"But tell us the scientific reason for such an effect?" continued Grace.
"I will, as well as I can. Have you noticed that it is people who are materially minded in their tastes and habits that are apt to be fleshy?"
"That depends upon what you would call materially minded," was Grace's smiling reply.
"I mean those who like what the world calls the good things of life—those who think a great deal of material pleasures or environments, and find it comparatively difficult to think or realize spiritual things."
"Oh!—--yes, I believe that is true, although I have never thought of it," said Grace, slowly.
"Because the denial of matter makes all these things secondary, the effect of the new thought is to make the body more spiritual."
"Of course! Why could we not see it before?" was Kate's conclusive query.
"What effect then, has this denial on lean people?" asked Mr. Hayden, more seriously, for until now he had been inclined to regard this as a little 'far fetched,' as he would have expressed it.
"It does not effect them like the denial of evil, because material things are not so important to them, while they are apt to be pining and fretting about the evils and ills in the world, either as touching themselves or humanity in general. Denying evil and evil conditions would then have the opposite effect, and cause them to gain flesh, or grow into the expression of physical harmony to correspond with the spiritual."
"This is only a higher reading of what we have already learned, and it is lovely to know we may go on indefinitely, ever reading something new," said Grace.