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reap the full benefit of the knowledge, you must 

 weigh them with unprejudiced minds. 



Think for a moment how profoundly the au- 

 thority of the senses must have been shaken when 

 the first microscope revealed to man the heretofore 

 invisible world in touch with him everywhere, 

 teeming with undreamed-of activities, governed by 

 the same laws as the visible realm, and similar but 

 infinitely finer forces than those he already knew 

 and had weighed and classified! When the mi- 

 croscope opened the first gate into the invisible 

 kingdom which surrounds us, it disclosed also the 

 short-comings, or limitations, of the physical 

 senses; and, with many other marvelous instru- 

 ments since invented which penetrate and weigh 

 and measure the unseen, the experience should 

 warn us never to deny any new thing because our 

 senses have hitherto failed to cognize it. 



Then, too, when difficulties present themselves, 

 it is defrauding self to seek outside help before try- 

 ing to solve them by real thinking such mental 

 exercise as will make the brain more pliable and 

 receptive. You can draw no knowledge from any; 

 'printed book, from written word whatsoever, un- 

 less with receptive mind you think the matter over 

 and make it your own. Much study and the 

 reading of many books become a delusion and a 

 snare unless time for thought be given and the 

 mind assimilates and digests the facts. Only thus 



