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191. Another viable legal alternative to obedience is circumvention. This is especially applicable to laws requiring action in given circumstances. For example, the law may require that 2x4 studs be placed at 16" centers. However, using post and lintel construction would eliminate studs altogether and thus circumvent the law.

192. The more frequently malicious obedience (189-190) is practiced, the easier circumvention (191) becomes.

193. It is possible for a law to become so well-defined that it becomes inapplicable. Therefore we generate an unceasing flow of laws beginning with a general principle and being honed down over successive generations to a specific applicability, ultimately becoming obsolete and irrelevant. In the process from genesis to obsolescence, the words of the law may expect to quadruple with each generation.

194. Circumvention is also a Biblically sound tradition as illustrated by the Greek word for sin. It is literally translated “to miss the mark.” One may easily avoid missing the mark (sinning) by not shooting.

195. The easiest way to avoid obeying the rules of a game without cheating is to play a different game. One is not bound by the rules of football if one is playing tennis.

196. As the arc of a pendulum deteriorates (60-63), it changes the direction of its swing more frequently.

197. In the same way, as our social history begins to settle at its historical convergency, the direction of social thought—though perhaps not reaching its radical heights of former eras—changes at an ever increasing rate of speed, leading to social disorientation, sudden turns in thought, and confusion among the masses.

198. A pendulum has its greatest potential at the bottom of the arc. Thus we see that when we approach the historical convergence, our potential for beneficent glory and total destruction is at an incomprehendable height.

199. Since all things are in motion (19), one might be tempted to assert that all things are made of motion, i.e. a relationship of connections. Therefore one might picture sound waves, light waves, brain waves (the most elemental units of motion) as actually being able to take shape. If one could concentrate strongly enough or compress the thought waves, they might take a shape visibly representative of the thinker or the thought.

200. While it may be difficult to conceive of thoughts taking visible shape, it is important to remember that thoughts hold their own dimension of reality. Nothing is thought that does not exist. The mind, being a sophisticated broadcaster of thoughts constantly projects beyond the body. Just as a doctor is capable of using electronic instruments to measure and chart brain waves, some sensitive receivers may be able to “see” the thoughts that we broadcast.

Editor’s Note: We once again find that in the last two verses of the second hundred, Wesley couches his thoughts in “might” and “maybe.” It is significant to note that these two verses are the second pencil section of the second hundred.  The third hundred follows.