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ing enables one heal the absent as well as the present (195).— One 

 only of the following statements can be true: (1) That everything 

 is matter; (2) that everything is mind. Which one is it ? I demoli- 

 sh ated this as the leading factor in mind science, — that mind is all, 

 and matter is nought (14). 



"By mind alone I have prevented disease, healed chronic as well as 

 acute ailments in their severest forms, elongated shortened limbs, 

 restored decaying bones to healthy conditions, brought back the lost 

 substance of the lungs, and caused them to resume their proper func- 

 tions. Electricity is the essence of mortal mind, the counterfeit of 

 the true essence of the Eternal Mind (p. 36). Homoeopathy dimin- 

 ishes the drug. Its potency increases as the drug disappears. The 

 pharmacy of Homoeopathy mentalizes a drug with such high attenu- 

 ation of belief, that it becomes more like mortal mind than its sub- 

 stratum matter, and its power to heal is proportionately increased 

 (110, 111). Food neither strengthens nor weakens the body,— mind 

 alone does this " (116). 



An instance is given, ostensibly from the London Lancet, to the 

 effect that a young English woman fell in love, was disappointed 

 (presumably by the death of her lover), lost her mind, and was there- 

 after insane through life. She daily stood at the window, so the story 

 goes, looking for one that was never to return. It is said that in 

 this state of expectation she remained young, and literally grew no 

 older. Some Americans saw her at the age of seventy-four, and sup- 

 posed her a young woman; not a wrinkle or gray hair to be seen, they 

 said she could not be older than twenty. Mrs. Eddy says of this 

 story: " One instance like the foregoing proves it possible to be 

 young at seventy-four, and the principle of that proof makes it plain 

 that decrepitude is not a necessity of nature or law, but an illusion 

 that can be avoided. Never record ages. Time-tables of birth and 

 death are so many conspiracies against manhood and womanhood (132). 



"Every object in the material universe will be resolved into thought 

 whose substance is mind, not matter, and is included in the generic 

 term man, of which woman is the highest species (150).— The daily 

 ablutions of an infant are no more natural or necessary than it would 

 be to take a fish out of water once a day, and cover it with dirt. 

 Water is not the natural habitat of humanity. Your child can have 

 worms, if you say so, or whatever malady is timorously holden in 

 your mind relative to the body (159).— If we classify mortals as 

 mineral, vegetable, or animal, an egg is the author of the genus homo; 

 but there is no reason why man should begin in the egg rather than 

 in the more primitive dust, like the figurative Adam (169).— Even the 



