immortality, thought, extension. This Science demonstrated the Principle of
all phenomena, identity, individuality, law; and showed man as reflecting
God and the divine capacity. Human philosophy would dethrone perfection,
and substitute matter and evil for divine means and ends.

Human philosophy has an undeveloped God, who unfolds Himself through
material modes, wherein the human and divine mingle in the same realm and
consciousness. This is rank infidelity; because by it we lose God's ways
and perpetuate the supposed power and reality of evil _ad infinitum_.
Christian Science rends this veil in the pantheon of many gods, and
reproduces the teachings of Jesus, whose philosophy is incontestable, bears
the strain of time, and brings in the glories of eternity; "for other
foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."

Divine philosophy is demonstrably the true idea of the Christ, wherein
Principle heals and saves. A philosophy which cannot heal the sick has
little resemblance to Science, and is, to say the least, like a cloud
without rain, "driven about by every wind of doctrine." Such philosophy
has certainly not touched the hem of the Christ garment.

Leibnitz, Descartes, Fichte, Hegel, Spinoza, Bishop Berkeley, were once
clothed with a "brief authority;" but Berkeley ended his metaphysical
theory with a treatise on the healing properties of tar-water, and Hegel
was an inveterate snuff-taker. The circumlocution and cold categories of
Kant fail to improve the conditions of mortals, morally, spiritually, or
physically. Such miscalled metaphysical systems are reeds shaken by the
wind. Compared with the inspired wisdom and infinite meaning of the Word of
Truth, they are as moonbeams to the sun, or as Stygian night to the
kindling dawn.