ysis.

As Alexander's technique for pulling one particular man, soul and body,
together, is precisely the technique I have in mind for pulling a nation
together, I want to dwell on it a moment longer before applying it to the
Put-Through Clan.

The first thing a man is always fooled about is his own body and in
everything else he is fooled about, he just branches out from that.

The Put-Through Clan proceeds upon the idea that this is as true of his
political or social or industrial body to which he belongs as it is of
his first one.

Reform must be self-reform first.

If it is true that the majority of ideas and decisions most people think
they make with their minds are really made for them and handed up to them
by their bodies--if it is true that what people quite commonly use their
minds for is to keep up appearances, to give rational-looking excuses and
reasons for their wanting what their stomachs and livers and nerves make
them want, the way to persuade people nowadays is to do what Christ
did--get their minds out from under the domination of their bodies.

If it is true that when a man goes to his dentist with a toothache, he
finds he does not know which side of his mouth it is on, it is likely to
be still more true of all the rest of his ideas about himself--his ideas
about his ideas.

If everything about us, about most of us is more or less like this, as
Alexander says--wires or nerves all twisted, sensory impressions upside
down, half of what is inside our bodies mislaid half the time, the way to
change people's minds is to change them toward the bodies they are with
and that they are nearest to, first. Then we can branch out and educate
others--even educate ourselves.

Millions of grown people, in religion, business and politics to-day in
America can be seen thinking automatically of the world about them in the
terms of themselves, in the terms of their own souls sadly mixed up with
their own bodies. We all know such people. The world is just an
extension, a kind of annex or wing, built out from themselves full of
reflections from their own livers, and fitted up throughout with air
castles, dungeons, twilights, sunrises, after-glows, from their own
precious interior decorations and bowels and mercies.

The basic fact about human nature the Put-Through Clan acts on is the
simplest thing in the world. We are always having moments of seeing it.
We all see how true it is in babies we have personally kno