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Rh coverer. He issued a pamphlet entitled “Theology, or the Understanding of God as Applied to Healing the Sick.”

The preface to the third edition of “Science and Health” was written by Asa G. Eddy, and in writing it Mr. Eddy dealt vigorously with Arens. He states that while Arens says he has made use in his pamphlet of “some thoughts contained in a work by Eddy,” he for over thirty pages repeats Mrs. Eddy’s words verbatim, having copied them without quotation and filching, among other passages of the book, the very heart of Christian Science. This is the scientific statement of being which Mr. Eddy calls “that immortal sentence,” and which reads: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness; hence, man is spiritual and not material.”

Mr. Eddy very tersely says in his arraignment of Arens: “If simply writing at the commencement of a work, “I have made use of some thoughts of Emerson’ gave one the right to walk over the author’s copyrights and use page after page of his writings verbatim, publishing them as his own, any fool might aspire to authorship and any villain become the expounder of truth.” He then makes this statement concerning his wife: “Mrs. Eddy’s works are the outgrowth of her life. I never knew so unselfish an individual, or one so tireless in what