Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them November 27, 1954 Issue

Mason Good, 1764-1827

[Mentioned in Science and Health, p. 163]

Mason Good once said. "I have learned to know that the great secret of human happiness is this, to never suffer your energies to stagnate."

And he never did, winning recognition in three fields, medical, literary, and linguistic. His early education was in a seminary which his father, a dissenting minister, had organized for the children of some of his friends. Here young Mason acquired a working knowledge of Latin, Greek, and French.

At fifteen he was apprenticed to a surgeon apothecary at Gosport, England, and began his writing career by producing a number of poems and a "Dictionary of Poetic Endings." Before he was sixteen, he began studying Italian. To qualify for a partnership which a surgeon offered him, he went to London, where he attended lectures and gained hospital practice. At twenty he began his professional career.

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