In
spite of the multiplication of interests and activities in the the modern world, humanity is constantly seeking for novelty, never satisfied with the most exuberant forms of materiality.
For
twenty-three centuries the thinkers of the world have disputed as to the substance and origin of matter, From the days of Plato and Aristotle downward two great schools have contended, the one that matter was the subjective condition of mind, expression of force or energy, and the other that it was the only substance existing.
SUPPOSITIONAL
mortal consciousness, which psychologists and other people have believed to be mind or a phase of mind, capable of lapses into unconsciousness or semi-consciousness, and divisible into parts, one of which has been called subconsciousness, is not true Mind.
EVERY
question of what to do and how to progress must be settled in the heaven of Mind, which is truly here and now, and not in matter or by material means.
IN
the study of Christian Science it is especially wise to follow Bacon's advice: "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
