Article January 4, 1900 Issue

Mind and Matter

BY L. H. JONES.

It may be interesting and helpful to those who are beginning to read Christian Science literature, and who stumble at the statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, that Mind, Life, is not in the body, to have their attention called to the accepted teaching in this connection of the elementary schoolbooks of the day.

In "Elements of Psychology," by Edwin C. Hewett, LL.D., president of the Illinois State Normal University, it is stated:—

"Of the real nature of both mind and matter, we are profoundly ignorant. No one can tell what either is; we can study their phenomena only. We believe that the mind is a real thing, and that it will live after the body is dead. Although we know nothing of human minds disconnected from bodies, we see no reason to doubt that a soul may be thus disconnected without any essential change in its nature or function. Even Mr. Bain says, 'For anything we can see, the body might have its bodily functions without the soul, and the soul might have its psychical functions in some other connection than our present bodies.'

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