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Man Has No Achilles' Heel

From the July 1971 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Many are familiar with the story concerning the Greek god Achilles, whose mother dipped him in the river Styx to achieve his invulnerableness to fatal weapons. Because she held him by one of his heels while dipping him in the river, this part of his body, not covered by the protective fluid, was his only vulnerable point.