Article March 5, 1979 ISSUE

Ambition: unselfish or mad?

BARBARA JUERGENS FOX

Does ambition have a place in Christian Science?

After studying the references to ambition in Mrs. Eddy's writings, one might say, "It depends." She speaks of "unselfish ambition." See Science and Health58:7–11; But she also refers to "mad ambition." "Dishonesty, envy, and mad ambition," Mrs. Eddy writes, "are 'lusts of the flesh,' which uproot the germs of growth in Science and leave the inscrutable problem of being unsolved." Retrospection and Introspection, p. 79;

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