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With her faulty mental development, it was not surprising that Mrs. Eddy's version of mentalism was equally faulty--and not the same as philosophy's. In denying disease she perforce denied the body--a procedure which even philosophy dares not do. In making man God's idea but refusing to make the universe God's idea too, she showed her lamentable self-contradiction. In dismissing the world as illusion but failing to see that she ought to explain the origin of this illusion, her attempts to explain the origin of matter, sickness, evil, and error as beliefs of mortal mind, which was nothing, became pointless.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 8 : Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements > # 40