Eddyism, Commonly Called “Christian Science” 165 “The less mind there is manifested in matter, the better. When the unthinking lobster loses his claw, it grows again. If the science of life were understood . . , the human limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster’s claw—not with an artificial limb, but with a genuine one” (p. 489, “Science and Health”). I t did not seem to occur to the author that while the lobster’s claw grows again, the lamb’s tail does not. But this is accounted for, no doubt, by the proposition that “the less mind there is manifested in matter, the better.” The lobster gets his claw again because he has so little mind; the lamb does not get his tail, and the man does not get his leg, because each one of them has too much mind. The only hope for the one-legged man, then, is to become either a lunatic or a lobster! And yet there are people who are willing to apply to this farrago of irreligion and nonsense two of the most significant words in the English language, “Christian” and “Science.” I t is comforting, however, to know that it will come to an end by and by, and will be numbered with many other strange and indefensible infatuations that have “gone glimmering through the dream of things that were,"
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