Religious sect founded in America by Mary Baker Eddy. Adherents subscribe to a form of philosophical idealism, believing that reality is purely spiritual and the material world an illusion. This includes the view that disease is a mental error rather than physical disorder, and that the sick should be treated not by medicine, but by a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health.
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Christian Science
The two dates indicate the beginning and end of construction, often marked wi...
Destroyed in the Great Fire in 1666, rebuilt by Wren in 1674, demolished 1878.
Owned the building from 1858 until 1887. During this time works were carried out under the architect C. McJ (or McI) North.
Indian scholar and reformer. Born Bengal. Worked to abolish the Hindu tradition of sati, where a widow joins her husband on the funeral pyre. For his last three years he was the ambassador to Bri...
