Article January 28, 2019 Issue

Answer the right question

Mark Raffles

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”

That quote attributed to acclaimed American author Ursula K. Le Guin can serve as an important guide for us when we struggle with life’s problems.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, well knew the importance of answering the right question. She once related a story to students in her final class that illustrates just how vital it is that thinking be based on reality. Her student George Wendall Adams recalled: “She said there once was a man who had a fox. He made a hole in the door of his house and stuck the tail of the fox through it from the inside. Very shortly a crowd had gathered outside and he went out to ask why they were there. The reply was that they were trying to figure out how the fox was able to get through such a small hole. This, said Mrs. Eddy, was human philosophy, always trying to figure out things that never happened” (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Volume I, pp. 284–285).

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