“My reluctance to give the public, in my first edition of Science and Health, the chapter on Animal Magnetism, and the divine purpose that this should be done, may have an interest for the reader, and will be seen in the following circumstances. I had finished that edition as far as that chapter, when the printer informed me that he could not go on with my work.” “After months had passed, I yielded to a constant conviction that I must insert in my last chapter a partial history of what I had already observed of mental malpractice. Accordingly I set to work, contrary to my inclination, to fulfil this painful task, and finished my copy for the book. As it afterwards appeared . . . my printer resumed his work at the same time, (and) finished printing the copy he had on hand.”
(quotes from Retrospection by Mary Baker Eddy)
To The Reader: The “First Edition of Science and Health – 1865”, by Mary Baker Glover, contains two pages at the end of the book entitled “Errata”. The definition for “Errata” is “an error or mistake in writing or printing”. The 67 mistakes listed have been corrected in this reproduction. Each correction is listed in the footnotes on the appropriate page. This causes a much easier flow of reading without having to continually look at the back of the book to find the mistakes. In no other way was this wonderful book, “Science and Health – 1st Edition” changed.
Reprinted 2020.
