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CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN BEING 23 rest of the body . There are many prejudices prevalent regarding such statements about THINKING as are brought forward here .

Many persons are inclined to undervalue THINKING, and to place higher the "warm life of feeling" or "emotion ." Some, indeed, say it is not by "dry thinking" but by warmth of feeling, by the immediate power of "the emotions," that one raises oneself to higher knowledge . Persons who speak thus fear to blunt the feelings by clear thinking . This certainly results from the ordinary thinking that refers only to matters of utility . But in the case of thoughts that lead to higher regions of existence, the opposite is the result . There is no feeling and no enthusiasm to be compared with the sentiments of warmth, beauty, and exaltation which are enkindled through the pure, crystal-clear thoughts which refer to the higher worlds . For the highest feelings are, as a matter of fact, not those which come "of themselves," but those which are gained by energetic and persevering thinking .

The human body has a construction adapted to THINKING . The same materials and forces which are present in the mineral kingdom are