FOOTNOTES:
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Copyright, 1908, by Ellen Terry (Mrs. Carew)
Copyright, 1908, by The S. S. McClure Co. All rights reserved
[2] Mrs. Eddy also had copies of other Quimby manuscripts in her possession.
[3] See McClure's Magazine, May, 1907.
[4] Many typical instances of Christian Science logic may be found in Mr. Alfred Farlow's answer to Dr. Churchman's article (Christian Science Journal, 1904). Mr. Farlow takes up Dr. Churchman's statement, "To deny that matter exists and assert that it is an illusion, is only another way of asserting its existence." Says Mr. Farlow: "According to this logic, when a defendant denies a charge brought against him in court, he is only choosing a method of asserting its truth."
Mr. Farlow seems to think that Mrs. Eddy arrived at her discovery of the non-existence of matter, not by any process of reasoning, but by personal experience. He says:
"From doubting matter and learning by experience its utter emptiness Mrs. Eddy began to search for the universal spiritual cause, and having found it through actual demonstration in spirit, she was obliged in consistence therewith to deny the material sense of existence."
Mr. Farlow seems to consider the logic of this progression inevitable.
[5] Science and Health (1898), page 375.
[6] " " " " " 392.
[7] " " " " " 46.
[8] " " " " " 379.
[9] Mrs. Eddy and her followers believe that she possesses an enlightened or spiritual understanding of the Bible and the universe, not common to the rest of mankind.
[10] This account of the Creation is taken from the first edition of "Science and Health." It remains practically the same in later editions under the chapter called "Genesis."
[11] Miscellaneous Writings (1896), page 51.
[12] "Science and Health" (1906), pages 696, 697.
[13] Christian Science Journal, September. 1898.
[14] Christian Science Journal, October, 1904.
[15] For an exposition of the theory upon which this work at Emmanuel Church is conducted, the reader is referred to a pamphlet, "The Healing Ministry of the Church," by the Reverend Samuel McComb, issued by the Emmanuel Church, Boston. For a detailed account of the method of healing practised there and its results, see an article, "New Phases in the Relation of the Church to Health," by Dr. Richard Cabot, in the Outlook, February 29, 1908. The reader who is interested in the principle and possibilities of psychotherapeutics or "mental healing" is again referred to Paul Dubois' remarkable book, "Psychical Treatment of Nervous Disorders."
[16] The reader who is interested in Quimby's teaching and healing is referred to "The True History of Mental Science," by Julius A. Dresser, published by George H. Ellis, 272 Congress Street, Boston.
Dr. Warren F. Evans, in his book, "Mental Medicine," published three years before the first edition of "Science and Health," said: "Disease being in its root a wrong belief, change that belief and we cure the disease. By faith we are thus made whole. There is a law here which the world will sometime understand and use in the cure of the diseases that afflict mankind. The late Dr. Quimby, of Portland, one of the most successful healers of this or any age, embraced this view of the nature of disease, and by a long succession of the most remarkable cures, effected by psychopathic remedies, at the same time proved the truth of the theory and the efficiency of that mode of treatment. Had he lived in a remote age or country, the wonderful facts which occurred in his practise would now have been deemed either mythical or miraculous. He seemed to reproduce the wonders of Gospel history. But all this was only an exhibition of the force of suggestion, or the action of the law of faith, over a patient in the impressible condition."
[17] Distribution of every 1000 suicides by season:
| Country | Summer | Spring | Fall | Winter | Total | |
| Denmark | 312 | 284 | 227 | 177 | 1,000 | |
| Belgium | 301 | 275 | 229 | 195 | 1,000 | |
| France | 306 | 283 | 210 | 201 | 1,000 | |
| Saxony | 307 | 281 | 217 | 195 | 1,000 | |
| Bavaria | 308 | 282 | 218 | 192 | 1,000 | |
| Austria | 315 | 281 | 219 | 185 | 1,000 | |
| Prussia | 290 | 284 | 227 | 199 | 1,000 |
[18] The figures are those of Dr. Forbes Winslow for the United States, those of Dr. M. Gubski for Russia, those of Dr. Rehfisch (in Der Selbsmord) for Europe, and those of the Government Statistical Bureau for Japan.
[19] Durkheim, "Le Suicide" (Paris, 1897), p. 93.
[20] Five or six years ago, in a paper that I read before the Literary Society of Washington, D. C., I suggested this explanation of the high suicide rate in June. At the conclusion of the reading, a young Italian student, who happened to be present as a guest, came to me and said: "If I did not know it to be impossible, I should think that your explanation of June suicides had been suggested by, if not copied from, a letter left by a dear friend of mine who killed himself in Genoa, two years ago, on a beautiful evening in June. You have expressed his thoughts almost in the words that he used."
[21] For the suicide statistics embodied in this table I am largely indebted to the coöperation and assistance of Mr. M. L. Jacobson, of the Bureau of Statistics in Washington. In the literature of the subject there are no figures more recent than 1893 for most of the European countries. In this table they are nearly all later than 1900.
[22] The figures for Europe are from the latest reports of government statistical bureaus, and for America from the registration area covered in the twelfth census.