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Rh from one P. P. Quimby (an obscure, uneducated man), and that he is the founder of Christian Science. Failing in these attempts, the calumniator has resorted to Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy as the authority for Christian Science! Lastly, the defamer will declare as honestly (?), “I have always known it.” In Science and Health, page 68, third paragraph, I briefly express myself unmistakably on the subject of “vulgar metaphysics,” and the manuscripts and letters in my possession, which “vulgar” defamers have circulated, stand in evidence. People do not know who is referred to as “an ignorant woman in New Hampshire.” Many of the nation's best and most distinguished men and women were natives of the Granite State.

I am the author of the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;” and the demand for this book constantly increases. I am rated in the National Magazine (1903) as “standing eighth in a list of twenty-two of the foremost living authors.”

I claim no special merit of any kind. All that I am in reality, God has made me. I still wait at the cross to learn definitely more from my great Master, but not of the Greek nor of the Roman schools — simply how to do his works.

My recent reply to the reprint of a scandal in the Literary Digest was not a question of “Who shall be greatest?” but of “Who shall be just?” Who is or is not the founder of Christian Science was not the trend of thought, but my purpose was to lift the curtain on