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     Chapter 10

     Science of Being

     That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
     which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon,
     and our hands have handled, of the Word of life, . . .
     That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you,
     that ye also may have fellowship with us:
     and truly our fellowship is with the Father,
     and with His Son Jesus Christ.--John, First Epistle.

     Here I stand. I can do no otherwise;
     so help me God! Amen!--Martin Luther.

   1      In the material world, thought has brought to light
     with great rapidity many useful wonders. With
   3  like activity have thought's swift pinions been rising
     towards the realm of the real, to the spiritual

    Materialistic
    challenge

     cause of those lower things which give im-
   6  pulse to inquiry. Belief in a material basis, from
     which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding
     to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from
   9  matter to Mind as the cause of every effect. Material-
     istic hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final
     combat. In this revolutionary period, like the shep-
  12  herd-boy with his sling, woman goes forth to battle with
     Goliath.
         In this final struggle for supremacy, semi-metaphysi-
  15  cal systems afford no substantial aid to scientific meta-
     physics, for their arguments are based on

    Confusion
    confounded

     the false testimony of the material senses as
  18  well as on the facts of Mind. These semi-metaphysical

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