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Christian Science David D. Preiss In this new collection ofThis witty, caustic work is Mark Twain's extended attack on Christian Science and its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, who he once described as the "queen of frauds and hypocrites". In 1898, when he set out to write this book, Twain feared that Christian Science would spread so rapidly that it would control Congress by the 1930's. Twain, having suffered the intense sorrow and anguish of the death of two of his children, and later of his beloved wife, Olivia,