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50 eyes. They were inflamed by the light, since, to his belief, it gave suffering instead of joy. After the babbling boy was taught to speak a few words, he asked to be taken back to his dungeon, and said that he should never be happy anywhere else. Outside of dismal darkness and cold silence he found no peace. Every sound convulsed him with anguish. All that he ate, except his black crust, produced violent retchings. All that gives pleasure to our educated senses gave him pain in those very senses, trained in an opposite direction.

All this is evidence of the correctness of Christian Science. Alexander Pope was right in his account of Man: —

The less there is said of physical structure or law, and the more there is said about moral and spiritual law, the higher the standard of mortals will be, and the further removed from imbecility of mind and body.