2.  Sweet, Sound and Early Sleep Gives the Universal Forces their Perfect Opportunity for Good.  During sleep the Universal Thought strives to restore, as our conditions permit, harmony of vibrations between its manifests in matter within the body and its manifests in the non-material self.  The degree of harmony is made less in all cases by centuries of wrong living, the effects of which are more or less accumulated by inheritance in every man and woman (right living, however, promising in the future perfect freedom there-from on earth), and by the disturbing power of individual wrong living.  In order, then, to secure the best results of sleep, our waking thought should be kept in attune, by all practical as well as by all idealizing methods, with reality, truth, beauty and goodness.  You are invited, for the reason suggested, to live during the day in such a manner that your last fearless thought at night may be,

    “Let my soul walk softly in me,
       Like a saint in heaven unshod,
     For to be alone with Silence
       Is to be alone with God.”

3.  The Utility of Nourishment Issues From Conformity to the Plan of the Universal Forces for Each Individual.  For every human body there is a plan on which it is intended to be evolved and maintained.  The individual plan is merely a variation of the general plan of our common human nature.  That general plan provides for certain foods and kinds of drink, for the manner in which they are to be taken and digested, and for their utilization in building and sustaining the body.  This general plan is varied for different persons in the primary intention of the nature of things.  Your food and drink, therefore, should depend upon your own peculiar needs.  The science of the matter investigates the kinds of nourishment which you in particular require and advises all items furnishing the material elements you demand.  But some individual variations, in respect to questions of taste, usefulness and harmfulness, digestibility and adaptation, are undoubtedly results of restrained liberty and wrong thought-life in the past, either of your ancestors or of yourself.  That degree of liberty, therefore, which ought to be yours, has perhaps, come to be more or less limited.  It is possible for you to secure a desirable enlargement of freedom with regard to food and drink.  Of course you have no liberty in the way of natural poisons and beverages which dethrone common sense.  Aside from the limits set by Nature, you may acquire the largest measure of personal freedom in the matter if you will determine therefor in the exercise of sound reason.  I have had my experience with things not liked and things harmful—­apricots, chickens, salmon—–­and today I eat all that’s eatable by civilized man, and I drink whatever I choose to drink—­alcohol tabooed because I want and need all the brains I possess.  It is for you to bring yourself more nearly to the original plan for human bodies in this respect, if you will begin with your inner thought-life and proceed more or less in the following manner: