ENDOCRINE THERAPEUTICS 



that fair or politic ? Surely he can help greatly 

 or greatly hinder ; the passive neutrals are rare. 



We see every day the depressing influence, of 

 a body sick or in pain, on a previously healthy 

 mind. This is largely due to the circulation of 

 impure blood in the brain, our thinking machine 

 and our nervous motor ; but the brain is not 

 the ego, the Divine indissoluble part of each of 

 us ; it is only a wonderful part of our machinery. 

 Back of body and mind lies this spirit power, in 

 a fathomless reservoir, waiting to be used, eager 

 for work, but in most of us so enclosed in a hard 

 shell of materialistic blindness and doubt that it 

 is a locked up force. 



We should always have before our minds the 

 great fundamental difference between the animal 

 and the man. The animal has to a limited extent 

 reason and memory. It has conservative in- 

 stincts which protect from danger and which 

 preserve its young, but beyond these it has no 

 creative power and no appreciation or realization 

 of its own ego. In association with man it 

 develops and inherits astonishing powers of use- 

 fulness and reason, but separated from man it 

 lapses in a few generations into its old, wild 

 state. This consciousness of his own individuality 

 and of his almost unlimited creative power should 



