[Christian Science by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChristian Science CHAPTER VII 27/35
The By-laws are merely the voice of the master issuing commands to the servants. There is nothing and nobody for the servants to re-utter them to. That useless edict is repeated in the little book, a few pages farther on.
There are several other repetitions of prohibitions in the book that could be spared-they only take up room for nothing. THE CREED It is copyrighted.
I do not know why, but I suppose it is to keep adventurers from some day claiming that they invented it, and not Mrs.Eddy and that "strange Providence" that has suggested so many clever things to her. No Change.
It is forbidden to change the Creed.
That is important, at any rate. COPYRIGHT I can understand why Mrs.Eddy copyrighted the early editions and revisions of Science and Health, and why she had a mania for copyrighting every scrap of every sort that came from her pen in those jejune days when to be in print probably seemed a wonderful distinction to her in her provincial obscurity, but why she should continue this delirium in these days of her godship and her far-spread fame, I cannot explain to myself.
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