THE METAPHYSICS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
By M. Carta Sturge
In attempting to criticise the Metaphysics of
Christian Science, as put forth in the book
which claims to be the authority for its
doctrine, 'Science and Health, with Key to
the Scriptures,' one is tempted to quote the
famous chapter on 'Snakes in Iceland,' which
runs 'There are no snakes in Iceland,' and to
say at the outset that Christian Science has
no Metaphysics. Since, however, it claims
to explain the Universe, and to give a theory
of such metaphysical subjects as Matter and
Spirit, as well as of Unity and Reality, it
may be well to examine its statements on
these abstruse matters to see if they can
justly claim to have value as Metaphysics,
to search the island, as it were, before pronouncing
that there are no snakes in it.
Undoubtedly Christian Science owes a good deal of its attractiveness to its teaching of