| There isn't anything so grotesque or so
incredible that the average human being can't believe it. At this very day
there are thousands upon thousands of Americans of average intelligence
who fully believe in "Science and Health," although they can't
understand a line of it, and who also worship the sordid and ignorant old
purloiner of that gospel -- Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, who they do absolutely
believe to be a member, by adoption, of the Holy Family, and on the way
to push the Savior to third place and assume occupancy of His present place,
and continue that occupancy during the rest of eternity. - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 136. Dictated 22 June 1906. |
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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 |
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Mary Baker
Eddy gravesite monument at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
courtesy of Kevin and Pegge Bochynski.
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