Crowds

The objective mind lulled down to sink into the subjective and hence the suggestibility of multitudes (and mobs). Nowhere else, except perhaps in solitary confinement are the voluntary movements of man so limited as they are in the crowd; and the larger the crowd, the...

Prayers for weather etc

As the human Will seems capricious because the springs of volition are hidden from our observation, so to the unknown will that limits our own has been practically ascribed an infinite caprice. Anthropomorphism has been to some degree universal because each man must...

What is the test of truth

We can trust our life to it; belief in it adds to the safety of life. Action based on illusions leads to death (mirage). Truth makes you free and gives you life. * * * * What we know as pain is the necessary danger signal. Organic beings need such stimulus to...

Protyle

Is the name given to the hypothetical basis of all ponderable matter that is supposed to be the primitive stuff from which all the chemical elements etc. are derived (which are taken to be one in essence). Avoid all discussions “foreign to your purpose.”...