But if he sold it at seven hundred per cent.
profit and put the money in his pocket, his name would be mocked and derided.

Just as Mrs.Eddy's is.

And most justifiably, as it seems to me.
The complete Bible contains one million words.

The New Testament by itself contains two hundred and forty thousand words.
My '84 edition of Science and Health contains one hundred and twenty thousand words--just half as many as the New Testament.
Science and Health has since been so inflated by later inspirations that the 1902 edition contains one hundred and eighty thousand words--not counting the thirty thousand at the back, devoted by Mrs.Eddy to advertising the book's healing abilities--and the inspiring continues right along.
If you have a book whose market is so sure and so great that you can give a printer an everlasting order for thirty or forty or fifty thousand copies a year he will furnish them at a cheap rate, because whenever there is a slack time in his press-room and bindery he can fill the idle intervals on your book and be making something instead of losing.

That is the kind of contract that can be let on Science and Health every year.