ble being in your right knee, calls
your attention to a place three and a half feet off way up on the other
side of you, says you should have a gold filling put in a tooth there and
your right knee will get well.

What seems to be true of people is that though in a less glaring and more
subtle fashion, there are very few of us who are not subject either all
or part of the time to more or less important and quite unmanageable
illusions about things with which we are supposed to be--if anybody
is--the most intimately acquainted. One keeps hearing every few days
almost, lately, of how people's inner organs are not doing what they
think they are, of how very often--even the most important of them have
been mislaid--a colon for instance being allowed to do its work three
inches lower than it ever ought to be allowed to try, and all manner of
other mechanical blunders that are being made, grave mechanical
inconveniences which are being daily put up with by people, when they
move about or when they lie down, of which they have not the slightest
idea.

The sensory impressions of what is really happening to us, of where it is
happening and how and why are full--in many people of glaring and not
infrequently dangerous illusions, but these physical illusions which we
have are reflected automatically in our spiritual and intellectual ones.
All kinds of false ideas people have about one another which we are not
seeing about us on every hand, false philosophies and religions, heresy
trials, lockouts and strikes--all the irrational things people say and do
to each other thousands of miles away are being produced by the way
people are being fooled by their own precious insides. Each man is doing
things that are unfair and wrong thousands of miles away, because he is
off on his facts as to what is going on the first few feet off, because
the first hundred and fifty pounds of consciousness which have been
assigned to him to know about personally and attend to personally he is
letting himself be fooled with every day.

A man who is being fooled near by, regularly all the time, fooled from
the sole of his poor tired feet to the poor helpless nib at the top of
him which he calls his head, is naturally hard to argue with about the
immortality of the soul, or the League of Nations. Reforms and reformers
which overlook these facts must not be surprised if they seem to some of
us a little superficial.

Of course the moral of all this is--as