The so-called laws of matter are no more legitimate than would be the laws of a company of children playing "Legislature." They might fancy themselves to be lawmakers and pass laws to govern themselves and laws to punish those who broke these self-made laws. If these children were deeply engrossed in their play, it would be difficult to convince them that their laws were based simply upon imagination, and that they were not subject to these laws of their own making. In a similar way men and women have assumed that they are legislators, and it is difficult to convince them that they are not subject to their own laws of health and limitation, and that as spiritual beings they are free from the bondage of material sense and its so-called laws and are subject only to spiritual law, divine Principle.
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From the September 1908 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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