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 THE MIND A PRECISION 
 INSTRUMENT 
 
 Remembrance is a habit of accuracy; forgetf ill- 
 ness a habit of carelessness. Any study, schooling 
 or training that fails to accomplish exactness is not 
 only a waste of effort, but a detriment to future 
 achievement. 
 
 Only a few people in the world's history have 
 sufficiently appreciated this fact and by constant 
 habits of intellectual precision have multiplied 
 their mental power a hundredfold or more, making 
 themselves masters of men and rulers of destiny. 
 
 Set your ambition upon mental precision and 
 think it the saddest loss when you have to waste 
 your time trying to do a thing over better. If it 
 isn't worth remembering, do not listen to it over 
 the radio; do not read it in the papers or frivolous 
 literature; eliminate it from your mind. If you 
 wish to remember it, accept it into your mind by 
 associating it with a remembered fact. This forms 
 a new concept and accomplishes a precision act 
 which will automatically register in your mind and 
 become a definite part of your intelligence. 
 
 Life ushers in two problems, or a problem within 
 a problem — to put intelligence into the mind, and 
 to keep motion in the body — so while fabricating 
 your mind into an instrument of precision do not 
 neglect to insure your health by training your 
 
bowels, for if neglected they will become inert, fail 
 to eliminate and eventually throw the mental wheels 
 out of gear. 
 
 An understanding of the fundamental principles 
 herein set forth will multiply your intelligence 
 many fold. Your ability to apply them will add to 
 your power among men. You hold the key to the 
 Master's Mind. 
 
 THE UNIVERSAL FORMULA 
 
 To Him who in the love of Nature holds com- 
 munion with her vibrant forms, she speaks a sen- 
 sible language, and to me she said: 
 
 This is my formula: 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 By which all things 
 were made that are made, and by the application 
 of which all things that are known will be known. 
 
 A is my substance, B my handiwork, and C the 
 finished product. BY PUTTING TWO TOGETHER 
 I ALWAYS MAKE ANOTHER, so you see, THE 
 WHOLE INHERES IN EVERY PART, and NO 
 PART CAN BE GREATER THAN THE WHOLE. 
 
 There are but THREE KEYS TO THE HUMAN 
 MIND, so I must instruct you through your IM- 
 PULSES, your PREJUDICES or your INTELLI- 
 GENCE. Your difficulty lies not in how to solve 
 My problems, but in how to propound My prob- 
 lems that are to be solved. 
 
Your mind being confused by the intricacies of 
 minor relations, I sent Euclid to teach you the arith- 
 metic of things. He gave you mathematical demon- 
 strations, but you failed to grasp the significance 
 that the LAW OF ELIMINATION applied to your 
 everyday problems of life the same as to your 
 mathematical calculations. 
 
 Some two thousand years later Lincoln picked 
 up My keys and was unlocking the political shack- 
 les of bondage when the assassin's bullet cut him 
 down. Again sixty years later, you perceive the 
 unusual power behind Lincoln's antics and rush 
 into literature with a tribute so profound that none 
 could understand. 
 
 Well! Lincoln's Momentum was a cold trail, 
 but after years of wandering it led you to My 
 trysting place, so here is My hand of welcome and 
 the Grammar of Nature. A new epoch in civiliza- 
 tion awaits your translation and now, I bid you 
 good-bye and Good Will. 
 
 THE GRAMMAR OF NATURE 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Intelligence + Freedom of Movement = Destiny 
 
 (Our) 
 The subject of nature through vibration is predi- 
 cated upon the sensory nerves, and through the 
 process of generation or mentalization becomes the 
 subject of our freedom of movement and then finds 
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expression or predication through our motor nerves. 
 When we do not have freedom of movement we do 
 not have happiness, and anything that interferes 
 with our freedom of movement destroys our hap- 
 piness by keeping our body from predicating the 
 subject in our mind. 
 
 Intelligence and Freedom of Movement are the 
 birthright to the animal kingdom and preordain or 
 predicate its destiny. They are the tools or instru- 
 ments by means of which it functions. Intelligence 
 and freedom of movement are the associates which 
 give us impulse to do, and all our doings are ef- 
 forts to increase our intelligence and freedom of 
 movement. All labor consists in an intellectual 
 effort to put (or release) motion into material in 
 such a manner that it can be substituted to multiply 
 or increase our freedom of movement. 
 
 The more intelligence we have, the more free- 
 dom of movement we can exercise, and the more 
 freedom of movement we exercise the more intelli- 
 gence we will gain. No matter where you go, this 
 is what you find. Your neighbor is using his free- 
 dom of movement to gain more intelligence, or 
 using his intelligence to conserve or multiply free- 
 dom of movement, or both, and this is our prayer: 
 
 Nature! Mother of all, What we have is of Thee, 
 Accept our thanks and instruct us that we may 
 learn to do Thy will. 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Having devoted some study to phrenology, psy- 
 chology and metaphysics, with gratitude to each 
 and partiality to neither, my analysis will neces- 
 sarily be composite, and may, I hope, stand supe- 
 rior to either. 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 This formula or diagram is symbolic and used 
 for the purpose of illustrating associations and re- 
 lations. A and B will always represent the asso- 
 ciates and C the relation. All things that are made 
 were made by associations, and all things that are 
 known are known by their relation to their asso- 
 ciates. 
 
 Our knowledge of being embraces three separate 
 planes of existence: 
 
 materialization personification and 
 
 mentalization. 
 
 Extending this formula on the inanimate or phys- 
 ical plane we get materialization as 
 
 A + B — C 
 
 Substance + Handiwork = Finished Product 
 Wood + Workshop = Chair (house, wagon, 
 
 etc.) 
 Extending the formula on the animate or human 
 plane we get personification, relation or relation- 
 ship as: 
 
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A + B — C 
 
 Father + Mother = Son, Daughter, etc. 
 
 Extending the formula on the mental plane we 
 get knowledge or revelation as: 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Similarity + Difference = Concept 
 
 Now concept is the unit measure of intelligence 
 or the beginning of Revelation. The mental con- 
 cept is always formed in this manner: 
 
 Either objectively through the senses or subjec- 
 tively through memory two associates or objects are 
 mirrored upon the mind, there is a flash of recogni- 
 tion, the mind in comparing their likeness detects 
 a difference, and this relation or difference is then 
 stored in the mind as a concept. It is the beginning 
 of knowledge. Difference and comparison can only 
 be between two things at a time, so all knowledge 
 is built upon just two associates. Similarities can 
 pass through the human mind for thousands of 
 years and there is no new concept, but the moment 
 a difference is detected a new relation is born and 
 adds to the store of knowledge. 
 
 Having found the key to the human mind it was 
 yet a matter of years before the proper associa- 
 tion, the comparison, the difference, the vibration 
 of recognition, the new relation perceived and the 
 key to the human mind (by the law of Creation or 
 Sequence of Life) became the formula to the Uni- 
 verse: the Key to the Master's Mind which gives 
 us access to His Intellectual Tool Box. 
 
THE FORMULA OF CREATION, 
 SEQUENCE OF MINOR RELATIONS AND 
 RELATIVITY 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Associate + Associate = Relation 
 
 Adam -J- Eve = Children (Cain, Abel, 
 
 Seth, sons and daughters) 
 A + B = C (Major Relation) 
 B + C = D (Minor Relation) 
 C + D = E 
 D + E = F etc." 
 
 In the first equation it is seen that C is equal to 
 the whole of A plus B, so we will call C the major 
 relation. 
 
 In the second equation it is seen that D is not the 
 sum of A plus B, but a complication and regard- 
 less of whether it is more or less, we will call it a 
 minor (distant, subordinate) relation. 
 
 The relation of D, to A and B is ndt a problem 
 that can be solved by the human mind but two 
 problems, or a problem within a problem, and as 
 the mind is not a dual instrument it cannot solve 
 two problems at the same time. We cannot open 
 a box within a box, but must remove it from the 
 inside before it can be opened. A single problem 
 is a perplexity, but two problems make for confu- 
 sion. Two relations are not born at one time and 
 
two relations cannot be solved at one time. All 
 minor relations involve two or more families and 
 their parentage must be determined before the prob- 
 lem of their identification can be solved. Euclid 
 taught the proper procedure in complications of 
 this nature was to eliminate the "unknown quan- 
 tities" until only one remained in the equation. 
 
 Euclid's logic was based upon the noun and 
 gives us the arithmetic or mathematics of things. 
 My logic is based upon the verb and gives us the 
 grammar or doings of things. He spoke of "un- 
 known quantities" which was confusing to a mind 
 working psychologically through associates and re- 
 lations. Substantially it matters little whether we 
 call it a "third unknown quantity" or a "minor 
 relation" since the procedure in either case is to 
 eliminate it from the equation. Euclid taught a 
 method of procedure that leads to solution or predi- 
 cate. I teach a method of procedure that leads to 
 compounding or subject. 
 
 Lincoln's arguments are remarkable for his 
 adroitness in eliminating the "Euclidian third or 
 unknown quantity" in his clarifications, or slipping 
 it in whenever he wished to confuse his opponents. 
 This "ring generalship" is what I have designated 
 as his "Elliptical Momentum." If he had compre- 
 hended the full significance of the law of elimina- 
 tion, he would have used "straight" or "perpen- 
 dicular" momentum and each opponent would have 
 suffered a "knockout blow" when told to clearly 
 state his proposition in one problem, instead of 
 two or more. 
 
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If A and B are picking up chips and A is all the 
 time dropping them, it is clear that B cannot finish 
 the task until A has no more chips to drop. Like- 
 wise you cannot solve a problem or win a debate 
 until after all the minor relations (subordinate 
 clauses) have been eliminated so that the actual 
 associates will stand revealed. If your opponent 
 cannot state his problem, how can you hope to solve 
 it? Better teach him to state the problem, then 
 solution will be easy. 
 
 WHEN WE INTRODUCE THE THIRD ASSO- 
 CIATE IN THE SUBJECT WE OBTAIN A MINOR 
 RELATION IN THE PREDICATE AND THIS 
 GIVES US A SOPHISM INSTEAD OF A TRUISM 
 FOR OUR SOLUTION. 
 
 If this axiom stands the test of time, as I be- 
 lieve it will, it is the greatest blow that agnostic 
 has ever struck in the history of mankind, and the 
 clearest light that man has ever given to guide his 
 fellow man. There is a slight divergence between 
 the English grammar and Nature's grammar which 
 I am endeavoring to exemplify by the formula. In 
 the English grammar the verb is a part of the predi- 
 cate and helps make the effect. Under the formula 
 the first associate is usually the noun or substan- 
 tive, the second associate the verb, or verbal noun ; 
 these acting together form the subject or cause, 
 and what follows the equality is the effect or predi- 
 cate. When you add the third associate in the 
 formula, if a substantive, it gives you TWO 
 CAUSES of action, and if a verb, it gives TWO 
 MODES of action, both of which necessitate a 
 
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subordinate predicate, and in lieu of such subordi- 
 nate in the predicate you have the sophism which 
 is true in part but not as a whole. 
 
 Accepting sophisms for truisms constitute the 
 intellectual mistakes of mankind and most of it 
 comes from failure to eliminate the third associate 
 (or Devil) from our daily problems, and it mat- 
 ters not whether that third associate appears with 
 A and B as a premise in our formula, is included 
 in a sequence, or masquerades as a simple nega- 
 tive. There are no negative laws because all nega- 
 tives involve a minor relation and must be treated 
 as such. A negative predicates the lack of com- 
 plete information. 
 
 A THIRD ASSOCIATE, A MINOR RELATION, 
 OR A NEGATIVE CONSTITUTE A PROBLEM 
 WITHIN A PROBLEM AND RENDER YOUR 
 PROBLEM UNSOLVABLE UNTIL THEY ARE 
 ELIMINATED. 
 
 For example, if you have two men and one 
 woman for subject (or associates) and a son for 
 predicate (or relation) how can you solve the prob- 
 lem of the son's parentage? You are not going to 
 solve it. Nature never worked that way. Your prob- 
 lem is wrongfully propounded. There is no solu- 
 tion. If you eliminate the woman you destroy the 
 problem. If you eliminate one of the men a solu- 
 tion is easy but it applies to a different problem, 
 wherein there were only two associates. 
 
 The intellectual world is now in a very chaotic 
 state of uncertainty and innovations are coming. 
 Count Tolstoy pointed to America and I hand you 
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the UNIVERSAL FORMULA. Will you use it 
 now, or in the centuries to come? Are we on the 
 way to Babel or back to the Grecian Academy? 
 Now that we know the power for good or evil that 
 lies in the "third associate" or "minor relation," 
 will intelligence free, or impulse and prejudice 
 continue to enslave our future? Shall we continue 
 to waste our time and intelligence in useless efforts 
 to solve or work the problems of the past which 
 were wrongfully propounded, or will we avail our- 
 selves of this new concept and so propound our 
 problems in the future that solution will be predi- 
 cated? 
 
 BIOLOGY 
 A + B = C 
 
 Substance -f- Motion = Creation or Intelligence 
 
 (formula). 
 There are three primordial elements in the uni- 
 verse — substance, motion, and intelligence — one 
 for each plane of existence and each is known by 
 two characteristics indicating two associates used 
 to form its concept. Substance occupies space and 
 has position, motion moves and organizes, intelli- 
 gence is order and system. These three primordial 
 elements compose the universe and all created 
 things therein contain some trace of each of these 
 primordial elements, the preponderence of the 
 primordial element determining the plane of its 
 existence — material, vital or intellectual. Substance 
 
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and motion are the associates, cause or subject, and 
 intelligence the relation, effect or predicate. 
 
 Take a bowl or water and tap the edge lightly. 
 You see little circles forming from edge to center, 
 from which run radii, giving it a spiderweb ap- 
 pearance. The little nucleus in the center is 
 nature's primitive brain, created by the association 
 of substance and motion. 
 
 Substance occupies space; motion has no home; 
 and intelligence only a temporary abode. When- 
 ever motion associates or attaches to substance 
 similar to a parasite there is a vibration; a kind 
 of struggle, contraction, (resistance) ; then an ex- 
 pansion, (submission or acceptance). Vibration 
 begins to organize the substance and control the 
 motion, creating a more suitable home or residence 
 for intelligence and raising its plane of existence. 
 Vibration will develop the circles, radii and nucleus 
 into body, skeleton, muscles, arteries, veins, nerves 
 and brain ; highways and byways of inter-communi- 
 cation for our functional organization. When 
 vibration or intelligence is no longer able to keep 
 these highways and byways open, our functions 
 will be obstructed and motion will desert our sub- 
 stance until there arises such a distribution of our 
 primordial elements that we, or what we know as 
 life, ceases to exist. 
 
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VIBRATION 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Contraction -f- Relaxation = Vibration 
 
 Vibration is more than motion. It is motion and 
 substance combined with intelligence which always 
 accompanies it. Without substance there would be 
 nothing to vibrate, and without motion it could 
 not move. Without intelligence there would be no 
 reason to vibrate. In reality vibration can be 
 divided into two associates of which the first is 
 contraction when meeting substance, and the second 
 expansion or relaxation when taking on motion. 
 While always accompanied by intelligence, intelli- 
 gence as yet remains intangible. Vibration is the 
 messenger of substance, the herald of intelligence 
 and the connecting link between matter and mind. 
 All the functions of the human organism are car- 
 ried on by means of vibration, therefore, contrac- 
 tion -f- relaxation = metabolism. The higher the 
 organization the greater the demand for vibration 
 until in ourselves the lungs and heart, the two 
 organs most essential to life, might easily be mis- 
 taken for vibrators. 
 
 Geological, mineral or inorganic matter is 
 mostly substance and shows little evidence of vibra- 
 tion, the nucleus often remaining indistinguishable 
 unless it be through polarity. 
 
 Botanical or vegetable matter contains more 
 motion and is known as organic substance on ac- 
 count of its systematically arranged structure 
 formed by vibration; the distinguishability of the 
 
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nucleus and the systematically selected and organ- 
 ized substance composing the entity. With the dis- 
 tinguishability of the nucleus and the increase of 
 motion, also came organs of reproduction or life. 
 
 Zoological, or animal organisms are the next 
 highest order, possessing most motion, the nucleus 
 being easily distinguishable as the solar plexus 
 from which the substantive part of the organization 
 is nourished, formed and poised. With this order 
 we get freedom of movement and higher intelli- 
 gence, there being such an increase of motion one 
 of the ganglia attains a high state of development 
 and becomes recognizable as governing the motions 
 of the organism as by remote control. The plane 
 of progression is from mineral kingdom to vege- 
 table to animal; the vegetable subsisting upon the 
 mineral and the animal upon the vegetable. 
 
 Eliminating the hypothetical biology and recog- 
 nizing the formula of creation it is apparent that 
 the solar plexus controls the substantive or arith- 
 metical part of our organization, being supple- 
 mented by the stomach, liver, heart, lungs, bowels, 
 and other organs of digestion, while the cerebellum 
 supplemented by the cerebrum with its functions 
 of intelligence, psychological, phrenological or as 
 your own theory may interpret, controls the motive 
 or grammatical part of our organization. 
 
 Mr. Anatomist, Mr. Physiologist, Mr. Physician 
 — you might as well deny the necessity of having 
 a father and mother as to slight or overlook the 
 importance of the solar plexus by giving more 
 prominence to the brain and central nervous sys- 
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tem (subjective mind?) than you do to the sympa- 
 thetic (objective mind?), for the substantive part 
 of your organization is carried on through the lat- 
 ter and the motive part through the former and 
 you could not get along without both associating 
 together. 
 
 Wherein lies the concept for the superiority of 
 human intelligence? Does not all our intelligence 
 come by vibration through the senses? Do not 
 some of the lower animals have one or more of 
 the five senses much more highly developed than 
 we? The senses are arithmetical, and carry their 
 adjective notations of nature's predicate directly 
 to the objective mind, and therein lies the "simi- 
 larity" of perception for the entire animal king- 
 dom. Mankind has risen in intellectual superiority 
 by virtue of a more proficient use of the subjective 
 mind, which is a part of his generation and trans- 
 forms nature's predicate into his own ego, giving 
 him the grammar or how to do, and making it the 
 subject of his own freedom of movement. This 
 "difference" predicates the supremacy of mankind. 
 
 Curiosity + Elimination = Education. Curiosity 
 instinctively mirrors upon the objective mind. 
 Elimination (our process of solution or reason) 
 takes place in the subjective mind. The power to 
 eliminate is the power to think. Elimination is the 
 approach to learning. Three associates in the sub- 
 ject give a sophism in the predicate. Only elimina- 
 tion can reduce a sophism to a truism. Addition 
 could only add to confusion. The power to elimi- 
 nate predicates the power to educate or to become 
 domesticated. 
 
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THE MENTAL CONCEPT, 
 THIRD DIMENSION TO INTELLIGENCE 
 
 The concept is always formed in this manner. 
 Either objectively through the senses or subjec- 
 tively through memory two associates or objects are 
 mirrored upon the mind and there is a vibration 
 of recognition. The mind in comparing their simi- 
 larity detects a difference and this difference of 
 relation is then stored in the mind as a concept. 
 
 The objective mind belongs to the subject, or 
 noun, is arithmetical in scope and functions as an 
 adjective making notation of the fact, position or 
 order. It is always looking for sameness or simi- 
 larities and asks the question, how? 
 
 The subjective mind belongs to the verb, is 
 grammatical in scope, and functions as an adverb, 
 working out the manner or method. It is always 
 looking for motion, change, or difference and asks 
 the question, why? 
 
 When you perceive the how and why and the 
 objective and subjective minds are associated to- 
 gether by a harmonious vibration, your problem 
 is solved and your answer is the concept — the 
 arithmetic of substance and the grammar of mo- 
 tion — the two associates that lead to intelligence. 
 
 The fundamental principle of the concept is the 
 fundamental principle of all creation and gives us 
 the universal formula, A + B = C, the grammar 
 or language of nature. The concept or first effect 
 is our beginning. The causes prior thereto are 
 readily discerned, but yet to be explained. 
 
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CONCEPT CONTINUED 
 
 A + B — C 
 Similarity -f- Difference = Concept 
 
 Concept is the unit measure of intelligence. 
 When we learn something we are said to form a 
 concept and the sum of our concepts is the amount 
 of our knowledge. If we wish to grow in intelli- 
 gence we must learn to form concepts. Your mind 
 is a part of you and works mechanically and with 
 tools just the same as your hands, and it is essential 
 that you learn to use your mind mechanically, the 
 same as your hands. Your mind is in two parts — 
 known as the objective and subjective mind. 
 
 The objective mind is always looking for simi- 
 larities and asks the question, how? The subjective 
 mind is always looking for differences and asks 
 the question, why? When you understand the 
 how and the why, the problem is solved and your 
 answer is the concept. 
 
 The mental concept is always formed in this 
 manner. Either objectively through the senses or 
 subjectively through memory two associates or 
 objects are mirrored upon the mind (first step, 
 the two associates) ; the mind in comparing their 
 likeness detects a difference; (second step, the 
 comparison, similarity and difference) ; there is a 
 flash of recognition; (third step, the vibration 
 within you which always accompanies the advent 
 of new knowledge or a concept). 
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A concept is a problem solved and the solution 
 of a problem is always a concept. All jokes are 
 concepts and in solving them the mind works so 
 slowly that we can isolate and follow each mechani- 
 cal movement, so we will illustrate the concept by 
 explaining a joke. 
 
 First Example 
 
 "We see a fat man running down the street after 
 his hat." 
 
 We laugh; it is a joke. It is a problem solved. 
 It is a concept. Let us analyze. 
 
 The man and the hat are the two associates, 
 (first step). 
 
 Running down the street is the similarity, (part 
 of second step). 
 
 One having legs, the other none, is the differ- 
 ence, (balance of second step) ; then comes the 
 vibration, (third step which ushers in the con- 
 cept). 
 
 The concept is "Some things can run without 
 legs." 
 
 Second Example 
 
 "A stranger in making change hands you several 
 coins which you accept." 
 
 Let us analyze. You compare the coins as being 
 similar to your memory of real money and of the 
 proper value; you make coins and money the two 
 associates. Later, in comparing the coins, you 
 detect one of the coins to be a counterfeit. That 
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makes the difference. The vibration of recognition 
 becomes a very perceptible shock, and you get the 
 concept, "All coins are not money." 
 Third Example 
 All things are made from the three primordial 
 elements. A concept is a thing and contains 
 elements susceptible of materialization, personifi- 
 cation, and mentalization. We will now select a 
 concept from Lincoln's Momentum for further 
 analysis and embellishments, and if you will follow 
 closely and visualize you doubtless will be able 
 to perceive the materialization, personification and 
 mentalization of a concept, the actual materials, 
 the actual people and the actual thoughts, a rare 
 vividness of portrayal seldom found in literature. 
 
 THE CONCEPT MOMENTUM 
 "Under a great beam is fastened a pulley 
 through which passes a small rope, the ends of 
 which rest upon the ground. Attached to one end 
 of this rope is a leaden weight (materials for the 
 concept), around which are grouped in a circle 
 the disciples, seemingly in the deepest abstraction." 
 (Persons for the concept.) 
 
 Plato — "Why such noble looking and devout men 
 passing their time in idleness?" (Looking for 
 similarities.) 
 Socrates — "They contemplate upon momentum." 
 
 (Showing difference.) 
 Plato — "Why this leaden weight, this rope, and 
 that pulley attached to yonder beam?" (Ma- 
 terialization.) 
 
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Socrates — "They are instruments to induce mo- 
 mentum to leave its intangible abode in the 
 universe and come and perform in the presence 
 of the disciples." (Personification.) 
 Plato — "But, show me this impossibility." (Com- 
 prehends similarity but doubts the difference.) 
 Socrates — "Certainly. Just step within the circle, 
 pull lightly upon the rope. See! The weight 
 ascends and I place it gently upon your head." 
 Plato — "I feel the weight of the leaden object 
 
 upon my head." (The similarity mentalized.) 
 Socrates — "Just so. Now pull some more upon the 
 rope. The weight has traveled to the beam, so 
 you may now release your hold upon the rope." 
 (The weight descends upon poor Plato's head.) 
 (The difference personified.) 
 Socrates — "You again feel the same object upon 
 
 your head." 
 Plato — "But, there was a decided difference the 
 last time." (The vibration mentalizing the dif- 
 ference. ) 
 Socrates — "Now, take a seat among the disciples 
 and consider the nature of momentum." (The 
 concept momentum perceived or mentalized as 
 a tangible thing.) 
 
 Abraham Lincoln was a master of jokes. Jokes 
 are concepts. Concepts are intelligence. Therefore 
 Abraham Lincoln was a master of intelligence. The 
 fundamental principle necessary to understand a 
 joke is the fundamental principle necessary to 
 solve problems, so our aptitude to understand a 
 joke predicates our likelihood to become learned. 
 
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SUBJECT AND PREDICATE 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Noun + Verb = Object, State or Being 
 (Creation) 
 
 In nature's language the noun and the verb are 
 the fundamental parts of speech and reveal the 
 associates, cause and subject. The adjective and 
 •adverb are the major relations and reveal the effect 
 or predicate. The preposition, conjunction, pro- 
 noun and interjection are minor relations. 
 
 Nature is our subject and we are its predicate. 
 In English grammar the verb belongs to the predi- 
 cate and problems are often propounded depending 
 upon the predicate to supply the verb or action 
 necessary to complete the solution. Many such 
 problems are impossible of solution. In nature's 
 grammar the subject always supplies the verb or 
 action necessary to insure solution and completion 
 of the predicate. Nature's problems are always 
 solvable, though we may be slow in solving them. 
 When our minds predicate nature, we work with 
 nature and our power is infinite. Our power to 
 make nature predicate our mind is finite and 
 limited by our freedom of movement. Christ nor 
 none of his followers ever said to the mountain, 
 "Be ye removed" and were predicated by nature. 
 Mohammed and all of his followers could say to 
 
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the mountain, "I will go to you" and predicate it 
 themselves. 
 
 In history many religious cults (falsely claim- 
 ing Divine inspiration or power, false prophets), 
 psychologists and metaphysicians have proclaimed 
 the power of mind over matter, but none of them 
 have ever predicated their subject. My mind can 
 direct the motion of my body to motivate the 
 matter of my body to the extent of my freedom of 
 motion only, and my freedom of motion conversely 
 limits the power of my mind over matter or to 
 predicate anything. With my freedom of movement 
 I can move things outside my body such as lifting 
 weights or intellectually persuading other minds 
 and their subject bodies to cooperate with my mind. 
 In other words my freedom of movement is the 
 only thing subject to my mind and the only thing 
 it can predicate. Your freedom of movement may 
 or may not be subject to my mind, as your own 
 freedom of movement may elect. Therefore mind 
 can only move that which has intelligence and free- 
 dom of movement. Our power to communicate our 
 intelligence to anything outside the animal king- 
 dom has never been established. 
 
 The subject and predicate of grammar, the 
 cause and effect of arithmetic, the associates and 
 major relation of the formula, are but various ways 
 of reasoning or solving the problems of nature, all 
 having the same fundamental foundations actual 
 or understood. In the higher planes of existence, 
 where there is life in the animal and vegetable 
 kingdoms come powers of reproduction, generation 
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or power to predicate themselves; the predicate of 
 one generation becoming the subject of the next, 
 and in a sense attaining eternal life. 
 
 This phenomenon of nature often brings confu- 
 sion to the human mind and many have lost their 
 sense of reasoning as to which is subject and which 
 is predicate. They — (This predicates my definition 
 of intelligence as being system and order, for these 
 people recognize the system of reproduction, but 
 fail to note the order of generation. They are on 
 the right road but do not know which direction to 
 go.) — do not know whether the hen or the egg was 
 first, and predicate all others as being of like mind. 
 With clear thinking it is plain that the hen can 
 lay an egg to make another hen, but she cannot 
 lay an egg, nor can any other hen lay an egg to 
 make herself, therefore she must be prior, subject 
 and before the egg which is her predicate. Like- 
 wise our today is the predicate of yesterday and 
 the subject of tomorrow. What predicates us today 
 becomes others' subject tomorrow. 
 
 As we reverence the law of today, we worship 
 the malice and hatred of yesterday which inspired 
 that law to be enacted. The penitentiaries we build 
 today will be predicated by imprisoning our chil- 
 dren tomorrow. Under the law of mind over matter 
 every vow becomes a self-sacrifice, and every law 
 a prison bar. You cannot preach the prince of 
 peace while glorifying the unknown soldier. The 
 one does not predicate the other. We must learn 
 to play the game of subject and predicate hon- 
 estly for when we cheat we cheat only ourselves. 
 
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Nature's laws are based upon the formula and the 
 subject contains and governs the verb or the en- 
 forcement act which insures it will be predicated 
 without the assistance of enforcement officers. 
 When man learns to enact such a law, I will bow 
 my head in reverence, but until he does, permit me 
 to remain a pantheist. 
 
 Our laws predicate our state of mind and our 
 predicates have gotten too fast and run ahead of 
 their subject. The increase of motion (verbs) in 
 the past few decades has been faster than mental 
 digestion. Our predicates no longer contain suffi- 
 cient intelligence to reveal their subject and we 
 wonder what they are all about. We are sick and 
 spewing our predicates over everything, leaving 
 the taint of our mental inefficiency. Our verb has 
 gotten away from our subject, and intelligence has 
 deserted our predicate. We must detach the verb 
 (our freedom of motion) from the predicate and 
 bring it back to the subject, then intelligence will 
 enlighten our predicate, for under the grammar of 
 nature the subject must contain the verb or en- 
 forcement act that insures predication, and the 
 predicate must possess the intelligence that reveals 
 its subject. This is the inexorable law of knowl- 
 edge. When we learn to apply it, we will all be 
 able to pull out of the muck and enter the most 
 glorious epoch in the history of civilization; an 
 epoch in which there will be no interference with 
 each other's freedom of movement, and each will 
 be expected to predicate his own subject. 
 
 Am I my brother's keeper? Can I predicate his 
 
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subject? Only by using my intelligence, teaching 
 him until his mind becomes the same as my own, 
 then when I predicate my mind will I also predi- 
 cate his. Motion, force (punishment), energy 
 predicates substance or matter. Only intelligence 
 can predicate mind, and the moment we apply 
 force we arouse prejudice, which renders predica- 
 tion impossible until prejudice is eliminated. 
 Force subjugates the body and destroys the mind. 
 Intelligence subjects the mind to direct the body. 
 
 Analyze yourself! Are you subjecting or predi- 
 cating? If you are subjecting, who or what will 
 do the predicating? If you are predicating, who or 
 what is your subject? A grammatical understand- 
 ing of these questions will enable you to answer 
 them with mathematical precision. To understand 
 how to solve a problem you first must learn how 
 to propound it. If wrongfully propounded it can- 
 not be solved. 
 
 My logic of the universal formula is not so 
 much a study in solution as it is a study in pro- 
 pounding, and I have not been able to solve the 
 problems of the ages so much as I have been able 
 to point out the errors of propounding the subject 
 and showing why it cannot be predicated. 
 
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EDUCATION 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Impulse + Prejudice = Intelligence (our?) 
 
 There are but three keys to the human mind. 
 You can appeal to one's impulses, to his preju- 
 dices, and to his intelligence, but in no other way. 
 
 Impulse and prejudice represent personality, and 
 intelligence quality. Impulses come as a heritage 
 from nature to advance one's plane of existence. 
 Prejudices are matters of environment, or reactions 
 of our own free will. Intelligence is an under- 
 standing of order and system. 
 
 The great mistake of education and all past 
 civilization has been its failure to eliminate preju- 
 dice (our unfavorable reactions) as a key to the 
 human mind. It negatives results, and sets mankind 
 against itself. Our problem is to love our neighbor 
 as ourself and prejudice will never allow us to 
 solve it. Prejudice is the key that sends us to 
 school to learn the axioms, maxims and precepts 
 for our guidance, then instructs the Supreme Court 
 how to punish us for practicing them. It is a minor 
 relation that always brings a sophism, and never 
 a truism. It turns heaven into hell and makes us 
 love our neighbor as ourselves, by deceiving us as 
 we deceive others. 
 
 Socrates is said to have been the world's pro- 
 
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foundest thinker. His rivals sought to trap him by 
 propounding the seemingly unanswerable question, 
 "Is it right to deceive?" Socrates answered, "Is it 
 not right to deceive the enemy?" This was a direct 
 appeal to both their impulse and prejudice, and 
 they interpreted his answer as "yes" and upon this 
 answer and interpretation rests much of his title 
 to fame. It has been handed down as a heritage 
 from the Greek Academy and accepted academi- 
 cally without refutation by all the schools of learn- 
 ing, religious and profane, until this day. They 
 were all wrong. Our educational and legal struc- 
 ture is wrong. Our minds are deceived — it is im- 
 possible to predicate justice upon deceit. Deceit 
 must be solved and eliminated before truth or jus- 
 tice can be revealed. "It is not right to deceive." 
 
 Analysis "Enemy" (any transgressor) is a minor 
 relation. It is not abstract but less than the whole. 
 It is a part set apart by prejudice. If it is not right 
 to "deceive" the whole, it is not right to deceive 
 any part, and conversely, if it is right to "deceive" 
 any part, it is right to deceive the whole, for the 
 whole inheres in every part and no part can be 
 greater than the whole. If we invoke the point of 
 position and ask, "Is it right for the enemy to 
 deceive us?" the same impulse and prejudice con- 
 trovert themselves and answer, "no." The wrong 
 was in having an enemy and it could not be righted 
 by deceit. 
 
 The same analysis applies to the formula solu- 
 tion of the three keys at the head of this chapter. 
 You will note that I have placed "our" in paren- 
 
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thesis. "Intelligence" is an abstract idea or major 
 relation, while "our intelligence" is a limited idea, 
 degree, or a minor relation. We get this minor 
 relation in this predicate because "prejudice" in 
 the subject is analytically a minor relation or 
 negative (we cannot be prejudiced against the 
 whole or everything, but think we can against a 
 part), and a minor relation, negative, or third 
 associate, in the subject brings a minor relation or 
 sophism in the predicate. The answer without our 
 interpretation and analysis was a sophism being 
 true in part or degree but misleading as a whole, 
 for prejudice never adds to intelligence as the 
 formula would imply. 
 
 I have known the three keys to the human mind 
 for many years, but the formula of creation only 
 a few weeks. I did not like the "prejudice" key 
 and have long sought a substitute. There is no sub- 
 stitute. The only remedy is to lock the door and 
 throw the key away. It is only a minor relation 
 and must be eliminated. This is our solution: 
 
 Impulse + Intelligence = Truth 
 
 If you had three doors to your home and one 
 of your rooms was filthy, unsanitary and filled 
 with foul odors, you would not invite your friends 
 to enter through the door to that room, to muss 
 up and defile the rest of your home. You would 
 lock or nail that door up until you could cleanse 
 and sanitize the room. 
 
 The door of prejudice to your mind is only a 
 minor relation but the entrance through which most 
 
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of the filth, corruption, injustice, imposition, op- 
 pression and deception has been carried into your 
 temple of knowledge and deposited upon the altar 
 of your happiness. 
 
 The progress of civilization, wealth, and culture 
 has always followed the transportation routes of 
 commerce. Movement, the medium of associations 
 being increased, concepts multiply, and intelligence 
 becomes conspicuous by increase. Within my life- 
 time, with the advent of the automobile, transpor- 
 tation has increased tenfold, and the mind ignoring 
 the mechanics of progress has marked time by rely- 
 ing upon the old ideals of faith, prayer and hope, 
 and has failed to keep pace with motion. We are 
 now in a mechanical age, surrounded with a wealth 
 of contraptions and inventions which the intellect 
 is utterly incompetent to distribute for the common 
 weal so we are in a terrible depression waiting for 
 mind to catch up with motion. 
 
 After these thousands of years of slow increase, 
 is it possible for the human mind to develop ten- 
 fold within the scope of a single life? Yes! and 
 may, I hope, within the extended period of my 
 life. The radio, telephone, flying machine, auto- 
 mobile, multipliers of motion, will soon be outdis- 
 tanced by the giant of knowledge now ready to 
 emerge from his chrysalis shell, the "Intellectual 
 Tool Box." 
 
 Did you ever try to analyze a political speech? 
 
 The next time you listen to one, just spread the 
 
 three keys to the human mind before you: No. 1, 
 
 Impulse; No. 2, Prejudice; No. 3, Intelligence. 
 
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Then dissect the speech and put each part in its 
 respective compartment; see how much of that 
 speech is directed at your impulse, "selfishness and 
 vanity." How much more to your prejudice or 
 hatred, "what he is going to do to the other fel- 
 low." How little he has enlightened your intelli- 
 gence of "his ability to accomplish a betterment." 
 Jollying you and knocking the other fellow has 
 always been the subject of political diplomacy, 
 and as long as it predicates your vote, you will 
 continue to groan and pay the taxes. Your problem 
 is "what the politician is going to do for you," and 
 he cannot solve it by telling you what he is going 
 to do to the other fellow. 
 
 Let every voter who reads this message help me 
 start a chain idea for educational reform by adopt- 
 ing my political creed and resolving never to sup- 
 port a candidate who attempts to appeal to our 
 prejudice by expressing his malice toward our fel- 
 low men. We want constructive, not destructive 
 men in office, and this is the way to obtain them. 
 Prejudice always divides and never adds. When 
 we learn to eliminate it as a key to our minds, 
 intelligence will become our teacher and we will 
 cease to be afraid of one another. 
 
 N. B. — Giving vent to "your own prejudice" is 
 not "appealing to another's prejudice," so do not 
 be surprised if you try to prove my concept and 
 the key fails to unlock for this reason. I have 
 detected this difficulty so frequently that I have 
 often laughed at myself. 
 
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IMPULSE 
 
 Impulse causes the babe to put forth its hand to 
 associate with and discover new concepts. As the 
 hand goes forth new and unaccustomed, unintelli- 
 gent sensations reach the infant mind, the babe in 
 wonder stays its hand; superstition, fear, prejudice 
 associates or minor relations of unknown concepts 
 rush into the mind; the babe impulsively withdraws 
 its hand and in self-defense throws itself into a 
 paroxysm of motion, noise and contractions, and 
 so continues until its strength and vitality become 
 greatly exhausted; the mental images become 
 dimmed, fatigue rules the body, sleep soothes the 
 mind, the muscles relax permitting the heart pres- 
 sure to force the oxygenated blood back to the 
 remote asphyxiated cells, recuperation takes place, 
 and the babe awakens to again listen to the voice 
 of impulse. 
 
 PREJUDICE 
 
 When the hand passed the point of known "simi- 
 larities" and "difference" was becoming per- 
 ceptible, "prejudice" stopped its progress and the 
 babe learned nothing because no new concept was 
 formed. This has been the history of human be- 
 havior from the infant's cradle to grandfather's 
 grave, and only when chance, accident, or prior 
 intelligence intervened to offset and overcome the 
 objections of "prejudice" were the necessary asso- 
 ciations completed and the "difference" necessary 
 to complete a concept perceived and new intelli- 
 gence achieved. 
 
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Now, while I have shown that "prejudice" is a 
 key to the human mind, the mind can be in error 
 or uninformed as well as right and enlightened, 
 and it is on account of its bearing upon these con- 
 ditions that I wish you to be fully informed as to 
 the office filled by prejudice in your own behavior 
 and in the behavior of civilization as a whole. 
 
 Prejudice is non-creative and must be overcome 
 before you can accomplish anything. If I was 
 inclined to visualize a devil, he would be personi- 
 fied in the image of prejudice, and biblically speak- 
 ing it is what has always stood between mankind 
 and his plane of progression. It is the brake upon 
 the wheels of progress and must be eliminated, 
 because in denying our neighbor freedom of move- 
 ment we automatically curtail our own. 
 
 Prejudice + Deceit = Dishonesty 
 
 LABOR 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Material -}- Workshop = Finished Product 
 
 All substance is material and the supply is 
 unlimited. The only limit to production is the 
 intelligence to know how, and the willingness to 
 make it. All labor consists in an intellectual effort 
 to put (or release) motion into material in such 
 a manner that it can be substituted to multiply 
 our own freedom of motion. (Technocracy has 
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just announced that man has multiplied his power 
 nine million times and that the erg should be the 
 standard of value, so at this ratio Adam's gold 
 dollar would have weighed 33,165 lbs. avoirdupois. 
 Rather inconvenient money.) 
 
 A picks up a piece of material, takes it into his 
 workshop, sits down and begins to ponder what 
 he will make of it. What will he make? Unless 
 by accident, something of very little value. Most 
 likely waste both the material and his labor. 
 
 B goes into his workshop, decides to make some- 
 thing, then selects the material. What will he 
 make? Just a little better than A. He has put 
 some intelligence into his workshop and will select 
 material that can be fabricated with his tools, so 
 it is likely that he will not waste his material and 
 may make something of value. 
 
 C sits down, draws up a blueprint, selects his 
 material, takes it into his workshop and makes 
 what he concepted. He has put some intelligence 
 into both the workshop and the material so is not 
 likely to waste either his material or his labor, 
 and unless by accident, the product will have 
 economic value by being worth more than the 
 labor and material consumed. 
 
 Is the laborer worthy his hire? There is no 
 compensation for labor. It is all in what you 
 make. His problem is not to labor, but to make! 
 It is impossible to make without laboring. To 
 labor without making is an abortion of intelli- 
 gence — a predicate without a subject. It may con- 
 fuse the mind but will not solve the problem. The 
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laborer who wastes material is a nuisance. The 
 laborer who fails to make something desirable is 
 an economic loss. Only the laborer whose product 
 will show a profit over his labor and cost of 
 material is worthy of his hire. 
 
 The labor performed by A and B is construc- 
 tive and limited by their own individual association, 
 while the labor performed by C is creative, and the 
 known associations can be duplicated ad infinitum 
 in mass production by preserving the intelligence 
 and substituting the association of other laborers 
 for that of C. The service of A and B dies with 
 him while that of C lives after him. A had neither 
 subject nor predicate. B had predicate only. C had 
 both subject and predicate. 
 
 Until production becomes wastefulness there is 
 no wrong. The wrong is in selfish restraint upon 
 distribution. You often hear the sophism of over- 
 production when thousands are suffering for the 
 lack of and have not the wherewith to obtain it. 
 The necessities of mankind are food, clothing, and 
 shelter, and his labor has always been sufficient 
 to provide for his needs and a surplus against the 
 hazards of nature. It is the intellectual and statu- 
 tory (legal?) perversion of this surplus against 
 the hazards of nature that brings strife between 
 employer and employee, those having it in charge 
 seeking to enforce an unnatural hazard of nature, 
 and thus compel the others to purchase at exorbi- 
 tant or unfair prices. While there is no compen- 
 sation for labor, the laborer is entitled to the fruits 
 of his labor and the protection of the surplus 
 
thereof against the hazards of nature, the perver- 
 sion of ownership, or its wastefulness in monuments 
 of glory. 
 
 Every child must have its mother and father. 
 According to our concept the mother will be recog- 
 nized by her similarity and the father by his dif- 
 ference. The child also had a grandmother and 
 grandfather to whom it is a minor relation. There 
 is nothing new. Evolution is an addition of minor 
 relations to the simple to form the complex. Edu- 
 cation or intelligence is the elimination of minor 
 relations from the complex to obtain the simple. 
 
 Visualization + Materialization = Supply 
 
 The laws of creation or sequence of minor rela- 
 tions is based upon the fusion of associations, so 
 when A and B associated with the material and 
 the workshop, some of their essence — some intelli- 
 gence, some life and some of their substance re- 
 mained with the material and the workshop. As 
 long as they owned the material and the workshop 
 everything was lovely, but as soon as the source 
 of material and workshop passed under other pro- 
 prietorship there arose the question of minor rela- 
 tions between capital and labor. The laborer 
 claimed those essences were his children and that 
 he had a right to continue to share in their pro- 
 duction. The capitalist accused the laborer of 
 abandoning his children, and that he as foster 
 father had saved them, and was the only one en- 
 titled to their productiveness. Which was right? 
 How are they going to solve it? Not by strikes, 
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lockouts, peaceful picketing or military protection. 
 THEY are not going to solve it, but YOU are! 
 Through their wrangling and inconveniences you 
 will be denied the right and privileges of civiliza- 
 tion, YOUR freedom of movement will be imposed 
 upon until in self defence your intelligence will 
 devise a law eliminating their minor relations. 
 Impossible! How? Simple! You are going to 
 do it the Pantheistic way; the only way you have 
 ever learned to do things. By putting two together 
 you will make another. By associating their two 
 minor relations you will perceive a major relation 
 — civilization's right to protect itself and regulate 
 its parts. 
 
 The problem between capital and labor is easily 
 predicated if we use the formula and apply the 
 three keys to the human mind. As long as they 
 act upon impulse there will be perplexity, dissatis- 
 faction and little accomplishment. If they add 
 prejudice it will bring confusion, sabotage and 
 rioting. As soon as their mutual suffering prompts 
 them to abandon their foolish laws enacted by 
 impulse and prejudice and try intelligence, labor 
 will be performed in an orderly manner and capital 
 will systematically adjust itself to the fair and 
 natural law of compensation. 
 
 All regulations which limit the quality, or nega- 
 tive the output of labor are not solutions, but 
 crimes against intelligence. The error is not in 
 (the subject) over production, but in (the predi- 
 cate) under distribution. Dishonesty thrives where 
 ignorance commands, and they who seek to retard 
 
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the hand of progress are outwitted by corruption 
 which contrives for selfish gain when denied the 
 right of intelligent procedure. Wasting time trying 
 to regulate a predicate is like amputating a snake's 
 tail to destroy its venom. To accomplish, you eluci- 
 date the subject, not eliminate the predicate. 
 
 Memory is like a dog's nose: it works by asso- 
 ciations or a trail of minor relations. It is winter 
 and snow covers the ground. We become separated 
 and I wish to find you. I recall where we last 
 associated together and return there. I look around 
 until I discover your footprints in the snow. These 
 footprints represent your associations and are your 
 minor relations. I follow these footprints until I 
 overtake and thereby bring you back to mind. 
 While less tangible the trail of minor relations 
 followed by the dog's nose are just as real, and 
 while we speak of them as scent or essence they 
 are material realities. When we wish to recall an 
 incident to our memory we think of or examine 
 different objects until one comes to our mind which 
 we recognize as an associate or minor relation, 
 then we follow the trail of minor relations through 
 its associations until we come to or recall the object 
 desired just as we trailed through the snow to you 
 or the dog noses out his quarry. 
 
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HEALTH 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Nourishment -f- Freedom of Movement = Health 
 
 Substance and motion are the elements in your 
 body that predicate your feelings or health. When 
 your feelings are distressed there is a lack of har- 
 mony between the substantive and motive part of 
 your body and your mind or you feel pain or out 
 of sorts. Your organization embraces three planes 
 of existence, material, vital and mental, so we have 
 three schools of health practitioners. The first 
 school seeks to restore a chemical or substantive 
 balance and prescribes materials or medicines. The 
 second school seeks to restore your freedom of 
 movement and gives you motion or exercise. The 
 third school deals in intangibles, throws the burden 
 on intelligence or what is called the universal mind, 
 gives you advice and tells you it is all in your 
 mind, to think yourself well and you will be well. 
 All three are on the right road but getting nowhere, 
 because each is wasting his time building up ethics 
 to prejudice the other two. What you want is 
 something that will harmonize substance and mo- 
 tion and make you feel good in terms of your com- 
 posite organization. 
 
 When a person asks, "How are you?" your an- 
 swer unconsciously is predicated upon your free- 
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dom of movement. The pangs of hunger are so 
 easily satisfied that it is rarely a problem in mod- 
 ern civilization, and most people would rather go 
 hungry than subsist upon an objectionable quality 
 of food, so the actual necessity of nourishment is 
 seldom sufficient to offset one's feelings or freedom 
 of movement. The dissipated beggar now asks for 
 money to buy a cup of coffee — nerve food. 
 
 Our problem is not to obtain nourishment, but 
 what nourishment is best for our health. 
 
 Nourishment represents the material part of our 
 body while freedom of movement comes from the 
 motion or life principle. In the earlier stages of 
 our development it is said that we went around on 
 four feet instead of standing upright. When we ex- 
 amine an animal we usually find two parts of the 
 anatomy particularly protected against external 
 dangers or any pressure that might interfere with 
 freedom of movement. 
 
 First, the nucleus or solar plexus, which I desig- 
 nate as our negative pole, is beneath just back of 
 the front shoulders. How can a horse, dog, or a 
 hog conveniently get in such a position as to cause 
 much pressure upon the solar plexus? Today with 
 our labor saving devices, and the chair, the most 
 injurious of all convenience inventions, you can 
 scarcely find an intellectual without stooped shoul- 
 ders and a weakening of those muscles which hold 
 the chest forward and up, his solar plexus com- 
 pressed, his freedom of movement obstructed, plac- 
 ing all his nutritional organs under unnecessary 
 strain and interference. 
 
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Second, the brain, designated as positive pole 
 and governing the motive activities of our organiza- 
 tion is encased in a bony or box compartment in 
 such manner as to be best protected from all pres- 
 sure or material interferences. A skull fracture or 
 pressure on the brain being a most serious condi- 
 tion and often resulting in death. 
 
 Being a combination of substance and motion 
 our health is directly dependent upon what we eat 
 and how we exercise. 
 
 Diet + Exercise = Freedom of Movement 
 Fire -f- Water = Solubles 
 
 Alkali + Acid = Chemics 
 Solubles -f- Chemics = Nourishment 
 
 Unless it is soluble, it cannot become a food, and 
 unless it is chemical it cannot form a new combina- 
 tion. These constitute the attributes of health and 
 no matter which school or practitioner you con- 
 sult, his prescription will be an attempt to doctor 
 these associates so as to obtain a balanced relation. 
 
 In order to maintain freedom of movement and 
 avoid pressure upon the nerves, we must be con- 
 stantly alert to overcome mentalization's tendency 
 toward constipation. The dynamic forces of diges- 
 tion are not sufficient to rid the body of the ash 
 therefrom, so it is absolutely essential that we use 
 our freedom of movement to assist nature. Our 
 mental danger is prejudice. Our physical danger is 
 a lack of proper elimination. These are our minor 
 relations and must be eliminated if we hope to live 
 long and enjoy good health. We can assist nature 
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in this elimination by not eating too much and 
 thereby lessening her burden. Our body is fed 
 through the blood and all the repair and decay is 
 carried on through the circulation. Unless what we 
 eat makes blood, it does not become a food and 
 does not become a part of our body any more than 
 the filth which might cling to our skin, but is 
 always an irritant that must be eliminated in order 
 to avoid infection and disease. 
 
 There are many ways of destroying or injuring 
 the health through wrong or poisonous foods, over- 
 eating, dissipation, etc., but the subject or cause 
 of these is so apparent as to need no attention from 
 a treatise of this kind. 
 
 All our feelings come through our nervous sys- 
 tem, and its spider-web formation acts as the strings 
 upon musical instruments. Each nerve has its 
 length and thickness, which with its tension deter- 
 mines the message it transmits to the brain. When 
 you touch or press a string on a musical instru- 
 ment, you alter its natural period of vibration and 
 make it different. A sensory nerve carries a mes- 
 sage from substance to the mind and the mind is in 
 two parts, objective and subjective. Ordinarily the 
 nerve carries its message from external substance 
 to the objective mind and receives sympathetic ap- 
 proval. When any foreign substance touches or 
 presses on a nerve, it interferes with its freedom of 
 movement, changes its period of vibration, and we 
 get a message of difference from internal substance 
 to the subjective mind. This forms a new concept 
 and we put forth our conscious efforts to expel the 
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foreigner, so as to restore harmonious vibration 
 between the nerve and objective mind. 
 
 Our biology and analysis of the concept point to 
 the human body as composed of two associates, 
 which if we designate as proprietor and secretary, 
 will throw a very clear light on how to conserve 
 and build up vital energy, the surest and best 
 known way to insure good health, long life, and 
 mental precision. 
 
 The solar plexus, objective mind, and sympa- 
 thetic nervous system act as secretary; and the 
 brain, subjective mind, and central nervous system 
 act as proprietor. When anything new or different 
 is presented it must receive the personal attention 
 of the proprietor. After he has passed upon it he 
 turns the detail work over to his secretary so he 
 can conserve his own time, and sleep and rest up 
 while the secretary executes his instructions. The 
 function of digestion and assimilation has been 
 passed upon long ago and turned over to the ob- 
 jective mind for the solar plexus to execute. Only 
 in case of new foods, colic, etc., would there be a 
 variation of similarities and a difference arise, in 
 which event the subjective mind would be notified. 
 The subjective mind wakes up the proprietor and 
 the proprietor calls upon the brain (central nerv- 
 ous system) which controls freedom of movement 
 and executes or predicates the proprietor's com- 
 mands. All reflex and sympathetic actions in the 
 human body are secretarial in nature and are per- 
 formed unconsciously or semi-consciously. All our 
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direct actions come from the subjective mind, are 
 proprietary and performed consciously. 
 
 This analysis also reveals the answer of why we 
 sleep. When the proprietor works, he uses up vital 
 energy faster than he can accumulate it. When 
 the secretaries do the work for him his accumula- 
 tion of energy may be greater than the drain upon 
 it. Sleep represents the conservation of vital 
 energy; wakefulness the drain upon it. The sympa- 
 thetic actions of the body are so vastly more 
 numerous than the direct, that few people realize 
 the dangerous consumption of nervous energy the 
 subjective mind consumes when, it, the proprietor, 
 has to do his own work. 
 
 Activity of the objective mind is relaxing and 
 recuperative because carried on by the sympathetic 
 nervous system in connection with the solar plexus 
 and all the digestive and assimilative organs, it 
 seems to act as hostess, ever ready to invite new 
 acquaintances, makes us sociable, agreeable, gives 
 us a smile of gladness, a voice of forgiveness and 
 often the willingness to borrow a dollar. 
 
 Activity of the subjective mind is contracting 
 and very fatiguing because carried on by the cen- 
 tral nervous system which draws its supply of nerv- 
 ous energy from the sympathetic, it makes you con- 
 scious of your vibrations and compels the entire 
 body to salute and stand at the point of attention. 
 Like a good soldier it is always ready to defend 
 but never supports. Its excessive activity soon robs 
 the sympathetic nervous system of its reserve of 
 energy, impairs the digestive capacity and increases 
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the residue for elimination, constipates the body 
 and throws the mental wheels out of gear. The 
 doctor calls it nervous prostration. Keep on think- 
 ing and you soon get apoplexy or paralysis. If you 
 wish to live as a thinker, insure your health by 
 training your body to support your mind, and 
 stop your mind from robbing your body. 
 
 Learn the relation between substance and mind 
 and connect your vibrations to harmonize. When 
 the bowels lose their energy to eliminate, the mind 
 will cease to elucidate. If you find yourself becom- 
 ing forgetful, check the cause. The fountain of 
 youth may be found where you least expected it. 
 
 Activity of the subjective mind robs the body of 
 warmth, takes the magnetism out of the human 
 hand, withdraws within itself, loves everyone in 
 general and no one in particular. Usually has the 
 dollar to lend, but seldom lets it go. 
 
 THE INTELLECTUAL TOOL BOX 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Material -f- Form = Cosmos 
 
 All things that are made are made mechanically 
 by putting two together to make another. All things 
 that are made have form and body. Form comes 
 from the intellectual part and body from the mate- 
 rial. To make all kinds of forms only two tools 
 are necessary — the square and the compass. To 
 fashion all sorts of bodies only the hammer (put- 
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ting on tool) and saw (taking off tool) are needed. 
 Upon these four tools rests the fundamental princi- 
 ples of mechanics and all the tools of modern civ- 
 ilization are but various interpretations of their 
 primordial elements. With them you can build 
 anything the mind can conceive from a three legged 
 stool to a temple. If deprived of the knowledge 
 and use of any one of these mechanical tools, what 
 could you build? How helpless would you be? 
 
 There are four intellectual tools that are just as 
 fundamental and necessary to the builder of knowl- 
 edge as are the square, the compass, the saw and 
 the hammer to the mechanic. Have you the faintest 
 idea what any of the intellectual tools are? Do 
 you know how to use them? Upon what is your 
 intelligence predicated? Temples of worship are 
 not so spiritual but that they have to be built by 
 human hands. The intellect is never so complete 
 but that it can be improved by a new concept, 
 and to be able to form a concept you must have a 
 mechanical brain. 
 
 The four intellectual tools, the fundamental prin- 
 ciples upon which all human knowledge is founded 
 are the Formula of Creation, the Three Primordial 
 Elements, the Concept, and the Three Keys to the 
 Human Mind. Under this scope must come the 
 word of truth, else it remains to be proven and no 
 one as yet has advanced the principles upon which 
 such proof can be proclaimed or refuted. The 
 Formula instructs us how things are made; the 
 Primordial Elements what they are made of; the 
 Concept what we know, and the Three Keys to the 
 
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Human Mind, how we apply it. What more is there 
 to learning? What other tools could you use? 
 Then, why not use these from now on? 
 
 The Formula of Creation 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Substance -f- Handiwork = Finished Product 
 
 This is the formula by which all things are made 
 that are made, and by the application of which all 
 things that are known will be known. A is the sub- 
 stance, B the handiwork, and C the finished prod- 
 uct. By putting two together you always make an- 
 other, so you see, the whole inheres in every part 
 and no part can be greater than the whole. 
 
 The Three Primordial Elements 
 A + B = C 
 Substance -f- Motion = Creation or Intelligence 
 There are three primordial elements in the Uni- 
 verse; Substance, Motion, and Intelligence. These 
 three primordial elements compose the Universe 
 and all created things therein contain some part of 
 each of these primordial elements, the preponder- 
 ance of its primordial element determining its 
 plane of existence, material, vital or intellectual. 
 Substance and Motion are the associates and Intelli- 
 gence the relation. 
 
 The Concept 
 A + B = C 
 
 Similarity -f- Difference = Concept 
 
 The Concept is the unit measure of intelligence. 
 
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It is always formed in this manner. Either objec- 
 tively through the senses or subjectively through 
 memory two associates or objects are mirrored 
 upon the mind, there is a vibration of recognition, 
 the mind in comparing their Similarity, detects a 
 Difference, and this difference of relation is then 
 stored in the mind as a concept. 
 
 The Three Keys to the Human Mind 
 
 A + B = C 
 
 Impulse + Prejudice = Intelligence (Degree) 
 
 There are but three keys to the human mind. 
 You can appeal to one's impulse, to his prejudice 
 or to his intelligence. Impulse and Prejudice repre- 
 sent one's personality and Intelligence his quality. 
 
 My Dear Readers: 
 
 This concludes the Big Show — our subject or natural 
 philosophy. We now pass you into the Intellectual Side 
 Show — our predicate or application; a gorgeous collection 
 of freaks of knowledge and intellectual monstrosities. These 
 are evolutionary and for intellectuals only. To the un- 
 thinking they might appear revolutionary, and to safe- 
 guard our freedom of movement in this abridged edition 
 we show only the pictures, with the exception of the 
 Monkey's Looking Glass. If you wish to go further and 
 deeper in seeking Freedom from Intellectual Slavery, the 
 text to the other pictures will be found in the unabridged 
 edition. Grammar of Nature or Key to the Master's Mind. 
 143 pages, handsomely and durably bound, price $2.00. A 
 masterpiece from a master mind, C. W. Kent — the Aristotle 
 of modern times. 
 
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The Tree of Knowledge 
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 The Hunchback De Notre Dame 
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The Price of Peace 
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The Master's Voice 
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Politics Enlightening the World 
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THE MONKEY'S LOOKING GLASS 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 
 We now call your attention to the platform on 
 the right, the missing concept or the monkey's look- 
 ing glass, the most instructive of all our exhibits. 
 
 As we look into the looking glass we see with 
 our objective mind, the same as the monkeys. It 
 reveals the subject, noun, similarity, order, posi- 
 tion and how of things that are reflected, but there 
 is a missing link and it is up to us to study out 
 the predicate, verb, difference, method, movement 
 and why of things that it does not reflect. 
 
 Let us lay our subjective minds aside and try to 
 think as monkeys think. See the monkey on the 
 frame! Did he growl and show his prejudice when 
 first he saw himself in the glass? Is he smiling 
 now at the image of his creator as he tries to kiss 
 himself in the glass? How about the monkey in 
 the top of the tree? Does he look into the glass 
 and see the torments of hell down below? How 
 about the monkey that jumped up and off the tree? 
 Will his faith carry him to heaven, or down to the 
 place of destruction? How about the monkey div- 
 ing down? Will he meet himself coming back, and 
 then, keep on going the other way? 
 
 How about the prophet sitting in the tree who 
 sees himself as he watches all the rest? Is he look- 
 ing in the glass or gazing in the crystal? How 
 many thousand years until he finds the missing 
 concept and answers to the question, why? When 
 
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he finds the missing concept and understands the 
 reason why, the same as you and I, will he give up 
 his monkey ways, or will he use his subjective mind 
 to subjugate his kind? Will he be his brother's 
 keeper, or content to be his teacher? Will he organ- 
 ize his friends to overpower his neighbors? Will 
 he enshrine in monuments of glory those who per- 
 ished in obedience to his wisdom? 
 
 Now that we have looked into the monkey's look- 
 ing glass and viewed with delight our own objective 
 mind, suppose we return the courtesy and invite 
 the monkeys to come into our nursery and see the 
 human looking glass that shows our subjective 
 mind. Our birthright is freedom of movement and 
 intelligence. If there was only one way that we 
 could go, we would have no freedom of movement 
 and there would be nothing for our intelligence to 
 direct, making our birthright of no avail. The con- 
 cept is the human looking glass. It shows our sub- 
 jective mind and reveals the predicate, verb, differ- 
 ence, method, movement and why of things that we 
 should do. It is Mother Nature's nursing bottle 
 from which she feeds the infant mind when it begins 
 to cry for food. Mother Nature will not abuse her 
 children by destroying their freedom of movement 
 and so pretends she lost her switch while they were 
 out at play, and that is the reason why she does 
 not make them mind ; but when she rings the dinner 
 bell there is no confusion for obediently they all 
 form in line, and that is what makes the monkeys 
 laugh. 
 
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The Fatality of Dogma 
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