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quite unable to provide for themselves?
Do not thousands leave parental homes
with no self-sustaining power, who
are all through life unable to feed,
clothe, and shelter themselves, save
by long hours of drudging labour at
the lowest wages? Does not this life
of drudgery exhaust and cut them off
prematurely? Are there not thousands
of daughters all over the land who
will become "old maids,"
and whose parents will not permit
them, were they so disposed, to go
out in the world and take their chances?
These are the birds cuddled in the
nest, until their wings, denied exercise,
lose at last all power or prompting
for flight, and whose mouths, though
they become grown-up birds, are trained
only to open and receive the morsels
dropped in them.
THOUGHT
CURRENTS
WE need to be careful of what we think
and talk. Because thought runs in
currents as real as those of air and
water. Of what we think and talk we
attract to us a like current of thought.
This acts on mind or body for good
or ill.
If thought
was visible to the physical eye we
should see its currents flowing to
and from people. We should see that
persons similar in temperament, character
and motive are in the same
literal current of thought. We should
see that the person in a despondent
and angry mood was in the same curr-
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