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MARY BAKER EDDY

Largely speaking, I have read acres of what purported to be Mrs. Eddy's writings, in the past two months. I cannot know, but I am convinced, that the circumstantial evidence shows that her actual share in the work of composing and phrasing these things was so slight as to be inconsequential. Where she puts her literary foot down, her trail across her paid polisher's page is as plain as the elephant's in a Sunday-school procession. Her verbal output, when left undoctored by her clerks, is quite unmistakable.
- Christian Science

Twain & Eddy cartoon
Cartoon by Albert Levering from
Harper's Weekly, February 7, 1903
courtesy of Dave Thomson.

 

Mary Baker Eddy monument
Mary Baker Eddy gravesite monument at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
courtesy of Kevin and Pegge Bochynski
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