E as to whether
the rock be removed or not. Then comes the OUTSIDE INFLUENCE and grinds
the rock to powder and sets the ore free. The IRON in the ore is still
captive. An OUTSIDE INFLUENCE smelts it free of the clogging ore. The
iron is emancipated iron, now, but indifferent to further progress. An
OUTSIDE INFLUENCE beguiles it into the Bessemer furnace and refines it
into steel of the first quality. It is educated, now--its training is
complete. And it has reached its limit. By no possible process can it be
educated into GOLD. Will you set that down?

Y.M. Yes. "Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into
gold."

O.M. There are gold men, and tin men, and copper men, and leaden mean,
and steel men, and so on--and each has the limitations of his nature,
his heredities, his training, and his environment. You can build engines
out of each of these metals, and they will all perform, but you must
not require the weak ones to do equal work with the strong ones. In
each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its
obstructing prejudicial ones by education--smelting, refining, and so
forth.

Y.M. You have arrived at man, now?

O.M. Yes. Man the machine--man the impersonal engine. Whatsoever a man
is, is due to his MAKE, and to the INFLUENCES brought to bear upon it
by his heredities, his habitat, his associations. He is moved, directed,
COMMANDED, by EXTERIOR influences--SOLELY. He ORIGINATES nothing, not
even a thought.

Y.M. Oh, come! Where did I get my opinion that this which you are
talking is all foolishness?

O.M. It is a quite natural opinion--indeed an inevitable opinion--but
YOU did not create the materials out of which it is formed. They are
odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously
from a thousand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of
thought and feeling which have flowed down into your heart and brain out
of the hearts and brains of centuries of ancestors. PERSONALLY you did
not create even the smallest microscopic fragment of the materials out
of which your opinion is made; and personally you cannot claim even the
slender merit of PUTTING THE BORROWED MATERIALS TOGETHER. That was done
AUTOMATICALLY--by your mental machinery, in strict accordance with the
law of that machinery's construction. And you not only did not make that
machinery yourself, but you have NOT EVEN ANY COMMAND OVER IT.

Y.M. This is too much. You think I coul