To put move faith in lies and hate than in Truth and Love is the work of Atheism.—James Russell Lowell.
Admit the existence of matter, and we admit that mortality (and therefore disease) has a foundation in fact.—Mary Baker Eddy.
The range and significance of the baneful effects in human experience of the belief in the reality of the unspiritual are beyond all estimate, and the statement of Mrs. Eddy that "against the fatal belief that error is as real as Truth, . . . even the hope of freedom from the bondage of sickness and sin has little inspiration to nerve endeavor" (Science and Health, p. 368), is abundantly corroborated by the apathy of the world, and of the great body of professed Christians respecting the demands of the spiritual life. Even for those who are honestly seeking to be conformed to the will of God, and who are worthily accounted good and true, this disastrous concession would becloud every outlook, mar every perception, vitiate every judgment, threaten every ideal, mock every joy, disappoint every hope. And yet, consciously or unconsciously, this belief is maintained with persistent tenacity, even by those who have been awakened in some degree to the subtlety and comprehensiveness of its curse. The daring of the assumptions and the distortion of the effects of this crowning deception are well illustrated by the prevailing attitude toward the so-called law of heredity.
