Mr.Tomkins would have been turned down by that procession if his remarks had been unsatisfactory to it.
It may be that there is evidence somewhere--as has been claimed--that Mrs.Eddy has charged upon the Deity the verbal authorship of Science and Health.

But if she ever made the charge, she has withdrawn it (as it seems to me), and in the most formal and unqualified; of all ways.

See Autobiography, page 57: "When the demand for this book increased...

the copyright was infringed.
I entered a suit at Law, and my copyright was protected." Thus it is plain that she did not plead that the Deity was the (verbal) Author; for if she had done that, she would have lost her case--and with rude promptness.

It was in the old days before the Berne Convention and before the passage of our amended law of 1891, and the court would have quoted the following stern clause from the existing statute and frowned her out of the place: "No Foreigner can acquire copyright in the United States." To sum up.