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From the November 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Any system of religious belief, be it called Orthodox or Liberal, which, having had time and opportunity for practica development, does not show itself fruitful in good works, is thereby condemned. There is something wanting in its philosophy, if it does not issue practically.—


All the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter. All that we know of matter is, that matter is inert, senseless, and lifeless.—


Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.


To discover means by which that perfect balance of mind and body which constitutes positive health could be secured, would be to discover more than the fabled fountain for which Ponce de Leon went in search.—


Health of mind consists in the perception of the law.—


The peculiarity of our scientific or physical habit of thought is, that it ignores the metaphysical method altogether. —Chicago Inter Ocean.


Because metaphysics reverses the position of physics, human reason acts slowly in accepting it, contesting every inch of ground it surrenders.—

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