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[39], Despite the temporary nature of the "cure", she attached religious significance to it, which Quimby did not. [83] On this issue Swami Abhedananda wrote: Mrs. Eddy quoted certain passages from the English edition of the Bhagavad-Gita, but unfortunately, for some reason, those passages of the Gita were omitted in the 34th edition of the book, Science and Health if we closely study Mrs. Eddy's book, we find that Mrs. Eddy has incorporated in her book most of the salient features of Vedanta philosophy, but she denied the debt flatly.[84]. [125] Miranda Rice, a friend and close student of Eddy, told a newspaper in 1906: "I know that Mrs. Eddy was addicted to morphine in the seventies. While he had claimed that enslaved working men employed in building Confederate fortifications could be considered contraband of war, he questioned this as justification for not returning enslaved women and children. Mary Baker Eddy founded a popular religious movement during the 19th century, Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy revised her exegesis of Genesis in several places to use the feminine pronoun for God. The Mary Baker Eddy Library is a research library, museum, and repository for the papers of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. [139], Psychologists Leon Joseph Saul and Silas L. Warner, in their book The Psychotic Personality (1982), came to the conclusion that Eddy had diagnostic characteristics of Psychotic Personality Disorder (PPD). [107] During the Next Friends suit, it was used to charge Eddy with incompetence and "general insanity". The life of Mary Baker Eddy "[66][67] The paragraph that included this quote was later omitted from an official sanctioned biography of Eddy. Do you have questions or comments for The Mary Baker Eddy Library? These reminiscences also provide valuable insight into the accomplishments of their authors and paint a picture of the early Christian Science movement. When The New York Times published Butlers letter on August 6, 1861, his words and actions encountered a wide range of responses.