Matter without Mind is a moral impossibility. Mind
in matter is pantheism. Soul is the only real conscious- 18
ness which cognizes being. The body does not see, hear,
smell, or taste. Human belief says that it does; but
destroy this belief of seeing with the eye, and we could 21
not see materially; and so it is with each of the physical
senses.
Accepting the verdict of these material senses, we should 24
believe man and the universe to be the football of chance
and sinking into oblivion. Destroy the five senses as
organized matter, and you must either become non-exist- 27
ent, or exist in Mind only; and this latter conclusion is
the simple solution of the problem of being, and leads to 1
the equal inference that there is no matter.
_The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assum-_ 3
_ing manifold forms and colors, -- are they not tangible and_
_material?_
As Mind they are real, but not as matter. All beauty 6
and goodness are in and of Mind, emanating from God;
but when we change the nature of beauty and goodness
from Mind to matter, the beauty is marred, through a 9
false conception, and, to the material senses, evil takes
the place of good.
Has not the truth in Christian Science met a response 12
from Prof. S. P. Langley, the young American astronomer?
He says that "color is in _us_," not "in the rose;" and he
adds that this is not "any metaphysical subtlety," but a 15
fact "almost universally accepted, within the _last few_
_years_, by physicists.
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