Ross nodded. "I all makes perfect sense me," Ross said to Fred. "Nothing could be more natural than the dawning concept of the universal marriage of mankind built on a demonstrable principle. We are one people across the whole of mankind. We are children of a common humanity with a common universal divine Soul. We are a miracle in the department of life, considering what we are capable of creating, like the creation of languages, music, art, literature, science, technologies, industries, and so on. We are all married more closely to one another as human beings than we ever can be by any artificial means. It is natural that this fundamental reality would be recognized one day. Maybe it was this pioneers profound scientific recognition of this principle that sparked her recognition that we are all human beings together, universally, endowed with a divine humanity that melts away all limits and boundaries. Aren't we all or children of a single human Soul? What divides us around the world is really very slight. The universal marriage of mankind is the reality of our being. Can you think of a more profound impetus for peace and for creating a renaissance? I can't."

      "This New England woman says that any other concept involves a denial of our common humanity and our thereby our own," said Ross. "At the very best, what we embrace today as liberty is incomplete, narrow, and encumbered with boundaries, duties, vulnerabilities, and so on, but it remains far removed from the Principle of Universal Love that we all have been struggling to apply. Unfortunately we got tired of struggling when the challenges got bigger. I am not saying that I can prove the existence of a link between scientific accomplishments of the New England woman and the near 50 years of peace between 1865 and 1913. I am saying however, that the historic fact is noteworthy and that her breakthrough discovery was made in 1866 and that the world remained mostly at peace from that time forward until her death in December 1910 and a brief span thereafter."

      "I can't help thinking that if there is a connection, it should be explored," I interjected.

      Fred looked at me, but didn't say anything.

      Ross told Fred again that the scientific pioneer was a New England girl who was known around the world in her days under the name, Mary Baker Eddy. "She is still listed in dictionaries and encyclopedias as the discoverer and founder of America's most remarkable religious institution, which she had named appropriately, Christian Science. She described her discover as 'the final revelation of the absolute principle of scientific mental healing.' I don't know what she means with that, but I do know that she was the most accomplished mental healer of all times, second only to Christ Jesus. I also know that she was a highly accomplished teacher of her new science that enabled countless others to heal in the same manner as she did and on a near commercial basis."

      Ross told Fred that her remarkable healing work began in 1866, virtually from the moment on that she healed herself from a spinal injury virtually on her deathbed. "What that set in motion had effects that changed the world. Soon she healed others," said Ross. "She assisted some of the physicians of her time, taking on their most hopeless cases, healing them often instantaneously. Shortly thereafter she was also able to instruct other people in the processes of this healing science, who in turn were healing patients of their own. She also wrote a textbook of her science, which over the years had enabled countless people to heal themselves. Eventually she created a church to promote her advanced healing work. She had no choice but to do this since the mainstream churches were opposed to the very concept of scientific Christian healing. With the founding of her church she also dropped what might have been her greatest bombshell. She created her new church without a provision for marriages."

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche