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Chapter 8 of Science and Health 1910, Last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please refer to SUBTITLE Text content below. 

  	    Disappointed in love in her early years, she became
 6	insane and lost all account of time. Believing that she
  	was still living in the same hour which parted	                            Perpetual
  	her from her lover, taking no note of years,	                            youth 
 9	she stood daily before the window watching for her
  	lover's coming. In this mental state she remained young. 
  	Having no consciousness of time, she literally grew no
12	older. Some American travellers saw her when she was
  	seventy-four, and supposed her to be a young woman. 
  	She had no care-lined face, no wrinkles nor gray hair, but
15	youth sat gently on cheek and brow. Asked to guess her
  	age, those unacquainted with her history conjectured that
  	she must be under twenty. 
18	    This instance of youth preserved furnishes a useful
  	hint, upon which a Franklin might work with more cer-
  	tainty than when he coaxed the enamoured lightning
21	from the clouds. Years had not made her old, because
  	she had taken no cognizance of passing time nor thought
  	of herself as growing old. The bodily results of her belief
24	that she was young manifested the influence of such a be-
  	lief. She could not age while believing herself young, for
  	the mental state governed the physical. 
27	    Impossibilities never occur. One instance like the
  	foregoing proves it possible to be young at seventy-four;
  	and the primary of that illustration makes it plain that
30	decrepitude is not... according to law, nor is it a necessity of
  	nature, but an illusion. 
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