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Show Women and Christian Science. "Christian Science is emphatically a woman's movement," says the New World, commenting upon the spread of Eddyism. ."It demands a complete submission of the whole mind, the truth can only be attained when the inquirer submits his mind to the interpretations inter-pretations contained in the books written writ-ten by Mrs. Eddy. In this way the movement appeals to the effeminate, it eliminates everything that is virile and strenuous or that is necessary to make up real individuality. Moreover, it contains a mystical, dreamy element that is irresistible to some women. The tendency is to turn the mind away from the facts of life, from the things that hurt, and make it contemplate itself. it-self. This accounts for the fact that wompn who have many household duties du-ties to attend to, whose life is made up of the cares that are very real, so seldom sel-dom become members of the sect. And this accounts for the other fact that the new sect is not for the poor, not for the men and women who have to work hard with their hands and heads, but rather for those who have nothing to do but dream and talk." s i |