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and that these are final and overrule the might of
divine Mind. Good is natural and primitive. It is not
miraculous to itself.
(Practical Science)
The term Science, properly understood, refers only to
the laws of God and to His government of the universe,
inclusive of man. From this it follows that
business men and cultured scholars have found
that Christian Science enhances their endurance and
mental powers, enlarges their perception of character,
gives them acuteness and comprehensiveness and an
ability to exceed their ordinary capacity. The human
mind, imbued with this spiritual understanding, becomes
more elastic, is capable of greater endurance, escapes
somewhat from itself, and requires less repose. A knowledge
of the Science of being develops the latent abilities
and possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of
thought, giving mortals access to broader and higher
realms. It raises the thinker into his native air of insight
and perspicacity.
An odor becomes beneficent and agreeable only in proportion
to its escape into the surrounding atmosphere.
So it is with our knowledge of Truth. If one would
not quarrel with his fellow-man for waking him from
a cataleptic nightmare, he should not resist Truth, which
banishes - yea, forever destroys with the higher testimony
of Spirit - the so-called evidence of matter.
(Mathematics and scientific logic)
Science relates to Mind, not matter. It rests on fixed
Principle and not upon the judgment of false sensation.
The addition of two sums in mathematics must
always bring the same result. So is it with
logic. If both the major and the minor propositions
of a syllogism are correct, the conclusion, if properly
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