In mechanics, chemistry, and various other fields of human endeavor, it is taken for granted when results are not satisfactory that something is wrong that can be righted, and that when the correction is made, the desired results will be obtained. Christian Science shows that the same is true of all unsatisfactory conditions. Every such condition it shows to be unnatural; and for every one of them it reveals a key fact, which, when it is discerned and utilized, resolves the trouble and produces harmony.
Such a fact, relating to a great part of the world's trouble today, is that good, the good which men gropingly seek, is by its very nature impartial, and can appear only as impartial good. Therefore, to seek it selfishly or through disadvantage to another is to miss it—in proportion to the narrowness of the self-seeking. It must be gained through benefits to others as well as oneself. To achieve it through loss to another is impossible.
This truth has been recognized in some measure by many thinkers. In the revelation of Christian Science, it stands forth wholly clear. "The wrong done another reacts most heavily against one's self," writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of this Science, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 449). "Think it 'easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,'" she continues, "than for you to benefit yourself by injuring others." Helping oneself through any sort of oppression of another is shown by Christian Science to be a technical impossibility.
