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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. 

24	    If it is true that nerves have sensation, that matter has
  	intelligence, that the material organism causes the eyes to
  	see and the ears to hear, then, when the body	                        Nerves
27	is dematerialized, these faculties must be lost,	                        painless 
  	for their immortality is not in Spirit; whereas the fact
  	is that only through dematerialization and spiritualiza-
30	tion of thought can these faculties be conceived of as
  	immortal. 
  	    Nerves are not the source of pain or pleasure. We
 1	suffer or enjoy in our dreams, but this pain or pleasure
  	is not communicated through a nerve. A tooth which has
 3	been extracted sometimes aches again in belief, and the
  	pain seems to be in its old place. A limb which has been
  	amputated has continued in belief to pain the owner. If
 6	the sensation of pain in the limb can return, can be pro-
  	longed, why cannot the limb reappear? 
  	    Why need pain, rather than pleasure, come to this mor-
 9	tal sense? Because the memory of pain is more vivid
  	than the memory of pleasure. I have seen an unwitting
  	attempt to scratch the end of a finger which had been cut
12	off for months. When the nerve is gone, which we say
  	was the occasion of pain, and the pain still remains, it
  	proves sensation to be in the mortal mind, not in matter. 
15	Reverse the process; take away this so-called mind instead
  	of a piece of the flesh, and the nerves have no sensation.