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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 285
between "sound" and "sensitive." Many people
of low
development have a most sound and healthy physical body,
but are not at all sensitive with respect to spiritual vibra-
tions. An illustration will elucidate : The writer has had
an alarm clock, a low-priced time-piece,
for a number of
years. It has been packed at times in a trunk handled
by baggagemen, porters, etc., in an exceedingly careless
manner, and yet when taken out of the trunk, after all
the shaking up and ill-usage, it will still go and keep time
after a fashion, that is to say, if one does not mind a few
moments' variation one way or the other. Such a timepiece
is strong and sound but not accurate.
On the other hand, a chronometer used on board ships
is an exceedingly delicate time-piece. It rests upon bal-
ances which always keep it in a horizontal position and
compensate for the slightest motion of the ship, so that
the chronometer may keep perfect time, for thousands of
lives are at times dependent upon the extreme accuracy
of that instrument. A captain launched upon the trackless
ocean knows how far east or west he is from Greenwich,
England, by means of this accurate time-piece the
chronometer. "When he calculates the difference be-
tween noon of the place where he finds himself
and the time shown by the chronometer he has
a correct gauge of his location, a gauge to which
he trusts the lives of all his passengers and the millions of
dollars' worth of property in his care. A comparison of
the sensitive chronometer and the rough and ready alarm
clock illustrates the difference between "sensitive" and
"sound."
When we understand the higher philosophies, when we
live the life that is taught by them, our body becomes
extremely sensitive and must be given more care than is