“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more
than he.”
–A Song of Myself
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Why is Christian Science in our name?
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The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder, Mary Baker Eddy, put it.
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