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generic term for all that reflects God's image and likeness; * * * man 

 is incapable of sin, sickness and death, inasmuch as he derives his 

 essence from God, and possesses not a single original or underived 

 power. Hence man cannot depart from holiness. Nor can God, by 

 whom man was evolved, engender a capacity or freedom to sin. * * * 

 The highest form of man is woman" (541, 542). 



Sin. This word is not defined in the glossary. 



" Matter. Mythology; mortality; another name for mortal mind; a 

 material belief, namely, that intelligence, substance, and life, belong 

 to non-intelligence and mortality, — that life results in death, and 

 death in life,— that sensation is in the sensationless, and that mind 

 originated in matter; the opposite of Spirit; the opposite of Intelli- 

 gence; the opposite of God; * * * that which mortal mind sees, 

 hears, feels, tastes, smells only in belief," etc., etc. [This comprises 

 but about one-fourth the definition given in the book.] 



"Death. An illusion, for there is no death; the unreal and the 

 untrue; the opposite of God, or Life. Matter has no life, hence it 

 cannot die, and mind is immortal," etc., etc. 



It seems scarcely necessary to say that in this alleged Science, ac- 

 cording to Mrs. Eddy, every proposition laid down as a basis of argu- 

 ment is as a rule false, every question begged. No man knows that 

 the Founder of our religion, the Man of Galilee, was never sick. It is 

 not true that wrong thinking is the cause of all diseases; it could not 

 be true of animals, and certainly not of plants, but plants and animals 

 which do no thinking are subject like man to disease, old age and death. 

 It is not true that because a fright causes disturbance of health or 

 even death, in some cases, that it must therefore do so in till cases. 

 It is not true that because one patient " sinking in the last stages of 

 typhoid fever" recovered while using a high dilution of common salt, 

 that the salt cured, or that other patients similarly affected would 

 similarly recover. It is not true that because one case of dropsy re- 

 covered while taking ostensible medicine (unmedicated pellets), that 

 therefore all cases will recover with the same pretended medicine. 

 Because some forms of disease are without doubt due to disorder of 

 mind, it is not therefore true that all diseases are due to disorder of 

 mind. Disorders enough certainly originate in the mind, and are ag- 

 gravated by attention to them, and such cases can often best be cured 

 by mental treatment, but they do not by any means include all dis- 

 orders. It is not true that nerves carry a changed report according 

 to belief. Poison berries poison such as innocently eat them, not- 

 withstanding the belief that they are harmless. It is not true that 



