normal reason--real fear being denied place and function
altogether. Then we may say that such action of reason is a
benefactor to man. It is, with pain and weariness, the
philanthropy of the nature of things within us.

One person said: "Tired? No such word in my house!" Now this
cannot be a sound and healthy attitude. Weariness, at a certain
stage of effort, is a signal to stop work. When one becomes so
absorbed in labor as to lose consciousness of the feeling of
weariness, he has issued a "hurry call" on death. I do not deny
that the soul may cultivate a sublime sense of buoyancy and power;
rather do I urge you to seek that beautiful condition; but I hold
that when a belief or a hallucination refuses to permit you to
hear the warning of nerves and muscles, Nature will work disaster
inevitably. Let us stand for the larger liberty which is joyously
free to take advantage of everything Nature may offer for true
well-being. There is a partial liberty which tries to realize
itself by denying various realities as real; there is a higher
liberty which really realizes itself by conceding such realities
as real and by using or disusing them as occasion may require in
the interest of the self at its best. I hold this to be true
wisdom: to take advantage of everything which evidently promises
good to the self, without regard to this or that theory, and
freely to use all things, material or immaterial, reasonable or
spiritual. I embrace your science or your method; but I beg to
ignore your bondage to philosophy or to consistency. So I say that
to normal health the weary-sense is a rational command to
replenish exhausted nerves and muscles.

It is not liberty, it is not healthful, to declare, "There is no