Editorial September 14, 1974 Issue

Adapting Gently to Change

Naomi Price

The eminent biologist, Dr. Rene Dubos, writing in an article special to The Christian Science Monitor, recently commented on the tremendous changes we are likely to see in the future as a consequence of developments in science and technology. He refers to the deep concern many thinking people feel over the ability of humanity to cope with them. This leading architect of modern science foresees that the ordeal of adjustment we will be called upon to make is often likely to be painful, but he takes an optimistic view of mankind's ability to cope, showing that drastic changes have constantly taken place over the past many thousands of years and the race has always been able to adjust without undue shock.^{See The Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 1974;}

Students of Christian Science, perhaps more than most people, have cause to know the enormity of the changes that will take place in the future, but they are not fearful of the consequences. They are reminded almost daily of the vision that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had of life and substance as being exclusively spiritual and wholly good. This is summarized in "the scientific statement of being" given in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, of which Mrs. Eddy is the author.

This summary begins with the rousing proposition, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." And it ends unequivocally with, "Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual."^{Science and Health, p. 468;} Here, indeed, is the basis for the most revolutionary change the world has ever experienced—the total disappearance of matter as a factor in our experience, and the general acceptance and demonstration of the truth that the entire universe, including man, is actually exclusively spiritual.