Chapter 8: 'Science and Health' by Mary Baker Glover

Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick

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road to recovery, on whom this mal-practitioner has

produced a relapse.

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Scientific treatment fills the mind with Truth that

heals the sick; but the mal-practitioner impregnates it

with error that produces new disease; rubbing the

head, he keeps his cases constantly on hand, because

of the struggle between the little Truth he brings to

bear on the case, and the error he introduces. To have

barely sufficient right to make the wrong plausible, is

more fatal to science than the unmasked error. No

enthusiasm or praise is as zealous or fullsome as this

mal-practitioner can elicit, while nothing is more relent-

less and unyielding than the prejudice he can arouse;

but mesmerism governs them both, and enables the

doctor to gain his point in sin, but not in science.

Surely "the fool hath said in his heart, no God." Man-

ipulating the head, even to a thinness that would reveal

the brains, can never heal the sick in science. This

mental mal-practice is a shameless waste of time and

opportunity, an abuse of ignorance or good nature in-

consistent with science, the economy of Soul and the

harmony of man. This secret trespassor on human rights

manipulates the head to carry out, on a small scale, a sort

of popery that takes away voluntary action instead of

encouraging the science of self-control, and sets himself

up for a doctor who is a base quack. For intermeddling

with what should be the independent functions of soci-

ety, the mal-practitioner gets his fee, but the involuntary

agents of his schemes get bad pay for their services.

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Conservatism or dishonesty, either in the statement

or demonstration of science, is clearly impossible; where

Principle is concerned there is no secret; explanation

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and proof are required, and no concessions made to

persons or opinions. The relation of Truth to man,

improving him physically and morally, we have stated

as we discovered it, and submit our statement to proof.

Having first convinced ourself through demonstration

of the Principle of our discovery and its ability to heal

the sick and bring out the harmony of being, we deem

it worthy the name of science. Healing disease on this

basis, we learned beyond a doubt, that mind governs the

body and is more potent than matter to heal the sick.

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To admit personal sense a source of pleasure is to

deny it is a source of pain also, and vice versa, for "the

same fountain sendeth not forth sweet and bitter

waters."

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Personal sense embracing both sin and happiness,

sickness and health, Life and death, according to the

teachings of Jesus, contradicts itself, and therefore

destroys its own existence. Jesus cast out error and

healed the sick through his God-being, well-knowing

that harmony cannot produce discord; hence he denied

personal sense, and admitted but one Intelligence, and

this, not the author of evil. To suppose evil and good,

discord and harmony proceed from the same fountain,

is contrary to revelation. The common acceptation of

Truth is that whatever produces sin, is error. Then

wherefore admit that materia medica, physiology, anat-

omy, etc., are science when they take the opposite

ground that insists on personal sense governing man,

whence cometh all discord.

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God is not the author of sin; Soul is not the source

of sickness, sin and death; rather does it destroy these

to make man immortal. The body defined as personal