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[dream_weaver]

In "Atlas Shrugged", "For The New Intellectual" and "Philosophy: Who Needs It", where Miss Rand identifies this as part of "the nature, the base, and the proof of" her morality:

"Whoever you are, you who are hearing me now, I am speaking to whatever living remnant is left uncorrupted within you, to the remnant of the human, to your mind, and I say: There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man's Life is its standard of value."

Is it essentially correct to break this down as follows:

I am speaking to whatever living remnant is left uncorrupted within you.

I am speaking to the remnant of the human.

I am speaking to your mind.

or am I missing something obvious. To break it down as inquired about, the sense that these are three subtly different ways of repeating a similar point. If this is the case, I do not get how: "whatever living remnant is left uncorrupted within you" is similar to: "the remnant of the human" and how these would be similar to: "your [the] mind."

[Grames]

It zooms in from a very broad generality "living remnant is left uncorrupted within you" to a more narrow focus "the remnant of the human" to the very specific attribute "your mind." No one listening to John Galt should be under the impression he is addressing them heart-to-heart.