THE OFFICE OF THE BRAIN. 



rived from nature for balancing the impressions 

 existing. 



We have a father and mother in the identical form 

 we represent; we know that our fathers and mothers 

 are our progenitors. We know that our fathers and 

 mothers are our best friends. We know it from the 

 long years of self-abnegation on their parts, in admin- 

 istering to our personal welfare and wants. We would 

 not for one moment listen to a voice from some travel- 

 ing stranger telling of the command of some unseen 

 friend and creator who instructs through the stranger, 

 our utter disregard of the* commands or instruction of 

 our dear fathers and mothers. We would immed- 

 iately condemn the traveling stranger as an imposter 

 who dared to preach the commands of the unseen and 

 unfeelable. We would immediately condemn the hid- 

 den stranger who slouched behind the ramparts of se- 

 clusion and gave his commands. We would term him, 

 if he lived behind the ramparts, in fact, a coward, a 

 villain, a traitor, a tyrant, who dared not face the light 

 of judgment in the face of the measuring mechanism 

 we are empowered to carry. We would weigh his 

 method of command as identical with the method re- 

 sorted to by the vilest assassin, who awaits in seclusion 

 behind some rock or other rampart the coming of some 

 passing mortal who knows not his hiding, and who be- 

 comes victim to the deadly being in waiting. We 

 would weigh him in that light and just would be the 

 judgment in the face of the method he resorted to. 



We can exercise our weighing powers of our 



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