al.

I would soon find myself after the first few seances with the man I was
hiring to sit down with me and be a lawyer backwards to me--I would soon
find myself having things done to me that would be so plain, so pointed,
so sensible, so scientific and matter of fact and thorough that I would
be able in a minute to cut down to the quick with any man I met,--cut
down to the quick and get what I wanted on any subject I took up, because
nobody could fool me, because I couldn't even be fooled by myself.

I do not know how long it is going to take but I do know that if the
world is going to be reformed it is going to be by men who--either by
doing it personally, or by hiring somebody else to help them do it, have
reformed themselves.

My own personal observation is, so far, that when I set out to see things
against myself I seem to need somehow, a great deal of assistance.

In such a naturally disagreeable mussy job of course, instead of going to
my friends, to people one goes out to dine with, I feel there ought to be
some regular professional person one could go to, some more noble refined
sort of spiritual hired man--make an appointment by telephone, go down to
a room down town on the way to one's office and then just as a plain
matter of course be done off for the day, be done over, be put in shape
for one's fellow human beings to get on with.

Then one could go out into the midst of the people and keel over a world.

After one had hired some one to be a lawyer backwards to one and got used
to it, one would soon be in shape to go to one's employers and let them
put in some touches, go to one's employees, go to anybody and everybody
right and left. One would soon get so that one could learn something from
everybody. One would take points even from relatives.

The main difficulty in a thing like this would be one that would come at
the start, the difficulty of getting people to look upon undergoing the
truth about themselves, respectfully and seriously and like an operation.

No amateur or friend could get anybody started. The only way to begin is
to have some special expert to go to, some special expert with a long
string of notable moral patients, men who have succeeded in business by
seeing through themselves more, and seeing through themselves quicker and
oftener than other people do. You hear of some especially good man who is
being a lawyer backwards practicing regularly with great success. You
observe his pa