The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-21
rHE RIcHMoND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., OCTOBER q, 1911.


ferent personalities he might have be-
come--the different possible selves he
was. any one Of which. goot1 or bad.
might have crowded out all the others
IL 1t had the chance.
1t Is so with you, with me, with
each and every one of us all.
Then there ought to be some GER
tain way, some definite, reliable plan,
by following which you can have a
provision of that best possible self, so
you can give 1t the needed chance
to crowd out all your other possible
selves and express itself in your ex-
ternal life in the way most useful to
yourself and to your fellow man.
There ia such a way. You may be
sure that whenever there ought to be
a way for any good thing. there is
way. and it will be up to you to
find 1t. Nature says to you: MY
secrets are all for your use. My ev-
cry law Ia beneficial-Af you comply
with my laws. rather than vainly OPP
pose them. My mysteries are all be-
hind closed doors that will open to
you IL you give the right knock. at
the right time, in the right place. and
In the right way
You came into this world living
soul endowed by your Creator with
a physical body, very little and very
helpless. Within that physical BODY
was located your consciousness ana
your will, and your double faculty OF
receiving and giving. This constitutes
the common heritage at birth OF every
Intelligent human being. Within that
physical Worship and with those
working tools your soul 10 left to IT.
self by your Creator to fashion any
one Of the countless personalities 1t
Is possible for It to become, in what
ever environment 1t finds Itself. by
whatever means OF education 1t can
use. Remember, education from
the Latin E-duco, to lead ouD means
not what goes into your mind. but
what comes out, or Ia led out, or IL
expressed In some physical act, con-
sidering that even thought express
ed IN any way Is an act OF your phs
steal brain, whatever may De PACK OF
II. Your body, including your brain
can do nothing except express your
conscious or unconscious, your Foiuh-
tary or involuntary thought.
So there are two things needing eau
cation your mind and your BODY.
You. yourself, your soul, your IN
/ teliigence, whatever you choose I.
name yourself. can express. or give
out nothing that you haze mol III .
received. That Is aKionatic No intel
ligent individual will dispute it. Every
intelligent Individual VIII accept tha'
proposition without proof.
| But to be doubly sure. test il foi
yourself. In any way you can. ana you
will find 1t to be true.
Then again. however, much you may
receive, or know, believe, think, i'm
sf,rh
/ cannot express 1t SO any other human
| being can either perceive or under
| stand except through some manifes
| movement OF some part or parts o.
! your body. Then il follows tha'
! your body must be qualified by train
! ing before ii can adequately ana truls
I express what your wish. and Will 4
| to express. No one can deny that
/ You may not set such training in any
school" except that of nature. OF
the school of everyday life Dill
somehow, consciously or UNCONSCIOUS
Ii. that training or development. OF
education, must be had. Otherwise
your body would remain the small
weak, helpless thing 1t was at birth
+ No one viii deny that Both the body
and the mind are mere servants 81
/ the SOUL but those servants must ht
/ trained to be efficient. From your
| earliest consciousness you begin Il
| grow by receiving and giving or ex-
| pressing Al first such growth ap'
| pears to be almost automatic. uninten
| tionai perhaps. and caused by the bod
| lily craving for food and drink oeins
| supplied. so far human baby Is APP
| parently like any other baby animal
| except II is more helpless than most
| of them. A little chicken just matched
| will run at the mother hens chuck, and
eat what abe tells II to eat. and moi
| touch something just as good beside
| IL. without the mothers assurance thai
| II Is all right
| What ars the things in you with
which YOU were endowed by nature
that require training, cultivation, etin,
cation. dfawing out, or developinge
They are your faculties" or eapaci'
! ties for aetion-ths mental powers fol
doing things. They all reside In yon'
mind, and your body is Your vehicle Of
| expression,
Your mind can do but three things
| Think. feel and will
Your body alone can give external
| expression, only SO far as 1t Is trained
| to whatever you think, feel or will
| Little good 1t would give To the worlt
for you to think, feel and will to &c
wonders that are not expressed iE
| deeds by your body.
| But your mind and your body ar,
your servants TO train as you Will
Whenever they are unframed or mis-
trained you can always remedy ths
| fault IL you will. You are more likely
to be mistrained. Life il a continu-
| Gus series OF contestA How can YOU
! reasonably expect to win in any con
| test, unless you are trained for it
| that Is qualified to make that contes
| for your reasonable share Of the mil
| lions OF prizes awaiting people WHIT
| can do thtngs-do them now.
| For weeks we have In this series 0
| lectures been considering the question
"What Can l Do Best
| Whatever you decide to undertake
| be 1t q profession. an ovocation, or an,
! kind Of labor, work or employment fol
/ mind or body. you can find use TO
| some or all of the same basic faculties
1 and see that the same law OF mature
/ and use lie the key to the development
/ of education of each and every on
| OF those faculties upon which you mus
| depend to do whateve ris done.
| BY physical food and use, you edu
| cate your body.
| BY mental food and use, you educate
/ so,ar mind. sa,ss-.eas s.7s
| You have forty-two t4a) faculties
by the use of which you do whatso
ever can be done by you. Nature en-
dows every normal human with thos,
forty-two. Assuming 100 per cent
to represent perfection, each ant
every one OF these faculties is nov