CHAPTER XVIII 



THE OFFICE OF THE BRAIN. 



The brain, mechanically considered, is a balance, 

 or scales, capable of weighing everything in nature. 

 It is nature's greatest work; in fact, it is the only work 

 that has arrived at perfection. It is the product of 

 a condition. And the product of the most adverse con- 

 ditions proves to be the masterpiece. 



The brain knows no superior; it is omnipotent in 

 its office. It degrades itself and its powers by taking 

 a command. A command is of no value when sub- 

 jected to the action of the brain in weighing it, unless 

 the command comes from the source that made the 

 brain. In that case the brain does not take the com- 

 mand, but instead it passes judgment by weighing the 

 command. If the command weighs out, it is accepted. 

 If it does not weigh according to the laws that formed 

 the brain, then the brain condemns it. And the con- 

 demnation is just. The brain can always find the ty- 

 rant by exercising the powers of its office in weighing 

 the data that comes before it. Let the data be in the 

 form of command or suggestion, other than by the laws 

 of nature that made the brain a possibility. The laws 

 of nature are always manifest. They are not secluded 

 behind the ramparts of superstition. They need no 

 interpreter other than the omnipotent mechanism de- 



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