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Mary Baker Eddy

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Book
10
Other Writings
39
Miscellaneous Writings
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1
Questions and Answers
3
Was ever a person made insane by studying meta-physics?
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48
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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.
  	    Was ever a person made insane by studying meta-
24	physics? 

  	    Such an occurrence would be impossible, for the
  	proper study of Mind-healing would cure the insane. 
27	That persons have gone away from the Massachusetts
  	Metaphysical College "made insane by Mrs. Eddy's
  	teachings," like a hundred other stories, is a baseless
30	fabrication offered solely to injure her or her school. 
  	The enemy is trying to make capital out of the follow-
 
  Miscellaneous Writings --- Questions and Answers                     
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 1	ing case. A young lady entered the College class who,
  	I quickly saw, had a tendency to monomania, and re-
 3	quested her to withdraw before its close. We are cred-
  	ibly informed that, before entering the College, this
  	young lady had manifested some mental unsoundness,
 6	and have no doubt she could have been restored by
  	Christian Science treatment. Her friends employed a
  	homoeopathist, who had the skill and honor to state, as his
 9	opinion given to her friends, that "Mrs. Eddy's teach-
  	ings had not produced insanity." This is the only case
  	that could be distorted into the claim of insanity ever
12	having occurred in a class of Mrs. Eddy's; while ac-
  	knowledged and notable cases of insanity have been
  	cured in her class.