dishonest,
crooked or straight, saint or sinner,
rich or poor, fat or lean, white or black?
It does not; the law of gravitation works
for him infallibly, invariably, inflexibly,
eternally, regardless of who or what he
is. Who uses the laws governing the burning
of gasoline to drive a car? Who uses the
laws of friction to stop a car? Who uses
the laws of electricity? the laws of light?
Does it make any difference whether one
is handsome or homely, whether he is freckled
or pallid, whether he smokes or drinks
or swears or goes to church or tights
or steals or kills or loves? It does not.
A murderer can drive a car or stop it.
A clown can ride in an airplane. A fool
can start or stop a dynamo. An idiot can
set a fire. A preacher or a moron can
explode dynamite. A sister of charity
or a woman of the street will burn a hand
on a hot stove. Good or bad, saintly or
vicious--law works alike for all, and
everything works under law.
But some laws seem to be greater than others, to include others, to transcend others. For instance, the laws controlling the airplane seem to enable it to break the law of gravitation. Of course, they don't; they simply enable us to counteract the force of gravitation. The laws of the radio release us from conditions to which we have thought ourselves limited by other governing laws--laws of sound transmission. By studying these things I see that so soon as I begin working by any law I begin to benefit by it, and no other law can stop me; because all the laws of nature fit together, work together, help one another
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