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Rh attribute physical effects to physical causes, rather than to a final spiritual cause. This incident is one of many which show that Christian Science expresses a yearning of the human race.

Causation is the one question to be considered, as more than all others it relates to human progress. The age seems ready to approach this subject, to think briefly upon the supremacy of Spirit, to touch the hem of its garment, but nothing more. Mind's control over man is however no longer an open question, but demonstrable Science; and I have shown its principle and practice by healing sickness and sin, and so destroying the foundations of death.

After a careful examination of my discovery in 1866, that Mind governs all, not partially but supremely, I submitted my metaphysical system of treating disease to the broadest practical tests. Since then this system has gradually gained ground; and it has proved itself, whenever scientifically employed, to be the most effective curative agent in medical practice.

All science is natural, but all science is not physical. The Science of Soul is no more supernatural than the science of numbers; but departing from the realm of the physical, as it must, some may deny it the name of Science. But Metaphysical Science is more scientific than it would be if it were unchristian. Its Principle is God, or Good. Its practice is good, its rules are demonstrable. Its Metaphysics reverse the perversion named Physics, and the human sense of the hypothesis of Deity, even as the science of optics explains the inverted image. Human reason acts slowly in accepting spiritual facts, but calling on matter to remove what the human mind alone has occasioned is fatal.