or sick.’ (P. 375, Annex.) 2.  ’Parks sprang up (sic)... electric street cars run ’Man is never sick; for (sic) merrily through several Mind is not sick, and matter streets, concrete sidewalks cannot be.  A false belief and macadamised roads dotted is both the tempter and the (sic) the place,’ et cetera. tempted, the sin and the (Ibid.) sinner, the disease and its 3.  ’Shorn (sic) of its cause.  It is well to be calm suburbs it had indeed little in sickness; to be hopeful is left to admire, save to (sic) still better; but to such as fancy a skeleton understand that sickness is not above ground breathing (sic) real, and that Truth can slowly through a barren (sic) destroy it, is best of all, for breast.’ (Ibid.) it is the universal and perfect
                               remedy.’ (Chapter xii.,
                               Annex.)

You notice the contrast between the smooth, plausible, elegant, addled English of the doctored Annex and the lumbering, ragged, ignorant output of the translator’s natural, spontaneous, and unmedicated penwork.  The English of the Annex has been slicked up by a very industrious and painstaking hand—­but it was not Mrs. Eddy’s.

If Mrs. Eddy really wrote or translated the Annex, her original draft was exactly in harmony with the English of her plague-spot or bacilli which were gnawing at the insides of the metropolis and bringing its heart on bended knee, thus exposing to the eye the rest of the skeleton breathing slowly through a barren breast.  And it bore little or no resemblance to the book as we have it now—­now that the salaried polisher has holystoned all of the genuine Eddyties out of it.

Will the plague-spot article go into a volume just as it stands?  I think not.  I think the polisher will take off his coat and vest and cravat and ‘demonstrate over’ it a couple of weeks and sweat it into a shape something like the following—­and then Mrs. Eddy will publish it and leave people to believe that she did the polishing herself: 

1.  What injurious influence was it that was affecting the city’s morals?  It was a social club which propagated an interest in idle amusements, disseminated a knowledge of games, et cetera.

2.  By the magic of the new and nobler influences the sterile spaces were transformed into wooded parks, the merry electric car replaced the melancholy ’bus, smooth concrete the tempestuous plank sidewalk, the macadamised road the primitive corduroy, et cetera.

3.  Its pleasant suburbs gone, there was little left to admire save the wrecked graveyard with its uncanny exposures.

The Annex contains one sole and solitary humorous remark.  There is a most elaborate and voluminous Index, and it is preceded by this note: 

’This Index will enable the student to find any thought or idea contained in the book.’