Excerpt from Christian Science: Its Legal Status, A Defense of Human RightsFor many centuries the majority of people have lived or died according to the theories of the remedial system longest in the field, whatever those theories might be, even though its remedies plus the most skilful efforts of its practicians always have been palpably uncertain and inadequate. The familiarity of succeeding generations with the failure Of material remedies to cope with disease induced the majority of people to accept this lack of success as inevitable or even natural. If drugs, surgical operations, or inoculations had been used without avail or with disastrous results, philosophy advised patient resignation to what could not be avoided, while theology would try to console sufferers with the view that the Father's will had been done.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.