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Section 1 ~ Science.  Chapter 6 of Science and Health 1910, Last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.   See SUBTITLE Text content below.

the fundamental propositions of pure metaphysics analyzed:

The four fundamental propositions as stated and when reversed

#	As stated	Reversed
1	God is All-in all	All-in-all is God
2	God is good. Good is Mind.	Mind is good. Good is God.
3	God, Spirit being all, nothing is matter.	Matter is nothing, all being Spirit, God.
4	Life, God, omnipotent good, deny death, evil, sin, disease.--- Disease, sin, evil, death deny good, omnipotent God, Life.	Disease, sin, evil, death deny good, omnipotent God, Life. --- Life, God, omnipotent good, deny death, evil, sin, disease.
	
The four fundamental propositions analyzed
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1	Both the statement and reversal are positive.
2	Both the statement and reversal are positive.
3	The third proposition introduces the incidental or inverted image named matter, the unreal and untrue image of Spirit. The original proposition declares that nothing is matter and its reversal that matter is nothing.
4	The fourth proposition presents two denials, a positive denial whereby good denies all forms of evil and a negative denial whereby all forms of evil appear to deny good. Note that when the negative denial of proposition four is reversed the proposition returns to a positive statement whereby good denies evil. 

Note how these four propositions are developed in statements made throughout the textbook.

9	    The fundamental propositions of divine metaphysics
  	are summarized in the four following, to me, self-evident
  	propositions. Even if reversed, these proposi-	Reversible
12	tions will be found to agree in statement and	propositions 
  	proof, showing mathematically their exact relation to
  	Truth. De Quincey says mathematics has not a foot to
15	stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. 
  	    1.  God is All-in-all. 
  	    2.  God is good.  Good is Mind. 
18	    3.  God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter. 
  	    4.  Life, God, omnipotent good, deny death, evil, sin,
  	disease. — Disease, sin, evil, death, deny good, omnipo-
21	tent God, Life. 
  	    Which of the denials in proposition four is true? Both
  	are not, cannot be, true. According to the Scripture,
24	I find that God is true, "but every [mortal] man a
  	liar." 
  	    Which of the denials in proposition four is true? Both
  	are not, cannot be, true. According to the Scripture,
24	I find that God is true, "but every [mortal] man a
  	liar."