has gotten from Christian Science, and explains that he has long been a
member of the Episcopal Church. He is delighted to know that he has not
had to relinquish any of his old faith, but has simply kept the old and
added to it the new.

This explains, in great degree, the popularity of Christian Science.
People cling to the religious superstitions into which they were born.
Mrs. Eddy's recruits were not from theosophy, spiritualism, agnosticism,
unitarianism, universalism or infidelity. You can't give a freethinker a
book with a statement of what he must find in it.

He has acquired the habit of thinking for himself.

Mrs. Eddy had no faith in Darwin, Spencer or Haeckel. She quoted Moses,
Jesus and Paul to disprove the evolutionists, sat back and smiled
content, innocently unaware that citations from Scriptures are in no
sense proof to free minds. All of the Bible she wished to waive, she
did. The cruelty and bestiality of Jehovah were nothing to her. Her
"Key" does not unlock the secrets of Deuteronomy and Leviticus, nor
does it shed light on the doctrines of eternal punishment, the vicarious
atonement, or the efficacy of baptism as a saving ordinance.

Explanations about mortal mind, divine mind and human mind, citing
specific errors of the human mind, with a calm codicil to the effect
that the human mind has no existence, are not what you might call
illuminating literature. The stuff is simply "inspired." Mrs. Eddy was
very wise in not allowing her "readers" or followers to sermonize or
explain her writings. These writings are simply to be read. And so the
hearers sit steeped in mist and wrapped in placidity, returning to their
work rested and refreshed, without being influenced in any way, save by
the soothing calm of forceful fog and mental vacuity.

The rest and relief from all thought is good. The related experiences of
Christian Scientists are the things that convince and carry weight, not
"Science and Health." "Science and Health" was made to sell. It was not
given to you to be understood: it was to be bought and believed. If you
doubt any portion of it, at once you are told that this is the work of
your mortal mind, which is filled with error. Good Christian Scientists
do not try to understand "Science and Health"--they just accept and
believe it. "It is inspired," they say, "so it must be true--you will
know when you are worthy to know."

And so we see our old friend Intellectual Tyranny come back in a