aordinary work he
is doing in London, for people in the way of reeducating and
recooerdinating their bodies.

I took home from a bookshop one day not long ago, after reading an
article about it by Professor James Harvey Robinson in the _Atlantic_,
Mr. Alexander's quite extraordinary book, which after starting off with
an introduction by Professor John Dewey, of Columbia, leads one into a
new world, to the edge, almost the precipitous edge of a new world.

I am inclined to believe that the deepest and most penetrating knowledge
of that curious and delicate blend of spirit and clay we call a human
being, and the most masterful technique for getting conscious control of
it and of the helpless civilization in which it still is trying to live,
are going to be found before many years to be in the brain and the hand
of Mathias Alexander. It is hard to keep from writing a book about him
when one thinks of him, but as I cannot write a book about him in the
middle of this one, I am going to touch for a moment on the principle
Alexander employs in breaking through new brain tracks in persons, and
then try to apply the same principles to breaking through new brain
tracks for a nation.

What Mr. Alexander does with people I have already hinted at in what I
have said about our having a new profession in America--the profession of
being a lawyer backward. Of course Mr. Alexander could not say of himself
that he was in the profession of being a lawyer backward, but he does
practically the same thing in his field that a lawyer backward would do.
He makes it his business to change people's minds for them instead of
petting their minds and he does the precise thing I have in mine except
that he confines himself in doing it to what he calls psycho-mechanics--to
a single first relation in which a man's mind needs to be changed--the
relation of a man's mind to his body.

If a man's mind gets his body right, it will not need to be changed about
many other things in which it is wrong. The first thing a man's mind
should be changed about usually is his body.

This is the principle upon which Mathias Alexander in the very extraordinary
work he is doing in London, proceeds.

When you are duly accepted as a client and have duly given credentials or
shown signs that you want all the truth about yourself that you can get
no matter how it hurts, or how it looks, you present yourself at the
appointed time in Alexander's office, or studio, or lab