Christian Science refutes everything that is not a postulate of the Divine Principle, God. Adam's mist and the serpent's reasoning have run through all veins of human philosophy since the flood, and something of every kind emerged from the ark; but ninety-nine parts of error, and one hundredth part of Truth are no safe decoction for the race.
Science is the soul of Divine philosophy (and there is no other philosophy); it is not a search after wisdom, it is wisdom. God's right hand grasping the universe, all time, space, immortality, thought, extension, cause and effect. Its Divine Principle is God, constituting and governing all identity, individuality, law and power. It stands on the Scriptural platform—that He made all that was made, and it was good; reflects Him, and is governed by Him,—and nothing apart from Him is either self-created or evolved.
Human hypotheses predicate matter of Spirit and evil of good, hence these opposites must either co-operate or quarrel through time and eternity, or until this impossible partnership is dissolved. If Spirit is the law-giver to matter, and good has the same modes of evil, it has the same consciousness, and there is no abstract good. This error, carried to its ultimate, would either extinguish God, and His modes, or give reality and power to evil ad infinitum.
