Thoughts [excerpt]

     All life begins at a point, in the cell or seed, and works outward by cell division and organic multiplication. External accident may mar this growth, and a favourable environment is a necessary factor. But to bring about modifications and perpetuate them, it is necessary to begin at the centre of things. The same law is exemplified in the mental world. It is a thought of Emma Goldman which works in the mind of Czolgosz until it brings its terrible fruition, the killing of President M’Kinley. To reform that man or any other, you must somehow instil [sic] another idea into his mind. It would be useless to try to reform him by any other method. Your reformative idea is a carefully chosen product of your own mental evolution, it is the concentrated result of a vast deal of thinking. It will take root and grow like a seed in the soil.