Rivaling the alchemists' desire to find a way to turn base metals into gold has been amateur physicists' striving to create perpetual motion machines. Both goals may have been impelled by a force that would, if not misinterpreted, pull mankind's researches out of matter altogether.
True elements and real action are spiritual. It is the work of Christian Scientists to find spiritual qualities and laws that help lift us from the baseness and inertia of mortal mentality.
The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science states unequivocally, "If the Bible and Science and Health had the place in schools of learning that physiology occupies, they would revolutionize and reform the world, through the power of Christ." No and Yes, p. 11; Thousands of people all over the world feel this statement of Mrs. Eddy's to be true. The more one knows of Christian Science, the more he or she finds it to contain God's answers for all of humanity's problems. Frequently, however, one is humbled by an awareness of his own lack of learning in this Science and skilllessness in demonstrating it. Sometimes his struggles, and perhaps daydreaming goals, may make him seem as foolish as the alchemist or the would-be inventor of a perpetual motion machine.
