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hath not yet found that knowledge can save him from the dire 

 effects of knowledge." 



The character of this personal or material sense or so-called 

 consciousness, and the doctrine of Science concerning it, are stated 

 in these graphic words from the text-book of Science : 



Personal sense defrauds, lies, cheats, will break all the commands of the Mo- 

 saic Decalogue, to meet its own demands. How, then, can this sense be the chan- 

 nel of blessings or of understanding to man? How can man, reflecting God, be 

 dependent on such material senses for knowing, hearing, seeing ? Who dare say 

 that the senses of man can be at one time the medium for serving sin, and, at 

 another, for communion with God ? 



An affirmative reply would contradict the Scripture, for '"the same fountain 

 sendeth not forth sweet and bitter waters." 



The so-called senses of matter are the only source of evil or error. Science 

 shows them to be false; since matter has no sensation, and no organic construc- 

 tion can give it hearing and sight, or make it the medium of Mind. 



Outside of the material sense of things, all is harmony. A wrong sense — of 

 God, man, and creation — is nonsense, or want of sense. Belief would have the 

 material senses sometimes good and sometimes bad. 



Science sustains with immortal proof the impossibility of any material sense, 

 and defines these so-called senses as human beliefs, whose testimony can not be 

 true of man or his Maker — of whose reality, or immortality, the senses can take 

 no cognizance. Nerves have no more sensation, apart from what belief bestows 

 upon them, than the fibers of a plant. Mind alone feels, sees, tastes, smells, and 

 hears ; therefore these faculties continue when organization is destroyed. Other- 

 wise the very worms could unfashion man. If it were possible for the real senses 

 of man to be injured, Soul could reproduce them in all their perfection ; but they 

 can not be disturbed, since they exist in Soul. 



"Science and Health" gives plain, practical rules by which 

 the origin and classification of all the objects or images appearing 

 in consciousness can, first, be instantly recognized ; and, second, can 

 be dealt with understandingly and on their merits. It thus simply 

 affirms that states and conditions of consciousness can be gradu- 

 ally and progressively controlled and changed from fear and suf- 

 fering to happiness and serene confidence. It teaches how to 

 eliminate from consciousness, how to destroy all objects that are 

 opposed to harmony, through the cultivated understanding of 

 Truth. The operation of this understanding results in gradual 

 elimination of material sense, and beliefs of matter that are its 

 concomitant, from the individual, and thus from the race, con- 

 sciousness. The improved state of consciousness thus resulting is 

 what constitutes " Christian Science Mind-healing." 



Hundreds of thousands of persons, found in every city, town, 

 and village, are living this Science. They have destroyed, indi- 

 vidually, and in the measure of their several understandings of 

 Science, the beliefs and fears of matter, and have come into a 

 state of measurable, relative health and harmony. That all who 



