The publisher's site for the textbook (Johnsonbaugh, 5th Ed.)
In a paragraph denoted "Proof by induction," Mrs. Eddy writes:
"Christian Science must be accepted at this period by induction. We admit the whole, because a part is proved and that part illustrates and proves the entire Principle."
In a paragraph denoted "Mathematics and scientific logic," she writes:
"The addition of two sums in mathematics must always bring the same result. So is it with logic. If both the major and the minor propositions of a syllogism are correct, the conclusion, if properly drawn, cannot be false. So in Christian Science there are no discords nor contradictions, because its logic is as harmonious as the reasoning of an accurately stated syllogism or of a properly computed sum in arithmetic. Truth is ever truthful, and can tolerate no error in premise or conclusion."
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