ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



thoughts, but it is probable that thoughts 

 may have a great many other hues, including 

 green, yellow, pale-blue, dark-blue, rose, and 

 deep crimson. Probably the blackest kind 

 of thoughts were only pearl gray when they 

 first left the mental looms, and everyone 

 knows that the palest damask rose of fancy 

 may be dyed into the deepest scarlet of feel- 

 ing. All kinds of prejudices are familiar 

 examples of thought which have absorbed too 

 much color, or the wrong shade. 



Nor is the circulation of a thought con- 

 fined to the individual system belonging to 

 the brain in which it seemed to originate. 

 By means of speech, the printed or written 

 page, a few inspired strokes of an artist's 

 brush, a sculptor's chisel, or the tiny dots 

 used by a musician, a thought or a feeling 

 may get into the circulation of the whole 

 world. Thus through eye and ear, and 

 their finer inward extensions, we are knit 

 into the mental and emotional circulation 

 of the entire human race, becoming mem- 

 bers one of another in a sense as literal as it 

 is figurative. 



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