In “Famous Stories of Sam P. Jones,” appears the following:
Start an engine from New York to San Francisco, and there is
attached to its side a little piece of mechanism which indicates
the number of miles it has traveled, the stoppages it has made,
and how long it stopt at each station; and if you want to know
the record of the journey you need not ask the engineer a word.
The little piece of mechanism on the side of the engine tells
you its record.
In the same way the thoughts, deeds, and progress of a soul are
self-registering. (Text.)
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