The Church of St. Bunco Part 15

[50] There were really two papers handed to Mr. Chamberlain, and he was to take his choice between them. The case, too, was withdrawn, not wholly on account of one thing, but many things which Mrs. Woodbury's lawyer found it impossible to contend against. But the most direct cause of the withdrawal is the one given.

[51] Boston _Traveler_, January 21, 1897.

[52] Until it is learned that generation rests on no s.e.xual basis, let marriage continue. Spirit will ultimately claim its own, and the voices of physical sense be forever hushed.--_Science and Health_, page 274.

[53] January 15, 1897.

[54] I have seen what I suppose to be true copies of a series of letters written by Mary Nash and different members of her family, with one or two from some of Mrs. Woodbury's "loyal students." The letters might possibly be taken to show that inharmony existed in the Nash family, and that the daughter stayed away from father, mother and brothers on that account, instead of being, if such was the case, just where a sensible and affectionate daughter was most needed. The letters, at any rate, show the most united affection for _her_, and more than willingness to do anything she asked, if she would only return to her home. When finally she did so, two physicians, according to Mr. Nash, declared her to be under hypnotic control. Letters, under hypnotism, are suspect.--G. C.

[55] The chapters of our book from XI. to XVI. inclusive, were, in substance, written at the request of Dr. William T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, and published in his _Journal of Speculative Philosophy_ for December, 1893, under the caption of "The Secret of Kant."

These chapters, while too abstruse for light readers, really explain what "Christian Science" ignorantly chatters about as "Metaphysics."--G. C.

[56] As this book, including the present chapter, is for readers who may or may not understand German, our quotations from Kant are taken from his _Critique_ as in the old familiar, accessible translation by J. M. D.

Meiklejohn (Bohn's Philosophical Library--edition of 1860).

[57] _Critique of Pure Reason_; General Remarks on Transcendental aesthetic, p. 35.

[58] _Critique_; Transcendental Logic, p. 80.

[59] These words were written long before Dr. Alan McLane Hamilton testified, in the Surrogate's Court, (New York City, Feb. 18th, 1901), that sincere Christian Scientists are afflicted with a form of insane delusion.