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Intelligence Can't Dribble Away

From the February 1972 issue of The Christian Science Journal


How would you feel if someone told you that every day, after reaching early middle age, you are losing some of the physical means with which to think clearly?

Well, most of us would be appalled, unless we understood that our intelligence did not depend on the functioning of organic matter. Christian Science has opened a new vista of possibilities for mankind by revealing the true nature of thought and its source in God, the infinite, living, ever-conscious Mind.

According to a newspaper article, biologists are theorizing about the possibility of correcting this brain drain through genetic engineering, thus reversing the trend toward senile decay. But this process is believed by them to be in the far distant future.See Toronto Globe and Mail, May 19, 1971;

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