Christian Science
by Mark Twain
About this book
Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910). He called her, according to American writer Caroline Fraser, "[g]rasping, sordid, penurious, famishing for everything she sees—money, power, glory—vain, untruthful, jealous, despotic, arrogant, insolent, pitiless where thinkers and hypnotists are concerned, illiterate, shallow, incapable of reasoning outside of commercial lines, immeasurably selfish." - Summary by Wikipedia, edited by John Greenman
1PREFACE & BOOK I - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE - CHAPTER I VIENNA 1899
2BOOK 1 - CHAPTER II
3BOOK 1 - CHAPTER III
4BOOK 1 - CHAPTER IV
5BOOK 1 - CHAPTER V
6BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VI
7BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VII
8BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VIII
9BOOK 1 - CHAPTER IX
10BOOK II - PREFACE & CHAPTER I
11BOOK II - CHAPTER II
12BOOK II - CHAPTER III
13BOOK II - CHAPTER IV & POSTSCRIPT
14BOOK II - CHAPTER V & SUMMARY
15BOOK II - CHAPTER VI
16BOOK II - CHAPTER VII - PART ONE
17BOOK II - CHAPTER VII - PART TWO
18BOOK II - CHAPTER VIII
19BOOK II - CHAPTER IX
20BOOK II - CHAPTER X
21BOOK II - CHAPTER XI
22BOOK II - CHAPTER XII
23BOOK II - CHAPTER XIII
24BOOK II - CHAPTER XIV
25BOOK II - CHAPTER XV
26APPENDIX A - ORIGINAL FIRST PREFACE TO SCIENCE AND HEALTH
27APPENDIX B
28APPENDIX C - The following is the spiritual signification of the Lord's Prayer:
29APPENDIX D
30APPENDIX E - Reverend Heber Newton on Christian Science:
31APPENDIX F
32MRS.EDDY IN ERROR
33MAIN PARTS OF THE MACHINE
34DISTRIBUTION OF THE MACHINE'S POWERS AND DIGNITIES
35CONCLUSION
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