For a long time there was one paragraph in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, that I dodged.
The evidence of escape-seeking in today's pressure-prone society underscores what Henry David Thoreau concluded over a century ago—that many people lead lives of quiet desperation.
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