Upton Sinclair

They Call Me Carpenter Upton Sinclair

Book Excerpt: ...tanding with his hand on my head, was the figure out of the stained glass window! I looked at him twice, and then I looked at the window. Where the figure had been was a great big hole with the sun shining through!We know the power of suggestion, and especially when one taps the deeps of the unconscious, where our childhood memories are buried. I had been brought up in a religious family, and so it seemed quite natural to me that while that hand lay on my head, the throbbing and whirling should cease, and likewise the fear. I became perfectly quiet, and content to sit under the friendly spell. "Why were you crying?" asked the voice, at last. I answered, hesitatingly, "I think it was humiliation.""Is it something you have done?""No. Something that was done to me.""But how can a man be humiliated by the act of another?"I saw what he meant; and I was not humiliated any more. The stranger spoke again. "A mob," he said, "is a blind thing, worse than madness. It is the beast in man running...