RETROSPECTION

AND

INTROSPECTION

BY

MARY BAKER EDDY

AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES

Registered
U.S. Patent Office

Published by The
Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy
BOSTON, U.S.A.

Authorized Literature of
The First Church of Christ, Scientist
in Boston, Massachusetts

Copyright, 1891, 1892
By Mary Baker G. Eddy
Copyright renewed 1919 and 1920

All rights reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

Ancestral Shadows

Autobiographic Reminiscences

Voices Not Our Own

Early Studies

Girlhood Composition

Theological Reminiscence

The Country-seat (Poem)

Marriage and Parentage

Emergence into Light

The Great Discovery

Foundation Work

Medical Experiments

First Publication

The Precious Volume

Recuperative Incident

A True Man

College and Church

"Feed My Sheep" (Poem)

College Closed

General Associations and Our Magazine

Faith-cure

Foundation-stones

The Great Revelation

Sin, Sinner, and Ecclesiasticism

The Human Concept

Personality

Plagiarism

Admonition

Exemplification

Waymarks

RETROSPECTION AND INTROSPECTION

ANCESTRAL SHADOWS

My ancestors, according to the flesh, were from both Scotland and England, my great-grandfather, on my father's side, being John McNeil of Edinburgh.

His wife, my great-grandmother, was Marion Moor, and her family is said to have been in some way related to Hannah