THE GREAT MANUSCRIPT 



wonderful as the route and changes of the 

 blood in its course happens to every thought 

 which gets into the mental circulation. A 

 certain percentage of one's thoughts ap- 

 parently go to the heart to get warmth and 

 color. When a thought or group of thoughts 

 takes the deepest, finest shade the heart can 

 give, the phenomenon is known as love ; and 

 if the colors are fast, the effect is called con- 

 stancy. A lighter shade of the same emo- 

 tion is friendship. When the color of either 

 of these emotions does not wear well, it may 

 be due to the fact that one's first undyed 

 thoughts were woven of illusion; or, if woven 

 of realities, that they were sent to the wrong 

 dyeing plant, perhaps to the gall, liver, or 

 spleen, instead of the heart. 



So the risks that attend the mental cir- 

 culation are as great as those of the physical, 

 and each set of risks reacts upon the other. 

 A thought, moreover, is such a rapid absorb- 

 er of color that it is almost impossible to 

 keep one in the mental circulation for any 

 length of time without having it take on 

 some tint, good or bad. We hear of black 



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