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apprehended and become as com-
m onplace as electricity, and we
shall use it, every one of us, for the
benefit of ourselves and th a t of hu-
m anity. .
But u ntil the common people
und erstan d it, they would better
leave it alone. I do not think I
would care to go into an establish-
,
,
. .
,
m ent where electricity is m anufac-
,
, , ,
,
tured and recklessly place my hand
on the dynam o. I would first pre
fer to learn a little, about the laws
of electricity and the voltage of the
generator. Lacking th at knowledge,
I had better keep aw ay from it.
he shall behold the god th a t never
forsakes him , th e god of himself
and the universe— the only god he
ever shall know, for in him inhere
undream ed of possibilities, whose
e,l^s are divine and whose com pass
*s infinite.
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is now for the first time told to in
B EA T-TH E-W 1R LD P R IC ES!
dividual man by the Science of
Psychology, to Social Man, by the
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Science of Sociology, and to both
in e cases :
arranted
“ T renton ” ,
by the Science of Morals. Now
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“ The im p o rtan t th in g ’’ in all our m anity.]
And th a t is a safe injunction in
life tu rn s out to be attention .
S trange as it may seem to us at
regard to hypnotism . Do not
And upon th a t im p o rtan t light is first, th at sim ple m ental act, fact Lra
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m onstrous bugaboo conjured from
Send for price-lists of Ingersoll spoons,
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e th o u g h t badges, am i m y fam ous
the d epths of hell to produce death
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us concisely some of the most prac- rudder, and if we learn to steer tr a c t: “ Theism in th e C ru c ib le ” , free.
and destruction to all who tam p er
,
r
tical results of perhaps, the most even tolerably well, we shall find
wonderful of the Sciences, m odern life well worth living, and if we
O tto W e t t s t e in ,
Let us understand th a t nothing Psychology. The great uses of the steer tiret class, life becomes physi
R o c h e lle , I I I .
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edge of which is dangerous. There A stronom y, the far-reaching cotre-
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of nature; man will become the ul-1 hj8 Hnal explanation. As Sir Wil-
what they w anted, and th eir re
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209-211 F irs t S t .,
But now correlative Psychology
PO RTLAND, oREO
and analyzed with scientific pre- feeder, sustainer, executor and sub- says: J t has taken the Infinite
cision, as is the com m onest sub- stance of m ind, with all its aston- Universe infinite tim e to work out
stance of this earth . Let us under- ¡ghing powers of m em ory, reason the speck of protoplasm wherewith
lot
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break lU egga or make it* chicks looey.
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hatched.
THE
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forces, whom man him self—the came possible to know since A. D.
A INCUBATOR
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lncab.tore«entlal.— p r o p e r a p p li c a
only redoubtable god in the u n i 1600; and only has it g radually be
io n a n d a l . t r l b u t t o n o f h e a t a n d r a o l . t u r —, r e g u
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1800, put forth the “ U r-schleim ” or ing— the sense of repetition, again-
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