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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. 

  	    This new-born understanding, that neither food nor
30	the stomach, without the consent of mortal	                                Mind and
  	mind, can make one suffer, brings with it an-	                                stomach 
  	other lesson, — that gluttony is a sensual illusion, and
 1	that this phantasm of mortal mind disappears as we better
  	apprehend our spiritual existence and ascend the ladder
 3	of life. 
  	    This person learned that food affects the body only
  	as mortal mind has its material methods of working, one
 6	of which is to believe that proper food supplies nutriment
  	and strength to the human system. He learned also that
  	mortal mind makes a mortal body, whereas Truth re-
 9	generates this fleshly mind and feeds thought with the
  	bread of Life. 
  	    Food had less power to help or to hurt him after he
12	had availed himself of the fact that Mind governs man,
  	and he also had less faith in the so-called pleasures and
  	pains of matter. Taking less thought about what he
15	should eat or drink, consulting the stomach less about
  	the economy of living and God more, he recovered
  	strength and flesh rapidly. For many years he had
18	been kept alive, as was believed, only by the strictest ad-
  	herence to hygiene and drugs, and yet he continued ill
  	all the while. Now he dropped drugs and material
21	hygiene, and was well. 
  	    He learned that a dyspeptic was very far from being
  	the image and likeness of God, — far from ...having "do-
24	minion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
  	air, and over the cattle," if eating a bit of animal flesh
  	could overpower him. He finally concluded that God
27	never made a dyspeptic, while fear, hygiene, physiology,
  	and physics had made him one, contrary to His commands. 
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