I claim for healing scientifically the following advantages: _First_: It
does away with all material medicines, and recognizes the antidote for all
sickness, as well as sin, in the immortal Mind; and mortal mind as the
source of all the ills which befall mortals. _Second_: It is more effectual
than drugs, and cures when they fail, or only relieve; thus proving the
superiority of metaphysics over physics. _Third_: A person healed by
Christian Science is not only healed of his disease, but he is advanced
morally and spiritually. The mortal body being but the objective state of
the mortal mind, this mind must be renovated to improve the body.




FIRST PUBLICATION


In 1870 I copyrighted the first publication on spiritual, scientific
Mind-healing, entitled "The Science of Man." This little book is converted
into the chapter on Recapitulation in Science and Health. It was so
new--the basis it laid down for physical and moral health was so hopelessly
original, and men were so unfamiliar with the subject--that I did not
venture upon its publication until later, having learned that the merits of
Christian Science must be proven before a work on this subject could be
profitably published.

The truths of Christian Science are not interpolations of the Scriptures,
but the spiritual interpretations thereof. Science is the prism of Truth,
which divides its rays and brings out the hues of Deity. Human hypotheses
have darkened the glow and grandeur of evangelical religion. When speaking