Christian Science provides v a broad and powerful basis for thought in connection with post-war planning. Generally speaking, economic and social nostrums, humanly conceived, have the common fault of not containing within themselves the seed of success. Always in the background there is that little word "if" upon which all depends. If factors outside the scope of a given proposal are favorable, the plan may succeed; if the externals are not propitious, it will fail.
This persistent question mark of the unknown quantity is inherent in the make-up of humanity. It is characteristic of that which conceives of existence along limited, imperfect, and generally dualistic lines. The difficulty lies not simply on the surface of experience, but at the very roots of human thinking. Any remedy for the untoward condition, to be effective, must deal with the problem at its base.
Christian Science shows the way. First, by way of diagnosis, it finds the inevitable source of difficulty to be humanly circumscribed thinking. By further analysis it reveals the fact that wherever limited mental concepts are permitted or tolerated, they externalize themselves as disease, poverty, failure, and so forth. Such disturbances of the human economy are ultimately accepted as well-nigh inevitable, indeed, as part and parcel of worldly existence.
