On the hash and rehash of theology, here announced, we need not dwell just now, but will consider, for the moment, how much of Mrs. Eddy's individually discovered and copyrighted creed was first expounded, though _not_ copyrighted, by one P. P. Quimby. Dr. Quimby never thought of pushing his thought and work under the special name of "Christian Science," though his writings show that he used the term.[26] He was not in pursuit of money by truckling to current preconception or prejudice. We recollect, however--for our own memory has not been laid in the tomb of our piety--that after "his truth was discovered" he "found his new views all portrayed and illustrated in Christ's teachings." We recollect that he said of his practise, "It belongs to a Wisdom that is above man as man. It was taught eighteen hundred years ago, and has never had a place in the heart of man since." He said, "There is a bread which, if a man eat, he is filled; and this bread is Christ or Science." In 1865 the Portland _Advertiser_ said of Dr. Quimby: "By a method entirely novel and at first sight quite unintelligible, he has been slowly developing what he calls _the 'Science of Health'_; that is, as he defines it, a science founded on principles that can be taught and practised like that of mathematics, and not on opinion or experiments of any kind whatsoever." Prior to the issue of Mrs. Eddy's _Retrospection and Introspection_ she had, of course, written her other great and better-known work of religious fiction, called _Science and Health_. Now the title of that book--the term "Science and Health"--is quite different from Dr. Quimby's term, "The Science of Health." Still, the chief distinction between them, considering what Dr. Quimby taught, is that the latter came first and the former afterwards. It does not appear that God--who in our day has been personally known by Mrs. Eddy only--and in an interview which _He_ took the trouble to seek--was ever technically defined by Dr. Quimby as "Immortal Mind," or "characterized as individual entity," with "corporeality denied." It may have been so; for all the obligations derived by Mrs. Eddy from Dr. Quimby have not yet been published. By all competent theologians and metaphysicians, since the beginning at least of human records, God has been conceived and proclaimed as Infinite Spirit, one with "Immortal Mind," and above "corporeality," which has been accounted a temporary phase of finite things. Plato was pretty nearly made of this conception in philosophy, and St. John in religion. P. P. Quimby was neither a Plato nor a Saint John; but he "agreed" with them, in his literal, honest fashion, as he said he did with Bishop Berkeley.