The eighty-first edition of "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures," comes to us in a much-revised and enlarged form. The pen of its author, the Rev. Mary B.G. Eddy, has been doing still further duty in the line of her divinely appointed labor. This edition contains twelve additional pages, besides retouching of the text in various places. The substitution of a word or a sentence here and there adds greatly to the spiritual sense and interpretation of the text, and, as all close students can readily see, is intended to meet the constantly increasing ability of the earnest student to understand.
As the retouching of the artist's work in oil brings out in brighter hues the artist's thought, enabling the art-student the better to catch the motif of the work, while the background, perspective and delineation remained unchanged, so is our text-book retouched to brighter and clearer spiritual glow, not by an imitator, but by the original artist who works not from borrowed light, but out of the depths and purpose of her original conception, caught only from the reflected Light of the Divine artist.
The standard of interpretation has been greatly enhanced, while the primary scope, tenor and intent of the book remain exactly the same. All who have kept pace with the advancing unfoldment will see at a glance that there are words, parts of sentences, and entire sentences which express the same thought originally expressed, but in such a way as to show much more clearly the author's meaning.
