no ain’t.
 How can we know what truth is?
 If you ask a hundred professors they will give you a hundred different answers. One will say, “My theory is this,” and the other will say, “My theory is that,” and all you get is a head full of notions.
 So I will show you how to recognize truth and know how to distinguish that which is from that which ain’t.
 NOW: You brought here today a little worm-like machine that you call your body. You twist it this way and twist it that way, but there are certain functions connected with it that introduces me to you so that you can become acquainted with me.
 Those functions, known as senses, are in your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hooks. Through their mechanism you bring to the attention of your reasoning faculties objects of reality and by a process of mental deliberation and sortification you adjust and readjust these objects in such a way that you start thinking and when you have arrived at that stage of development you are then in a condition to see that which is and not see that which ain’t.
 For instance, I am standing here and unless you have the blind staggers, you can see me. If the dust hasn’t mixed with the wax in your ears you can hear me when I talk. If you get close enough and use your hooks, you can feel me. And, if you haven’t asthma, you might even smell me.
 So when I say I am here, I am telling the truth. But if you say I am not here, you are a hallucinated liar.
 NOW, just as true as I am here, so everything I say while here will be true. It will be the truth. But if you say anything I tell you is not the truth, then you must be a Tout of the financier, that’s all.
 In learning the truth you must get the whole truth. Don’t take a little piece of it and then add to it a lot of falsehoods, a lot of theories, a lot of guesses, and tell the people it’s the truth. You must be able to prove the truth.
 There are thousands and thousands of men and women on earth teaching what they call Economics. The libraries are full of books labeled Economics. But if you look from now until you are blind you won’t find one that says what Economics is. They all say what Economics ain't.
 The people of this world have never learned what Economics is. Profound professors write ponderous books that they charge you five or ten dollars apiece for and which take you a month to read. But you can never digest them, even if you pore over them until you have long, white whiskers. They are absolutely indigestible.
 I read some of those so-called Economics books fifty years ago and after wading through them, I couldn’t find anything practical about them. They were written by theorists, men and women who squat down somewhere and say, “Well, that’s the way it ought to be.” They look out of a window and see the walls of the next building and say, “I get a hunch from that brick over there, that’s