You will do better by this copy than you did by my lastEditorial Note: Gorham was assistant editor and literary advisor for Mary Baker Eddy's Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896.. And wWhere I leave my meaning obscure, or drop the thread of my argument, (and if I had time to reread it should see it at a clanceCorrected:glance,) I want you now to do your best at correcting it, but never to lose my meaning. I have not time to examine the manuscript and answer your questions properly on quotation, not in full, from YoungEditorial Note: Edward Young (1683-1765) was an English poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He is best known for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the 18th century.. Now Chaucer, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare are quoted with and without quotation marks. SpurgeonEditorial Note: Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), also known as the "Prince of Preachers," was an English Particular Baptist preacher. He was pastor of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London, England, for 38 years. During this time he built an almshouse and the Stockwell Orphanage, encouraging his congregation to actively engage with the poor of Victorian London. Spurgeon founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously. quoted the scriptures ad libitum without quotation marks; and [*]Editorial Note: The following three words are within a transpose proofreading mark:this was perhaps, wise, since those who read the scriptures, recognize it; and those who do not, might accept in that way what they would otherwise reject.

Nobody writes Christian Science without employing my diction, figures and words, and without giving authority. I do sometimes adopt the foregoing usages on the ground that I have specified; but you may do with that clause whatever you please. I can never prepare my manuscript on Christian Science for print, when I am composing it. Many years ago I wrote for leading magazines three years without consulting a dictionary on the definition of words, or orthography, and the editors never corrected my manuscript on either. But now the English language, or any other language, and especially the spelling [*]Gap: letter.Reason: faded.f words go and come with the occasion.

After my discovery of Christian Science, the rules of grammerCorrected:grammar, and my knowledge of other school books that before were as familiar to me as my alphabet, mostly disappeared from memory in a manner that I never could account for; but leave it, knowing as I do, that all my seeming loss was gain.