, etc., and are not contradictions of the law. Moreover, the
inner life is not always fully expressed by apparent departures
from right living: as you may frequently see in some sudden burst
of nobility, generosity, tenderness, heroism, in those who possess
sound bodies but are outwardly not particularly refined. The rough
exterior may hide a splendid germ of true spiritual manhood or
womanhood. Could we look deeply into the physical nature, we
should always find the law holding good that our three-fold ether-
movements do influence and in the long run determine one another
for weal or ill. Where the inner self is right yet the physical
tone weak or disturbed, we should perceive, if we had the "spirit
of discernment," that the better life within has surely influenced
and ennobled the essential nature of the body. It should be
remembered that two confusing factors prevail where a fine spirit
dwells in a diseased body: first, the thought-life of centuries
has, so to speak, warped the character of the inherited body and
its vibrations to such an extent that they may not, perhaps (I do
not know), be altogether reformed within a human lifetime;
secondly, the thought-life of the individual, however nearly right
in many respects, is wrong in one particular, the belief, feeling,
conviction--an inheritance of ages--that disease of the body must
necessarily obtain in some cases at least, no matter what the
inner life may be.
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