Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy,—Dear Madam: I have just finished reading your work entitled Science and Health. I need not inform you that it is a revelation to me. Orthodox interpretations of the Bible have for many years seemed so unsatisfactory, and—in the language of Bacon, in condemning the Aristotelian philosophy —have borne so little fruit, that I drifted first into Materialism, and afterwards into Agnosticism, preferring to acknowledge my ignorance, rather than clothe it with pedantry.
Taught from childhood to regard the so-called miracles of Christ as suspensions of law, I soon came to believe (with Hume) in the fallibility of human testimony, rather than the mutability of law. I rejected human testimony, when brought in opposition to an unbroken experience of the sequence of nature.
At the same time, I have often had strong drawings to the Ideal Philosophy of Bishop Berkeley. Your teachings have brought me to a point where I can, without violence to reason, acknowledge the works of Christ, regarded as the exercise of Truth in dispelling error.
