THE GREAT MANUSCRIPT 



the manifold enterprises of a growing world. 

 To this end is apportioned for every calling, 

 from the rag-picker's to the poet's, a certain 

 quantity and quality of mind-stock. 



But a single metaphor can convey no idea 

 of the unlimited field of action which is open 

 to mind. Like the kingdom of heaven, which 

 Christ compared to a sower, to a mustard- 

 seed, to leaven, to a treasure hid in a field, 

 to a merchantman, and to a net which was 

 cast into the sea, the human mind requires 

 an indefinite number of figures to mirror its 

 vast energies and capacities. This is espe- 

 cially apparent when one studies its more 

 complex action in partnership with the 

 heart, such as is involved in all emotional 

 experience. 



One may possibly observe the processes 

 of pure mind in the solution of mathematical 

 problems, and in the sometimes barren ab- 

 stractions of philosophy, chilled to a tem- 

 perature of thirty-one degrees Fahrenheit. 

 But in all the pulsing experiences of life, 

 by which man is unfolded, from his most 

 intimate relations to those as wide as the 



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