Because men have assumed that evil is a reality, that it is as real as and, at times, more powerful than good, they have been limited in their ability to overcome it. There is no question but that to the materially minded, evil seems to be real, to have power, and to be ever active. In fact, through material-mindedness men have been induced to accept at face value whatever evil seems to be and do. As a result they have confirmed, not evil's reality, power, and action, but their belief in its reality, in its power to act.
Christian Scientists are learning that spiritual-mindedness enables them to see through, that is, to unsee, the claims of evil, and to see the allness of God, good, and the consequent nothingness of evil.
No one will deny that good exists; what one is apt to doubt is good's allness, its infinitude. But it is impossible to discern evil's nothingness until the fact of good's allness is recognized. No one can understand the allness of good and at the same time believe that evil is something. Good's allness brands every claim of evil as false.
