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12 Boston with my finished copy. We met at the Eastern depot in Lynn, and were both surprised, — I to learn that he had printed all the copy on hand, and had come to tell me he wanted more, — he to find me en route for Boston, to give him the closing chapter of my first edition of Science and Health. Not a word had passed between us while this went on. I had grown disgusted with my printer, and become silent. He had come to a standstill through different motives and circumstances.

Various books on Mind-cure and Christian Science have since been issued, in imitation of mine. Most of them accept the human mortal mind as a healing agent; whereas this mind is not a factor of the Principle of Christian Science. The name Mind-cure is also conferred upon Hypnotism and Animal Magnetism; but these methods, set forth as Scientific, are the antipodes of Science, and are wholly pernicious.

Since the publication of Science and Health I have been in the constant receipt of letters, informing me that people are healing themselves and others by the knowledge gained from this book. It was for this purpose that I wrote the book, and the human means have been blessed by divine Intelligence.

Even the Scripture gave no direct interpretation of the Scientific basis for demonstrating the Divine Principle of healing, until the Key to the Scriptures, in Science and Health, unlocked this mystery of godliness.

Science and Health is the textbook of Christian Science. Other writers on this Science base their disquisitions more or less upon this work. All of them borrow largely from my writings, and only a few cite their authority.

Some excuse for this plagiarism is afforded by the fact that my books are the first ever written or published on Christian Science Mind-healing, are exhaustive in their treatment of the subject, and complete. This is plain since nothing else has been found that