Eddy, Mary Baker

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An American religious reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the founder of Christian Science. Her book Science and Health is the official statement of Christian Science principles.

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Eddy, Mary Baker, characteristics of, x, 336; founder of Christian Science, x, 329; marriages of, x, 333; Julius Cæsar compared with, x, 360; Hypatia compared with, x, 280; Jesus compared with, x, 361; Shakespeare compared with, x, 338; Herbert Spencer and, viii, 189; Swedenborg and, x, 355; Swedenborg compared with, viii, 190.

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