Its English is very nearly as straight and clean and competent as is the English of the latest revision of Science and Health after the gun has been improved from smooth-bore musket up to globe-sighted, long distance rifle: "Man controlled by his Maker has no physical suffering.

His body is harmonious, his days are multiplying instead of diminishing, he is journeying towards Life instead of death, and bringing out the new man and crucifying the old affections, cutting them off in every material direction until he learns the utter supremacy of Spirit and yields obedience thereto." In the latest revision of Science and Health (1902), the perfected gun furnishes the following.

The English is clean, compact, dignified, almost perfect.

But it is observable that it is not prominently better than it is in the above paragraph, which was a product of the primitive flint-lock: "How unreasonable is the belief that we are wearing out life and hastening to death, and at the same time we are communing with immortality?
If the departed are in rapport with mortality, or matter, they are not spiritual, but must still be mortal, sinful, suffering, and dying.

Then wherefore look to them--even were communication possible--for proofs of immortality and accept them as oracles ?" -- Edition of 1902, page 78.
With the above paragraphs compare these that follow.