not
expect to die."

"I do not!" she replied emphatically. "I expect good, nothing but
good, ever! Don't you know that physiologists themselves admit that
the human body is composed of eighty-five per cent water and fifteen
per cent ordinary salts? Can such a combination have intelligence and
sensation? Do you still believe that life is dependent upon lungs,
stomach, or liver? Why, the so-called 'unit cell' breathes, digests,
and manifests life-functions, and yet it has no lungs, no mouth, no
stomach, no organs. It is the human mind, assuming knowledge and power
which it does _not_ possess, that says the sense of life shall depend
upon such organs in the one case and not in the other. And the human
mind could be utterly refuted if men would only learn to use the
Christ-principle. Jesus and Paul used it, and proved material laws to
be only false beliefs."

"Well," he replied meditatively, "if you are correct, then the
preachers are way off the track. And I have long since come to the
conclusion that--Well," changing abruptly back to the previous topic,
"so you refute the microbe theory, eh?"

"I said I did and did not," she laughed. "Listen: fear, worry, hatred,
malice, murder, all of which are mental things in themselves, manifest
to the human mind as microbes. These are the hurtful microbes, and
they produce toxins, which poison the system. What is the cure?
Antitoxins? No, indeed! Jesus gave the real and permanent cure. It is
the Christ-principle. Now you can learn that principle, and how to
apply it. But if you don't care to, why, then you must go on with your
material microbes and poisons, and with your diseases and death, until
you are ready to leave them and turn to that which is real. For all
human-mind activity and manifestation, whether in microbes, death, or
life, is mental, and is but the counterfeit of the real activity of
divine mind, God.

"Do you know," she pursued earnestly, "I heard a lecture the other day
in which it was said that life is a sort of fermentation in the body.
Well, as regards human life, I guess that is so. For the human body is
only a manifestation of the human mind; and the human mind surely is
in a continuous state of ferment!"

She paused and laughed. "The lecturer," she continued, "said that the
range of life was from ultra-microbe to man, and that Shakespeare
began as a single cell. Think of it! The mundane concept of
Shakespeare's body may have unfolded from a cell-concept;