With her statement, "Spirit is the only creator, and man, including the universe, is His spiritual concept" (Unity of Good, p. 32), Mary Baker Eddy announced a revolutionary truth. "Man, including the universe"!
Worldly thought has denied and resisted every claim of Christian Science concerning the true nature of man. But man's spirituality and his immortality are concepts far more readily accepted than his universality. The world is overturning itself in resistance to this divine idea. Against the universality of being, mortal mind erects the opposing claim of nationalism, which, aggressive or self-assured, tenaciously classifies men by human birth and denies the divine and universal character of man. It asserts that man is a mortal, born into a material world, and extends the fundamental mistake of claiming human parenthood —in disobedience to Christ Jesus' instruction, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
The impact of Christian Science on material belief has long been undermining the foundations of this false sense of being, springing from matter and seeming to divide men into a multitude of races and nationalities. Christian Science has reaffirmed in understandable manner the fact of man's real being, not in the image of human parents or in the likeness of any human race, but in the image and likeness of God, of Spirit. It has reasserted and proved that to this man is given dominion over all the earth. On this basis sickness and sin have been healed and death destroyed through Christian Science treatment. This claiming and practice of dominion has also had a profound effect on the thought of mankind generally. So-called physical science, as well as medicine, has grown less physical and more mental, consequently acknowledging in a degree the possibility of mental control. The pace of discoveries and inventions, giving mankind greater mastery over time and space and toil, has tremendously quickened, reducing the physical barriers between all peoples; and the recognition is growing that the world must become one vast community, and mankind one family. Since the discovery of Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy in 1866, a mighty impetus has been given to international co-operation in many different fields, and side by side with a sharpening nationalism there has developed a growing willingness to give up false, narrow, national pride and jealousy and to seek a higher vantage point than nationalism can permit of, for looking on the problems of the world.
