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CHAPTER XV
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Was it she, and not another, that built a new Religion upon the book and organized it?
I think No.

5 can be answered with a Yes, and dismissed from the controversy.

And I think that the Great Idea, great as it was, would have enjoyed but a brief activity, and would then have gone to sleep again for some more centuries, but for the perpetuating impulse it got from that organized and tremendous force.
As for Nos.

1, 2, and 4, the hostiles contend that Mrs.Eddy got the Great Idea from Quimby and carried it off in manuscript.

But their testimony, while of consequence, lacks the most important detail; so far as my information goes, the Quimby manuscript has not been produced.


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