The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

talks upon IS The Rational Man:
"As coon as we have wrested the les
son from one condition another is pre-
sented to u.s." How the evolution Of
mentality comes from the struggle for
physical existence Is pointed out. Then,
the desire for ownership being one
sidedly developed, man becomes the
slave of the things he would possess;
but, as Patterson puts IL, I'VE can pos
seSs only as we become" This realiza-
ton, of course. leads upward The man
begins to pay more attention to causal
forces rather than to effects merely.
So he Is ready for another stage of de-
velopment. This may be some answer
to the query he quotes:
When will the doing OF our doing heal US
Our labor rest Us OF our w<artness1
On another page. anent the work
whereby the rational man grows at
last to realize he must reach to gain
his longing, we get the words George
Eliot puts In the mouth of Stradivar-
ius, the violin maker:
Ny work is mine
I say not God himself can make mans best
Without best to help him.
OF the next stage, The Psychic
Man." by which he means the first step
from the visible world to the invisible,
from the outer to the inner conscious
ness. he says 1t should come gradual
ly, as the natural unfoldment after the
development of the other faculties. that
the possession of psychic power is no
evidence of spirituality. and that its
acquisition from mere morbid crav-
ing for the mysterious can never be
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true psychic IS the white magician.
whose growth and activity are entire
ly subject to the law Of love-" When
rightly reached It is said to be the
ante-chamber to the spiritual realm.
The fourth stage, THE Spiritual
Man." is strongly done. For definition
of what such man is he needs only
quote Saint Paul and Saint John. but
he gets in some good work by showing
how spiritual. qualities are always cre-
ative-constructive. Everything worth
doing has in it the element OF faith.
He quotes Carlyle's paradox: Every
noble work Is at first impossible" Then
he brings to us a few moments OF the
day that Tennyson and Tyndal spent
together upon the Alps. Tennyson
entists, you analyzers Of the actual
-" you miss all that Is most worth
while in life you are contrib
uting to the worlds store of knowledge
and the world is grateful. but for your
selves Tyndal interrupted. you
are mistaken. The true scientist is
also a true seer. just as much as the
man Of faith. the man Of vision
There is not one Of US seeming mate
rialists who does not, If he be a true
worker, first feel his way by
means of the same intuition-the same
insight, faith-that goes to the making
of your poems; that goes, / think, to
the doing Of all honest work"
The second half OF the book is a
study of Christ in four views Of his
character-as man. as teacher, as
idealist and as healer. 1t is in this
last that he promulgates his views OH
mind cure which in their statement
will to many seem exaggerated To-
ward the end OF his work he reminds
us that through wrong thinking we
cut off our reservoir OF power-lirnit
ourselves; and he leaves Us with this
thought to ponder, that If we rule to-
day in the only kingdom that is ours,
day by day its powers will be revealed,
and we will reverence the God within
the temple of the body by keeping holy
the sanctuary in which he dwells.
(F'unk & Wagnalls Company, New
York; 81 20 metz