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the egg or the bird? is answered, if the egg produces the
parent. But we cannot stop here. Another question
follows: Who or what produces the parent of
the egg? That the earth was hatched from the
"egg of night" was once an accepted theory. Heathen
philosophy, modern geology, and all other material hypotheses
deal with causation as contingent on matter
and as necessarily apparent to the corporeal senses, even
where the proof requisite to sustain this assumption is
undiscovered. Mortal theories make friends of sin, sickness,
and death; whereas the spiritual scientific facts of existence
include no member of this dolorous and fatal triad.
(Emergence of mortals)
Human experience in mortal life, which starts from an
egg, corresponds with that of Job, when he says, "Man
that is born of a woman is of few days, and
full of trouble." Mortals must emerge from
this notion of material life as all-in-all. They must peck
open their shells with Christian Science, and look outward
and upward. But thought, loosened from a material
basis but not yet instructed by Science, may become wild
with freedom and so be self-contradictory.
(Persistence of species)
From a material source flows no remedy for sorrow,
sin, and death, for the redeeming power, from the ills
they occasion, is not in egg nor in dust. The
blending tints of leaf and flower show the
order of matter to be the order of mortal mind. The
intermixture of different species, urged to its utmost
limits, results in a return to the original species. Thus
it is learned that matter is a manifestation of mortal
mind, and that matter always surrenders its claims when
the perfect and eternal Mind is understood.
(Better basis than embryology)
Naturalists describe the origin of mortal and material
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