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Rh and awaken the man's dormant sense of moral obligation, and by degrees he will learn the nothingness of the pleasures of human sense and the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense, which silences the material or corporeal. Then he not only will be saved, but is saved;” “He who is All, understands All. He can have no knowledge or inference but His own consciousness.” As to these quotations notice that she says that reason is the “most active human faculty,” that is, the faculty least under the limitations of material sense and time; that it can lead one to the “spiritual sense” which brings salvation; and that since God does not have such knowledge as “inference" or discursive reasoning it must be an inferior kind of mentality.

I cannot refrain from pointing out again the hopeless inconsistency that we have here in the metaphysics of Christian Science. “Human reason” is inferior knowledge and is therefore not a quality of “immortal Mind.” It belongs then to “mortal mind.” But how can “mortal mind” be spoken of as having a faculty that is “most active” or that awakens “man's dormant sense of moral obligation” or that teaches him by degrees “the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense?” How can unreality lead to reality? How can darkness bring us to light?

The same inconsistency exists in her doctrine of faith. After saying that error is the