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Man or guinea pig?
A matter-world is a world of experimentation: use two more teaspoons of baking powder and see what happens; try the painting on the south wall and explore what the light does to it there; make a trial run to find out what time you need to leave the house in order to catch the 7:35.
As useful as are such little daily experiments, they are not ends in themselves. The goal, in each instance, is to find that which is exactly right. No one wants to keep on experimenting; even the indefatigable shopper at times wearies of trying on one more coat.
Experiments go from known factors to the unknown. Obviously, the more we know, the less trial and error there is in a progressive life. Yet the way to know more is not necessarily to accumulate sense-information based on our own or another's experiments and experience. In a radical statement, the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, declares: "Empirical knowledge is worse than useless: it never has advanced man a single step in the scale of being." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 234;
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May 19, 1980 issue
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Get the family out of Eden
DARREN NELSON
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Demonstrating morality and spirituality in family
LACY BELL RICHTER
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Individuality in the family
DOROTHY FOX BARTELS-KEITH
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Home
REITA H. NAYLOR
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You can let them go
JANE W. WILLIS
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Family communication
J. THOMAS BLACK
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A more spiritual parenthood
ARTHUR THORNTON MOREY
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The tango dancer
LORRAINE SERRAVILLO
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No encumbrances for man
GEOFFREY J. BARRATT
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Man or guinea pig?
BEULAH M. ROEGGE
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Dear Editors,
Mary Katherine Robinson
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God is good
Deborah Roberts
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"Aging unknown to Life"
CORA B. JENSEN
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Dispelling impure suggestions heals facial growth
BERTHOLD POLLE
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Woman healed physically and emotionally after attack by intruder
EDITH METCALFE de PLATA
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Troubled marriage healed: "A whole new life has opened up for us"
MARGARET G. ANDREWS