Mary Baker Eddy Quotes
If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.
Eddy, Mary Baker. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The Christian Science Board of Directors, 1910, p. 196.
Historically, for many Americans the educated were considered as elite in a very positive sense. Other people at other times saw educated elites as dangerous to religion and conservatism. Here the educate are described as an “aristocracy” and the only aristocracy that was acceptable and desirable
Mary Baker Eddy was an American religious leader and author who founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, in New England in 1879. She also founded the Christian Science Monitor, a Pulitzer Prize winning secular newspaper, in 1908; and three religious magazines: the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science. She wrote numerous books and articles, the most notable of which was Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures which had sold over nine million copies as of 2001.