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Matter mindless

What is termed matter, being unintelligent, cannot say, "I suffer, I die, I am sick, or I am well." It is the so- called mortal mind which voices this and ap- pears to itself to make good its claim. To mortal sense, sin and suffering are real, but immortal sense includes no evil nor pestilence. Because immortal sense has no error of sense, it has no sense of error; there fore it is without a destructive element.

If brain, nerves, stomach, are intelligent, - if they talk to us, tell us their condition, and report how they feel, - then Spirit and matter, Truth and error, commingle and produce sickness and health, good and evil, life and death; and who shall say whether Truth or error is the greater?