Did you ever think about the construction of the body which you inhabit? Did it ever occur to you that your shoulders and hands and chest and legs and lungs are made of contributions from widely different parts of the earth?
Your brain, a wonderfully complex machine, the seat of thought and of the will, is packed away in darkness in the bony skull.
The heart, working ceaselessly, pumps the blood that feeds the brain and makes possible its work.
The eyes, with the aid of the nerves that perceive light, guide you. The ears, with the nerves that interpret sound waves, tell their story.
Like a central operator with a million wires leading to him, your INDIVIDUALITY, a wonderful mystery without form, matter or name, sits in your brain guiding the body. ——
Where did the body come from?
Part of it came from potatoes grown on Long Island, and part of it from spices grown in Ceylon.
In your nerves there is the extract of tea leaves gathered by a Chinese girl on the other side of the world. Your blood is purified and made red by the wind that blew across the Rocky Mountains only a few hours ago. That current of oxygen has helped build up your strength.
A month ago an ox was eating grass in Texas.
Many millions of years ago the pollen of huge fern trees was falling to the earth in the carboniferous era and making coal.