Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or their sense of humour at least prevent their favouring a gospel which abounds with bom- bastic paragraphs similar to those quoted and the following, culled at random from the pages of Science and Health. How can such an argu- ment as this one, for instance, be taken seriously, and not looked upon with suspicion as a test for the enthusiast’s credulity ? To prove the supremacy of mind over matter, Mrs. Eddy writes— ‘ Because the muscles of the blacksmith’s arm are strongly developed, it does not follow that exercise has produced this result, or that a less used arm must be weak. If matter were the cause of action, and muscles, without co- operation of mortal mind, could lift the hammer and strike the nail, it might be thought true that hammering would enlarge the muscles. The trip-hammer is not increased in size by exercise. Why not, since muscles are as material as wood and iron ? Because mortal mind is not willing that result on the hammer ’ (p. 94). Here is another imposing argument— c Inversions : The metaphysics of Christian