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Endnotes
1. Katherine Coolidge, "Modern Expression of the Oldest
Philosophy," The Arena, VII, pp. 555, 559,562.
2. Georgine Milmine, "The Encounter with Quimby," McClure's
Magazine, XXVII (February 1907), pp. 339-354.
3. Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery (New
York, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1966), pp.167-168, 182.
4. Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writing 1883-1896 (Boston,
Trustees Under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1896), p.378.
5. Robert Peel, Christian Science: Its Encounter with American
Culture (New York, Henry Holt, 1958), p. 114.
6. Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery, p.179.
7. Georgine Milmine, "The Quimby Controversy," McClure's
Magazine, XXVII (March 1907), p. 508. Four different dates were
given for the discovery (1853,1862,1864 and 1866), two of which
predate Mrs. Eddy's encounter with Quimby.
8. Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery, p.178.
9. The most plausible explanation for this "defection" is that
Mrs. Eddy was obliged to interpret Quimbyism her own way after the
healer's death. Dresser's refusal to assume leadership played an
important role in initiating the break. It is unlikely, though, that
she remained loyal to Quimby's philosophy until 1872 when her own
book was published. See Horatio Dresser, ed., The Quimby
Manuscripts. (New York, 1921), pp 152-157.
10. Frank Podmore, "The Pedigree of Christian Science,"
Contemporary Review, XCV (January 1909), pp.43, 46; Rielly,
Psychological Review, X, p.606.
11. Berkeley, Hegel, Plotinus, Kant, Socrates, Plato, Descartes,
Locke, Leibnitz, Hume, Fichte, Huxley, Spencer and the Gnostics, are
those to whom, some claim, Mrs. Eddy owes a debt. Others are less
charitable, arguing that Mrs. Eddy stole her work from the truths of
dead philosophers. Charles Braden, Christian Science Today, p. 31;
H.S. Ficke, "Source of Science Today,” Bibliotheca Sacra, LXXXV
(October 1928), pp. 417-423.
12. Notably Thomas Lake Harris and Andrew Jackson Davis. See
Wilson, Hibbert Journal, LVII, p. 164.