ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



little everyday brain prove that it may not 

 use some other brain. In a word, we cannot 

 be certain how many shares we hold in the 

 Cosmic Company, Limited, which we call 

 our mind. But from the fact that it is sel- 

 dom idle or napping, one must conclude that 

 when it is not using our brain, it may be just 

 as profitably employed. We therefore have 

 ground for doubt when we hear a man say 

 that he knows his own mind. On the con- 

 trary, it looks as if it might be the last thing 

 he knows about himself. Even when mind 

 is writing about mind, the subject, which is 

 both active and passive, may be looking over 

 one's shoulder and chuckling to think how 

 much the process resembles an attempt to 

 get a full-length reflection of one's body in 

 a hand mirror. 



But if the time should ever come when 

 man will encourage his shy mental sprite, 

 by unlimited faith, to a full confession of 

 its capacity, it may become as easy to get 

 a full-length photograph of the mind as of 

 the body. 



As might be expected, this unlimited faith 



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