the assurance that the White Life surrounds the true self, and is
surely within that self, and will suffer "no evil to come nigh,"
while all the instincts of self--preservation may be perfectly
active, fear itself must be removed "as far as the east is from
the west."

This splendid conviction I earnestly commend to all readers.

These are the ways, then, in which any occasion for fear may be
divided:

As a warning and as a maker of panic. But let us say that the
warning should be understood as given to reason, that fear need
not appear at all, and that the panic is perfectly useless pain.
With these discriminations in mind, we may now go on to a


PRELIMINARY STUDY OF FEAR.


Fear is (a) an impulse, (b) a habit, (c) a disease.

Fear, as it exists in man, is a make-believe of sanity, a creature
of the imagination, a state of insanity.

Furthermore, fear is, now of the nerves, now of the mind, now of
the moral consciousness.

The division depends upon the point of view. What is commonly
called normal fear should give place to REASON, using the word to