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CHAPTER IV.
Anthropology	113-157
Preliminary explanations—The real man eternal and perfect—Definition of life—Its relation to eternity and time—Identification of certain ideas—Man identified with his maker—Man not a free agent—The fall of man interpreted as an ascent—Mrs. Eddy's doctrine compared with Hegel's—The explanation of the nature of Jesus Christ—Christ identified with mind—The resurrection of Christ not an objective fact but a spiritual truth—The trinity—Mrs. Eddy's estimate of herself.
CHAPTER V.
Psychology	158-206
Great value of parallels in psychology—One infinite mind—Relation of individual minds to the universal mind—A point of difference—A destructive defect—Nature of “immortal Mind”—It is ever active, never passive—Source of its knowledge—Its ideas eternal—It errs not and knows not error—Nature of error—Psychological basis of the Christian Science trinity—Knowledge that proceeds from cause to effect—Inferior knowledge—Idea of time—Minimizing of faith—The human will—Knowledge that proceeds from effect to cause—Hopeless inconsistencies—Love identified with understanding—Logical force of the parallels traced out—Hindrance of language—Identification of revelation and intellectual discovery—Mysticism—Predictive prophecy—Mathematical demonstration.
CHAPTER VI.
Ethics	207-236
Christian Science a philosophy, not a religion—Evil a negation—Material origin of evil—Origin of the idea of evil—God has no idea of evil—Pain and sickness explained as evil is—How Christian Science simplifies life—The virtues of tem-