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conscious of Want. It was in him like the need of the young oak in the flower pot, for more room for expression. The oak broke the pot man out-grew cave. He has been outgrowing conditions ever since because he grew into more feeling. As he felt more, he thought more. In this century he FEELS as he never felt. Well says Frances Ellingwood Abbott: "Man must learn to think more profoundly, or else unlearn to feel!" Out of this necessity for profound thinking, which is not mere investigation and speculation, theorizing and reasoning, but THINKING, has come the New Thought, the New Emancipation. "Beware when God lets loose a thinker!" says Emerson. Because thinking is the only Human function. Feeling, sensation, is shared by plant and animal, and probably even by the mineral. But sensation evolves until -through instinct, Ideation is born. Ideation is Man's prerogative. Animals Feel Man Thinks. Animals instinctively act. So does the partly unfolded Man. Animals automatically obey the Universal Ideas, and so does undeveloped Man. Animals act under the Thoughts of that which is not themselves, so does Man unconscious of his power, but Man alone, out of Universal Ideas, creates Ideals Man alone thinks! Man alone is conscious of himself! Man alone can say, I AM! Man is born into a universe of sensations, says Professor James. "Confusion is the babe's universe. A multitude of organic conditions does not prevent the consciousness from being one consciousness. The babe's consciousness is one big, blooming, buzzing confusion." The babe has no consciousness of its own. It possesses all God's consciousness, and gradually becomes aware of its possession of this consciousness. The babe has no feeling of its own. but possesses all God's feeling; but out of this universe of feeling it differentiates those it calls its own, because