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 for you are convinced that you would have starved to death if you had kept it up.

"Now, would that be giving the vegetarian theory a fair show? Wouldn't you really be slandering it, and misleading those who didn't understand exactly your method of testing it?"

"You're right," I said.

"And isn't that exactly the sort of a test that you have just given Christian Science? The foundation of your treatment was negative,—not to take medicine. A continuous negative never yet brought a positive result, its ultimate is nothing. Your foundation must be positive, an accepted fact; and your method must contain more positives than negatives,—more knowledge of truth than denial of error,—if you would realize a positive result. Suppose you learned a multiplication table like this:—

What sort of good would you get out of that, even if you kept at it until doomsday, and rang in twenty-seven million variations? That you took no medicine no more argued that you were