various departments and conditions of life—I say, all this indefinite good-for-nothingness, is confessed to be the very basis of that pernicious, but to its own votaries precious, movement called Christian Science.
The inspiration of this delusion is from the Paganism of the East; and its exaggerated theories and its insane practices are a reversion to the religion and fetichism of primitive and uncivilized man—they are a plunge backward into the conditions of an age of barbarism. In many places in the world the spectacle may even now be witnessed of the weakness of tribes and nations possessing such a religious system and theory of life, when matched against the civilization which is the product of Christian influences. It is the same old story of inefficiency and moral uncertainty against trained experience and moral definiteness.
