First Sentence

"Today and the day before, I seriously meditated upon how I should find such a method for my explanations, by the totality of which I intend today, and in the two of three following meetings, to make clear for you certain definite information having a close connection with your life, and to give a shape and sequence to my expositions, such as might perhaps, in the conditions created by you North Americans-in the sense of abnormally great as compared with other people's mechanism of mentation-contribute to a normal and impartial comprehension by you of this definite information."