●   ●   ●    the midst of a continuing battle to sit down and write a detailed account of the complex events leading up to the outbreak of war as to expect her to have provided painstaking documentation for her generalized statement in Science and Health regarding the period between 1866 and 1875: “As former beliefs were gradually expelled from her [the author’s] thought, the teaching became clearer, until finally the shadow of old errors was no longer cast upon divine Science. ” 50 At times, in relaxed conversation with her household and in fragmentary reminiscences dictated to her secretary, Mrs.