In the short but profound chapter entitled "The Lee Shore" from the novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville expounds upon the human being's need for freedom to express his individuality. Melville poses this question to one of the shipmates: "Know ye, now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?"
We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Spirit; limitless eternal Life; the only substance, the only intelligence, of the universe. Man is God's idea—individual, perfect, complete. Man is spiritual, the individual expression of Spirit, and he lives and moves in the infinitude of Spirit. Being made in God's image and likeness, man manifests the infinite nature of God and includes by reflection the infinite, divine understanding. In Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy we read: "Man reflects infinity, and this reflection is the true idea of God.
"God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis." Science and Health, p. 258.
