The insertion of a quotation from the pen of the novelist, F. Marion Crawford, in the October Journal, was interesting from the standpoint of observation of progress in the social and moral world. It was far indeed from Christian Science, but shows how the world is waking in its remotest corners to the new idea that man is not matter, or subject to matter conditions, but spiritual, and controlled by Spirit. Heretofore the physical has been supposed to hold supreme control. If by its lawful and moral operations it incurred physical penalties, mind, the self, the I, was supposed to stand back, and patiently and meekly submit to the payment of its uttermost farthing in suffering. But now comes the cry, "Halt!—Science, star-eyed goddess, says, Man is master over every condition and circumstance;" and with gentle teachings, leads him step by step up the heights of wisdom, to that understanding which, with all his getting, he had never dreamed of securing, viz., understanding of himself and his relations to God. And so, in fulfillment of the old prophecy, 'tis "the seed of the woman" [Science] that bruises the serpent's [error's] head, and man is restored to his forfeited Eden.
