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work of a second. It may take weeks, even 

 years, in its inception. But when ripe there is 

 immediate parturition. It fares forth naked as 

 a wall of new born granite. A moment before 

 birth it was only potential energy. A moment 

 after, when jotted down in black and white, it 

 is symbolized energy, something the minds of 

 future ages may grasp and, if worthy, use. 



Passing strange it is, this change of energy 

 into lasting symbols. Nowhere else in the uni- 

 verse doth it take place. Only in the brain cells 

 of a human is it possible. This thing of creat- 

 ing something from nothing, of conceiving and 

 giving birth to an original idea, more than all 

 else combined, places man next to the God of 

 Nature, ruler of that infinite system of planets 

 which move on and on through time unceasing, 

 within a space so vast that the mind of man 

 can never comprehend its bounds. 



We should write out our thoughts, our brain 

 fancies, just as they are born, natural, naked, 

 unadorned, instead of trying to imitate some 

 other human whose ideas were conceived and 

 crystallized in an environment far different from 

 our own. One can never become a master by 

 imitating forever a master. One cannot be a 

 leader and a disciple, a planet and a satellite of 

 the first order, at the same time. We should 

 look to and beyond our masters, strive for some- 

 thing better than even they have attained, orig- 



