Do Christian Scientists favor a good education? Most certainly they do! Do Christian Scientists consider it important to enlarge the human intellect? Yes, by eliminating from thought the false concepts of material sense and emphasizing the facts presented by spiritual sense.
In everyday human affairs a good intellect is as needful as are the virtues of charity, temperance, fortitude, and morality. The lawyer needs a good intellect. So does the church worker, professor, businessman, engineer, and homemaker. But human intellect, without the illumination of the Christ, Truth, is inadequate to deal with the enigma of mortal existence.
Unaided by spiritual sense, the human intellect cannot dissolve the dream of life in matter; it would even perpetuate this dream through its own seeming capacity for egotism and vice. It would try to explain away the deep things of God, Spirit, and attempt to abandon the law established by the Ten Commandments.
