People who eat too much, drink too much, smoke too 

 much, and do not exercise enough, have to pay for 

 their privileges even though they are able to work 

 differential calculus with one hand and recite Xeno- 

 phon's Anabasis backward. They all have the liver 

 and lungs too close to the diaphragm, because that 

 damnable invention of Sir Isaac Newton's slumbers 

 not nor sleeps, and all of the vital organs droop and 

 drop when we neglect deep breathing. Inertia is a 

 vice. The gods cultivate levitation, which is a differ- 

 ent thing from levity, meaning skyey gravitation up- 

 lift, aspiration expressed in bodily attitude. 

 When levitation lets go, gravity doubles its grip. 

 The Yogi of the East know vastly more about this 

 theme than we do, and have made of deep breathing 

 an art. Carry the crown of your head high, hold your 

 chin in, and fill the top of your lungs by cultivating 

 levitation. We are gods in the biscuit! 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



>FTER four years at Harvard and the reg- 

 ulation two years at the Harvard Law 

 School, John Fiske opened an office in 

 Boston and gave his shingle to the breeze. 

 Q No clients came, and this was well 

 for the clients. Also for John. The law is 

 a business proposition its essence is the adjustment 

 of differences between men the lubrication of ex- 

 change getting things on! Learned men very seldom 

 make good lawyers. Law is a very practical matter, 



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