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This world is that dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out, each in, his own way, for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How can it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then he will not be a fanatic. When we know that this world is like a dog's curly tail and will never get straightened in the way we want, we shall not become fanatics. There are fanatics of various kinds, wine fanatics, cigar fanatics and so on. There was a young lady once in this class. She is one of a number of ladies in Chicago who have built a house into which they take the working people and give them some music and gymnastics. One day this young lady was talking to me about the evils of drinking and sínoking and so on, and told me that she knew the remedy for it all. I asked her what it was, and she said, "Don't you know the Hall House?" Evidently in her opinion this Hall House is a great panacea, 'for all the evils that human flesh is heir to. There are some fanatics in India who think that, if a
