Article December 10, 1949 Issue

THE INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT

JEAN HUNTER

Generally in academic circles much weight and consideration is given to the IQ of the individual. The IQ, or intelligence quotient, is supposed to represent one's mental age. If one is said to have a low IQ, the correlative assumption is that that one will have a difficult time performing any but the simple tasks in life and will have a more or less limited experience. On the other hand, it is believed that those who have a high IQ will succeed in difficult tasks.

His mental age once having been determined, an individual is often subjected to comparisons with other individuals by the so-called carnal mind. Christian Science proves these analyses of mortal mind utterly false, without foundation. It teaches that man's intelligence is a quality of Mind, God, and is not involved in the lying suppositions of mortal pronouncements. Mary Baker Eddy's writings reveal God as the one infinite Mind and man as the eternal manifestation of this one Mind.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader makes this arresting statement (p. 469): "We can have but one Mind, if that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all space is filled with God." Thus we see that there is no place in the realm of reality for either the operation or the occupancy of the materialistic IQ theory. Mind, God, is Spirit; therefore man and the universe as the reflection of Spirit must be spiritual, a fact which precludes the possibility of matter as intelligent.

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