The Prose Works, or Prose Works Other than Science and Health, is a single-volume compendium of the key works of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, outside of its denominational textbook. While the fact is not generally known among Christian Scientists, the books were never published together as a single volume during her lifetime but were assembled as a convenience subsequent to her death in 1910 (its copyright notice suggests in 1925). The constituent books have historically been published individually in parallel also. It has been issued in both hardcover and paperback.
The volume consists of the following works:
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- Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896 (Miscellaneous Writings for short, abbreviated in concordances as Mis.)
- Retrospection and Introspection (abbreviated as Ret.)
- Unity of Good (abbreviated as Un.)
- Pulpit and Press (abbreviated as Pul.)
- Rudimental Divine Science (abbreviated as Rud.)
- No and Yes (abbreviated as No.)
- Christian Science versus Pantheism (abbreviated as Pan.)
- Message to The Mother Church, 1900 (Message for 1900 for short, abbreviated as '00)
- Message to The Mother Church, 1901 (Message for 1901 for short, abbreviated as '01)
- Message to The Mother Church, 1902 (Message for 1902 for short, abbreviated as '02)
- Christian Healing: A Sermon Delivered at Boston (abbreviated as Hea.)
- The People's Idea of God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity (secondary title usually omitted; abbreviated as Peo.)
- The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany (abbreviated as My.)
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“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order;Mpoetry = the best words in the best order.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, are effectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”
—Raymond Williams (1921–1988)
“The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short- cut answer.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
—Constitution of the World Health Organization.