Force of thought may be put forth to amass wealth for selfish gratification, to give the individual power over others, to blind others, to weave a web of sophistry, to cast a deceitful lustre on vice, to make the worse appear the better cause; but energy of thought, so employed, is suicidal. The intellect—in becoming a pander to vice, a tool of the passions, an advocate of lies—becomes not only degraded, but diseased. It loses the capacity of distinguishing Truth from falsehood, Good from evil, Right from wrong, Woe to that mind which lacks the love of Truth! Truth is the light of Infinite Mind, and the image of God in His creatures.
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From the August 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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