Christian Science

It was Plutarch who said, "It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories, but lives;" and since the foundress of Christian Science was Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy, who had close associations with another man, a Mr. Frye, there is the better part of nine lives. Mrs. Eddy thought of herself as a Minerva, goddess of invention and patroness of physicians and actors, and has been portrayed as a Xantippe, Socrates' hen-pecking wife, a tongue-scalding shrew. She also sets...