eyes. They were inflamed by the light, since, to his belief, it gave suffering instead of joy. After the babbling boy was taught to speak a few words, he asked to be taken back to his dungeon, and said that he should never be happy anywhere else. Outside of dismal darkness and cold silence he found no peace. Every sound convulsed him with anguish. All that he ate, except his black crust, produced violent retchings. All that gives pleasure to our educated senses gave him pain in those very senses, trained in an opposite direction.
All this is evidence of the correctness of Christian Science. Alexander Pope was right in his account of Man: —
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, —
A being darkly wise and rudely great,
With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side,
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, —
He hangs between: in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a god or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err,
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, —
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
The less there is said of physical structure or law, and
the more there is said about moral and spiritual law, the
higher the standard of mortals will be, and the further
removed from imbecility of mind and body.
