bodied in her works. Years of practical proof, through homœopathy, revealed to her the fact that Mind, instead of matter, is the Principle of pathology; and subsequently her recovery, through the supremacy of Mind over matter, from a severe casualty pronounced by the physicians incurable, sealed that proof with the signet of Christian Science. In 1883, a million of people acknowledge and attest the blessings of this mental system of treating disease. Perhaps the following words of her husband, the late Dr. Asa G. Eddy, afford the most concise, yet complete, summary of the matter: —
“Mrs. Eddy's works are the outgrowths of her life. I never knew so unselfish an individual.”
Will the book Science and Health, that you offer for sale at three dollars, teach its readers to heal the sick, or is one obliged, to become a student under your personal instruction? And if one is obliged to study under you, of what benefit is your book?
Why do we read the Bible, and then go to church to hear it expounded? Only because both are important. Why do we read moral science, and then study it at college?
You are benefited by reading Science and Health, but it is greatly to your advantage to be taught its Science by the author of that work, who explains it in detail.
What is immortal Mind?
In reply, we refer you to “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”[1] Vol. I. page 14: “That which
- ↑ See editions prior to that of January, 1886.
