Mary Baker Eddy felt very strongly—in fact, without reservation—that what was presented to mankind in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures came to her not through such ordinary channels as scholarship but through divine revelation. She at one time stated to a man who served as a proof– reader and grammatical consultant to her in the preparation of Science and Health for publication, "I do not find my authority for Christian Science in history, but in revelation.
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