Can a jockey or a prizefighter have feelings like these? The former has a horsey god, the latter a muscular. The fisherman, the sailor, the soldier, each in his sphere has his or her god. Underlying all the busy activities of daily life, whatever feelings of care or pleasure each may experience, it is but upon rare occasions he puckers his lips to give vent to his devotional feelings and whistles his Yankee Doodle—his God!
Our gods are as we make them. If we are good our god is good, if we are pure our god is pure, and if our senses are subordinate to our reason and understanding our god will be one of reason and understanding, but if we are impure, bad, and evil-minded, our senses and passions ruling supreme, reason and understanding are subordinate in our god, and the evils of animal sense predominate.
Every man is his own god. As he is, so is his god. As he makes himself, so will his god be. As he protects himself, so God will protect him. As he guides himself, so will God guide him. Whatsoever a man accomplishes for himself, that will God accomplish for him. Whatsoever a man does for himself, that God will do for him. If a man supports himself, God will support him. If he neglects himself, God will neglect him. The more he depends on himself, the surer is his dependence on God. As he saves himself, so God will surely save him. As he injures himself, so will he be injured by God. As a man punishes himself, so will he be punished by God. God will help him who can help himself. If a man is true to himself, God will be true to him.
By industry, economy, and sobriety you will confer blessings on yourself; you have no need of God to bless you.
Make yourself a good man or woman, and you will surely have a good God.
A brutal man never has a meek god, a stingy man a generous god, nor a vicious man a merciful god. Every man brings himself to the level of a brute or lower, or to the highest type of nobility of man.
God never made man, but every man makes his god.
THE GATEWAYS THROUGH WHICH KNOWLEDGE ENTERS THE SENSES.
The functions of the brain.
| Perception—Receiving impressions—Retaining impressions—Reproducing impressions—Knowing—Forming simple ideas—Compound ideas—Complex ideas—Mixed ideas and complicated ideas—Conducting, transferring, and reflexation— Coördination. | ||||||
| Sight. | Hearing. | Touch-feeling. | Smell. | Taste. | ||
| Recognition |  | In common. | ||||
| Comparing | ||||||
| Discernment | ||||||
| Attention | ||||||
| Retention | ||||||
| Succession | ||||||
| Identity | ||||||
| Diversity | ||||||
| Continuity | ||||||
| Contemplation | ||||||
| Distance | Distance | Distance | ||||
| Color | ||||||
| Solidity | Solidity | Solidity | ||||
| Figure | Figure | |||||
| Shape | Shape | Shape | ||||
| Size |  | long | ||||
| thick | Size | |||||
| thin | ||||||
| Dimensions | Dimensions | |||||
| Softness | Softness | Softness | ||||
| Hardness | Hardness | Hardness | ||||
| Rough | Roughness | Roughness | Roughness | |||
| Smooth | Smoothness | Smoothness | Smoothness | |||
| Motion | Motion | Motion | Motion | |||
| Action | Action | Action | Action | |||
| Dryness | Dryness | Dry | Dryness | |||
| Moisture | Moisture | Moist | Moisture | |||
| Fluidity | Fluid | Fluidity | Fluidity | |||
| Vibration | Vibration | Vibration | Vibration | |||
| Heat | Heat | Heat | Heat | |||
| Cold | Cold | Cold | Cold | |||
| Pain | ||||||
| Pleasure | ||||||
| Odor | Odor | |||||
| Expansion | Expansion | Expansion | Expansion | |||
| Contraction | Contraction | Contraction | Contraction | |||
| Resistance | Resistance | |||||
| Relation | Relation | Relation | ||||
| Rest | Rest | Rest | ||||
| Unrest | Unrest | |||||
| Sound | ||||||
| Appearance | ||||||
| Proportion | Proportion | Proportion | Proportion | |||
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| PRODUCE | ||||||
| Sensations Emotions—Feelings— Ideation—Thought—Understanding— Reflection—Recollection—Deliberation—Induction— Memory—Imagination—Judgment—Intellect—Will Power—Mind: The normal products of a healthy nervous system. (The abnormal result from a deranged condition of the cerebro-spinal system.) | ||||||
