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There are probably very few human beings who do not have a yearning for good. People wish to achieve what they believe to be good.

A stone cannot act because it does not think. But a human being is a thinker, and the nature of his thinking determines the nature of his activity.

Can we—in fact as in theory—land men on the moon and bring them back? Is it possible to travel to and return from a distant planet far beyond earth's satellite? These are some of the questions one hears and reads. Surely the recent manned trip to the environs of the moon, together with the prior unmanned landings, indicate that such a journey can and will be accomplished.

In an enchanting paragraph in her Miscellaneous Writings , Mrs. Eddy refers to various signs of spring and asks if mortals are getting closer to God as they observe the marvels of this season.

Christ Jesus' mission was one of ever-widening dominion—never withdrawal. He knew that God, the Father, is Spirit, in whom there is no darkness at all.

A few years ago a portable rocket was developed that, when strapped to a man's back, could provide enough thrust partially to overcome the pull of gravity. This device, designed for Army maneuvers, could project a man eighty feet in the air for a distance of over eight hundred feet and enable him to run with the speed of a racehorse, jump across rivers, and scale walls without any sense of fatigue.

A university professor once protested to me against the Christian Science teaching that there is one Mind. It did not seem wise to attempt to convince him of that fact.

There is probably nothing more deceptive in human experience than the picture of man drawn by the material senses. Herein man is one of millions of mortals.

The rapid expansion of knowledge in recent times, particularly in the physical sciences, and the succession of hypotheses overtaking and correcting one another have led to a widespread feeling that no conclusions can be more than provisional. Perhaps the supersession of Newton's scheme of the universe, accepted for two centuries as ascertained truth, by a different scheme known as relativity has, more than anything else, made popular the belief that all truth is relative.

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