Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
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perplexed, our devious career resembles the groping of
perplexed, our devious career resembles the groping of
Homer's Cyclops around his cave."
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Sir John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal
Sir John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians, London, said:
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"No systematic or theoretical classification of diseases
"No systematic or theoretical classification of diseases
or of therapeutic agents, ever yet promulgated, is true, or
anything like the truth, and none can be adopted as a safe
guidance in practice."
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It is just to say that generally the cultured class of medi-
It is just to say that generally the cultured class of medi-
cal practitioners are grand men and women, therefore
they are more scientific than are false claimants to Chris-
tian Science. But all human systems based on material
premises are minus the unction of divine Science. Much
yet remains to be said and done before all mankind is
saved and all the mental microbes of sin and all diseased
thought-germs are exterminated.
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If you or I should appear to die, we should not be
If you or I should appear to die, we should not be
dead. The seeming decease, caused by a majority of
human beliefs that man must die, or produced by mental
assassins, does not in the least disprove Christian Science;
rather does it evidence the truth of its basic proposition
that mortal thoughts in belief rule the materiality mis‑
called life in the body or in matter. But the forever fact
remains paramount that Life, Truth, and Love save from
sin, disease, and death. "When this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality [divine Science], then shall be brought to pass
the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in
victory" (St. Paul).
Chapter VII
Physiology
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall
eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.
Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? – JESUS.
He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their
destructions. – PSALMS.
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PHYSIOLOGY is one of the apples from "the tree
PHYSIOLOGY is one of the apples from "the tree
of knowledge." Evil declared that eating this fruit
would open man's eyes and make him as a god. Instead
of so doing, it closed the eyes of mortals to man's God‑
given dominion over the earth.
Man not structural
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To measure intellectual capacity by the size of the
To measure intellectual capacity by the size of the
brain and strength by the exercise of muscle, is to
subjugate intelligence, to make mind mor-
tal, and to place this so-called mind at the
mercy of material organization and non-intelligent
matter.
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Obedience to the so-called physical laws of health has
Obedience to the so-called physical laws of health has
not checked sickness. Diseases have multiplied, since
man-made material theories took the place of spiritual
truth.
Causes of sickness
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You say that indigestion, fatigue, sleeplessness, cause
You say that indigestion, fatigue, sleeplessness, cause
distressed stomachs and aching heads. Then
you consult your brain in order to remember
what has hurt you, when your remedy lies in forgetting