Christian Science honors those intellectual qualities which are guided by and subordinated to Spirit. The greatest intellects have always been the humblest. Intellectualism may impress and intimidate the ignorant, or those who see power in knowledge rather than in the spiritual qualities which alone make it valuable and even secure, but any sense of superiority based upon human attainment or possession, be its appearance material or mental, is, from the standpoint of Spirit's impartial allness, not only illogical; it is ridiculous.
"For who maketh thee to differ from another?" asked Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians. "And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?"
If men are not humble towards each other, then we can be assured that they are not humble towards God. They are mistaking conceit for that inner spiritual conviction which knows, but does not assert itself; which leaves to Mind the recognition of its worth. Intellectualism is a form of sectarian bigotry adapting itself to no genuine human need. Because it pays false homage to abstractions, emphasizing the letter, belittling the spirit of its theme, in its turn it obtains this false homage, this emphasis, from others.
