It may be explained, by the way, that the United States statute governing copyright precludes the reproduction and sale of books and pamphlets, _as wholes_, without permission of the authors; and protects even _parts_ of dramas, pictures, and other "works of art"--the intent being, of course, to protect, also, one of the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not steal." But, if an untrue and injurious book could not be analyzed, and a dozen extracts taken from it in proof of criticism, no literary quack could be exposed, in protection of the truth and the public. In that case, the Copyright Law would be worse than the old "Fugitive Slave Bill," and it would be a sacred duty to get into jail, if necessary, for violating it. Fortunately there is no such need. The law was not drawn in the interest of charlatans and malefactors, and has never been interpreted against the decencies of justice. Following "Mother" Eddy's example in connection with our quotations from her _Science and Health_, we shall interpret them in a strictly "scientific" light, as she, with miraculous nerve, in her _Key to the Scriptures_, has done with other sacred writings. Thus we shall illumine _Science and Health_ in the same way that she has illumined _Genesis_ and _The Apocalypse_. _Science and Health_, 7.[35]--"In the year 1866 I discovered the Science of Metaphysical Healing, and named it Christian Science. God had been graciously fitting me, during many years, for the reception of a final revelation of the absolute Principle of Scientific Mind-healing." _Interpretation "in Science."_--History reveals to us, for sure, that "Mother Eddy," has always _claimed_ to have discovered and founded the only genuine and original Christian Science. Though she was once a patient of Dr. P. P. Quimby, and at that time one Mary M. Patterson said that Quimby cured disease by mental truth--"the truth that Christ taught"--this miserable episode has nothing to do with the case. Mrs. Eddy has told us that the Patterson woman was a creature "ignorant" of "Science," whom Dr. Quimby used to "mesmerize." He cured her of a seven-years' complaint in the mortal body, but so addled her head that she had no knowledge of what she talked about. Thus, Mrs. Patterson's impression that Dr. Quimby was the modern founder of mind-healing has no weight. The truth was not in her. But Mother Eddy, notwithstanding she herself was once that same Mrs. Patterson, discovered all truth and all science, without regard to any of her previous statements.