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
1 PREFACE & BOOK I - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE - CHAPTER I VIENNA 1899
2 BOOK 1 - CHAPTER II
3 BOOK 1 - CHAPTER III
4 BOOK 1 - CHAPTER IV
5 BOOK 1 - CHAPTER V
6 BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VI
7 BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VII
8 BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VIII
9 BOOK 1 - CHAPTER IX
10 BOOK II - PREFACE & CHAPTER I
11 BOOK II - CHAPTER II
12 BOOK II - CHAPTER III
13 BOOK II - CHAPTER IV & POSTSCRIPT
14 BOOK II - CHAPTER V & SUMMARY
15 BOOK II - CHAPTER VI
16 BOOK II - CHAPTER VII - PART ONE
17 BOOK II - CHAPTER VII - PART TWO
18 BOOK II - CHAPTER VIII
19 BOOK II - CHAPTER IX
20 BOOK II - CHAPTER X
21 BOOK II - CHAPTER XI
22 BOOK II - CHAPTER XII
23 BOOK II - CHAPTER XIII
24 BOOK II - CHAPTER XIV
25 BOOK II - CHAPTER XV
26 APPENDIX A - ORIGINAL FIRST PREFACE TO SCIENCE AND HEALTH
27 APPENDIX B
28 APPENDIX C - The following is the spiritual signification of the Lord's Prayer:
29 APPENDIX D
30 APPENDIX E - Reverend Heber Newton on Christian Science:
31 APPENDIX F
32 MRS.EDDY IN ERROR
33 MAIN PARTS OF THE MACHINE
34 DISTRIBUTION OF THE MACHINE'S POWERS AND DIGNITIES
35 CONCLUSION
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