Nearly every day brings news that some record has been broken. Whether it is in the realm of sports, engineering, or scientific technology, the achievement is evidence of mankind's increasing triumph over limitation. Men visit the moon, and robot space vehicles probe the mysteries of distant planets.
Progress of this sort may have been foreseen by Mrs. Eddy, who, with prophetic vision, wrote these words in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air. The astronomer will no longer look up to the stars,—he will look out from them upon the universe." Science and Health, p. 125;
What we see today is no doubt only a hint of the possibilities. In an equally revealing statement in the same book we read: "The earth's motion and position are sustained by Mind alone. Divest yourself of the thought that there can be substance in matter, and the movements and transitions now possible for mortal mind will be found to be equally possible for the body." And Mrs. Eddy continues farther on, "The admission to one's self that man is God's own likeness sets man free to master the infinite idea." ibid., p. 90;
