re what might perhaps be called the outside elements of life. These once normally
faced, cease to exist as impediments, dwindle away, and finally disappear altogether.
Thus we are enabled to get nearer the kernel, and have a growing realization
of life itself.
Civilization may give a man new freedom, a freedom beyond any power of description
or conception, except to those who achieve it, or it may so bind him body and
soul that in moments when he recognizes his nervous contractions he would willingly
sell his hope of immortality to be a wild horse or tiger for the rest of his
days.
These stones in the way are the result of a perversion of civilization, and
the cause of much contraction and unnecessary suffering.
There is the physical stone. If the health of the body were attended to as
a matter of course, as its cleanliness is attended to by those of us who are
more civilized, how much easier life might be! Indeed, the various trippings
on, and endeavors to encircle, this physical stone, raise man
