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Rh and immortal — can originate the impure and mortal, and dwell in it. As Christian Science repudiates self-evident impossibilities, the material senses must father them; for both these senses and their reports are unnatural, impossible, and unreal.

Either Mind produces, or it is produced. If Mind is first, it cannot produce its opposite, matter. If matter

is first, it cannot produce Mind. Like produces like. In natural history, the bird is not the product of a beast. In spiritual history, matter is not the progenitor of Mind.

One distinguished naturalist argues that mortals spring from eggs and in races. Mr. Darwin admits

this; but he adds that mankind has ascended through all the lower grades of existence. Evolution describes the gradations of human belief; but it does not acknowledge the method of Divine Mind, or see that material methods are impossible in Divine Science, and that all Science is of God, not of man.

Naturalists ask: “What can there be, of a material nature, transmitted through these bodies called eggs, —

themselves composed of the simplest material elements, — by which all peculiarities of ancestry, belonging to either sex, are brought down from generation to generation?” The question of the naturalists amounts to this: How can matter originate or transmit mind? We answer that it cannot. Darkness and doubt encompass thought, so long as it bases creation on materiality. From a material standpoint, “Who, by searching, can find out God?” All must be Mind, or else all must be matter. Neither can produce the other. Mind is immortal; but the material seed must