ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



plays features as fixed as those of the face 

 and infinitely more diverse. To describe 

 them all one would need to use most of the 

 adjectives of all languages and borrow also 

 their figurative meanings. For example, one 

 may speak of open and shut minds; clear, 

 foggy, tidy, cluttered, stuffy, well- ventilated, 

 acute, obtuse, shallow, faithless, barren, pro- 

 lific, rich, and indigent minds; and this is 

 only a beginning of an endless list of possible 

 classifications. 



In addition to all the native qualities 

 which a mind may have, it may have nearly 

 as many which are induced. A Boston mind 

 (if there is such a thing) is a case in point. 

 Of the varieties mentioned, the open mind is 

 probably one of the most comfortable and 

 profitable and may be the same kind labeled 

 in Holy Writ as the "willing mind." It 

 has a very large anteroom, where it is willing 

 to meet without suspicion, prejudice, or 

 painful formality, any claimant for its atten- 

 tion, and its reward is often the entertain- 

 ment of angels unawares. 



But O how different is the shut mind! 



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