Editorial June 11, 1966 Issue

Science and Morals

Carl J. Welz

How can men be made better morally? When mankind solve this problem, they will have found the way to eliminate crime, overcome dishonesty in government, bring harmony to families and nations, establish equal rights for all. Religious and ethical systems have contributed substantially toward this end, but their successes have been limited.

Christian Science brings to mankind a scientific fact which makes possible the solution of the problem of morals. This fact is the direct connection between one's attitude toward matter and his moral behavior. Materialistic theories claim that men behave as they do because of their material origin and their material brain and nerve system. According to some of these theories morals evolve in a way that is similar to the evolution of organisms; therefore, they say, a moral code that is good for society at one period of history is not necessarily good for a later period. In other words, materialism claims to have a basis for demanding that morals be made to adjust to human behavior, rather than trying to make human behavior follow a moral code.

All of this assumes something not proven—that the mind of man is in matter. Christian Science challenges this assumption and insists that God is eternally the Mind of man. That this Mind is the source of the moral law is proved when one acknowledges his own status as Mind's idea. As a result, immorality as well as disease is healed. Obedience to the moral law has a scientific bearing on physical health, so called, as well as on the harmony of human relationships because in Science man is entirely spiritual and embodies the laws of divine Principle. Individuals experience the harmonious government of Principle as they learn to live human lives that pattern divine Life.

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