It is elegant. And it is a fine thought, too -- marrying religion to medicine,
instead of medicine to the undertaker in the old way; for religion and medicine
properly belong together, they being the basis of all spiritual and physical
health.
- Christian Science
From end to end of the Christian Science literature not a single (material)
thing in the world is conceded to be real, except the Dollar.
- Christian Science
The Book of Mormon, engraved upon metal plates, was dug up out of the ground
in some out-of-the-way corner of Canada by Joseph Smith, a man of no repute
and of no authority, and upon this extravagantly doubtful document the Mormon
Church was built, and upon it stands to-day and flourishes. "Science and
Health" was sent down from heaven to Mother Eddy, after having been sent
up there by Brother Quimby, and upon "Science and Health" stands the
great and growing and prosperous Christian Science Church to-day. Evidently
one of the least difficult things in the world, to-day, is to humbug the human
race.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 247. Dictated 8 October
1906.
I cannot help feeling rather inordinately proud of America for the gay &
hearty way in which she takes hold of any new thing that comes along & gives
it a first-rate trial. Many an ass in America is getting a deal of benefit out
of Xn Science's new exploitation of an age-old healing principle -- faith,
combined with the patient's imagination -- let it boom along! I have no objections.
Let them call it by what name they choose, so long as it does helpful work among
the class which is numerically vastly the largest bulk of the human race, i.e.
the fools, the idiots, the puddnheads.
- Letter to Joseph Twichell, 8 January 1900
Also see quotes on Mary Baker Eddy.
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