The Eddyite

by George W. Louttit

Christian Science novel. A correspondent of the New York Sun of May 30 remarks that in his own limited range of acquaintance among Eddyites he finds seven cases of incurable insanity. Five of these cases were mothers and four wives of well-known healers; the sixth and seventh were young mothers who attempted to destroy their children, driven crazy by trying to elucidate Mrs. Eddy's problems. The Eddyite mother who actively attempts to destroy her child, instead of passively doing so, as is the custom among the followers of the "profitess," has not come under our observation, but we can easily see how this metaphysical lunacy might strike certain defective classes and bring about such results. We know that in times past the ordinary gross spiritualistic ideas have colored insanity and produced, in many cases, mental breakdown, and it will be surprising if, in the future statistics of asylums, Eddyism under some name or other is

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Published January 1, 1908