Article October 12, 1899 Issue

A Comparison

BY C. F. N.

There has been much said in the past in regard to the price of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker G. Eddy. For the sake of comparison, let us, for a few moments, consider Science and Health as a treatise on physical healing simply, and then contrast its price with the prices of the standard text-books of medicine.

If one were to study medicine, about the first book required would be a text-book of anatomy, which would cost —not three dollars—but about six dollars. A text-book of physiology would cost about four dollars; one of materia medica and therapeutics three or four dollars, and one of theory and practice at least four dollars. That makes a total of over fifteen dollars for just a bare start towards the necessary medical library, and the up-to-date physician needs a large library, and must be constantly adding to it as new theories are advanced.

It seems well-nigh ridiculous to compare the price (much less the contents) of the above-named books with the price of Science and Health. The former teaches error—matter, disease, and death; the latter teaches Truth—Spirit, health, and Life. The physician requires a large and expensive library; the Scientist has in Science and Health a whole library—a multum in parvo. It is his (mental) anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica, therapeutics, theory and practice all in one, and contains, together with the Bible, all that he needs successfully to heal all diseases. This, together with the high morality and spirituality it teaches, enabling one to heal themselves and others, morally as well as physically, makes its price—three dollars—seem insignificant by comparison.

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