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inspiration. In some inscrutable manner the suggestion to the one that he was Bill Nye must have brought him in contact with Bill Nye's current of thought; he must have tapped it, as it were, while the stump speaker must have tapped the current of stump oratory.

These instances and many others that have come under my observation have led me to think that under certain conditions we come in touch with other minds, and also with a great reservoir of Life and Mind containing all that we desire to express of strength, vitality, health, harmony, opulence and beauty, of even more that we cannot now imagine. We have but to open the channel and it will flow through us. I would not advise the channel opened by Hypnotism, for that calls for an injurious negative state, and brings many evils in its train. I quote Hypnotism for the purpose of illustration, but do not indorse its use.

To return to the simile of the engine. We see it on the track, a motionless, lifeless thing, awaiting the touch of the engineer's governing hand. He opens the throttle and away she springs, a creature of life and power. Is it a miracle? No, an everyday occurrence, and yet a matter of law, a matter of adjustment, a matter of scientific certainty.

Power and life are let loose in us in very much the same way, as a matter of law, of adjustment, of scientific certainty. Complicated the human machinery surely is, but it is not impossible to understand and control it with a master's hand.