LECTURE LIV. 

 THE FOOL-KILLER AND His MISSION. 



The fool-killer a metaphorical term for self-in- 

 flicted injury, avoidable through greater knowledge or 

 greater faith in knowledge. 



When we enter life " the gate of gifts is closed." 

 Emerson. Endowed with diverse and often contra- 

 dictory tendencies to be blended into individuality ; 

 an hereditary measure of force and tendencies toward 

 certain activities. 



Health the condition when functions and activities 

 work normally. Pain or sickness, signal that some- 

 thing is wrong. Ringing in ears a sign of organs 

 out of order, as ringing of bells a sign of warning in 

 machinery. Neglected signals cease in time, but not 

 injury they signify. Faith cures largely due to ela- 

 tion in which signals are unnoticed. " Conversion of 

 active into dormant hysteria." Pains Nature has not 

 had time to develop ; phases of environment strange 

 to Nature's man. Man's man in new, hence artificial, 

 environment. Comparison of bodily health to inher- 

 ited estate. Money grows by investment, strength by 

 self-activity. Hoarding health makes long life, acci- 

 dent aside. Hoarding money makes wealth, accident 

 aside. " Taking out of the meal bag and never put- 

 ting in soon comes to the bottom." Franklin. Every 

 waste of health or wealth counts in final reckoning. 



