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

  	    The authentic history of Kaspar Hauser is a useful hint
18	as to the frailty and inadequacy of mortal mind. It
  	proves beyond a doubt that education consti-	                   Power of
  	tutes this so-called mind, and that, in turn,	                           habit 
21	mortal mind manifests itself in the body by the false
  	sense it imparts. Incarcerated in a dungeon, where
  	neither sight nor sound could reach him, at the age of
24	seventeen Kaspar was still a mental infant, crying and
  	chattering with no more intelligence than a babe, and
  	realizing Tennyson's description:

27	           An infant crying in the night,
  	           An infant crying for the light,
  	           And with no language but a cry. 

30	    His case proves material sense to be but a belief formed
  	by education alone. The light which affords us joy gave
 1	him a belief of intense pain. His eyes were inflamed by
  	the light. After the babbling boy had been taught to
 3	speak a few words, he asked to be taken back to his dun-
  	geon, and said that he should never be happy elsewhere. 
  	Outside of dismal darkness and cold silence he found no
 6	peace. Every sound convulsed him with anguish. All
  	that he ate, except his black crust, produced violent
  	retchings. All that gives pleasure to our educated senses
 9	gave him pain through those very senses, trained in an
  	opposite direction.