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I was unable to tell, the following morning, whether I had dreamed this, or had
actually been awake, and I have never since found out which it was, but I do know
that the dream, if it were a dream, was so vivid in my mind the next day that I
resumed my meetings the following night.

At our next meeting, the members of my Cabinet all filed into the room together,
and stood at their accustomed places at the Council Table, while Lincoln raised
a glass and said, "Gentlemen, let us drink a toast to a friend who has returned to
the fold."

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After that, I began to add new members to my Cabinet, until now it consists of
more than fifty, among them Christ, St. Paul, Galileo, Copernicus, Aristotle, Pla-
to, Socrates, Homer, Voltaire, Bruno, Spinoza, Drummond, Kant, Schopenhau-
er, Newton, Confucius, Elbert Hubbard, Brann, Ingersol, Wilson, and William
James.

This is the first time that I have had the courage to mention this. Heretofore, I
have remained quiet on the subject, because I knew, from my own attitude in
connection with such matters, that I would be misunderstood if I described my
unusual experience. I have been emboldened now to reduce my experience to the
printed page, because I am now less concerned about what "they say" than I was
in the years that have passed. One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes
brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not
understand, may think or say.

Lest I be misunderstood, I wish here to state most emphatically, that I still regard
my Cabinet meetings as being purely imaginary, but I feel entitled to suggest that,
while the members of my Cabinet maybe purely fictional, and the meetings exist-
ent only in my own imagination, they have led me into glorious paths of adven-
ture, rekindled an appreciation of true greatness, encouraged creative endeavor,
and emboldened the expression of honest thought.

Somewhere in the cell-structure of the brain, is located an organ which receives
vibrations of thought ordinarily called "hunches." So far, science has not discov-
ered where this organ of the sixth sense is located, but this is not important. The
fact remains that human beings do receive accurate knowledge, through sources
other than the physical senses. Such knowledge, generally, is received when the
mind is under the influence of extraordinary stimulation. Any emergency which
arouses the emotions, and causes the heart to beat more rapidly than normal
may, and generally does, bring the sixth sense into action. Anyone who has ex-
perienced a near accident while driving, knows that on such occasions, the sixth