CHAPTER XV.
We may take that up now.
It is not a single if, but a several-jointed one; not an oyster, but a vertebrate.
1.

Did Mrs.Eddy borrow from Quimby the Great Idea, or only the little one, the old-timer, the ordinary mental-healing-healing by "mortal" mind?
2.

If she borrowed the Great Idea, did she carry it away in her head, or in manuscript?
3.

Did she hit upon the Great Idea herself?
By the Great Idea I mean, of course, the conviction that the Force involved was still existent, and could be applied now just as it was applied by Christ's Disciples and their converts, and as successfully.
4.

Did she philosophize it, systematize it, and write it down in a book?
5.