A decayed soul is always
a House of Fear. The ideal of human existence is--The white life
in the sound mind in the vibrantly whole body.
It is because there are so many people who are in some sense sick,
that fears abound in every direction. But--it is because so many
fears are permitted and actually nursed as boons that so many sick
people abound in every direction. If all our fears could be
removed absolutely, we should no longer require physicians. This
world would be a paradise in every respect. I do not know anything
wrong with it that cannot be traced to a fear.
The causes of fear are weak reason, uncontrolled imagination, want
of self-control, and ill-health. And the first three items are
really phases of the last.
The ability to master and destroy fear depends, it would now seem,
upon the following factors of our life:
The General Tone of the Individual; The Soul's Power of Will; The
Development and Balance of the Reason.
Reason is demanded to distinguish between right and wrong causes
for personal effort in self-protection, and to utterly ignore all
wrong causes.
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