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The Science of True Advancement

From the August 1967 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The late Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, considered to have been one of the world's great electrical geniuses, was interviewed near the close of his career. He was questioned about the field in which he felt the greatest advancement would be made for human progress in the future. In his reply he said, "Some day . . . the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of God and prayer and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly been guessed at."

This statement came from a man who had at one time disavowed God. But it had taken Dr. Steinmetz nearly a lifetime of delving into the forces of matter to arrive at this conclusion.

Over a half-century before, Mrs. Eddy, without the benefit of mechanically scientific modern equipment and relying solely upon her God-endowed spiritual vision, wrote in Science and Health, "Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others spiritual causation relates to human progress."Science and Health, p. 170;

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