does not need any special strength to operate it. There is no way in which anyone could say, ‘If you are strong enough to operate that switch then you are strong enough to operate any of them.’ The simple fact is that, if you control the master-switch, you control all the lights; you are lord of the switchboard. It is in this sense that the person who controls the tongue is able to bridle the whole body also (2). This is the great (and not unreal) boast the tongue can make (5a). But should this surprise