MORTAL sense claims it can measure manhood, but it never sees the real man. Human consciousness sees the real and unreal, or mortal and immortal, as combined in one and becomes confused. In Christian Science the mortal and the immortal are distinctiy recognized and differentiated as the false and the true.
Mrs. Eddy writes on page 519 of Science and Health: "Mortals can never know the infinite, until they throw off the old man and reach the spiritual image and likeness. What can fathom infinity! How shall we declare Him, till, in the language of the apostle, 'we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ'?"
What mortal sense sees is a physical, biological, animal specimen. It measures physique and physical accomplishments. When it attempts to measure mentality it concerns itself with the capacity of the brain. When it considers the social being it calls man, it is apt to measure the capacity to indulge in stimulants or in immorality and suggest that it is measuring manhood.
