‘We never give medicine in any circumstances whatever! We—’
‘But, madam, it says—’
‘I don’t care what it says, and I don’t wish to talk about it.’
‘I am sorry if I have offended, but you see the mention seemed in some way inconsistent, and—’
‘There are no inconsistencies in Christian Science. The thing is impossible, for the Science is absolute. It cannot be otherwise, since it proceeds directly from the All-in-all and the Everything-in-Which, also Soul, Bones, Truth, one of a series, alone and without equal. It is Mathematics purified from material dross and made spiritual.’
‘I can see that, but—’
‘It rests upon the immovable basis of an Apodictical Principle.’
The word flattened itself against my mind trying to get in, and disordered me a little, and before I could inquire into its pertinency, she was already throwing the needed light:
‘This Apodictical Principle is the absolute Principle of Scientific Mind-healing, the sovereign Omnipotence which delivers the children of men from pain, disease, decay, and every ill that flesh is heir to.’
‘Surely not every ill, every decay?’