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14 Science reverses the testimony of the physical senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the fundamental

facts of Being. Then the question inevitably arises: Is a man sick, if these senses declare him to be in good health? And is he well, if the senses say he is sick?

Health is not a condition of matter, nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on this subject.

The Science of Mind-healing shows it to be impossible for aught but Mind to testify truly, or to exhibit the real status of man. Therefore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testimony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and thus Science denies error, heals the sick, overthrows false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic.

Any conclusion pro or con deduced from supposed sensation in matter, or matter's supposed consciousness

of health or disease, instead of reversing the testimony of the physical senses, confirms that testimony as legitimate, and so leads to disease.

When Columbus gave freer breath to the globe, ignorance and superstition chained the honest limbs of the

brave old navigator, and disgrace and starvation stared him in the face; but sterner still had been his fate, if that discovery had undermined the favorite inclinations of a sensuous philosophy.

Copernicus mapped out the stellar system; but before he spake, astrography was chaotic, and the heavenly fields were unexplored.

The Chaldean Wise Men read in the stars the fate of empires and the fortunes of men. Though no higher