_Science and Health_, 411.--"The daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural or necessary than would be the process of taking a fish out of water every day, and covering it with dirt, in order to make it thrive more vigorously thereafter in its native element.... Water is not the natural habitat of humanity." _Interpretation "in Science."_--Don't take the trouble to wash the baby. His body is only an expression of mortal mind, and is thus so mussed up with error and nothingness that water will never get him clean. His proper habitat is "Science." Scrub his "conscious and unconscious thoughts" with Christian Science, and never mind the rest of him. We shall make but one more quotation, here, from Mrs. Eddy's "Divine comedy," _Science and Health_. There is no use of being too serious with it. History will soon take it as mostly a "grim joke" on metaphysics, theology, and medicine. But one thing must give us pause. On approaching the Lord's Prayer, one feels himself on solemn ground, if such ground there be anywhere in life, and for once, if never before, puts on the mantle of conservatism. But, to Mrs. Eddy, the words of Jesus in devotion and supplication--at once the simplest and grandest words ever uttered--require her "spiritual interpretation." What, in her index to _Science and Health_, she terms the "Spiritualized version" of the Lord's Prayer is this: "Our Father and Mother God, all-harmonized, Adorable One. Ever present and Omnipotent. Thy Supremacy appears as matter disappears. Give us grace for to-day; Thou fillest the famished affections; and Love is reflected in love. And leavest us not in temptation, but freest us from sin, disease and death; for Thou art all Substance, Life, Truth, and Love, forever.--_So be it._" The author of the _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ tells of a poet who "Breaks into blank the Gospel of St. Luke, And boldly pilfers from the Pentateuch; And, undisturbed by conscientious qualms, Perverts the Prophets, and purloins the psalms." Let any one not "in Science" ask himself if Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy has not gone farther and done worse. CHAPTER VIII. "CHRISTIAN-SCIENCE" ORGANIZING FORCES.