first crossed swords with free-love, and the latter fell hors [15]

de combat; but the whole warfare of sensuality was not

then ended. Science and Health, the book that cast the

first stone, is still at work, deep down in human conscious-

ness, laying the axe at the root of error.

We have taken the precaution to write briefly on mar- [20]

riage, showing its relation to Christian Science. In the

present or future, some extra throe of error may conjure

up a new-style conjugality, which, ad libitum, severs the

marriage covenant, puts virtue in the shambles, and