Article September 21, 1899 Issue

The Price of a Book

BY WALDO PONDRAY WARREN

How many times will it be necessary to affirm that Science and Health is not an expensive book, even at any price? Lives there one person who has caught its sublime meaning who would presume to estimate its worth in money? Could the gold of Ophir buy it back from those who have learned from its pages the grandeur of Life? By what standard of value, forsooth, could any one say this book is not worth three dollars, or even that it should cost mortals less—mortals who are willing to pay many times that much for medicines which do them no good? Judged by every standard of value known, in literature, education, commerce, therapeutics, and religion, the purchase of Science and Health at three dollars is the most sublimely profitable transaction possible in all the ages. The proverbial bargain of Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, fades away into nothingness when compared with the present glorious opportunity of buying back our eternal birthright as a son of the Sovereign Infinite, through the knowledge of Man's unity with God, for the price of a book.

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