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Show . m mw c?.- us mi m. mm-: J5S TO!! BY SiYL WJHJB, THE NOTED J TOF Wf WiTEK; TALK WITH QifiBY 1 ' Human Life, in its April issue, publishes an interesting interest-ing Christian Science article by Sibyl Wilbur, the noted . Eastern writer, the story being an account of an interview with George A. Quimby, wh o asserts that the original copies of the famous Quimby manuscripts are in his possession. pos-session. ;' I his father read the works of ancient philosophers. And he also said - his lather got his idea of mesmerism from a Frenchman named Poyen, who. visited Maine in the forties."" "Did your father ever know a man by the nam of John Bovee Dodst" I asked Mr. Quimby. "Yes, a man of . that name visited Belfast. He took father's hypnotic subject, Lucian Burkmar, and used him' in his exhibitions.?' "Did your father converse with Dods, study with him, or attend his lectures. lec-tures. . "He may have talked with him and attended his lectures. But he never studied with him." "Did he ever read his book!" i "He probably did." As a matter of fact, John Bovee Dods was the author of a book printed in 1850, which contained ideas he had taught for twenty years previous, called "The Philosophy of Electrical Psychology." This book contains twelve lectures which deal very much as did Quimby with the nature of man, at least as Quimby is reported in books on Quimbyism to have believed. John Bovee Dods antccedes Quimby and his ideas about thirty years, and might as well be said to have established the ' foundation of mental healing. The book is still in print and is a curious treatise, but from the glimpses taught of the inchoate thoughts in the jealously-guarded jealously-guarded copies in the hands of George A. Quimby, one must believe that the quaint little volume entitled "The Philosophy of Electrical Psychology," would make superior reading to even that of the copy book philosophy, were it ever put in print. Was Dr. Quimby a Mesmerist? Mrs. Eddy has stated that P. P. Quimby was a mesmerist, that he mesmerized mes-merized her body and hypnotized her thought. She has said that she did not completely recover from the hypnotic effect of his thought until after - his death, when she seriously applied herself her-self to the formulation of her own Joe-trine Joe-trine of Christian Science which had been revealed to her by divine inspiration inspira-tion after she had suffered a serious injury in-jury by a fall on a slippery pavement in Lynn. She was a number of years affected by the tinge of Quimby 's mesmeric mes-meric ideas before she threw his influence influ-ence off absolutely and, giving her book to the world, was the first enunciator of absolute mind science. And Christian Chris-tian Science was founded, its text book written, before the modern school of mental scientists were heard of. These writers appear to have reconstructed Quimbyism through backward reasoning reason-ing from. Mrs. Eddy's teachings. To know the true Quimby the writer visited various old citizens of Belfast and asked them to relate what they could remember of P. P. Quimby and his practice. He is remembered there only as a mesmerist. Tho registrar of deeds, George McCrillis, a man over 70 years old, remembers P. P. Quimby as vividly as though he had talked with him the day before. He illustrated to the writer how P. P. Quimby treated his patients. "He would sit down in front of you and look you squarely in the eye," said Mr. McCrillis. "And he had a piercing glance, a fine, clear, eye. Then be would make passes across your forehead and down your shoulders and the length of jour arms, shaking his hands after every pass made. My whole body would tingle with his electricity, elec-tricity, but he never quite put me to sleep, for he said I ad too strong a will. He was a good man and a fine citizen, but entirely wrapped up in his healing experiments." Testimony of a Bank President. Nathan Houston, the former president of the Belfast Savings bank and a man of varied business interests, remembers P. P. Quimby very well. He said he had always heard him spoken of as a mesmerist, and should decidedly say that Quimby had no religious method in his healing. "He was an experimenter and a speculator and a natural healer." declared Mr. Houston. "He rould influence in-fluence a man to come in from the street by fixing his eye on him." There are many other old residents of Belfast who unequivocally state that Quimby was known as a mesmerist and hypnotist all his life. A curious account of Quimby and his methods has been given by Charles C. Sargeant of New York, who lived for years at Belfast, Me. He states that one day when he was quite a lad a professional pro-fessional mesmerist gave an exhibition at the public hall in Belfast which proved a failure because some person in the audience perverted the hypnotic influence. in-fluence. The hypnotist invited whomsoever whom-soever it might be to remain and meet him after the service, and it proved to be 'Park' Quimby, as Mr. Sargeant called him. Mr. Quimby was told by the hypnotist that he (Quimby) possessed pos-sessed extraordinary mesmeric "powers and that if he developed them he could become a great adept. Quimby, according accord-ing to Mr. Sargeant, forthwith proceeded pro-ceeded to do so and became widely known in the community as a hypnotist. hypno-tist. People feared his power which he used rather freely and whenever anyone any-one felt or acted queerly on the street it was a common saying that 'Park' Quimby was working on him. Mr. Sargeant Sar-geant savs he never heard Quimby connect con-nect God in any way whatsoever with his cures, and tells of his own experience experi-ence with Quimby. When he was 12 years old he had been troubled for several sev-eral days with an eruption on his neck which medicines did not heal. His mother sent him to Quimby, who was then practicing mesmerism. Quimby examined him and told him emphatically emphati-cally that he did not have a sore neck, but instead it was his front tooth which pained him. This young Sargeant Sar-geant strongly denied, insisting that, his teeth had never troubled him, but that the pain was in his neck. The bov held to his point so persistentlv that finally Dr. Quimby told him to go home, that he could do nothing for him. He subsequently explained to the boy 's mother, that his purpose had been to direct the boy's thought from his neck to his tooth. This attempted cure is a divergence from mesmerism pure and simple and partakes of hypnotic suggestion, and Quimbv seems to have used now one method and now another,according to the age and mental condition of his patient. pa-tient. But the manipulation of his patients, pa-tients, the laying of his hands upon the stomach and the head and the rubbing rub-bing after his hands had been dipped in water were methods which he did not abandon until he gave up healing at the close of his career. Some of his very last patients were treated by laying lay-ing of hands on the nead and stomach, and many who visited him during his last few months' practice have testified testi-fied that Mr. Quimby told them-Tie thereby established an electric current of his own magnetism through the patient's pa-tient's system. What Mrs. Eddy Says of Dr. Quimby. Having failed to unveil the cloistered Quimby manuscripts by personal investigation, inves-tigation, but having received emphatic assurance that no one else had seen them, and, having by intetrviews and conversations with respected citizens of Belfast shown what the local reputation of P. P. Quimby has been, it seems right to let Mrs. Eddy speak for herself on the Quimby influence on her life. She says: "In 1862, when I first visited Dr. t i Quimby of Portland, Me., his scrib- blings were descriptions of his patients and comprised the manuscripts that in 1887 I advertised I would pay for hav ing published. Before his decease, in lSbO, he had. tried to get them published pub-lished and failed. The quotations contained con-tained in the article purporting to be Dr. Quimby 's own words, were written while I was his patient in Portland and holding long conversations with him on i my views of mental therapeutics. Some words in these quotations certainly read likte words that I said to him, and at his request to correct his copy had added thereto. In his conversations with me and in his scribblings tho word Science was not used at all,. till one day I declared de-clared to him that back of his magnetic treatment and manipulation of patients there was. a science, and it was the science of mind, that it had nothing to do with matter, electricity or physics. After this 'I noticed he used that word as well as other terms which I employed em-ployed which seemed at first new to him. He even acknowledged this himself and startled me by saying what I cannot f or-get--it was this: " 'I see now what you mean, and 1 see that I am John and that you arc Jesus.' "At that date I'was a staunch orthodox, ortho-dox, and my theological belief was of fended by his saying, and I entered a demurrer that rebuked him. But afterwards after-wards I concluded that he only referred to the coming anew of their teachings, which we both, desired; for in some respects re-spects he was quite a seer, and understood under-stood what I said better than some others oth-ers did and, for one so unlearned, he was a remarkable man. Had his remark re-mark related to my personality, I should still think it was profane. At first my case improved under his treatment, treat-ment, out relapsed. I was gradually emerging from materia medica dogma and creeds and drifting whither I knew not; this mental -struggle might have caused my illness. The fallacy of materia ma-teria medica, its lack of science and the want of divinity in scholastic theology had already dawned upon me. Mv idealism, however, limped, for then it lacked science. But the divine love will accomplish what all the powers of earth combined can never prevent being accomplished ac-complished the advent of divjno healing heal-ing and its divine science." Let the World Judge the Two Books. Speaking further of Dr. Quimby, Mrs. Eddv says: "He was neither a scholar nor a metaphysician. met-aphysician. I never heard him ;&y that matter was not as real as mind, or that electricity was not as potential or remedial, or allude to God as the Divine Principle of all healing. He certainly had advanced views of his own, but they commingled error with truth and wefe not Science. On his rare humanity human-ity and sympathy one could write a sonnet." son-net." It seems perfectly clear that what Mrs. Eddy has always said about Phin-cas Phin-cas P. Quimby and what she reiterates today is exactly what other old patients pa-tients say about him except that sho gives him much greater appreciation and what his local reputation testifies to across the years. Let the manuscripts manu-scripts be printed if there are any authentic au-thentic ones to print, and let the world judge when it has tho two books side by side, who is tho author of Christian Science. But if, as every surrounding circumstance seems to indicate, there are no manuscripts left by Phineas P. Quimby, let this hoary scandal crumble into the nothingnes from which it was evoked, and let the public see that the reputation of Mary Baker Eddy stands clear of reproach. This is but common justice which the world owes a great woman. It seems desirable, before leaving the claims of Quimbyism, to analyze the influences whic'h have been brought to bear upon George A. Quimby to induce him for the past twenty-five years to maintain that his father was the originator origi-nator of Christian Science, "without the religious trolley." When George A. Quimby first saw Mrs. Edrjy. then Mrs. Patter8ont he was a boy of 19, not interested in philosophy or religion, but attached to nis father for the sole purpose of looking after his business. His father was generous and unbusinesslike, and kept no track of charges or accounts. Young Quimby saw nothing in the healing art if it was not good business, and doubtless when he witnessed the advent of Mrs. Patterson Patter-son as a new patient, he must have taken ta-ken instant alarm, for what made him fear for his father's "thunder." except the superior mental abilitv of this patient pa-tient over all the others that had come to Dr. Quimbyf Mr. Quimbv 's first alarm came then as a lad of 19, who was guarding his father's business. He did not want to see him superseded bv a woman. Later Julius A. Dressrr and Annoita Gertrude Dresser, by the success of "Science and Health," decided to write a book on mental science. Edward J. Arcns. an early student of Mrs. Eddy, had tried to issue a nimilar book, but had been enjoined. The history of this case will be given later. The Dressers and Arena stirred up Mr. Quimby. Later came a lawyer who some years previous had defended a rebellious student of Mrs. Eddy's. This lawyer had a pamphlet which he wanted to bolster up with the Quimby writings. Still-later, Dr. Minot ,T. Savage, who had begun to interest himself in matters of psychical research, appealed to Quimby to let him use the manuscripts. And in succeeding episodes epi-sodes this man has been appealed to again and again to make himself a party par-ty to an attack on the author of ' Science and Health." to give color to the statements in penny dreadfuls or elaborately serious literary underta kings. If there is any truth in mental suggestion, sug-gestion, in hypnotism or the science of psychology, what wonder that George A." Quimby has come to believe that behind be-hind the iron doors of his safe lis a treasure in some yellowed scraps of paper, pa-per, upon which his father wrote his random thoughts! If Mrs. Eddy's agreement to publish these papers at her own expense and give him the , profits did not bring them forth; if the appeal of so eminent a man as Dr. Savage, Sav-age, in the name of justice and the world's record of historic thought did not bring them forth: if at this moment, mo-ment, when he is the focus of concentrated concen-trated public attention as the arbitrator arbitra-tor in a sense, of a serious intellectual problem in the history of a modern religions re-ligions movement, he will not produce evidence worthy of the name, what must be thought "of his contention or his claims in his father's name! Abraham Lincoln once told a story which seems to illustrate this situation. He said to a man, "If I call this calf's tail a leg, how many legs will the calf havet" "He will have five," said the simple auditor. "He will not," said Lincoln. "Just because I call this tail a leg does not make it one." Christian Science is not mesmerism with a religious trolley attached to it. It is not a tinkered up philosophy, but a new appeal to human reason, a rightabout-face in the outlook, upon life and the universe. These changes in human belief come at long intervals, and they are epoch-making. If Emerson were alive and speaking today, he might re-Suke re-Suke the petty pamphlet-makers, the writers of yellow journalistic screeds, the makers of flippant books, by an appeal to the intelligence of the time. "Nor any of his writingst" "No." - "Then how in the world could she have stolen his ideas for her own book!" "Why," she talked with him day after af-ter day, didn't shot And she might have had actess to his writing. I don't mean that she never saw any of his writing." writ-ing." "There is a particular manuscript, said to have been your father's, which Mrs. Eddy is accused of having copied and carried away with her and based her book upon. Do yon know about thatt" . "Why, that was the 'Questions and Answers' that they tell about her having hav-ing in 8toughton at, the Wentworths, wasn't itt Well, I have that manuscript. manu-script. I have them all. "Mr. Quimby," I said, walking over to where he sat by his desk; "I ask yeu seriously, and it shall be for the last time, to let me see your father's papers. U agree not to copy anything from them or to handle them other than you permit." Mr. Quimby 's answer was an obstinate ob-stinate shake of the head. We thereupon dropped this particular phase of the subject. But the impression impres-sion distinctly conveyed was that no manuscripts worthy of the name, no articles showing formulated thought, no treatise on the science of life exist in the handwriting of Phineas P. Quimby. The copy-books, filled with the neat handwriting of several ladies dead and gone, may contain some of Mr. Quimby 's father's ideas, some of his conversations, and some of his penciled notes. They are, themselves, in a chaotic form as to literary style and composition and would make strange" readingf put in type. They most likely like-ly never will be, for Mr. Quimby seems very doubtful about it. "Do you think your father was the author of Christian Science t" was my next question, after dropping the manuscript discussion. "I think this: If Mrs. Eddy had never visited my father, Christian Science would never have been born. She took his ideas and hitched her religious re-ligious trolley onto them and made up her so-called science." Quimby's Eecollectlons of Mrs. Eddy. "Was your father. a religious man!" "Well," said Mr. Quimbv, "that depends upon what you mean by religious." re-ligious." Mr. Quimby here told a story 'about a man who was "a believer be-liever in religion, but not theology by a d sight." His explanation of his father's attitude was that he (P. P. Quimby) believed Jesus' mission to the world was to bring health and healing, not to establish a religion. P. P. Quimby Quim-by attended the Unitarian church and was a good man, but he was not re. ligiously inclined and was interested in healing to the exclusion of everything. George Quimbv was 19 when he went to his father in Portland to assist him in his practice by looking after his business. busi-ness. He was full of active interest in life, he declared, and his father's mission mis-sion did not particularly engage his attention. at-tention. "Do you remember when Mrs. Eddy, Ed-dy, then Mrs. Patterson, camo to visit your fathert" "Yes, I do remember her well. She was a rather good looking woman, tall, thin and pale. I never liked her. I thought she was fawning, affected, deceitful de-ceitful and as vain as a peacock." "How could she show vanity when she was so very poor, as many persons have stated she was at that timet" "Well, she showed it. in the way Bhe walked and acted. You can wear a dress so that you can act proud if your dress is only calico." "Might one not have said she was of superior bearing, but gentle and engaging en-gaging in her manner, as well as to describe de-scribe her as you have doncf" Mr. Quimby simply looked out from under his brows in a stormy manner. "Well, did vour father share your opinion, or did he like Mrs. Patterson!" Patter-son!" "Why, he liked her. Ho thought she was a bright woman." "Did he say 'devilish bright,' as ho has been quoted!" " H may have." "Did he talk with Mrs. Patterson much!" "Yes, he did. He talked with her every ev-ery day. She was in his office as much as any patient he had and seemed to hang on his ideas. I used to say to father, 'You'd better look out or that woman will steal your thunder.' " I will interrupt my interview with Mr. Quimby at this point to state that Mrs. Eddy has said frequently in writing writ-ing and to her students that she gave as freely of her own ideas to Phineas P. Quimby as she took suggestions from him. That she wrote many manuscripts man-uscripts for him and corrected others, and that she signed his name freely to such writings. She thinks that many of these were afterwards copied by other oth-er patients. Her belief and her word is therefore set over ' against Mr. George A. Quimby's, who was then a lad of N19, not particularly interested in philosophic speculation. As to whose influence in their mutual thought, was the greater at that time, P. P. Quimby's Quim-by's or Mrs. Eddy's, it is unnecessary to inquire. Without doubt, P. P. Quimby's was in some respects. Mrs. Eddy "has said he mesmerized her thought and she did not throw off his influence until after his death. I asked Mr. Quimby if his father was a mesmerist. "My father began his work as a mesmerist," said Mr. Quimby. "But before his death he believed and taught that disease originated in the mind and could be expelled from the body through the mina." "My Father's Ideas Were Original." "Did he manipulate his patients!" "Yes; but you must remember that in those days the world was not familiar fa-miliar as it is today with the idea of mental suggestion. He. had to manipulate manip-ulate his patients to show them he was doing something for them." . "Did. your father get any of his ideas from other writers or teachers!" "No, he did not. Everything he taught was original with him. Mr. Quimby had already stated that BY SIBYL WILBUR. EDITOR'S NOTE: The first chapter chap-ter of Mrs. Eddy's life appeared in the February number. It dealt with her ancestry, an-cestry, her girlhood, and early characteristics, char-acteristics, and her married life, first as Mrs. Glover and later as Mrs. Patterson. Pat-terson. The March article described the event in her life which brought her health and proved the turning point in . her career. Preceding this first chapter, . Sibyl Wilbur's two articles. 'VHas Christian Science Met its Waterloo!" and "Glimpses of a Great Personality" Personal-ity" (Mrs. Eddy) apeared in the December De-cember and January issues of Human Life.l I have traced the life story of Mary Baker Eddy to the time of her visits in 1862 and '64 to Phineas P. Quimby. a healer of Portland, Me., in the '50 's nd early '60 's. In January, 1866, Mr. Quimby died from the effcts of a tumor, t his home in Belfast, Me. Subsequently. Subsequent-ly. Mrs. Eddy discovered and founded 'Jhristian Science. Some years later, when Christian Science had begun to assume proportions prophetic of its present hold on public interest, a student stu-dent of Mrs. Eddy's undertook to plagiarize pla-giarize her book and was enjoined by court process. Then a former patient to the late Mr. Quimby came to his defense de-fense with the statement that Mrs. Eddy had herself plagiarized from the teachings and writings of P. P. Quimby, Quim-by, and declared his statements could . be proved by writings in the said Quimby's hand which were in existence. exist-ence. But this he failed to do. . The Quimby manuscripts have ever since been talked about, however, written writ-ten on the philosophy of P. P. Quimby, and many other books have been written writ-ten purporting to be deductions and enlargements on Quimbyism. The history his-tory of Mental Science in the United States professes to date back ho the Quimby manuscripts, and Quimby is declared by certain writers to be the first man in this country to teach the belief that mind had power over matter. mat-ter. So far has this idea spread that it is almost impossible today to speak of Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science without with-out the question immediately being asked: "But she got it all from a man named Quimby, did she not!" George A. Quimby, the son of Phineas Phin-eas P. Quimby, is living today in Belfast, Bel-fast, Me. He is a well-liked and much respected citizen of that town of several sev-eral thousand inhabitants. It is ray conviction, con-viction, after a long and entirely pleasant pleas-ant interview with George A. Quimby, that be is himself a victim of the Quimby Quim-by manuscript tradition. Socially engaging en-gaging and intellectually interesting, he. is on this one subject bitter, intense, almost morbid. As he talks his face 4 flashes, his hands shake, his voice trembles. trem-bles. He strikes the arm of his chair with his closed fist and cries, out that Christian Scientists are liars, and then ipells the word to give it emphasis. He leclares in one breath that his father xas the first man in the country to teach mental healing, and in the next that he can prove nothing, and leans back in his chair, exhausted by the Intensity of his own emotion. Agreed to Show the Quimby Papers. Mr. Quimby agreed, over the long distance telephone from Boston, to show the writer the Quimby manuscripts. manu-scripts. It is difficult to reach Belfast ' in the winter-time, the town being on a branch line and the journey there involving stop-overs at dreary little junctions. For this reason the interviewer inter-viewer made a specific request that the manuscripts might be seen if the journey jour-ney was undertaken. Mr. Quimby was informed accurately who his visitor would be, that he might not change his mind, and he most courteously agreed to exhibit .the Quimby manuscripts, with the proviso that no quotations should be copied from them. It was a Saturday afternoon, and Mr. Quimby was alone in his office, no business busi-ness being transacted on this half holi-. holi-. day. He gave the writer a chair at a desk and sat down at his own desk, .saying: "If all the people who have come to see me in the past twenty years about these manuscripts of my father's were fishes, and were laid head and tail together, they would stretch from here to Montana. If all the letters that . have been "written to me on the subject sub-ject were spread out they would make , a plaster that would cover the country. "Why don't you print them so that all the world can see them." I asked. "You would settle the question then for all' time." , "Bceause I won't," said Quimby, dogmatically. "I have said I would never print them while that woman lives, and I never shall." "Meaning Mrs. Eddy!" "That's who I mean." "But you have the manuscripts!" "I have. And here is one that you may look at." '. Mr. Quimby took from a drawer iii his desk a copy-book such as school children use to write essays in. It was in a good state of preservation, not yellowed by age, and was written in - nvar to cover in a neat, copy- - .-..'. " " 1 ist's hand. There were no erasures nor interlineations. There were dates at the end of the articles, of which there appeared ap-peared to be two or three different ones in the book. The dates were 1861 and 1863. "Is this your father's handwriting," I asked Mr. Quimby. "It is not. That is my mother's, I believe, and here is one in the handwriting hand-writing of one of the Misses Ware." Mr. Quimby went to a great iron safe built in the wall and brought out six or eight more books of a similar character. The writer glanced through the pages and saw that all were written in this style, with some variation in handwriting, handwrit-ing, and then asked: "Are none of these in your father's handwriting!" "No, they are all copies of copies." "But, Mr. Quimby, what I came to Belfast for was to see your father's manuscripts. You agreed to let me see them, and I have a particular reason for wishing to do so." "These are the only manuscripts I have shown to anyone, and the only ones I will show," said Mr. Quimby, pacing the floor. "But there has recently been printed 'facsimiles' of your father's manuscripts, manu-scripts, over the date 1863, in which appears ap-pears the words 'Christian Science.' I particularly wished to sec that manuscript. manu-script. If you allowed other magazine writers to see it, why will you not let me!" "I am showing you exactly what I showed other magazine writers. There is the very page that was photographed." photo-graphed." - "And in whose writing is this!" "My mother's, I believe, or possiblj' one of the Misses Ware." "May I ask you if this is the copy of something your father wrote, or a conversation with him written down here, or did he dictate it!" Mr. Quimby became strangely excited. ex-cited. He walked up and down the room, with anger and speaking emphatically. em-phatically. "No, they are not conversations nor dictation, but copies of things my father wrote. He used to write at odd moments on scraps of paper whatever came into his mind." "Have You Those Papers Now?" "And you have those papers now!" "Yes, I have." "Will j-ou let me see a few pages of them!" "No, I won't. Nobody has seen them and no one shalll." "Was your father an 'illiterate man!" "He-was self-educated, but 'he had read a great deal. He read Aurelius, Plato and Socrates." (Mr. Quimby was laboring under intense excitement and doubtless forgot for the moment that Socrates did not leave any writings for the world to peruse.) "My father's head was full of speculative ideas and he was constantly writing down his thoughts. He wrote without capitalizing capitaliz-ing or punctuating. His mind was always al-ways ahead of his pen and he would not paragraph or formulate his thoughts into essays. I guess many of his words were misspelled, too. But he had the thought, that is the point." "And that is the very point. It would be necesary'to see those thoughts in his own handwriting to prove that they were your father's thoughts. " "You can't prove anything," declared de-clared Mr. Quimby, wrathfully. "I tell you they have all been after those manuscripts, Arens, Dresser. Minot J. Savage, Peabody, and these recent newspaper and magazine investigators. But I have never sTiown them. Dr. Savage Sav-age wrote me that. I owed it to the world to produce them." "And did you not think so, too!" "No." "And when Edward J. Arens was sued by Mrs. Eddy for infringement of copyright, did you not think the psychological psy-chological moment had arrived for you to show your father's writing!" "No. The moment never can arrive while that woman lives. I know her through and through. They could not subpoena me for a witness because I was in another State, do you see!" Not While Mrs. Eddy Lives. This was the second time in my iu-terview iu-terview with Mr. Quimby that he declared de-clared his determination not to print his father's writing during the lifetime life-time of Mrs. Eddy. Mrs. Eddy has said that she wrote many of the Quimby manuscripts, which may account for Mr. Quimby's policy. "But I should think you would have gone willingly, would have been eager and anxious to go and prove legally what you have asserted so long. Don't you know that Mrs. Eddy has said that she frequently took your father 's ' scribblings' scrib-blings' to overlook and correct, as he was not scholarly nor literary. That she revised them and copied them and returned re-turned them sometimes with his name written across the back!" "Lies, lies!" cried Quimby. "She never saw any of these' books. " ' |