Letters May 3, 1982 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS

From Christian Science Committees on Publication

ROBERT C. PEACOCK

Los Angeles Sentinel

Each epoch puts its own interpretation on previous history— and evaluates historical figures according to its own bias.

The twentieth century has tended to give psychology authority to interpret human history. A recent so-called psychobiography of Mrs. Eddy set forth a typical psychological evaluation, which was neither history nor scientific fact (see letter below).

A different age, however, saw something very different about Mrs. Eddy. The San Francisco Examiner, in an editorial in December 1910, put it this way: "It will be difficult for the layman in either the religious or medical worlds to properly estimate at its true value the life and career of Mary Baker Eddy. This much, however, the unprejudiced must admit: She was a woman with a mentality strong enough to hold her own against as bitter a tide of hostile criticism as ever threatened to overwhelm any leader of a new thought."

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