Mary Baker Eddy begins these two pages discussing the "eloquence" used by the medium to prove the existence of a spirit. She moves on to discuss how anyone can be eloquent, educated or not. Anyone can be inspired to levels beyond the material brain's capacity or education.
I imagine the argument MBE is responding to is something like this: Perhaps spiritual enlightenment requires intelligence in the human mind?
What I underlined:
Each page brings a new view of the ideas floating around in our culture about what is God and what is spirit. I wasn't looking forward to this chapter but by reading it two pages at a time, I'm getting a lot out of it, both on topic and off.
Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational processes.
Matter is neither intelligent nor creative.
Eloquence re-echoes the strains of Truth and Love.
Spirit, God, is heard when the senses are silent.
The tree is not the author of itself
I did have to look up a couple of words: viand and erudition.
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