In the two-volume edition of Science and Health, I note this statement: "Mind or Spirit makes the tree, the fruit and its seed." Is not the tree matter, also the seed and fruit? Does Spirit express matter? "Spirit is the life of all vegetation." The references given by this correspondent are not verified, or his citation of pages is incorrect. —Editor. Again in Science and Health (41st Ed.): "Mortal mind governs and controls the body." If this be true, what is the office of Immortal Mind, or Soul, outside the body? What is the animating Principle of material life?
"To-day
His haughty mandate nations sway;
To-morrow, with sorrow we bend o'er his bier,
And drop the silent tear."
Now what has happened to produce this mighty change since yesterday? What is it that made the wonderful machinery of the human body, that set it in motion, that sustains and keeps it in motion—perpetual motion? I consider the circulation of the blood an illustration of perpetual motion,—perpetual as long as the machine lasts; until it runs down and, like the clock, needs winding and re-starting in the new machine, which is substance "not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
