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Physiology - Chapter 7 of Science and Health 1910, last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.  See SUBTITLE Text content below.

  	    "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," says
 1	the English poet, and there is truth in his sentiment. The
  	action of mortal mind on the body was not so injurious
 3	before inquisitive modern Eves took up the	                              Our modern
  	study of medical works and unmanly Adams                      	      Eves 
  	attributed their own downfall and the fate of their off-
 6	spring to the weakness of their wives. 
  	    The primitive custom of taking no thought about
  	food left the stomach and bowels free to act in obedi-
 9	ence to nature, and gave the gospel a chance to be seen
  	in its glorious effects upon the body. A ghastly array of
  	diseases was not paraded before the imagination. There
12	were fewer books on digestion and more "sermons in
  	stones, and good in everything." When the mechanism
  	of the human mind gives place to the divine Mind, self-
15	ishness and sin, disease and death, will lose their
  	foothold. 
  	    Human fear of miasma would load with disease the
18	air of Eden, and weigh down mankind with superimposed
  	and conjectural evils. Mortal mind is the worst foe of
  	the body, while divine Mind is its best friend.