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Christian Science

CHAPTER II
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Whenever she discovers that she is getting pretty disconnected, she couples-up with an ostentatious "But" which has nothing to do with anything that went before or is to come after, then she hitches some empties to the train-unrelated verses from the Bible, usually--and steams out of sight and leaves you wondering how she did that clever thing.

For striking instances, see bottom paragraph on page 34 and the paragraph on page 35 of her Autobiography.

She has a purpose--a deep and dark and artful purpose--in what she is saying in the first paragraph, and you guess what it is, but that is due to your own talent, not hers; she has made it as obscure as language could do it.

The other paragraph has no meaning and no discoverable intention.

It is merely one of her God-over-alls.


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