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22 mind, imbued with this Science, becomes more elastic, is capable of greater endurance, escapes somewhat from itself, and requires less repose. A knowledge of the Science of Being develops the latent capacities and possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of thought, giving mortals access to broader and higher circles. It raises the thinker into his native air of insight and perspicuity.

An odor becomes beneficent and agreeable, only in proportion to its escape into the surrounding atmosphere.

So it is with our knowledge of Science. If one would not quarrel with his fellow-man for waking him from a cataleptic nightmare, he should not resist Truth, which banishes — yea, forever destroys — with the higher testimony of Spirit, the so-called evidences of matter.

Science relates to Mind, not matter. Science rests on fixed Principle, and not upon the judgment of false

sensation. The addition of two sums in mathematics must always bring the same result. So is it with logic. If both the major and the minor propositions of a syllogism be correct, the conclusion cannot be false, if properly drawn. So in Christian Science, there are no discords or contradictions, because its logic is as harmonious as the reasoning of an accurately stated syllogism, or a properly computed sum in arithmetic. Truth is ever truthful, and can tolerate no error in premise or conclusion.

If you wish to know the spiritual fact, you can

discover it by reversing the material testimony, be it pro or con, — be it in accord with your preconceptions, or utterly contrary thereto.