susceptibility as distinguished from mental synthesis4 ,every phenomenon in space is made of active subjective-synthesis1 passive subjective-susceptibility1 and noumenal impact4 ,space and time themselves are made of the synthesis and the susceptibility alone4 ,but pure synthesis1 which means just pure identity of awareness1 can have no susceptibility1 cannot be occupied1 without change of state2 and any change of state in a pure general awareness forms succession of states1 or1 as ,kant said1 generates time4 ,but conjunction1 again1 of synthesis and susceptibility must be the relating of separates1 with reference to the objective as well as the subjective factor4 ,as objective effect this relation is pure co-existence of separates in time1 through outness from each other--space4 ,all objects1 impressions1 effects of sense1 must take the order of time2 but objects of internal sense 7feelings1 or emotions71 having no direct filling from noumena1 are not objects in space4 ,thus1 while space is pure synthesis of apprehension ex-ternally objected1 time is the same pure synthesis of apprehension in-ternally objected4 ,,chapter ,,xiv4 ,,creative ,,mind ,,further ,,probed4 ,the inmost secret of the universe lies in ,kant's four words1 the synthesis of apprehension1 or what he more elaborately termed the transcendental synthesis of the image-making faculty4 ,it is an operation he says of the understanding on sensibility1 and the first application of the understanding to objects of possible intuition1 and at the same time the basis for the exercise of the other functions of that faculty4 ,it has been intently presented to view in these pages1 because it focalises and explains the whole law of scientific idealism1 and is the one most important as well as abstruse fact in the genesis of things4 ,but having duly dealt with this point1 it must now be said that the synthesis of apprehension1 alone and ungrown1 is altogether inadequate to give form to an object1 in the full import of that word4 ,for an object is something held distinct by itself1 in connection with another object1 or with various objects4 ,unconscious understanding cannot form such connection and distinction1 but can only blindly manufacture single intuitions1 affording at most what ,kant termed a rhapsody of perceptions1 in which no one would be first or last1 or anything at all when past4 ,a fish-worm1 perhaps1 has such a rhapsody of perceptions for its objective world4 ,in the world of man the a priori element of intelligence which shapes it must be objected in the phase of consciousness proper1 or apperception1 as well as simple apprehension4 ,in noting the difference between the synthesis of apprehension and the synthesis of apperception1 ,kant said3 ,it is one and the same spontaneity which1 at one time under the name of imagination1 at another under that of understanding1 produces conjunction in the manifold of intuition4 ,apperception is simply apprehension apprehended1 or mind adequate to self-conception and so to conceptions in general4 ,that there can be a stone1 as known to a human being1 there must be a synthesis of sense-effects 7its properties71 in which they are distinguished among themselves1 and of which objects as wholes are distinguished from each other4 ,a synthesis of this kind presupposes not merely unconscious understanding1 but understanding that recognizes itself in connecting all things else4 ,i am conscious said ,kant of my identical self in relation to all the variety of representations given to me in intuition1 because ,i call all of them my representations4444 ,the thought1 ',these representations1 given in intuition1 belong all of them to me1' is just the same as ',i unite them in one self-conscious4'444 ,synthetical unity of the manifold in intuition1 as given a priori1 is therefore the foundation of the identity of apperception itself1 which antecedes a priori all determinate thought4 ,but the conjunction of representations into a conception is not to be found in objects themselves 444 but is on the contrary1 an operation of the understanding itself1 which is nothing more than the faculty of conjoining a priori1 and of bringing the variety of given representations under the unity of apperception4 ,this principle is the highest in all human cognition4 ,so1 to the existence of any distinguishable object1 there must pre-exist the element of mind in the phase of self-consciousness as well as sub-consciousness4 ,both must enter the object4 ,hence1 when ,kant talked of the objective unity of self-consciousness--another of his profoundest deductions--he meant literally that the synthetical unity of apperception1 as well as the synthetical unity of apprehension1 is materialized in all conceivable things4 ,to form the sense-effects of a stone into a single intuition1 they must be merged in a synthesis of apprehension2 but to set the intuition as thus created--to make it remain itself in the midst of others1 it must be merged with them in a higher synthesis--a common connective consciousness1 which1 distinguishing them in itself1 re-presents them as distinguished4 ,it was here that ,kant reached his famous ,categories1 which are merely reflexes of the pure synthetical unity of mind1 as forming the unity of all things and of all connection among them4 ,the principle of mind1 beginning1 as we have seen1 even with the instinctive mind of sense1 is a spontaneous self-activity1 receptive1 reflexive1 and resumptive of its doubles4 ,by being the first1 it unifies any and every manifold of sense-effects2 by being the second1 it re-presents the product--throws it out2 by being the third1 it apprehends the externalisation1 and a percept is born4 ,apperception1 or full consciousness1 is the same self-activity1 self-reflex1 self-sight1 transformed into understanding4 ,thus1 mind is essentially a triad as well as a unit4 ,but1 if so1 it must reflect itself to conception as a ,quantity--a sum of its own phases2 and in these phases1 it is a ,unity1 a ,plurality1 and a ,totality4 ,mind1 again1 as just a-priori principle and basis of all things1 is manifestly their universal ,quality4 ,but1 as self-reflexive1 self-resumptive1 it is at once a ,reality1 a ,negation1 and a ,limitation1 which means it is that which1 in its double1 contraposes one state to another1 while1 as a whole1 it is the limit of both states4 ,it goes without saying that a principle of self-reflex is the ,relation of its reflexes1 and in this relation is a ,substance with ,dependence1 a ,cause with ,effect1 and a ,reciprocity of its separates4 ,this is a very short cut to the ,kantian ,categories1 but sufficient1 perhaps1 if we bear in mind that1 while implicit in the mind of sense1 they are reflexes of conscious1 not unconscious understanding4 ,the synthesis of mind through conceptions proceeds1 not by the formation of sense-effects into units of intuition1 but by the formation of these already-made units 7objects or their properties7 into species1 genera1 and ultimate universals--the pure unity of these groupings1 without regard to the things grouped1 being just the pure a priori unity of self-conscious awareness4 ,thus1 those ultimate universals1 the categories1 are objective reproductions of pure conceptive synthesis1 without which there could be no connection of things in thought--which would amount precisely to no realised objects and no objective experience4 ,one of ,kant's industrious reviewers1 ,sir ,william ,hamilton1 fancied that ,aristotle's categories were genera of real things1 while ,kant's categories were determinations of thought1 and1 as mere entia rationis1 must be excluded from the ,aristotelic list4 ,but there are no genera of real things except as determinations of thought2 and1 in making an experimental classification of objects1 ,aristotle found some of the ,kantian categories1 because the synthetical unity of mind had put those categories into the objects at the creation of them4 ,to ,kant an object meant something of which ,sir ,william ,hamilton had no boding4 ,,chapter ,,xv4 ,,the ,,genesis ,,of ,,transcendental ,,ideas4 ,it must now be easy to see that mind1 in its general form1 is three-in-one--a triad4 ,it is a self-reflexive1 self-related unit1 of three phases4 ,the first phase is automatic apprehension4 ,the second is conscious understanding4 ,the third1 which we touch here1 is reason4 ,in reason1 mind is still the general cosmic principle of awareness1 with the function of synthesis1 or conjunction4 ,as intuition1 it has perceived things4 ,as conception1 it has classified them4 ,as a last synthetical unity of awareness1 it must include1 or comprehend them--must relate them to its conjunctive unity in their full scope1 which means simply in the ultimate reflexes1 or forms1 of its own nature and action4 ,as process1 this can only be done by referring all things to pure synthesis1 or connective identity1 as final cause4 ,seeing things1 and then thinking them1 we always end by asking1 ,why8 ,they are1 each and all so and so2 but what is the reason for it8 ,the pure form of answer1 apart from all contents1 is because--on account of cause4 ,thus reason forms its synthesis of comprehension by referring the particular to the general for a cause--a process that can never stop short of including all things in ultimate unities of cause4 ,it is evident that ultimate unities of cause must contain all subordinate causes or conditions under them4 ,there can be just three such ultimate unities2 for there are just three possible kinds of being and conditions that relate to their universals3 subjective being and conditions to subjective unity of them2 objective being and conditions to objective unity of them2 and all being and conditions1 both subjective and objective1 to the universal unity of being and conditions4 ,these final unities1 again1 as final--as totalities of conditions with none beyond--are themselves unconditioned4 ,reason1 then1 as an a-priori synthetical unity1 necessarily refers all conditions of things to their final or absolute unities1 which are in reality nothing but conceptional reflexes of ,reason's own constructive synthetical identity4 ,to be an identity of mind1 for instance1 to the conditions of subjectivity1 reason must receive them into its unity1 which thus becomes their totality4 ,now what is the objective re-presentation1 the rational conception of the totality of subjective conditions8 ,it is simply the transcendental idea of pure subjectiveness1 or ,soul4 ,in the same way the totality of objective phenomenal conditions1 is the idea of the ,universe2 while the totality of all conditions1 both subjective and objective1 is the idea of that in which all mind and all matter are related as their final cause or reason--,god4 ,,chapter ,,xvi4 ,,the ,,grand ,,result ,,of ,,dissecting ,,phenomena4 ,since the days of ,immanuel ,kant1 no philosophy1 no rational theology1 no ultimate science1 not referring to the results of his work1 has had any real basis in thought--the reason being that he saw through1 and explained1 the principle of universal relativity1 the law of scientific idealism1 and relaid the whole structure1 from the corner-stone up4 ,before ,kant it was known well enough that matter1 however we must all accept it with our hands and eyes1 has no standing1 under the analysis of thought1 except as a system of effects on ourselves4 ,hume1 we remember1 saw all this so clearly that he pronounced the very organs of sense1 our limbs and members1 to be not our body1 but certain impressions to which the mind ascribes a corporeal existence4 ,our limbs and members certainly are our body--the only body we have--but ,hume was right in his meaning that our body is a phenomenon which has no existence but as a plexus of impressions on a principle of intelligence1 possessing various modes of reception1 named senses4 ,but this principle of intelligence itself was1 to ,hume1 not a fact to be grasped by reason1 not a principle to be known and described1 but was to be taken as a force and vivacity unknowable beyond an instinct of it4 ,hume's unknowable force and vivacity--an improved form of ,locke's blank-tablet--,kant analyzed in the light of its products2 namely1 those conjuncts of sense-effects called objects2 those conjuncts of objects called species1 genera1 and categories2 and finally those conjuncts of all things and all conditions of things1 called transcendental ideas4 ,now1 such conjuncts of various manifolds actually exist4 ,they are man's percepts and concepts2 they are his facts1 his environment4 ,but as percepts and concepts1 and always conjuncts of the manifold1 they are formed1 organized1 totalized1 through a principle--the principle of perception and conception itself4 ,this is ,kant's a-priori synthetical unit1 common and necessary to all things and to all experience4 ,the last word of any weight1 against this reduction of matter to mind1 was said a few years ago by that exceptionally acute thinker1 ,professor ,huxley1 in his summary of ,hume4 ,too able and learned1 both as philosopher and scientist1 to question idealism1 ,huxley admitted it unqualifiedly4 ,but1 not having gone beyond the ,british proofs of it1 he defended what is commonly called materialism in this way3 ,if we analyze the proposition that all mental phenomena are the effects or products of material phenomena1 all that it means amounts to this3 that whenever those states of consciousness which we call sensation1 or emotion1 or thought1 come into existence1 complete investigation will show good reason for the belief that they are preceded by those other phenomena of consciousness to which we give the names of matter and motion4 ,all material changes appear1 in the long run1 to be modes of motion2 but our knowledge of motion is nothing but that of a change in the place and order of our sensations2 just as our knowledge of matter is restricted to those feelings of which we assume it to be the cause4 ,to this last posture of materialism1 a competent understanding of ,kant is the only reply that has ever been needed4 ,it is simply of no consequence to the case what states of consciousness precede or follow other states of consciousness4 ,let it be granted 7whether true or not7 that phenomena of consciousness to which we give the names of matter and motion precede all others4 ,what of it8 ,kant has proved to us that no phenomenon of consciousness--no matter1 no motion1 no sensation--and1 beyond all these1 no time and no space1 in which all the rest appear--has1 or can have1 any existence1 except as put into unity1 form1 and order1 by the unity1 form1 and order of mind4 ,if both the synthesis of apprehension and the synthesis of apperception enter into any state of consciousness named matter1 to give it birth1 there is no possibility that the element of intelligence can be an after-birth of the process4 ,all our objects1 then1 from a germ cell to the horizon1 are constructed such through a mental principle innate in our own structure4 ,but here it must be re-iterated and re-emphasized that whatever we1 as units of mind1 may embody in objects as form1 the filling of them is not ours4 ,it has a source apart4 ,the filling of our objects comes from the ultimate non-ego1 the background of matter4 ,this ultimate non-ego was a heritage to ,kant from ,british idealism4 ,he took it for granted at his first step and held by it unchanged when he was old and exhausted4 ,he called it the noumenon1 the real correlate of matter1 and pluralized it as things in themselves4 ,but he insisted1 as firmly as ,herbert ,spencer has since done1 that the noumenon is unknown and unknowable4 ,in a certain way--vital enough1 too--things in themselves are unknown and unknowable4 ,man is a small1 dependent1 limited being4 ,let us admit at once every old proverb in the world1 to the effect that the finite cannot comprehend the infinite4 ,sir ,william ,hamilton issued a tedious list of such proverbs4 ,let us adopt the whole of it4 ,the finite cannot comprehend the infinite4 ,the very meaning of things in themselves is that they are withheld from us in their specific contents4 ,but in their general nature they are related and revealed to us2 and the revelation is always asserted when we name them source of impact1 the real correlate of matter1 things in themselves1 or even the unknown and unknowable4 ,is there an unknown and unknowable8 ,yes1 there is4 ,but whatever is has being--must have being1 or not be that which is4 ,so much then we know of the unknown and unknowable2 it has being2 it is a fact4 ,but we know it negatively1 as well as positively4 ,we know what it is not1 on precisely the same ground that we know what it is4 ,being a noumenon1 it is not a phenomenon2 being a thing in itself1 it is not what things are to us4 ,being the real correlate of matter1 it is not matter1 but is the objective background of matter4 ,but now3 ,kant had analyzed matter and found it to be a relation--a relation between finite subjective awareness and this very noumenal background now in evidence4 ,he had found1 too1 that all matter--every spicule of it--is exhausted in the relation4 ,he had found that1 out of the relation1 matter has no existence4 ,by these presents1 then1 we know that the objective background of matter1 the ultimate non-ego1 is not material4 ,and1 at this point1 where are we1 if we pause and think8 ,when reduced to elements1 to principles1 what is there of the universe--the all of things8 ,just the subjective and the objective1 mind and matter4 ,hence1 that which is not matter is mind4 ,nothing else is left for it4 ,we may wriggle at this terminus as much as we like1 but there is no dodging it4 ,it may be said1 for instance1 that1 while we know and experience nothing but mind and matter 7including with matter its phenomenal vistas1 space and time71 we can imagine something else than either2 and1 during the past fifty years1 this nonsense has found lodgment in some heads4 ,now ,i can imagine anything1 in the meaning that ,i can arbitrarily produce some foolish fancy4 ,i can imagine a white blackbird1 with his tail-feathers on his head4 ,but ,i cannot imagine even this self-evident contradiction as a thing of neither mind nor matter4 ,what is an object of imagination in the meaning of fancy8 ,it may be empty of matter1 and so unlike the white blackbird4 ,but no object of imagination can be empty of mind4 ,imagination is itself an act of mind2 hence every possible product of imagination must partake of mind4 ,if1 therefore1 ,i imagine something apart from mind and matter1 it must still spring from mind1 contain mind1 and so not be apart from mind4 ,the reductio ad absurdum can be had cheap and sure1 just where it is most needed4 ,after ,immanuel ,kant had once and for good dissected the universe1 it seems a pity that he declined to put his findings together1 and take the last logical step of his magnificent demonstrations4 ,as a requisite1 perhaps1 to his microscopic analysis of human subjectivity1 he declined to generalize his own discoveries4 ,in short1 ,kant's synthesis was ,hegel4 ,but ,hegel we need not follow1 as our short cut to him1 through the solution of noumena1 is worth more1 as yet1 than the whole ,german tour of post-,kantean philosophy4 ,very early in his work ,kant said3 ,there are two sources of human knowledge 7which probably spring from a common1 but to us unknown root71 namely1 sense and understanding4 ,by the former1 objects are given to us2 by the latter1 thought4 ,dissecting1 with ,kant1 the nature of understanding1 we have discovered in it the unal form of all our re-presentations--of every perceptible and conceivable objected fact4 ,dissecting sense1 with the same instructor1 we have found it to be certain modes of mental susceptibility1 its physical organs being nothing but relations between susceptible awareness and the noumenal unknown1 like all the rest of matter4 ,led1 once more1 by our ,professor straight up to this noumenal unknown1 where he willed to stop and turn his back on it1 we have only had to look1 in order to see it collapse into the self-retention of ,spirit--spirit out of us1 but still in itself1 and thus going to make up the totality of ,spiritual ,being4 ,we have thus found the one common root of all knowledge and all things4 ,but we have touched1 also1 the apex of thought1 and can now see what is meant--really and fully meant--by absolute idealism4 ,absolute ,idealism is not merely a phrase2 it is a grand and glorious fact4 ,immersed in matter1 stuck in our senses1 we may insist on looking at sensuous phenomena as our friend ,john ,jasper looked at the sun1 with honest contempt for ,copernicus and ,newton4 ,de earf do not move roun' de sun1 exclaimed the sturdy preacher1 but de bressed sun move roun' de earf4 ,dere she go now3 don't ,i see her wi' dese very eyes8 ,parson ,jasper did see the sun moving round the earth1 and in the same way we all see the objects of our senses existing in perfect independence of ourselves4 ,still1 as surely as astronomy has proved the delusion of taking the sun's movement from the eye1 philosophy1 with the aid of practical science1 has proved the delusion of taking objective re-presentations as not constructed through subjective being4 ,the inevitable end of this proof is the dissolution of noumena as anything material1 and the inclusion of all things in ,universal ,spirit4 ,of such spirit1 finite subjectivity is a function--a necessary participative reflex1 through which the ,universal ,spirit is life1 manifestation1 self-evolution4 ,,chapter ,,xvii4 ,,some ,,sequences ,,of ,,absolute ,,idealism4 ,since ,kant1 we have said1 no philosophy1 no rational theology1 no ultimate science1 not referring to the results of his work1 has had any real basis in thought4 ,it must be added that since the fulfilment of ,kant's ,critique1 especially by ,hegel1 there has not been one stone left as a foundation for materialism4 ,it goes right on1 however1 in multifarious forms1 its defunct exponents still imagining they live4 ,surgical psychology1 in special1 is still as active with scalpel and microscope as if ours were the day of ,coudillac and ,erasmus ,darwin4 ,the knife goes into the brain1 and the eye peers after it1 with the funny expectation of seeing1 with ,dr4 ,cabanis1 some spicule or plexus of matter1 there1 which secretes thought as the liver secretes bile4 ,the work is excellent as anatomy1 and may have a plenty of important uses4 ,but we1 here1 if we have had the capacity and patience to grasp the findings of ,immanuel ,kant1 know that mind can never be derived from any physical correspondence of its nature and action4 ,we know that every possible attempt at such derivation is merely a side-show of ,parson ,jasper's great astronomical comedy1 which ,copernicus exploded four hundred years ago4 ,we know that every fiber1 every solid or liquid1 of the brain1 with every movement of every atom it contains1 is a ready-made physical object in a ready-made space and a ready-made time4 ,but if we know ,kant1 we know1 without a misgiving1 that space and time1 with all things in them1 are not only dependencies but are literal creations and manufactures of a universal principle named mind4 ,we know it is this principle which furnishes the form1 the unity1 and so the very existence of every phenomenon4 ,hence we know1 finally1 that the first step in the understanding of matter is the analysis of mind1 through which all matter is and is constructed4 ,without this first step1 all other steps are simply a stumble in the dark--the blind-man's buff of children4 ,or we may say1 with a little more dignity1 perhaps1 that every material law of the cosmos is subject to ,the ,law of ,scientific ,idealism4 ,now scientific idealism1 pursued to the end1 merges in absolute idealism4 ,the source and substance of the universe is ,intelligent ,spirit2 or1 as the ,bible and its ,theologians say1 this is the ,all-,in-,all4 ,for fifty years--from the publication of ,kant's ,critique in #agha1 along through ,fichte1 and ,schelling1 to the death of ,hegel in #ahca--the vast illumination of thought that has been summed up as ,german ,transcendentalism strove to unify natural theology and practical science in ,absolute ,idealism4 ,it will yet be seen that the work was done1 however ill-comprehended4 ,the good old ,kant still had his whole head with him when he said1 in #aghg1 the danger1 in this case1 is not that of being refuted1 but of being misunderstood4 ,the ,comtes1 the ,hamiltons1 the ,mills and ,spencers--with no end1 too1 of their ,german brothers--are illustrious examples in proof of ,kant's remark1 however greatly they may be respected within the limits of their own work4 ,once and for good1 the history of philosophy1 when understood1 and the history of science1 when understood1 have joined in the proof that the principle of all life--we may say ,god if we like--is ,spirit ,principle4 ,transcendentalism--a bulky word1 but covering much more than the letter of it--was naturally too high and too deep a result to get all at once into the average human head4 ,for thirty-odd years after the close of its epoch in ,germany--or until1 in #ahfd1 ,dr4 ,james ,hutchison ,stirling produced his ,secret of ,hegel--not a man stood on the earth adequate to reproduce transcendentalism in basis and system4 ,but the practical gist of it1 without the full center or circumference1 gradually became a part of the world's literature4 ,in ,britain1 most notably through ,thomas ,carlyle1 the new light penetrated biography1 history1 criticism1 and even political disquisition4 ,in ,america1 focused in ,ralph ,waldo ,emerson1 the same light1 whiter and purer if less flaming and burning1 both vivified and purified all things on which it was shed4 ,there the ,infinite ,oversoul and the finite undersoul seemed once again to meet in communion and evolution4 ,meanwhile1 ,theodore ,parker1 with his vast scholarship and overpowering courage1 preached ,jesus of ,nazareth1 the ,sermon on the ,mount1 and the ,golden ,rule1 with little regard for any organized theology of his day1 whether its ,unitarianism or its ,calvinistic ,orthodoxy4 ,back of all this1 as now appears1 there was a plain1 uncultured1 but inquiring and thoughtful man1 in the byways of ,new ,england1 who from the mechanism of clocks turned to the workings of the human mind1 and in his own way reached the depth of knowledge and the mysteries of life4 ,from a few practical experiments1 he1 too1 analyzed the things of matter1 and found them to be re-presentations1 externalizations1 of elemental spirit4 ,and then he drew the inference that spirit molds1 directs1 governs matter1 and so that health of mind materializes health of body4 ,but now1 at once1 the whole question at issue confronts us--what is the true and full position and power of mind in therapeutics8 ,this question must be answered1 here1 not from the ,quimby standpoint1 and much less from that of the shallow muddle termed ,christian ,science1 but from the standpoint of actual1 accredited1 established metaphysics1 now substantially bearing the concensus of religion1 philosophy1 and the practical investigation of material phenomena4 ,by aid of ,kant1 with our short-cut to the logical and necessary end of his achievement1 we have grasped the elemental source and solvent of man and his universe4 ,it is ,spirit in its evolution4 ,but1 in this evolution1 man--or say rather and always the principle of sensation and consciousness in which man inheres--is merely the general form1 diversely individualized1 of the ,one ,all-,inclusive ,spirit in the activity of self-manifestation4 ,the earth1 the sun1 moon1 and stars1 the human body1 its house and the landscape1 with every particle of all of them1 are outwoven of universal ,spirit through the loom of subjective being and unity4 ,the forms of matter1 with no exception1 are fabricated in this way4 ,thus1 not figuratively1 but literally and with exact knowledge1 we may repeat after ,st4 ,john3 ,in the beginning was the ,word1 and the ,word was with ,god1 and the ,word was ,god4 ,all things were made by him2 and without him was not anything made that was made4 ,but the principle of animal apprehension and human apperception--or say just the conscious and the sub-conscious--is not the ,ultimately ,creative ,one1 but is1 in us1 only a sub-creative power and agency4 ,we simply individualize it in endless degrees and variations1 all of us framing the same general world of objects1 conceptions and feelings1 but no one of us being1 seeing1 or feeling1 in all respects1 exactly like any other incarnation of our common identity4 ,but while the form--the unity1 and thus the individuality--of all things1 is materialized from ,spirit through sensation and consciousness in subjectivity--while this is the secret and genesis of all creation--we must ever hold fast to the equally basic and universal fact that the filling of the form--the infinite variety of impact on subjectivity which furnishes the diversity of objects--all this comes from that ultimate spirit-background crudely called the unknown and unknowable4 ,now this background of ,absolute ,spirit1 the very withholding of which from finite creatures constitutes them such1 institutes their law of progress1 and gives movement of expression to the ,infinite ,itself1 can only be absorbed and mastered by human beings through study1 work1 and experience4 ,while genuine metaphysics1 then1 assures us of our spirit-origin and relative oneness with ,god--of being ,god's children far more directly and intimately than most of us have ever imagined--it teaches us that for practical purposes1 in our condition of existence called matter1 it makes no difference what we call this condition4 ',tis something actual1 something definite1 something fixed1 just as long as we are in our earthly relation to it4 ,from this point of view1 ,dr4 ,johnson's kicking of the stone to refute ,berkeley was a deserved kick1 and even ,byron's fun was justified in his tipsy lines1 ,when ,bishop ,berkeley said there was no matter1 ,and proved it1 'twas no matter what he said4 ,all things are spirit surely enough2 but the phenomena of matter1 as transformed spirit1 are related to each other under the laws of what we necessarily designate as material nature4 ,little by little1 through long and hard exertion1 we find out what these relations are1 and how they are fitted to the human center of them4 ,some things are good to eat and to nourish us2 others to poison and kill us4 ,a cold or fever may be a manifestation of spirit1 and an herb or drug may be another2 but if the herb or drug counteracts and destroys the cold or the fever1 and experience proves it ten thousand times1 who cares to analyze a dose of aconite or a cup of saffron-tea into a draft of mortal or immortal mind8 ,the process is a mere fooling with ideals--hysterics jumping at the moon4 ,on metaphysical grounds--as far as anybody knows what metaphysics really means--there is no need that our physicians1 if they are good physicians1 should trouble themselves much about a ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,esculapius came into the world long before her1 and his followers will stay in it long after her materialized divinity has risen into a more spiritual and a more intelligent state4 ,the same may be said of our theologians4 ,their creeds have not come out of nothing1 however much the spirit of them may have grown thick and muddy through crude understandings4 ,the ,christian ,church1 surely1 can yet offer to mankind something better than the ,eddy ,church ,scientist2 and if it can1 it is in no ultimate jeopardy from a few1 or a few hundred1 congregations of half-educated faddists4 ,for a student of history--not in its moments1 but in its decades and centuries--it is easy to see that ,christian ,science has the reason of the fact and the spread of it1 in its being a protest against the depressing materialism around it--a materialism which1 though rationally decapitated by ,kant1 has shown marvelous activity1 for a corpse1 ever since the execution4 ,the medical profession1 too1 has partly1 if indirectly1 been responsible for ,mrs4 ,eddy's crazy horse of metaphysics1 running away in the dark1 and butting its own brains out4 ,from ,dr4 ,mesmer to ,dr4 ,charcot1 it took about a hundred and twenty years for animal magnetism1 under the softer names of hypnotism and suggestion1 to achieve full and final standing in the ,french ,academy of ,medicine2 and the mental phenomena attending mesmerism have still but little respectability among regular physicians4 ,but1 that curative agencies are not confined to drugs has long been settled in the public mind--such part of the public mind1 at least1 as permits itself any considerable reading and thinking4 ,has the pulpit itself--orthodox and not so orthodox--contributed to the success of ,eddy ,science8 ,we must say it has4 ,the practise1 among the sects1 of twisting the ,bible out of its straight1 historical1 natural significance1 and fitting its texts to every sort of whim1 folly1 and malefaction--this general practise has at last culminated in ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,key to the ,scriptures1 with pretty nearly the dissolution of them in the abomination of interpretation4 ,but ,christian ,science--the ,eddy misfit for a specious name--has had its rise1 and it has probably risen about as high as it can reach1 notwithstanding its rapid extension for the moment4 ,only its protrusion from insignificance and non-attention was needed to uncover its foundation on the sands of ignorance1 its strength in the perennial weakness and credulity of mankind1 and its business success in ordinary1 or more than ordinary1 business cupidity4 ,has it done no good in the world1 then8 ,ah1 that is another question4 ,whatever may have been the chief motive of its founder1 and whatever may have been its comedy of errors1 it has forced the inception of a movement that1 as a whole1 may have vast results for the human mind and the human body4 ,whatever material medicines may be necessary to mankind while they themselves are in a material condition1 psychic forces in the cure of disease can no longer be ignored4 ,what is the extent1 and what the limit1 of these forces1 is a problem that must be examined4 ,as conditionally--here and now--man is both spiritual and corporeal--it would seem to be a self-evident conclusion that he must have both material and spiritual aids to health4 ,that we can jump our condition1 before we get out of it1 is the most tremendous paradox ever presented to the human mind2 but the sequences--even physical--of systematically opening the finite soul to the ,infinite ,spirit may be incalculable4 ,the revival1 or definite rediscovery1 in modern times1 of healing the sick by the soul and the laying-on of hands1 came to pass some fifty years ago1 in the ,united ,states1 through the honest1 single-minded1 ,phineas ,parkhurst ,quimby4 ,if the spirit of evil--of hypocrisy1 selfishness and avarice--has entered into the movement of mental healing through another source1 the frequent necessity of very human means to divine ends is once more illustrated4 ,,chapter ,,xviii4 ,,various ,,schools ,,of ,,the ,,new ,,thought4 ,just now1 the general cause of metaphysical therapeutics is separating rapidly into various schools1 few of them having much consideration for the pretentious health-trust1 ,christian ,science4 ,in the ,south1 for instance--at ,sea ,breeze1 ,florida--a ,mrs4 ,helen ,wilmans has founded a settlement of houses and lands1 souls and bodies1 with books1 pamphlets1 and a weekly press1 all devoted1 mentally1 morally and physically1 to psychic dominion over all things4 ,freedom is the name of the organ that specially spreads ,mrs4 ,wilmans' light and curatives4 ,she has capacity in a comparative degree1 and energy1 with self-confidence1 in the superlative4 ,she proclaims this3 ,intellectual power in the individual comes from concentration of the mind upon an idea until the truth or falsity of the idea becomes apparent4 ,likewise the power of the race in the unfoldment of a race problem must come from a concentrated effort to discover a hitherto unfolded racial capacity2 and this is the meaning of the movement ,i am inaugurating here4 ,the ,wilmans' conception of mind-healing has been illustrated as follows by a correspondent of ,freedom1 who discusses and admits the curing of disease among devout ,catholics1 exalted and prayerful1 at the shrine of ,st4 ,anne in ,illinois4 ,it is all natural1 he says3 ,if with equally strong belief they should pray to ,god1 ,buddha1 ,st4 ,peter or ,paul1 ,mrs4 ,eddy or ,mrs4 ,wilmans1 or a stump or stone--or should they stand on their heads1 or drink water from a certain river1 or anoint the sick parts with clay and spittle--the result would be the same4 ,their mind would cure their bodies4 ,mind is king4 ,in some respects1 the paper1 ,freedom1 is almost as free from material sense as the book1 ,science and ,health4 ,mrs4 ,wilmans has a correspondent who asserts1 and probably believes1 that1 by the concentrated power of her finite female mind1 she has never failed once in five years to avert the fury of severe summer storms4 ,she has demonstrated1 she says1 the dominion of mind over material nature1 as clearly as any ,mental ,scientist has demonstrated it over disease4 ,and here is an official announcement from ,mrs4 ,wilmans' organ3 ,freedom is the only paper published whose leading and constantly avowed object is to overcome death right here in this world and right now4 ,if you want to learn something of the newly-discovered power vested in man which fits him for this stupendous conquest1 read this paper1 and keep on reading it4 ,the new thought has traveled ,west as far as ,south4 ,it recently had among its organs ,the ,temple1 of ,denver1 ,colorado1 a monthly magazine devoted to the fuller unfoldment of the divinity of humanity1 the editor of which was ,mr4 ,paul ,tyner1 who afterwards conducted the ,arena of ,boston1 consolidated with ,the ,journal of ,practical ,metaphysics4 ,the purpose of the latter periodical was the unification of scientific and spiritual thought and the new philosophy of health4 ,the editor was ,horatio ,w4 ,dresser1 a ,harvard graduate1 an excellent philosopher of the ontological trend1 and a polished writer1 reminding one partly of ,spinoza and partly of ,emerson4 ,mr4 ,dresser's books1 ,the ,power of ,silence1 ,the ,perfect ,whole1 and others1 have given him a wide reputation in his particular field of work1 and have constituted him a center of the most logical and scholarly literature connected with metaphysical healing4 ,this literature1 too extensive for specialized designation1 is under the propagandism of the ,boston ,metaphysical ,club1 an active and growing organization4 ,the ,boston ,metaphysical ,club comprises too much exact information and solid learning to accept or countenance the extreme vagaries of ,christian ,science1 and appears to be acting as a balance-wheel to the whole movement of the new thought4 ,in a recent leaflet the ,club has taken special occasion to dissect and repudiate that most preposterous doctrine of ,mrs4 ,eddy's science1 the absolute nothingness of matter4 ,the title of the leaflet referred to is ,christian ,science and the ,new ,metaphysical ,movement1 with the added phrase1 ,an ,intelligent ,discrimination ,desirable4 ,one excerpt is this3 ,christian ,science proclaims the unreality of matter1 and of the body4 ,the rational and broader thought1 not only admits the validity of the body1 as veritable expression1 but claims that it is as good1 in its own place and plane1 as is the soul and spirit4 ,while susceptible to mental molding1 it is neither an error nor an illusion4 ,moreover1 it is friendly to its welfare to affirm both its validity and goodness4 ,it is to be ruled1 beautified1 and utilized in its own order1 and not denied an existence4 ,even admitting that the whole cosmos is1 in the last analysis1 but one ,universal ,mind and its manifestation2 even admitting that all matter is but a lower vibration of spirit1 and that the human body is essentially a mental rather than a physical organism2 still1 matter has its own relative reality and validity1 and is not to be ignored as illusion4 ,of its kind1 nothing better than this could be said even by a ,hegel4 ,it is exactly the correct statement of the great metaphysical truth4 ,the leaflet agrees with the criticism of this volume1 that the spirit of ,christian ,science is autocratic rather than democratic1 and says3 ,its polity and ritual1 in every detail1 are shaped and directed arbitrarily by a single will4 ,there is no room for investigation1 liberty of thought1 progress1 or further revelation4 ,there is no recognition of related physical science or evolutionary progress4 ,the monograph continues thus3 ,the liberal movement stands for freedom of soul1 and is in no way opposed to subordinate orders of truth4444 ,it does not ignore the good in existing systems1 disparage reasonable hygiene1 or deny the place of certain departments of surgery4 ,it is not insensible to the present and provisional uses of simple external therapeutic agencies1 at least until individual unfoldment and the recognition of higher law become more general4444 ,while understanding1 both from experience and observation1 that a systematic employment of mental potency in a rational1 scientific1 and idealistic manner has a wonderful and unappreciated healing energy1 its exponents do not think it necessary to form a new and exclusive religious sect4 ,the main premise1 of course1 of all the schools of mind-healing is that the mind can and should control the body4 ,let us go straight from this premise to the manner of applying it1 as explained1 for instance1 in a little book entitled ,the ,new ,philosophy of ,health1 excellently well written1 by a ,miss ,harriet ,b4 ,bradbury4 ,the healer says this author simply holds in mind with great tenacity1 for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes1 an image of the patient as he should be4 ,this image1 by the process known as 'thought transference' is impressed upon the sick man's mind as a possibility1 when his own strong desire1 seizing it1 is able to reproduce it as an actuality4 ,he may be quite unconscious that he has done anything for himself1 and when he finds himself well1 gives all the credit to the man who1 as he thinks1 has 'healed' him4 ,yet the change is wrought by no man1 but by the great life-giving force which two wills working in harmony have called into perfect action4 ,in confirmation of the law of mental causation1 ,miss ,bradbury says3 ,the most significant of recent biological experiments are those which have been conducted at the ,smithsonian ,institute with a view to discovering the physical effects of different mental states4 ,they have proved that the different emotions produce immediate chemical changes within the physical organism1 and it only remains to continue the investigation to learn just how each habitual emotion is finally reflected upon the outward frame4 ,so that old mesmerist1 ,dr4 ,quimby--for this was exactly his view--has got along as far as the ,smithsonian ,institute at ,washington4 ,and here let us introduce the names and cogitations of a few authorities so eminently respectable that the very best and most conservative people need not shrink from becoming acquainted with them4 ,in a work on ,practical ,idealism1 ,william ,de,witt ,hyde1 ,president of ,bowdoin ,college1 tells us3 ,there are certain classes of disease for which hypnotic treatment is highly beneficial4 ,mental healing in all its various forms1 in so far as it is valuable1 rests on the principle that body and mind are very closely inter-related through the partly conscious but chiefly unconscious control of the vital functions through the nervous system2 and that the state of the mind at any given time1 and consequently the state of the body1 in so far as we know it at that time1 is made up of a relatively small presentation of sensation1 and a very large contribution of associations4 ,hence a very slight suggestion through the senses1 by speech1 or physical contact1 or eradication of fixed images1 anxieties1 and fears1 may introduce a new nucleus around which an entirely new set of associations will cluster2 so that through the renewing of the mind the body may come to be transformed4 ,charles ,van ,norden1 ,d4,d41 ,,ll4,d41 at one time ,president of ,elmira ,college1 tells us in his outline of psychology1 ,the ,psychic ,factor1 that ,so tremendous is this power of mind over body1 that disease may often be cured and ailments caused by a new idea4 ,a woman says ,rev4 ,dr4 ,van ,orden once came to ,surgeon-,general ,hammond with what he considered an incurable disorder4 ,she sighed as she turned to go away disconsolate1 saying1 ',ah1 if ,i but had some of the water of ,lourdes6'--for she was a devout ,catholic4 ,now it so happened that a friend had brought the doctor a bottle of the genuine water of ,lourdes to experiment with4 ,he informed the patient of this1 and promised her some provided she would first try a more potent remedy1 ,aqua ,crotonis 7,new ,york ,city aqueduct water74 ,the woman consented1 but protesting that this latter could not reach the case4 ,he then gave her a little vial of the real article1 but labeled ',aqua ,crotonis4' ,when this had failed he gave her ,croton water1 but labeled ',water of ,lourdes4' ,the result was a complete cure4 ,prof4 ,william ,james1 of ,harvard1 in the chapter of his ,principles of ,psychology treating the production of movement1 quotes many authorities and gives various diagrams illustrating the effects of sensations and emotions upon the pulse1 the respiration1 the glands1 muscles1 and other organs and functions of men and animals4 ,the celebrated ,prof4 ,bain is quoted as saying that according as an impression is accompanied with feeling1 the aroused currents diffuse themselves over the brain1 leading to a general agitation of the moving organs1 as well as affecting the viscera4 ,the conclusion of ,prof4 ,james is that ,using sweeping terms and ignoring exceptions1 we might say that every possible feeling produces a movement1 and that every movement is a movement of the entire organism1 and of each and all its parts4 ,the effect1 says ,prof4 ,james1 of fear1 shame and anger1 upon the blood-supply of the skin1 especially the skin of the face1 are too well known to need remark4 ,sensations of the higher senses produce1 according to ,couty and ,charpentier1 the most varied effects upon the pulse-rate and blood-pressure of dogs4 ,now if the higher emotions of dogs produce marked effects upon their physical structure1 we must naturally infer that hope1 faith1 joy--all1 indeed1 of the loftier emotions of human beings--may set up high and healthful movements in the human body1 while base emotions set up low1 harmful1 and diseased conditions4 ,in this claim1 anyhow1 we have1 according to metaphysical healing1 the cause and cure of disease1 capped1 too1 with the ethics of the new thought4 ,thomas ,jay ,hudson1 in his book1 ,the ,law of ,psychic ,phenomena1 gives this compend of the facts3 ,the science of psycho-therapeutics is yet in its infancy4 ,thus far just enough has been learned to stimulate research4 ,it has been demonstrated that there is a psychic power inherent in man which can be employed for the amelioration of his own physical condition1 as well as that of his fellows4 ,when this is said1 nearly all the ground covered by present knowledge has been embraced4 ,it is true that many wonderful cures have been effected1 many marvelous phenomena developed4 ,nevertheless1 all are groping in the dark1 with only an occasional glimmering of distant light shed upon the subject2 and this light serves principally to show how little is now known1 compared with what there is yet to learn4 ,in discussing the conditions necessary to psychic healing1 ,mr4 ,hudson affirms that the exemplar and healer of ,nazareth1 the founder of our ,christian religion1 always recognized these conditions in the miracles imputed to him4 ,we shall end our quotations1 at this point1 with one from ,mr4 ,hudson's chapter on ,the ,physical ,manifestations and ,philosophy of ,christ4 ,i do not mean to say that ,jesus could not heal in such cases where the mental environment was unfavorable2 but the fact that he took infinite pains1 wherever practicable1 to secure the best conditions1 shows that he understood the law and worked within its limitations4 ,certain it is that he never performed any of his wonderful works outside the laws which he proclaimed1 nor did he ever intimate that he could do so4 ,it is true that his biographers do not always relate the details of the transactions recorded2 but it must be remembered that they wrote at a later day1 and may not have been in possession of all the details4 ,it is1 however1 a marvelous fact1 and is one which constitutes indubitable evidence of the truth of his history1 that in no instance do they relate a single act performed or word spoken by him1 relating to the healing of the sick1 which does not reveal his perfect knowledge of and compliance with the laws which pertain to mental therapeutics as they are revealed in modern times through experiment and the processes of inductive reasoning4 ,,chapter ,,xix4 ,,an ,,advanced ,,healer ,,of ,,to-,,day4 ,recapitulating what we have been over1 it appears that metaphysical healing is simply the suggestion and determination of health--the ideal photograph1 as it were1 of health--transferred from the well to the ill1 in the conviction that ,universal ,spirit is the principle of all health1 which we may receive from its ,source by opening ourselves to it4 ,that is to say1 the health of the ,infinite ,spirit1 so far as absorbed by a finite spirit1 corrects finite errors of mind1 and the mind1 thus corrected1 corrects1 or cures1 the body4 ,such1 certainly1 was the truth-cure of ,phineas ,p4 ,quimby4 ,with him1 starting as a mesmerist1 it was1 really1 a kind of normal and sacred hypnotism1 by which he endeavored to put his patients under the close1 immediate influence and operation of ,supreme ,life1 and ,sympathy1 and ,vigor4 ,such treatment should do much for the ailing--how much we must wait to know4 ,but the effects of it must have limits1 and these limits must be the general1 the fixed conditions1 of what we designate as mind and matter4 ,it may be well to re-state these conditions1 but with focal reference to this point--the one vital point of our whole theme4 ,metaphysically speaking1 we are spirit1 and all else is spirit4 ,but what is spirit8 ,what are the constituents of it1 to the extent that man may grasp them8 ,first1 is the universal principle of intelligent conjunctive unity1 instinctive and conscious1 which1 individualized in men and animals1 manufactures1 or sub-creates1 all the unities of their environment1 which they take to be the forms of matter4 ,second1 is the equally universal principle of subjective 7negative7 sensibility--the receptiveness of spirit in its forms called the senses4 ,transmuted through these senses1 ultimate objective spirit--to us the unknown and unknowable--furnishes the filling1 or contents1 of what consciousness and sub-consciousness make up1 or unify1 into objects4 ,third1 is the vast fact of ,spirit-background--,infinite ,spirit in itself--which is revealed1 and can only be revealed1 to the finite1 as transformed through fixed modes of finite receptivity4 ,a man1 therefore1 is simply an individualization of the process by which the ,absolute--,that ,which ,is--expresses itself and lives4 ,whatever may be our environment under some changed state of our receptivity--say the future life--our environment of spirit objected through sense1 in space and time1 is the environment of matter2 and the human body is a part of it4 ,we are not only in matter1 therefore1 but we sub-create the matter1 through our ,god-given modes of sensuous receptivity1 and can only escape from it through an entire change of those modes1 called senses4 ,the door of escape is the door of death1 and no human being has ever avoided it4 ,can any human being avoid it8 ,we say no3 because to be out of matter is to be out of the kind of receptiveness--our five senses--through which matter itself exists4 ,if there be exceptional persons of clairvoyant susceptibility1 who can pass sufficiently out of our average material condition to realize aught beyond them1 the bodily state of these persons1 too1 must end1 as we all end4 ,let us not mix conditions1 like the metaphysical tyros of ,christian ,science2 but while we are in the state of spirit known and experienced as mind and matter1 let us acknowledge the plain fact4 ,as a corollary of this fact1 if we are out of health1 let us look to remedies good for both mind and matter--the body and the soul4 ,such will probably be the ultimate equipoise between mental medicine and material curatives4 ,this1 at any rate1 is the best conclusion for the new thought that the scribe at hand can reach4 ,he may be wrong2 for he is totally uninspired1 and has nothing to follow but his nose and his mortal mind4 ,but1 the conclusion once reached1 he stood on it as an a-priori breathing-spot4 ,and then it occurred to him that1 peradventure1 some radical1 independent son of ,galen might be conducting the business of therapeutics on a psycho-corporeal1 double platform4 ,if so1 ,boston would be the place to look for him1 and the search was begun4 ,in due time it was successful4 ,the result may at least prove suggestive and entertaining4 ,let our new friend be called ,prof4 ,p42 for he has been an instructor in his kind of work1 and he bears the title of doctor only by the courtesy of his patients1 as ,dr4 ,quimby did4 ,now it is certain that if ,prof4 ,p4 does not cure all sorts of diseases1 his patients think he does1 vouch for it when questioned1 and give most sincere testimonials to that effect4 ,even the cure of cancer is vigorously affirmed1 and in connection with cases that have been given up by eminent physicians4 ,but1 as this book is doing no medical advertising1 one ordinary instance of ,prof4 ,p4's work must suffice4 ,a large1 strong woman1 as the consequence of a fall1 incurred violent sciatic rheumatism1 and was treated at a hospital for three months1 being worse at the end of that time than at first4 ,on personally interviewing her--and she is a woman of more than average intelligence--she informed the writer that1 in one treatment of twenty minutes1 ,prof4 ,p4 had entirely cured her1 and that after five months--which had elapsed at the time of the conversation--there had been no recurrence of her trouble4 ,our search for light has led to a somewhat close acquaintance with ,prof4 ,p4 and has induced him to explain his theory and practise of healing1 for our use as a writer1 excepting a few of his personal discoveries not immediately important to the public1 which he must withhold1 he says1 for something like the same reason that his learned brothers1 the physicians1 write their prescriptions in ,latin4 ,prof4 ,p4 requires it to be said explicitly that he is a ,spiritualist4 ,he is so pronounced in the faith that he impatiently scoffs at all denial1 evasion or concealment1 of what he deems his positive knowledge that we exist after our mere change of condition called death1 and that the spirits of our departed friends are interested in our earthly welfare4 ,he declares1 however1 that ,dr4 ,quimby was sensible in not trusting spirit communications at the expense of his own judgment--as1 taking the long generations of mankind1 there are necessarily more fools disembodied than in the flesh4 ,according to our friend ,p41 there are now four great remedial agencies possible to healing the sick1 apart from medicines in the usual sense4 ,the intelligent and careful use of such medicines he believes in1 and he seeks to cooperate with all broad-minded physicians1 rather than to antagonize them4 ,the more occult1 but often more effective agencies1 than drugs or herbs1 he says1 are these3 ,first3 ,animal ,magnetism4 ,second3 ,natural ,healing-,power--this power being inherent to some extent in all human beings1 but greatly concentrated and developed in certain individuals4 ,third3 ,mental or ,psychic ,force--a force existing in both embodied and disembodied spirits1 and as a universal principle4 ,fourth3 ,sensitized devices containing these powers and elements1 with the function of imparting them to the ailing and the weary4 ,magnetism1 says our ,professor1 as a material phenomenon1 is a force so potent that it rearranges the unsystematized molecules of certain metals1 and gives them harmonious direction and integral traction4 ,the application of it--termed polarization--has been known even to produce 'clicks' within metallic bodies1 loud enough to be distinctly heard4 ,animal magnetism1 pertaining to organized beings1 acts upon their corresponding but higher molecules in the same general way4 ,the sick are disordered1 locally clogged1 'out of tune4' ,they have lost1 as it were1 their polarity4 ,animal magnetism restores it to them4 ,it then goes further and vitalizes them2 for1 if imparted to the feeble by a person strong1 well1 and stored full of it1 an equilibrium takes place between an operator and his patient4 ,animal magnetism1 however unconsciously utilized1 doubtless takes part in all so-called 'mind-cures' that are physical afflictions1 not the results of bugaboos and whimsies4 ,the absurd fulminations of ,mrs4 ,eddy1 at this late day1 against animal magnetism1 are only equaled by the comprehensive ignorance1 in general1 which ,bishop ,brooks is said to have considered the only possible excuse for the production of a book like ,science and ,health4 ,inherent ,healing ,power is more occult than animal magnetism1 but has become almost as well established4 ,according to the accepted evidence of centuries1 this power was fully exemplified in ancient times by the most faithful and unselfish of all the sons of ,god and man1 ,jesus1 our ,christ4 ,according to recent and contemporary evidence1 both widespread and exact1 the ,protestant world of late centuries has had no example of the same quality so marked as that of ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby4 ,inherent healing power goes with close and tender sympathy for the afflicted1 and grows with use1 like the brawn of a stevedore1 or the intellectual dexterity of a practised writer4 ,it may eventuate in a ,quimby as naturally as the poetic faculty eventuates in a ,kipling4 ,by mental or psychic force1 says the ,professor1 ,i mean the principle of apprehending1 understanding1 and reasoning1 with the moral elements pertaining to conscience and will4 ,this combination of our essential being1 in whatever phase of it we may exist1 affects and modifies1 if it does not altogether dominate1 all the rest of our make-up4 ,its importance is very great1 but may be exaggerated by forgetting that man is a microcosm1 and that while he is in the externalized condition of spirit known as matter he is not at the same time out of it4 ,for the finite to put itself in harmony with the ,infinite1 by right thinking1 right feeling1 right conduct1 is indispensable to the highest health2 but an imaginary union with ,god through fictitious conceptions of our own ego is unnatural and unwholesome exaltation1 inducing disease of the mind1 whatever it may do to the body4 ,psychic power is an absolutely universal principle1 common1 in degree1 to men1 spirits1 and ,god4 ,it is sometimes employed by hypnotists to such an extent that the physical sensation of a subject is rendered void1 even under amputation of a bodily member4 ,it can destroy the taste for intoxicants in a drunkard4 ,it can supplant melancholia with hope and cheerfulness4 ,what it can not do is yet a problem4 ,of course such a power is a part1 and great part1 of sane therapeutics4 ,in the application of it1 said the ,professor1 with much warmth1 ,i affirm--let those who have not my knowledge and experience think what their ignorance or prejudice saddles upon them--that 'departed spirits1' as we call them1 combine their efforts with those of men and women1 to heal the sick4 ,the power is thus redoubled4 ,we have taken but a few steps in this sort of knowledge1 and it is accompanied by a plenty of deception and twaddle4 ,but the truth underlying it has now procured a hearing even before eminently timid 'societies of psychical research1' and will soon conquer them1 as mesmerism has done4 ,certain spirit-conditions are coming to be rationalized4 ,in this country1 for instance1 the spirits of ,indians everywhere manifest themselves1 especially in connection with the cures of disease4 ,the reason is simple4 ,indians were close to the earth1 near to nature1 in their lives1 and they enjoy the scene of their old 'hunting grounds' more than such etherealized spirits as were slightly attached to it4 ,but spirit-aid in therapeutics is mostly co-operative4 ,essential physicians1 whether in our state of being or the higher state1 feel an interest in their pursuit1 and practise it4 ,the most intelligent guide their assistants2 but robust spirits of earthly qualities and attractions sometimes furnish a basic healing force that is almost physical4 ,prof4 ,p4's system of healing is remarkable enough in all ways2 but his claims for his sensitized devices would be too astounding for credence were it not that the things appear to work1 just as he says they will4 ,seemingly1 they are nothing but small metallic plates2 but they are charged1 he affirms1 with earth-magnetism as a power-house1 and then with animal magnetism1 with natural human healing quality1 with attractiveness to spirit-co-operation in that quality1 and finally with psychic power and control--that is1 direction of mind and will4 ,in other words1 ,prof4 ,p4 says that1 after twenty years of study and experiment he can transmit to his sensitized devices1 and store in them1 all the four great healing agencies which can be employed in therapeutics apart from ordinary medicines4 ,by such means1 he affirms1 not only healing1 but instantaneous healing1 to the extent at least of immediate relief from pain1 can always be effected in all cases adapted to his treatment4 ,christian ,science1 he says--mind-cure--faith-cure--oh yes1 they 'demonstrate' over things1 as the phrase goes4 ,i admit it1 at least in some instances4 ,but1 at their very best1 they all take time4 ,the patient must wait to exalt himself into some vision or condition he is told about1 or to accept some theological doctrine or other1 whether true or false4 ,suppose a man is knotted up with rheumatism1 has a fit1 or is insane4 ,i don't wait for him to build up a belief1 or to get into harmony with the ,highest4 ,i take him just as he is1 clap my sensitizers on him1 go to work myself1 and1 if he is not too far gone for aid on earth1 ,i restore an equilibrium of body and brain4 ,if ,i do this--if ,i instantly drive away the worst kind of pain--if ,i retrieve lost consciousness or a disordered mind--,i can put faith enough into my patient for a beginning4 ,later1 ,i will attend to his theology to the extent of my knowledge1 if he desires my services as a priest4 ,the operation of ,prof4 ,p4's sensitized appliances1 according to his claim for them1 is correction and vitalization of both mind and body1 when disarranged or ill1 and then concentration of power in accordance with location of disease or pain4 ,as strange as it may seem1 he says1 these little pieces of metal take upon themselves the physical and mental conditions of sickness1 which can even be conveyed by them from one person to another1 as ,i have proved by various experiments4 ,but these conditions can be discharged from the plates1 or 'grounded1' like electricity1 and this1 too1 without destroying the higher1 firmer1 normal charge of health and strength4 ,do you look incredulous2 do you smile with a tinge of pity8 asked ,prof4 ,p41 as he talked4 ,wait a minute4 ,you have heard of ,dr4 ,luys1 one of the most distinguished physicians in the world1 ,charcot's favorite assistant1 and now the head of the great ,charity ,hospital of ,paris4 ,not long ago he had a patient--a young woman who had suffered nervous prostration1 and was losing her mind from melancholia4 ,she was affectionate1 and greatly attached to her family4 ,but she became aware that her love was strangely turning to aversion1 which she could not control4 ,frightened and ashamed1 she went to ,dr4 ,luys4 ,he tried everything he could think of to cure her1 but unavailingly4 ,at his wits' end--not knowing what to do--he took up1 one day1 a large electro-magnet1 and1 as a pure experiment of impulse1 fastened it to her head4 ,he was suddenly called away for three-quarters of an hour4 ,returning1 he found his patient weak1 but her head better and clearer than usual4 ,dismissing her1 he put the magnet on his own head1 took the chair she had sat in1 and remained there as long as she had done4 ,he then went to dine with his wife and children1 of whom he is very fond4 ,but1 greatly to his surprise1 he found that1 with no fault of their own1 they were not agreeable to him4 ,he had taken the conditions of his patient4 ,he was keen enough to recognize the fact1 and announce it to his profession and the world4 ,he drew the conclusion that the electro-magnet can absorb morbid brain-influences4 ,also that it can transfer such influences from the sick to the well1 though two healthy persons are not affected by it4 ,he added that the transference of conditions from the healthy to the diseased almost always benefits them4 ,i am not hanging on 'high authorities1' continued the ,professor1 but they are sometimes useful to me4 ,there is ,dr4 ,julius ,althaus1 of ,berlin1 a member1 too1 of the ,english ,royal ,college of ,physicians4 ,as explained in a recent issue of the ,lancet1 the chief ,english organ of the medical fraternity1 ,dr4 ,althaus is now rejuvenating old age1 and prolonging our present term of life1 by certain galvano-electric appliances--which1 by the way1 he does not tell quite all about4 ,henry ,irving is understood to have been held back from the infirmities of advancing years1 and restored to the stage1 by ,dr4 ,althaus4 ,prof4 ,p4 claims to have been at work half a life-time in the general direction indicated by the experiments and achievements of ,luys and ,althaus1 but to have been so busy that he has had no time to think about a degree of ,m4 ,d4 ,the world1 he says1 should be very grateful to these eminent gentlemen1 and ,i certainly am grateful2 for though ,i anticipated the happenings of ,dr4 ,luys by several years1 and though almost any 'magnetic healer' would assert the hypothesis1 at least1 of ,dr4 ,althaus1 my own theories and results are so far beyond my epoch that without the steps1 however short1 taken by such men as ,luys and ,althaus1 ,i could get no sort of hearing4 ,i am often laughed at1 of course1 as a 'crank'2 but ,i generally laugh last--for1 as the phrase goes nowadays1 ,i 'get there4' ,,chapter ,,xx4 ,,conclusion4 ,the moral of our story is an old one1 always new4 ,there are more things in heaven and earth than--anybody short of ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy can put into a science4 ,from this text it would be logical to educe a cyclopedia every month or so4 ,but one little point will do here4 ,the practise of medicine1 notwithstanding its grand achievements1 is still in its infancy4 ,when ,i am ill1 ,i call a doctor--the best in the vicinity4 ,it is the custom2 and1 as ,montaigne said1 ,que sais-je8 ,i am not sure of much1 and when ,i have grippe ,i am quite certain of less than ever4 ,but the materials ,i have lately been at work on make me wish that my doctor1 instead of scorning all new things1 would look into some of them1 and add them to his acquirements4 ,he will have no need to accept ,christian ,science1 which has been accurately described as a way of getting cured of things by believing something that isn't true4 ,i must excuse my doctor from accepted that inverted science4 ,but the general subject of occult and psychic healing is worthy of his attention4 ,my doctor knows much3 but1 if he should enlarge his knowledge just a little1 my faith in him would stand the increment4 ,one thing ,i shall insist on4 ,my doctor must not endeavor to supersede ,torquemada1 ,henry the ,eighth1 and the learned ecclesiastical doctors of the ,inquisition4 ,he must not interfere with the right of private judgment in saving the body1 as they did in saving the soul4 ,in such a case ,i should count them his superiors1 inasmuch as the soul is really worth more than its external machinery1 which1 in a few years1 more or less1 must wear out and go to the cemetery4 ,the ,inquisition honestly held a theory that the soul could only be saved by accepting a certain creed1 and ought to be saved even at the cost of breaking the body on a wheel4 ,the ,inquisition would have been right1 if its creed had really been the thing supposed4 ,but four centuries of ,protestantism have established a different theory3 it is that1 whatever any creed may be or do1 every man has the prerogative of deciding for himself the manner of thinking which shall raise him to heaven or lower him to sheol4 ,still1 ,i repeat1 the soul is worth more than the body1 and if ,protestantism applies to the greater1 it should apply to the less4 ,some things have been settled1 ,i suppose1 by long experience1 and have become matters of law for the protection of nations4 ,civilization requires that a man who knows nothing of physiology shall not practise surgery2 that scarlet fever shall be quarantined2 that school-children shall be saved from small-pox by vaccination4 ,medical degrees certify that the holders have studied medicine long enough at least to know something about it in a way that the common judgment recognises4 ,nothing is to be said against such requirements impartially applied to a whole people4 ,they simply must be enforced4 ,christian ,science opposes them1 dodges them when it can2 for it holds that human beings have no bodies except reflections of a wretched lie called mortal mind4 ,in spite of its source1 this dangerous form of insanity should be dealt with as gently as possible1 but certainly should not go unrestrained4#ei ,let it conform to laws1 not special to any religion or to any humbug masquerading as a religion1 but general to the citizens who compose a free and sane community4 ,,the ,,end ,,footnotes3 #a ,from #c4ah to #f4 #b ,mrs4 ,eddy's statement in her book1 ,retrospection and ,introspection1 p4 #fa4 #c ,for proof in detail see ,chapters ,,iii4 and ,,iv4 #d ,our historical sources of information are referred to as we go along1 but a good deal of it has come from access to original documents1 and from living persons of the highest character who were long and intimately acquainted with the subject of our chapter4 ,the names of some of these friends are given by permission4 #e ,this circular alone--furnished to the writer by ,dr4 ,quimby's son--is complete proof as to origin of mind-healing in the ,united ,states4 #f ,the reader is advised to consult the pamphlet and the book here specified1 in connection with our chapter4 7,geo4 ,h4 ,ellis1 ,publisher1 ,boston7--,g4 ,c4 #g ,these press articles and notices have been examined by the writer1 and are unmistakably genuine1 as are the selections4 #h ,u4 ,s4 ,court of ,admiralty4 ,judge ,ware was sometimes spoken of as the leading citizen of ,maine4 #i ,the ,true ,history of ,mental ,science1 page #ae4 #aj ,philosophy of ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 page #ec-ed4 #aa ,mrs4 ,sarah ,ware ,mackay4 #ab ,the gentleman is ,hon4 ,edwin ,reed1 of ,boston1 ,mass4 ,his name is given by his permission1 from a feeling of gratitude to ,dr4 ,quimby1 and profound respect for his memory4 #ac ,mrs4 ,eddy's complete name1 with reference to these gentlemen1 would be ,mary ,baker ,glover ,patterson ,eddy4 #ad ,the writer has had these records authenticated at ,portland4--,g4 ,c4 #ae ,the original print has been in my hands4 ,a copy of the letter is published in full in ,the ,true ,history of ,mental ,science 7,appendix ,a74--,g4 ,c4 #af ,the gentleman here traduced is ,dr4 ,l4 ,m4 ,marston of ,boston4 ,he is a practising physician1 and a thoughtful1 honest man4 ,he is the author of a well-written book entitled1 ,essentials of ,mental ,healing1 which is much superior to ,science and ,health1 though containing some of the overdone conceptions of mind-cure in general4 ,but ,dr4 ,marston properly employs material as well as mental medicine4--,g4 ,c4 #ag ,retrospection and ,introspection1 by ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 #ajth thousand1 #ahif4 ,pages #g1 #h1 #i4 #ah ,ibid41 page #ce4 #ai ,retrospection and ,introspection1 p4 #aj4 #bj ,ibid41 ,page #ab4 #ba ,the ,great ,novel1 p4 #ag4 #bb ,retrospection and ,introspection1 p4 #bh to p4 #ce4 #bc ,the holy romance1 page #bh and rest of chapter4 #bd ,retrospection and ,introspection1 page #fa4 #be ,retrospection and ,introspection1 p4 #bi4 #bf ,i have seen a brief article of his1 entitled ,aristocracy and ,democracy1 and written under date of ,february1 #ahfc1 in which he said3 ,the religion of ,christ is shown in the progress of ,christian ,science1 while the religion of society decays in proportion as liberal principles are developed4--,g4 ,c4 #bg ,retrospection and ,introspection1 from p4 #dj to p4 #dc4 #bh ,this was half a century ago2 but the productions--not scribblings1 of course1 like ,dr4 ,quimby's writings--are yet in mind among ,mrs4 ,eddy's old acquaintances4 ,one critic of them has said3 ,they were stories wherein the 'feller' married the girl in the last chapter1 and they lived happily ever after except when the baby was cutting teeth4 ,the stories were not essays1 were not metaphysical1 and were hardly physical4 ,had ,mrs4 ,eddy not written them1 ,i never should have remembered them at all4 #bi ,retrospection and ,introspection1 p4 #ch to p4 #df4 #cj ,page #de4 #ca ,judge ,hanna is ,mrs4 ,eddy's literary factotum4 ,mr4 ,tott is an actual personage1 but1 being in ,science1 he will probably never recognize his picture--especially as there are many like him4 #cb ,see advertisements in all ,christian ,science publications4 #cc ,page #dg4 #cd ,this crude materialistic conception of ,god as filling space shows most beautifully the ,kindergarten quality of ,mother ,eddy's metaphysics4 #ce ,the figures stand for the pages referred to4 #cf ,retrospection and ,introspection1 p4 #ea4 #cg ,these facts are well remembered and well recorded4 ,they were of special interest to such of ,mrs4 ,eddy's loyal students as had seceded from her cult4--,g4 ,c4 #ch ,retrospection and ,introspection1 p4 #eg4 #ci ,see ,christian ,science ,history1 by ,septimus ,j4 ,hanna1 p4 #db4 #dj ,for this amazing snivel see ,retrospection and ,introspection1 p4 #fa4 #da ,this chapter is written mostly from personal inspection and knowledge4 ,an elaborate description of the ,church is given in ,the ,christian ,science ,journal for ,january1 #ahie4--;,g4 ,c4 #db ,retrospection and ,introspection1 page #fb4 #dc ,published in the ,christian ,science ,journal of ,april1 #ahie4 #dd ,war in ,heaven3 ,sixteen ,years' ,experience in ,christian ,science1 ,mind-,healing4 ,by ,josephine ,curtis ,woodbury4 ,third ,edition4 ,boston1 ,mass4 ,press of ,samuel ,usher1 #ahig4 #de ,several suits are pending as this book goes to press4 ,one suit has been thrown out of court4 ,it should be said1 perhaps1 that one of ,mrs4 ,woodbury's attorneys1 ,f4 ,w4 ,peabody1 ,esq41 has such an abhorrence of ,christian ,science in general1 that he has been willing to take the part of anybody who could enable him to expose ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,in this good work may he not be discouraged4 #df ,the extraordinary matters of this chapter1 however well or ill suppressed1 were all published1 with great detail1 in the issues of the ,traveler from ,dec4 #abth to #bb;d1 #ahif1 and from ,january #aath to #beth1 #ahig4 ,here they have simply been put into brief form1 and relieved of all unnecessary harshness4 ,the papers have been preserved for evidence and are in my hands4--,g4 ,c4 #dg ,the story1 with many details1 in issue of ,dec4 #ad1 #ahif4 #dh ,a long story underlies the unfortunate marriage and separation of the lady and gentleman involved in this case4 ,but the facts are not essential to the one and only subject of these pages1 ,christian ,science4 #di ,issue of ,dec4 #ab1 #ahif4 #ej ,there were really two papers handed to ,mr4 ,chamberlain1 and he was to take his choice between them4 ,the case1 too1 was withdrawn1 not wholly on account of one thing1 but many things which ,mrs4 ,woodbury's lawyer found it impossible to contend against4 ,but the most direct cause of the withdrawal is the one given4 #ea ,boston ,traveler1 ,january #ba1 #ahig4 #eb ,until it is learned that generation rests on no sexual basis1 let marriage continue4 ,spirit will ultimately claim its own1 and the voices of physical sense be forever hushed4--,science and ,health1 page #bgd4 #ec ,january #ae1 #ahig4 #ed ,i have seen what ,i suppose to be true copies of a series of letters written by ,mary ,nash and different members of her family1 with one or two from some of ,mrs4 ,woodbury's loyal students4 ,the letters might possibly be taken to show that inharmony existed in the ,nash family1 and that the daughter stayed away from father1 mother and brothers on that account1 instead of being1 if such was the case1 just where a sensible and affectionate daughter was most needed4 ,the letters1 at any rate1 show the most united affection for her1 and more than willingness to do anything she asked1 if she would only return to her home4 ,when finally she did so1 two physicians1 according to ,mr4 ,nash1 declared her to be under hypnotic control4 ,letters1 under hypnotism1 are suspect4--,g4 ,c4 #ee ,the chapters of our book from ,,xi4 to ,,xvi4 inclusive1 were1 in substance1 written at the request of ,dr4 ,william ,t4 ,harris1 ,united ,states ,commissioner of ,education1 and published in his ,journal of ,speculative ,philosophy for ,december1 #ahic1 under the caption of ,the ,secret of ,kant4 ,these chapters1 while too abstruse for light readers1 really explain what ,christian ,science ignorantly chatters about as ,metaphysics4--,g4 ,c4 #ef ,as this book1 including the present chapter1 is for readers who may or may not understand ,german1 our quotations from ,kant are taken from his ,critique as in the old familiar1 accessible translation by ,j4 ,m4 ,d4 ,meiklejohn 7,bohn's ,philosophical ,library--edition of #ahfj74 #eg ,critique of ,pure ,reason2 ,general ,remarks on ,transcendental ,a,esthetic1 p4 #ce4 #eh ,critique2 ,transcendental ,logic1 p4 #hj4 #ei ,these words were written long before ,dr4 ,alan ,mc,lane ,hamilton testified1 in the ,surrogate's ,court1 7,new ,york ,city1 ,feb4 #ahth1 #aija71 that sincere ,christian ,scientists are afflicted with a form of insane delusion4