ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



mind may raise a million crops from the 

 same brain without duplicating one raised 

 from another brain. 



The material industry which resembles 

 those carried on in the brain is a great seed- 

 raising establishment. Very few minds, of 

 course, raise all the different kinds of seeds 

 which might be produced on their cranial 

 soil, and this is well, since in every brain 

 there is some one kind of seed which will 

 grow better than any other. One man raises 

 seeds for a great crop of railroads, and an- 

 other, a clergyman or teacher, the seeds of 

 ideals to be sown from time to time in other 

 minds to assist the making of full-grown 

 men and women. In the same line of spirit- 

 ual horticulture is all good literature, and 

 poetry especially, whose seeds are winged 

 and hence capable of very wide dissemina- 

 tion. 



Observing the different crops grown from 

 different brains, the query rises whether the 

 quality of the brain soil may materially con- 

 dition the mind's crops, or might a fine mind 

 raise fine crops from any brain? Or, other- 



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