WHERE YOUR BODY CAME FROM
LET IT BE SCATTERED AS IT WAS GATHERED
Did you ever think about the construction of the body which you
inhabit? Did it ever occur to you that your shoulders and hands
and chest and legs and lungs are made of contributions from
widely different parts of the earth?
Your brain, a wonderfully complex machine, the seat of thought
and of the will, is packed away in darkness in the bony skull.
The heart, working ceaselessly, pumps the blood that feeds the
brain and makes possible its work.
The eyes, with the aid of the nerves that perceive light, guide
you. The ears, with the nerves that interpret sound waves, tell
their story.
Like a central operator with a million wires leading to him, your
INDIVIDUALITY, a wonderful mystery without form, matter or name,
sits in your brain guiding the body. ----
Where did the body come from?
Part of it came from potatoes grown on Long Island, and part of
it from spices grown in Ceylon.
In your nerves there is the extract of tea leaves gathered by a
Chinese girl on the other side of the world. Your blood is
purified and made red by the wind that blew across the Rocky
Mountains only a few hours ago. That current of oxygen has
helped build up your strength.
A month ago an ox was eating grass in Texas.
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