VOL VI MARCH. 1922 No. 10

NOTES OF THE MONTHNot only may the FRENCH DOC- . . .., ...TOR LEARNING brains of the illus-

HOW TO trious be graftedGRAFT BRAINS , • .. .& ‘on the living, butwe may also be on the eve of the se cret of perpetual life.This astounding possibility, arising

out of the discovery by Professor Car rel. is revealed bv Sir Villiambuthnot Lane, the famous surgeon

the war.before

Any tissue kept in a microscopic slide, at a suitable temperature, fed with the right material, and drained at frequent intervals, will grow and Kve forever,” said Sir W. Lane.“If this is applied not only to one

or two tissues, but to all the tissues of a hving body, then it follows that such a man would live forever.“We pay for civilization by eating

digestible food. We should in reality eat indigestible food, as the savage does. The Hindu lives on com ground between stones, and the cake he makes is most imperfectly roasted. Therefore, he avoids all disease of the intestines, such as cancer, which is spreading in the civilized world with the most alarming rapidity.

Other Organs Grafted “Professor Alexis Carrel, with

whom I worked for a short time, has made astounding discoveries. He suc cessfully grafted a whole kidney from one animal into another of the same species. He did the same with a leg and other members, transplanting ar teries and veins at the same time. Ihave seen a black dog with a white leg that had been grafted on. The blood vessels joined up during the operation and worked successfully. Professor Carrel tried grafting a kid ney on the organism of a living man, but it became calcareous. These ex periments, however, are invaluable be cause they lead the way.

“The tissues Professor Carrel is ex perimenting with are mounted on slides, and have to be kept at the same temperature as that of the human body. They are washed every day with saline water to dispose of by products, and they will never die as long as the treatment is continued. They grow just like a fungus, and in time overrun the slide. There is no such thing as death as long as there is perfect drainage.

“Professor Carrel has not vet been

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able to unite tissues and keep them growing. Until this can be done these fragments will have no thought, al though they may possess feeling.,,

Three weeks af- WILL POWER IN , , , , - aFIGHTING ter “e receivedDEATH RESPON- the last rites forSIBLE FOR ,1 , j -T). , jRALLY the dead Richard

Croker today stood on the porch of his great house at Glencaim and watched a parade of a string of nine daughters of the famous Derby winner, Orby—a part of the Croker racing stables.

According to Dr. Lennon, the re- coveiy of the 81-year-old Tammany chieftain is nothing less than miracu lous. The only cause for complaint that the big boss has is that he must wait another month before resuming his daily tours of inspection of his great 500-acre Glencairn estate.

Feels as Fit as Ever “I feel as fit as ever,” Mr. Croker

said emphatically. “But I will admit when they all told me the end was at hand it did seem ridiculous for a man of my age to try to prove them wrong.

“They tell me Plato wrote his best poetry at the age of 80, which would seem to leave some excuse for me.”

Mrs. Croker explained the remark able incident which marked the pass ing of the crisis in her husband’s ill ness shortly after he had been anoin ted.

“The doctor came to me,” she said, “and said my husband wanted to give me a message. When I got to his bed side he explained at great length that he did not want the household all up set by his death, and that he wanted

everybody to be calm and level-headed. But chiefly he desired to tell me that he wanted no misunderstanding about his burial place.

Burial at Home“ ‘If I don’t have it understood now,’

he told me. ‘I suppose I will be carted across the ocean and down to Palm Beach or heaven knows where else— everybody, even indirectly concerned, feeling they are the only ones know ing my wishes.’

“Then he gave me explicit instruc tions that he be buried right here on the grounds.” . -‘ftm

Doctor Lennon said it was the tre mendous will power Mr. Croker ex erted in issuing these instructions that undoubtedly accounts for his remark able rally that immediately ensued in his condition.

In solemn con-SPIRIT WATCH * ,» ,.FOR SCIENTIST centration, psychics

and spiritualists all over the country are waiting for a voice from the grave—a message from the “great beyond” from Dr. James Martin Peebles, world famous meta physician, who died at his home here at the age of 99 years and within a month of his 100th birthday.

It was revealed today that Dr. Pee bles, on his deathbed, vowed he would return from death and communicate with his friends and students of meta physics, to tell them of life after death.

“So that w e can absolutely idAtify him, he promised to bring with him the soul of one who preceded him in death when he returns,” said Susie McFar- lane Page, to whom he made his promise.

Dr. Peebles planned a great re union after his death with spirit souls of many of his friends who died be fore him. After this meeting with those souls beyond, he will return to earth to continue his work in meta physics, said Mrs. Page.

Mrs. Enrico Ca-CARUSO’SWIDOW IN ruso, widow of theSPIRIT CLASS Metropolitan opera

star, today announ ced she was interested in spiritualism, and had enrolled in a small group of society and stage people who have been attending seances.

At the first meeting the mediumhadn’t the least idea who I was,” shesaid, “and she said, ‘I see somebodyasleep, and there is a chapel and apriest and a nun. I also see a cross. Don’t worry.’ ”

Mrs. Caruso interpreted this to mean the chapel where her husband rests in Naples. It is being cared for by mem bers of a religious order, and the cross is the small cross of her rosary whichshe had placed upon her husband’s body.

“I am not seeking any message from the dead,” she explained, “but I have become tremendously interested in the subject in purely an impersonal man ner.”Medical Society Learns the Reason

for Furrows and L ost SleepModern business

methods and the wear and tear of professional life in big cities have pro

duced a disease little known and un derstood by the medical profession.

This disease, known as chronic fatigue intoxication in lieu of a better name, has never been studied exhaustively nor described adequately, according to Dr. Edward H. Ochsner, who read a paper on the subject before the Chi cago Medical Society last night.

Dr. Ochsner illustrated his discus sion of the subject with pictures show ing men and women with mouths drawn down, making them look like chronic grouches, and others with smiles, which, he explained, indicated anything but a feeling of hilarity.

A lert Class Affected“The disease attacks only those who

are mentally and physically alert and who turn out prodigious amounts of work—for a time,” said Dr. Ochsner. “It cuts down a class of men and wo men who are of great value to the com munity at a time when, through ex perience and with ripened years and judgment, they would otherwise have reached their period of highest capa bility.

Cannot Sleep Well“They cannot sleep well, suffering

delusions that they are working and carrying heavy loads. Deep furrows appear in their faces and they go to extremes in their mental delusions. Some are extremely suspicious, while others are trusting and easily deluded. The disease causes their muscles to contract and it is because of the in ability to relax that the patients carry a continuous grin or a continuous frown on their faces. The disease is caused by poisons generated by fa tigue.” '

CHRONIC GROUCH IS A DISEASE, DOCTOR FINDS

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By LY RO Y Y O R R EIs it not time that the word spirit

uality acquired a wider meaning than that which it commonly re ceives? It is usually restricted to those who are scrupulous in Church attendance, and zealous in the mat ter of ritual and orthodox creeds.

But both history and experience show that whilst these institutions may powerfully promote the spiri tual mind, they may also narrow and materialize it. Did not Mr. Gladstone write: “There is one pro position which the experience of life burns into my soul; it is th is: that man should beware of letting his religion spoil his morality. In a thousand ways, some great, some small, but all subtle, we are daily tempted to that great sin.” Through out the ages the voices of prophets and seers have never ceased to be raised in warning against the dead ening effect of religious customs and beliefs.

For a generation after The Origin of Species the gospel of science was called by its enemies the Gospel of Materialism. Does not the Church lie open to the same reproach? There is scarcely a spiritual truth that she has not materialized. Take, for example, the words “This is My body which is given for you.” Here is a great spiritual fact. The broken bread is a symbol of the life given for others. As bread revives the body, so self-sacrificing love quick ens and redeems the soul. Yet this

simple and Divine truth has been al- most completely obscured by mate rialistic ideas and conceptions. It has been interpreted in terms of savage customs that found their way into the Jewish temple, and turned it into a sham bles: the outpouring of blood, the sacrifice of a victim to appease an offended deity. The blood of Christ, the physical death, is still held by many to be the es sence of the Gospel.

I t was believed by primitive man that to eat the flesh of a victim was to partake of its qualities. The Roman priest claims the. power to change the bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ, so that he who receives these physical elements receives Christ. The Mass is declared to be a vicarious sacrifice, which the priest offers to God “for the sins of the living and the dead.” Those who accept these doctrines can scarcely reproach science with materialism.

The spiritual man recognises in the material universe, and in all forms of religious thought, the out ward manifestation of an indwelling life, whose laws are tru th and love, and believes tha t by acting in con formity with these laws he has life and peace.

I. I t is a common fallacy which resolves the world into two great classes, the spiritual and the un spiritual, the saved and the lost. The distinction does not exist. The

powers of good sod evil sre at war in every soul. None is without some spark of spiritual life; none possesses it in its fulness. All are in the process of being made, some better, some worse. “To be the best, is but the fewest faults to have.”How hollow and artificial do our

conventional distinctions appear when brought to the test of reality! What congregation of the Elect does not share the common frailties of our nature—its small jealousies, the desire for money, the love of office and applause. Would the world be indeed a better place to live in if it were converted to the type of an average Church Member?These are questions that have to

be asked and answered. Things are what they are, and badges and labels do not change them. The only thing that matters is the inward life, and the measure in which we overcome the greed and cunning of our animal nature, and develop the powers of the spirit.

And if the best are not w holly spiritual, neither are the w orst en tirely carnal. Hidden by ignorance and greed, or depraved by lust and passion, the spiritual life is there, never wholly extinguished. I t is to be found in every stage of grow th from infancy to m aturity . I t exists where it does not obviously appear, as the new-born babe lives ere it comes to the birth. O ften it w aits but a Divine word to call i t forth, or the summons of a high duty. A National crisis, like the recent War, brought to light a wealth of

sp iritual life in unexpected places. M en of com m on clay, for w hom th e C hurches could find no use, suffered and died like heroes fo r a g re a t cause.

T o be able to d iscover th e good in hopeless lives is an a ttr ib u te of th e sp iritual m ind. T h e M aste r pos sessed th is pow er w ith o u t m easure. H is m essage w as of th e g rea tn ess of hum an n a tu re ra th e r th an of H is ow n g reatness. H e recognized in every m an a child of God, an d saw , even in th e w o rst offenders, u n d e veloped souls, w ho needed p ity and assistance and forgiveness. W h ere the P harisees and th e tow nsfo lk could see only sin in “ th e w om an th a t w as a s inner,” H e perceived love; “she loved m uch,” and by the pow er of H is ow n p u rity and love H e drew her from h er evil w ays, and kindled an irresistib le desire for a h igher life. As th e E lectroscope b rings to ligh t a speck of rad ium l6st in a load of rubbish , so the sp iritual m ind, th ro u g h som e m ys terious affinity, a ttra c ts th e D ivine elem ent in w asted lives, and kindles it to a flame.

I I . T he m ost serious e rro r co n cerning sp iritu a lity is th a t w hich a s sociates it w ith a p a rticu la r kind of tem peram ent, m aking it a lm ost en tire ly a fem inine quality . In every C hurch the typical sa in t is found am ongst the em otional and neuro tic . T o be easily excited, and qu ick ly moved to con trition o r rap tu re , is taken as a sign of a m ore sp iritu a l nature . T he m an of firm and reso lute character, how ever u p rig h t and

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hon*at, 11 larking in emotional %ux GefAihility, in usually clawedaitunigni flion/' who mind earthlything*,

11 I* not to hi denied that /led* clency of religion* feeling way he a net I (At* defect that might ultimately nun\ upon the character, blit it inalllid too vlately with I hr? phyxical nature in afford any criterion of xxlntllneilf, On the (Alter hand, the Indie*! and won! enduring emotion ft aprlng Irani our moral nature, anda I way n attend the conaeiouanew of a (food action done.

The criterion of xplrituality hax varied with the reulnne#, The xainl nl the Middle Age* wan the rcclllic and the nacelle, In the eighteenth lenitiiy the evangelical revival indialed Upon the evidence of intenseeiiioiiniiid experience, The Oxford Movement of the nineteenth century taught that the ipiritlial man wax to he known by his observance offlrI hr nnrrnnicntM, and }ila devotion to Church order and authority. The twentieth century lifts struck a dif ferent note. It seeks to recover the teaching1 of the Master hy emphasising the supreme importance of human ser vice. It declares that one simple test of the spiritual life is self-renunciation in the service Of man. "My their fruits ye shall know them." Stress is no longer laid upon emotion of creed, hut upon character and conduct. The rootsof the spiritual life , as o f life itse lf , arc held to he Inaccessible to us. It is only possible, therefore, to d istin g u ish b e tween a true and counterfeit e x p e r i ence by the result. T h e d eg ree in

which ft rchfsjowi experience is produe- tivc of good works, shows the degree in which it is spiritual and fMvine.

Religion in fhe past contained Un much prohibition. The early Chris tians, believing that the existing order was about «peedily to pass away, with drew as completely as possible from mundane affairs. Hence arose the fatal distinction between, the Church and the world. But no longer arc wordly offices and occupations re garded as external to the spiritual life, but rather as the sphere in which it is to operate and manifest itself. The dominant idea to-day is not the empti ness of the world, but the grandeur ofits opportunities, ft is realized that all service is Divine service, and that the beat preparation for another world is to make a worthy tine of this. With the spiritual man the sense of the Eter nal has transfigured the things of time, lie sees that "the life is more than meat," and uses all his wordly success to promote a nobler and fuller life for himself and others.

III. Growth in spirituality depends not only upon service, but also upon consecration. By consecration is meant acting from a high principle, obedience to duty, singleness of pur pose. "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." A spiritually-minded person does not concern himself about external re wards : he desires only to live at his best . 11 is good deeds are not done to be seen of men. Neither censure nor applause can deflect him from hiscourse.

(To Be Continued)

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Banker David R. Forgan Says'.Honesty, in the fu ll accep tan ce o f th e

term, means m ore th an m ere ly p a y in g one's debts. I t in vo lves tru th fu ln ess, fa ir ness toward onefs neigh bor a n d to w a rd all with w hom one com es in c o n ta c t.

A man to be honest must respect him self. He must know himself to be honest.

A man m ust be f it fo r h im self to know if he expects to be th e so r t o f m an that others w ill w a n t to k n o w .

Honesty is not being discounted today.

greatest asset canwhether rich or poor.

B ig business to d a y is honest. I t has to b e- T h e business o f th is cou n try is largely done o n c red it. T h a t w o rd is taken from th e L a tin w o rd “c re d o ? w hich means “I b e lieveI9 _

No man can be a liar and a hypocrite and get away with it aD the time. He is bound to be tripped up somewhere along along the way.

H o n esty is one o f th e v ita l essentials in business to d a y .

BY GEORGE Is honesty, of the kind of our fore

fathers, being discounted by modern businessf

No man is better qualified to answer this question than a banker. Few bankers are better qualified to answer it than David R. Forgan, president of the National City Bank of Chicago. Mr. Forgan is a keen observer of hu man actions and impulses and his an swer shows that his vision has reached far beyond the scope of banking prac tice and methods.

He tells you that honesty as well as charity begins at home—with the in dividual. Also that it means more than a mere question of money—that it involves honesty of purpose. More over, he shows that honesty is a paying asset. You will be interested in the views of this man of ripe business experience.

W hat Honesty Means “Honesty, in the full acceptance of

the term, means more than merely pay ing one’s debts,” said Mr. Forgan. “In its broadest sense it involves truthful ness, fairhess towards one s neighbor

R. M" INTYREand towards all with whom one comes in contact, not only in business deal ings, but in social life as well.

“A man to be honest must respect himself. He must know himself to be honest. You remember those lines \of Edgar Guest? I think the first two are like this:\ ‘I have to live with myself, and so I want to be fit for myself to know/

'Now, a man must be fit for him self to know if he expects to be the sort of man that others will want to know. If a man came to me with a lot of figures involving a statement of his business affairs with a request for a loan, you might naturally think we would investigate. the figures. Well, possibly we would.

Investigate Man First "But we would first investigate the

man. We would want to know what sort of record he had made for him self; we would want to ascertain how he stood in his community—how those who knew him and had dealings with him regarded him.

"If he stood this test we would very

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likely icgrml hi# figures as correct male analysis' it does not and cannot without too drop an investigation. Hut pay to be dishonest. The business manIt he did not stand the test wc would tidto does not treat his patrons with not let him have the money, even if honesty ts bound to lose out in the end.Ids figures wore correct, lor the very good reason that it would not be con

Honesty Best Policy “It is true we have had our profi-

w w goad business policy to hove teers—still have them. But my state- deiilings tilth it man whose record for meut still holds good, not only that honesty and situate dealing did not honesty is the best policy, but that it isshow t(M pet' cent clean.

"Honesty is not being disi'onnted to- matelvthe only policy that succeeds ulti-

<lox It is one of the tgreatest assets I I (liven initiative, perseverance anda WfiMt c m xthettier he be rich the natural adaptability for business e* foe* Rig business today is honest» which a man must have to succeed, the ft bus to be% The business of this «*/*<> is honest and who has acountry and ot the rest ot the world reputation for square dealing wiU inas well is largely done on credit* The the end come out ahead. vm word credit inwlvts confidence, % man can be a liar and a hypo- It is taken trom the hatin word 'credo/ erite and get crtcviy with it all of the

time. He is bound to be tripped up someti'here along the way.

"It is true that during: the war and

w inch means M believe/

menbee

mss

60 Billion on Credit"business in this country reaching

die cokvssal total even year of moreKr Jjr

Hvau fW,(M>0,tHkUH>0 is done almost entirely o il credit. That credit is ex- temled because of tl>c cvMitidcnce felt large profits, while other men enlistedby those who grant it, and it is seldom ami went across the Atlantic to bemisplaced, Big buriness everywhere, food for cannon or to retorn fessBrm txnanoial life, in industrial life and hopelessly crippled, but that is the Ke rn all departments of business effort is tune of war. and war is just a teconducted on credit that is scrupu- Sherman said it was.bmsh adhered to on both rides as if an oath had been taken.

T h e vast products that the soil so fast during the war have Wet

"It is noteworthv that some of 4 s verv millionaires who rolled up ®*e

JK. mL IfedVlHlK \ ^ tir to M 71*

xidds exert xear and the mU3h>' lto te d o u tp u t o f o u r b ig w M u s tm l

plan ts a re m oxed to m a rk e t h e re a n dtn

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abroad through a credit system that In d u s the necessity of honesty.

T do md MV tea that dR henott fcrt it w « te f Ant an ahr

the war. I think it is Hk*h small merchants who

3^ of the surptes pevifc tMX **MHhrions during and

roce>WUNI OK *

n in h o rthiStKti,t

A Business Essential"Honesty, you may depend, is one

of the vital essentials in business today —:not only here in Chicago, but throughout the world.

“The prosperity of our people in their relations with one another and with the people of other nations de pends on this. I believe that nations are more inclined to be honest with one another now than ever before, and I look forward with great hopefulness to the work accomplished at the dis armament conference in Washington.

“It is true that no chain is stronger than its weakest link, and no nation is stronger than the individuals form ing that nation. This is essentially true of our nation.

*'The honesty of this nation in its participation in the war is one of the bright spots in our history. Probably no nation ever entered a war for so unselfish and praiseworthy a motive as impelled this nation to lend its aid in the defeat of Germany and the centralpowers.

on can put it down that most persons are honest. The very strength and growth of this nation prove it. We

|Iould not be where me are today, our

and dotted with prosperous cities, our rodroads reaching f rom Atlantic to Poc&c, mere it not for the honesty thet

' ted enormous credits, eB of

IntuitionB y LILY L. ALLEN

“Me, wherever my life is lived, 0 to be self- contained, balanced for contingencies.”—WaltWhitman. ' * .

“You must say of nothing, That is beneath m e, nor feel that anything can be out of your power. Nothing is impossible to the man who can will. Is th a t necessary? That shall b e :—this is the only law of success.”

(HAT one who lacks Personality is for ever depending upon and ordering his life after the ideas

and judgments of other people. Now if there is one thing above all others the man of Personality does not do,it is the above.

He will listen with all due respect to the opinions of others, not to pat tern his life and conduct after them just because they are their opinions and not his own, but because, ever humble and simple, he respects the thoughts and opinions of all men, tak ing from them that which may be of help and encouragement, but always relying upon his own judgment, regu lating and controlling his life and con duct by that only.

Personality stands for itself; h is Self-contained. Men and women of Personality have learned that "imita tion is suicide." I f we try to appearsomething

is so.shadows o f that person—shams, coun terfeits. and not our real selves. I f

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conviction because it is the u su a l a n d expected th ing fo r us to do, a n d n o t because we believe it to be r ig h t , w e scatter ou r forces and w eaken o u r p o w ers of Intuition, and are re n d e rin g o u r selves less and less able to fo rm a c o r rect judgm ent. Indeed, it is te r r ib ly possible for men and w om en to w eak ly yield time and again to th e ju d g m e n ts and standards o f o th e rs u n til th e y have lulled every pow er o f d is c r im in a tion w ithin them selves to s le e p ; a n d they may sleep in th e ir se lf-su ic id e fo r a lifetime, o r w ake u p a t las t, w h e n

the best o f life has g o n e by, to th e leanness and p o v erty o f th e ir o w n

hearts.W atch for the spon taneous th o u g h t

of your ow n m ind. C atch it, a n d d o not let it go. D o n 't fo r ev e r g o lo o k

ing for the th o u g h t o f an o th e r, im a g in

ing tha t th is one a n d th a t o n e m u s t think g re a te r th o u g h ts , co n ce iv e

g rander ideas, set fo r th h ig h e r id e a ls

fo r you to follow . A n d w h y ? H a s

he essentially an y th in g better to d r a w

from than y o u ? Ike w ho h a b itu a lly

d istrusts h is ow n ju d g m en t, re je c ts h is

own thought, doubt* h is ow n capabil ity, regards th e opinion* and j u d g

m ents o f o th e rs before h is o w n — be tha t au thority a s an c ien t a s th e P y r a

mids—th a t m an can n ev er become a Personality, o r , in o th e r w o rd s , a strong, pow erfu l influence. Act on your own thought. Accept it. It it your/, Believe in it. E v e n suppose you should by a c tin g u p o n i t

teem to m ake a m istake , i t w ill o n ly be in teeming, and in th e en d m u s t tu r n

to your good, f t w ill b e a n in v e s tm e n t tha t will pay you in m o re w ay s th a n

m iv# • V nthing b u t th e la w o f h is own inner b e in g . A n d w r i t in g th a t sentence re m in d s m e th a t E m e rs o n sa id somethin# v e r y l ik e it , a n d I k n o w th a t he it r i g h t , not because he tayt it, but lie c a u s e I h a v e p ro v e d it in m y own life,

“ W h o w o u ld b e a m an m ust be an o n - c o n f o r m is t . I le w h o w ould gather im m o r ta l p a lm s m u s t n o t he hindered b y th e name o f g o o d n e s s , b u t must ex p lo r e i f it be goodness. N o th ing is at la s t s a c r e d b u t th e in te g r i ty of your o w n m in d . A b s o lv e y o u to yourself, a n d y o u s h a l l h a v e th e su ffrag e of the w o r ld . 1 r e m e m b e r a n an sw er which,

w h e n q u i t e y o u n g , I w as prom pted to m a k e t o a v a lu e r! a d v is e r who wait

w o n t to im p o r tu n e m e w ith the dear o ld d o c t r in e s o f th e C h u rc h , On my

saying Wls a c r e d n e s s o f t r a d i t io n s , if I live

w h o l ly f r o m w i t h i n ? ' m y friend sug gested, 'But th e s e im p u lse s may he

f ro m below, n o t f ro m above/ 1 replied, 'They d o not seem to m e to be such; but i f f a m the Devil's c h ild , I will live,

th e n , from t h e D e v i l , ' N o law can be s a c r e d to m e b u t t h a t o f m y nature,

l . , W h a t I m u s t d o is a ll th a t concern*

me, n o t w h a t th e people th in k ,"

E x p r e s s y o u r s e l f . W h y should you g o t h r o u g h l i f e e x p re s s in g other

people ?Spontaneity— t h a t is th e lost treas

urer t h a t we a l l n e e d to g o a-seeking.

M e n h a v e a l lo w e d T u i t io n to smother

a n d s t r a n g l e Intuition. W e have all

l a r g e ly begun a t th e wrong end—look ing out for T r u t h a n d Knowledge in s te a d o f looking in ; d ep en d in g upon

e x t e r n a l props r a t h e r th a n upon that

Light W ithin w hich is a s m u c h a n essential part o f a h u m a n b e in g a s is tight and hearing . T h e u n s p o k e n la w of the hum an h e a rt d iv in e h a s b e e n crushed down beneath su c h a n a c c u m u lation of creeds, d o c tr in e s , a n d m a n made cu sto m s a n d c o n v e n t i o n a l i t i e s that the race h a s v e r y l a r g e l y b e come m ere a c to r s a n d i m i t a t o r s ; many am o n g u s a r e s i c k s p i r i t u a l l y and m orally , a n d fe w a r e r o b u s t , strong an d p o w e r fu l .So few th a t seem Insert 8 pt, here .

So W alt W h itm a n p ic tu r e s th e m a n who dares to b e h im s e l f , S e l f - c o n trolled, S e lf-c o n ta in e d , f r e e , c o u r a g e ous, g rand , g re a t , a n d s t r o n g I S u c h

men and w om en d a r e to l iv e in th e magnificence o f th e i r in d e p e n d e n t in dividuality, a n d p e r s o n a l i ty , e x h ib i t in g to us the b e a u ty o f in d e p e n d e n c e , actions th a t re ly o n th e m s e lv e s ."

Oh fo r a re v iv a l o f I n tu i t i o n 1 O h for a going back a n d in to th e s o u l o f things— th e o r ig in a l s im p lic i ty o f th ehuman h e a r t, th e o n e R e lig io n o f a ll time!

T o seek a g a in th e s a c re d f o u n t o f Intuition is to se e k th e u n a d u l te r a te d T ruth, In s p ira t io n , a n d direct K n o w l edge th a t w ill m a k e u s m e n a n d w o m e n indeed,

(1 ) I n tu i t io n ; ( 2 ) S p o n ta n e i ty ; ( 3 ) In d ep en d en ce ; ( 4 ) S e l f - r e v e r e n c e — that is, re v e re n c e fo r o n e ’s o w n th o u g h t and ju d g m e n t ; su c h a r c so m e o f th e steps up w h ich w e c lim b to Pertonality.

" O f th e r i s in g f o r e v e r ta l le r a n d s tro n g e r a n d b ro a d e r o f th e in tu it io n of m en a n d w o m e n , a n d of S e lf -e s te e m

and P e r s o n a l i ty / '

Captain of Your Soul.By ERIC WOOD

--------IOU may not be the master ofyour own business, but you are master of yourself—-or you

can be and should he; and that is one of the keys of success. You make yourself what you are to do with as you w ill; see to it that you use your creation to the best advan tage. Organize your life as you would organize a business—with an eye to profits; regard yourself as a director of a limited liability com pany responsible to the shareholders. If you once let yourself get out of hand it will be difficult to regain control. If you cannot control your self you cannot expect to control others. •

Control means power. Have you seen the tub-thumper at the street corner lose all influence he might have had upon the crowd by losing his temper with a heckler? Self- restraint would have enabled him to quash the objector. You will find that in business self-control will help you to win through; take the snubs easily, the rebuffs and the dis appointments without allowing them to discourage you. You are greater than circumstances, you can ride o v e r them, you can mould them to your will—if you have first moulded yourself.

Self-control is an effort of the will in the first place; later it becomes u habit, ft is a manifestation of strong character, an exertion of personality.It enables you to direct your energy

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i n t o I»r im lc p c tid e tit, /is fur ;isMinii cam l>r Independent, of oiifsldnInfltliflCM I lift I would til fed kd vastly* An n child, you were difi clfdlutd l it I ftil ttfd u the d isn jd in r now yon Inivr cfOtitod the threshold of manhood, Tt’filu yourself fo rrni.nltliAf which if* against yen I* highestInterest; keep a grip upon yourself so tliai you iiuty be able to conquer without Always having to f i g h t .

Winning the victory over your in clinations once is ft multiple victory; it reacts Inter, and saves you the expenditure of mental energy.

The mini without control is a jell v-0 w

fish j don't he ft jelly-fish, The jelly fish commands little more than cur iosity; it is for you to command respect.

While you can he your own mas-w ;';r Wter, the captain of your own soul, you can also be your own slave, Don't let your passions sway you, Do not let desire swamp your com mon sense. Take heed that your tongue is Always under control; do not let it be your master. You need a grip upon yourself to insure that you will be studying when you want to be ploying; to keep your nose to the grindstone .when there is the temptation to slack off.

As captain of your soul it is in your hands to mould destiny. You must subject circumstances, envir onment, heredity, desire, to your w ill, and use them all toward the great end in view. Your destiny is in you, n o w ; it is for you to work it out, You w ill need courage—cour- ngr to face the fa c ts o f life a n d th e

possib ilities of to-m orrow, And suc cess is for f he courageous man, notfor the coward, Do not be afraidflint you will fail- fear is the seed of failure. Del/eve lliat your destiny

is tlte seed of site*is success- facess, The army captain leads his

the fir m c o n v ic tio n thatmen on witnhe is going to conquer; with the sferu determination that hewtllwtft; lie does not think of defeat, Leadyour arm y of one man into the battlein like spirit, facing your fate boldly and unafraid. Go "over the top" in faith self-faith — and know that there is no enemy you can meet who is more formidable than you your self if you funk it, Success lies the other side of No Man's Land; lead yourself across—when you are ready to go, Remember that the man who goes over the top without his steel helmet runs greater risk than the man who sees that he has put it on, Which is to say, be sure of your

Get knowledge, and usebasicit. Cut the wire entanglements be fore yon try to reach your objective; in other words, blaze the trail to suc cess by equipping yourself, mind and body. Knowledge, self-control, per severance, patience, integrity, pru dence, discrimination and judgment, industry, observation and concentra tion-—these are the general qualities that must be possessed by the am bitious man, besides the special qual ities that are called for in his pro fession.

By these you prepare yourself for success; by these you are ready to meet the obstacles that you could

. not remove before you met them.Exactly the same principle applies

in every profession; you fashion J your destiny out of what you are I and can do. The journalist must j know how to observe, imbibe and 11 report news; the novelist must know I how to weave his ideas into a plot

and how to present the plot in ar- j resting form. The clerk, yes, even

the clerk whose job it is to answer j correspondence, comes into this—he I must know the business he is in; the

bee farmer must know all there is | to know about bees; the advertiser

must know the best media and the way to boost his goods. Wherever you want to get, whatever you want to be in the end, remember that

I y°ur destiny depends upon yourI manipulation of your stock-in-trade,I the first essentials of which are— I knowledge and ability. Do not lead I yourself down the cul-de-sac of ig- j norance and then be surprised be

cause there is no way out except | by coming back.

Yet there is victory to be wrung from defeat, You remember what happened at the Marne in 1914? And you remember what happened on the Piave in 1918? Joffre and Foch drove back the Germans when Paris seemed within their grasp. Diaz hurled the Austrians across the Piave and inflicted upon them a more stinging defeat than ever the Austrians hoped to inflict upon the Italians. Good generalship — the generalship that was alert and ready to take the fate in both hands andwith the blackness of defeat like a

pall in front, used its gift for strate gy, and turned defeat into victory.

What about your generalship? You barked your shins on your last venture, you were discharged from your last post? Very well; begin again, but begin with your plans made, profiting by your experience. Because you have failed once is no reason why you should fail again. You can build on the ashes of ex perience; standing among the ruins of your debacle, you can reconstruct, using this brick and that pillar, see ing where your foundation lacked stability. The world wants con structors, not destroyers; if you give up because you have failed you will be reckoned among the destroyers, flow many times do you think Edi son failed before he invented the telephone? Do you think that Mar coni got there for the first time with his experiments in wireless? How many times did Bessemer try before be discovered the secret he sought— the secret of making cheap steel? They were constructors, had con structive ideas, and they believed in their ideas sufficiently to make them try again when they did not suc ceed. Victory lies round the corner of defeat; often it lies through de feat. It is no crime to fail; it is a crime not to rise again.

"Never beaten 1" is the war cry of the successful man. Napoleon struck "impossible" out of his dictionary; the British Empire, even in the dark est days of the Great War, never spoke of defeat, but always of vic tory. Stick it; don't give in, even

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TOOto start all over again. Britain went into the war with a handful of men. and t eiy soon learnt that modern war demands big armies, the whole

of a nation: so she set

When the big problem coos •ns-. do not be afraid to tackle it:

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begienergiesabort building a new army

orsted before takes perfect o attainment ride set opoa

ganiziog herself Victonr. Or foundation—theganize yourself for success even with personal valuation. Self-knowledgethe ruins tumbling about yon.

Trust yourself. Believe in your potentiality. Self-distrust is the key-1

precedes self-reliance; therefore,periodical stock-taking. Xo in runs h is business without

note to failure; self-trust is the way taking stock at certain periods; if out of failure. It is the key to he did. he might easily one day fai achievement. We pass among men that he has been living in a fool's for what we know ourselves to be; paradise. What have you learned ■ the measure of other men’s faith in the last year? What progress hare us is according to our faith in our- you made? Have you increased your selves. The limit of your achieve- value to your firm and to yourself? ment is somewhere about the limit Are you more efficient than t o o

of your faith in your own power, were? If you are your own em- Doubt is paralyzing; faith is ener- plover, how have you served jotr- gizing. Given two men. with equal self? Have you increased business? ability, and the same chances, it is No ? Why not ? There’s a reason- tbe man who is self-reliant who will and maybe it lies in you and not ■ make most progress and quicker the business at all. When anything progress. Moreover, the man who goes wrong in the department lordedis less capable often goes fartherdun the other man because he be- thought is, “Is it my

over by a friend of mine, his firstfault?” He

Keves in the little capacity that he puts himself through a crosses-has, whereas the other fellow does animation.not believe in his greater ability. Cross-examine yourself; strike aCultivate the quality of self-confi- balance—and begin afresh from that

your own power termination; meet it with I can! fore. And. don’t fake the boob ofnot with "I think I can f “I will see your personal business; be honest if I can!” Be positive, because ne- with yourself. Falsified personalf*t*oo is stagnation, positivism is progression.

book keeping is a crime punishable by the law of life that regulates the

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deuce; smash your doubts on the figure. You will see where t ow granite of hope. Knowing yourself, credit account outweighs your debit; ! trust yourself; go ahead believing in and you will know something about

Meet life with de* yourself that you did not know be

affairs of men. If you fake your ac count with yourself you will find that when the crisis comes you can not cope with it, despite the blind foolishness that led you to think that von could win out because you be- tiered in yourself. Faith m ust be based upon reality. Use the probe unsparingly, because otherwise vou may miss the one defect that will 3>oil your chances.

Success comes to the brave, thecowar Be cap-lain courageous; fight down vourfears and doubts. Keep vourthoughts dean and your life pure * and there will be no need for you to slink through life with your head in your chest You have a place in the world; fill it as it should be filled. Do not apologize for your p resence; make it felt The apologist is half coward, anyway. If you know you are right, go ahead bravely, and care nothing for the m urm urs of the crowd. Many a man has failed be cause he is a moral coward. I knowa man who was the best boxer in his school, who never funked a fight in the ring, but who lost out in life be cause his moral courage was nothing like his physical bravery. Brace yourself together, and when you leave your corner after the round that well nigh put you out on the count, do not funk: I would rather be a failure than a funk, because I know that out of failure I might hew success, whereas out of cowardice nothing good can come.

“Liberty is not to have no master, but a good oat"—yourself.

Mind, the Principal of Unerring Rightness.

By A llan G ordon C um ining 'l l K IX D is expressing Itse lf I y l th rough th e in h ab itan ts o f the

earth . M ind is M ind, and there is no o ther. An unseeing, un hearing, un th ink ing , and unknow ing m ortal m ind sim ply does not exist. T herefore, the on ly M ind any m an can have is the M ind of God.

Mind is alw ays one w ith Itself. Surely M i n d expressing Itse lf th rough one m an is tru e and loyal to Itself in I ts m anifestation th rough another m an. M ind is never less than M ind. T herefo re all the nations have one M ind, and th a t M ind is one in I ts w orkings. M ind has perfect com m and of all I ts ideas. I t knows the precise value and proper place of each idea, and rejoices over all I ts ideas w ith g rea t joy. T he action of Mind is sure and unerring. Mind never m akes a m istake, for I t always takes Its own ideas rightly. More over, I t alw ays understands Its ideas perfectly: so there is no mis understanding. E verything I t thinks and does is good, and very good—a joy forever. ^

W hat is good and very good is al ways the exactly fitting and right thing. This is the very essence of Mind. Its activity is always right, and ju st r ig h t Mind is all light, all right, all might. I t knows the right and beautiful thing to do, and I t can do it, for unlimited knowledge is un limited pow er..

The Life of Mind, to use the lan guage of commerce, is the perpetual

exchange of goods. This includes the importing, handling and export ing of the infinite goods of an in* finite God. All men are engaged in this business, the Father's business, flow does Mind do Its business by means of men? It seems to act from one simple rule—always to do ju st the right thing at just the righ t time in just the right way. In the Mind that is the Light of Life all is fair dealing, just dealing, right dealing. Any piece of work that is true and sound, that is just right in every particular, is very fair and lovely. Justice and rightness arc never for bidding and austere, but alw ays ex quisitely beautiful, giving man keen delight and lasting satisfacton. Mind causes just the right people to come together, so that there is perfect happiness. Using the law of M ind, the law of just-right-ncss, a man has just the right work in just the rig h t place; just the right wife or ju s t the right husband; just the right home and just the right friends—in a word, just the right income, for all the things coming into his life are just the right things. And the in come is balanced exactly by the o u t go. The living, leaping intelligence of Mind is perennial freshness and beauty. All is harmony, poise, ju s t ness, triteness, and rightness forever.

"I think llu* world Iu m reached a lim e when we can all afford to ad m it th a t we a re hero on earth • We do not apologize for being here, We are not afraid to uftO th e ft rat p e r sonal pronoun, T hat m an who Isn 't p ro u d of hlft huilnefti and who Isn't glad he is a live . Isn 't much of a m a n (Elbert Hubbard,)

Thave our being in

Cosmic Consciousne** and W orld Healing,

i iy IIKNHY VICTOR HOBOJUtH E R E is a universal eon.

We live, move andinfinite

ocean of intelligence, that surround) overshadow s and dwells in ui, I( has been called by many names but can no t be defined nor limited by w ords. I t is the life of all that ii. W c live in it and it lives in us.

T h e aw areness of this cosmic lift and energy brings with it into in. dividual possession a realization of I infinite pow er and unlimited possi b ility . 11 is the transition from sense to soul, from personality to indi v iduality , from the will of the in dividual to the Will of the Whole.I t places the entire universe at tbs disposal of each individual, and says to each, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all th a t I have is thine." It lives in all of its p a rts ; there is neither \ separa tion nor division. We mayallbecom e conscious children of the cosm os and consciously manifest j th a t w hich by the very nature of our being we are compelled to be,—in*hab ito rs of eternity while dwellersin tim e.

T h e aw akening to cosmic reality is p ro d u c in g a new type of man, and will even tually produce a new world order. T h e scales of materiality art j beg inn ing to fall from innumerable eyes, as the hypnotisms of sense are dissolved in the light of reason. T h e aw areness of this great life princip le of the cosmos forever as sures us th a t there is a Soul at the

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I t is the cosmic vision. W e eachcenter of things that cares for all.Today in every nation, there are embody all presences. O ur highestmen of vision worthy of being called thought of God is b u t the vision of"world citizens." Men who have our own possible self, nor can we by escaped the tyranny of limitation, act of our m ind escape the world and whose eyes have caught the call of the suffering. Consciously or vision of the real Self. Men who unconsciously their m iseries affect have seen "beyond the notorious us. W e must share each o th er’s bur- movement on the threshold of con- dens and experience in sciousness the vision eternal,” ap- bodies vicarious suffering and divine prising them that they are not separ- at-one-m ent. ated from the rest of creation.

our own

T he realization th a t m y bro therThrough enlarged reasoning and and 1 are one» tb a t I am in my

cosmic understanding they have be- bro ther and m y brother is in me,held the great truth of individuality m ust forever follow the sublime and know that they are indissolubly realization voiced by the N azarane bound to the whole human race. Car- when he said, “ I and m y F ather are lyle voiced this cosmic truth, when one*” T he man who claims unionfrom his secluded study in hemmed- w ,tb God and denies one of his hu-in Scotland, he said that there was m an brothers abundant entrancenot an Indian whipping his squaw ’nto u^ est fellowship will be

£ ajj mocked by delusions.maTI Of old one of the g reat H ebrew

^ ^ ■ W i r f l P f P H P I P i H

in one of the world’s greatest and mystics> after calling the roll ofmost misunderstood poems, “Song those who had entered into cosmicof Myself,” thus chants the cosmic consciousness and through their en-truth: "I embody all presences out- lar£ed understanding had workedlawed or suffering. Not a cholera p iracies, adds, "And these all, hav-patient lies at the last gasp but I in& obtained a good report throughalso lie at the last gasp.” His union faith» received not the prom ise; Godwith the lowest is complete, but he having provided some better thinghas other affinities. Listen now to for us’ th a t w ithout us couldhis triumph call: not be made. Per/ ect- 1

The teaching is obvious. No one"Magnifying and applying come I, man can be perfect until all are free.Outbidding at the start the old Even they who have passed from the

cautious hucksters, flesh are bound to the cosmic fellow-Taking myself the exact dimensions ship. Herein is a hint as to the

of Jehovah, mystic meaning of the communionle supernatu ra l of no account— of saints and prayers for the dead.

j j | — H — W e are all parts of the whole.Every thought movement on the

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A The Alchemy of MindB v A. OSBORN EAVES

HERE is a two-fold work to he undertaken: the elim ination

th ink the th o u g h t of o thers th a t they are n o t them selves, b u t m asquerad-

O nce thev tu rn ou t all th isi\f the inferior side of the natu re m g.and the building up of the first p a rt m ental debris and begin to make their of this process does not consist in m inds they w ill rep resen t their true B«elv taping others, b u t ra th e r re- selves. T o change the m ind it is fusing to observe w hat m ay appear w ell to know som e of the law s gov- r.i be weaknesses and to endeavour e rn ing th is change. F irstly , an un-

11 forth those v ibrations of th e explored b ra in area, below theto ca?nature which will b ring abou t a rev- th resho ld o f consciousness is the ohition in a man. D ay by day th e receptacle of p as t though H ered ity task will be easier for new brain o r R ace-T hought is stored up here, channels once made w ill allow the and a m an often acts against his best sew thoughts and asp irations to be judgm en t refusing to obey the ad

m onitions of h is b e tte r nature, fol-iore readily taken up. T h e h ab it ofstung quietly for a few m om ents by low ing the R ace-T hought. A fter ooeseli taking one th o u g h t of som e th o u g h ts have been repeated a num -

w riter and endeavouring to ber of tim es the essence of them , o rand im p o rt to feel i t th e essential idea underly ing th e

practiced. T h ere is no is carried to th is tra c t of the mind,to read a ch ap te r: th a t w ould and the im pulses associated w ith

®wat the end in view w hich f r a y in g the m ind o f quickenin

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b ^ s e e n b v m editating linked by the law of association w iththe stored-up ideas. H ence the nar-

T h e function of th e row range o f ideas in m ost m inds.

there m av be in the

d has n o t been fu lly recognized its pow ers and possib ilites have

T hese "digested** though ts will con tinue for m anv re a rs—often for the

been no m ore th an fa in tlv guessed w hole life, and be transm itted to

covereds been w aitin g to be “dis and this is being gradually tridents all over the globe, been know n th a t a m an is

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lar in character to that held by the he express the best within hii j'operson will unfailingly be attracted.There are places all over the worldwhere suicides are frequent, where

it is the individuality showing f0r Returning to the submerged con

sciousness it is wise to note thajeven sane people feel inclined to take while it may thus prove a drag uptheir own lives, the reason being the upward progress of man it ^that a mental atmosphere of suicide be made the medium of his climb to-is created, and permeates every hu- wards Self-Creation. It mechanic

cally retains every impression, as jLman brain within a certainf radius which allows itself to hold a similar been said, offering each one to thethought for a moment. All the normal every day mind as the latterphenomena of telepathy are based on needs it, or as it thinks of a subjectthis law, and in Self-Creation one for which there is an equivalent ideaaims at refusing to think the old stored away. Of course, therethoughts which have constituted many thoughts or ideas which

areare

existence up to now. One thus new even to the submerged con-peoples one's mental laboratory with sciousness, as, for instance, takingthe most undesirable tramps of the up a new study. However well ar-mental world. One is not aware of ranged a text book may be a newthe process going on day by day, subject always offers more difficul-year by year, building up our char- ties when first it is taken up, becauseacters and making us what we really there are no analagous ideas to helpare not. Outside connections aid in in assim ilating the material. Latercompleting our disguise and individ- these difficulties become less notice-uality becomes increasingly difficult able, and there seems a certainto express. We fam iliarity with the subject This

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uously taught since childhood to consciousness has nothing to doplease others and consider them with discrimination or volition1 itfirst that we almost wipe out any can only store up ideas and producewish to please ourselves, action and them when wanted, the active mindthought thus aiding each other. Self- seizing whatever it wants, or auto-effacement never leads to the expres- m atically taking the material offeredsion of the individual, but a milk or w ithin reach. Hence the con-and watery character, filled with the sciousness is strictly non-moral, andvirtues of an unselfish life, with the does not pass judgment, praise oremptiness of a negative existence: blame. I t will accept whatever is )it is the antithesis of a strong per- given to it, however, and, farther,sonality, which depends upon itself do w hat it is told to do. Iunder all circumstances, being self- I am well aware that this part 0/reliant and having behind it the the subject offers many obstacles to tshadow of the Self. In proportion the student who has read otheras a man becomes self-reliant does treatises upon the subject, because

there is no definite and exact termi- ! nology for it, such as exists in all

other sciences. Different writers I have tacked on different names, the v nomenclature of Hudson, Evans,

Myers, A. Besant differing for the I same thing. So long as it is under- ) stood what it is to which reference

is made nomenclature is immaterial. J A further trouble is that the student j does not always see how it is that a

part of the mechanism of the mind, and a part which has so much power in its keeping and therefore should

1 be the superior side, will act as the slave of the commonplace everyday mind. The everyday mind is com monplace because it has never tried to be otherwise. One can only get from a thing what one can use; the demands made are of light character, hence there are no opportunities to test the powers. This “lower” mind, as it is frequently called, may be regarded as life must be gradually obliterated from the nature because Self-Creation with such materials

cally thrown off, whereas when they agree they are absorbed and are ex pressed by that all-embracing word “happiness.”

“W e may still be masters though we produce no masterpiece but our selves.”— (S. M. Stanton in “The Es sential Life.)

“I can confidently commend to you,” says Andrew Carnegie, “the business career as one in which there is abundant room for the exer cise of a man’s highest power and of every good quality in human nature.I believe the career of the merchant, or banker, or captain of industry, from the hour of his humble enlist ment to that of his honorable dis charge, to be favorable to the de velopment of the powers of the mind

. and to be ripening of the judgment upon a wide range of general topics; to freedom from prejudice and the keeping of an open mind.”

would be to put up a jerry-builtstructure. There is nothing too good for us: all we have to do

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recognize the best and claim it. A thing which is not really our own we can never retain, because it is not attuned to our vibrations, and there is nothing in common with us. We spoke earlier of every object )eing in a state of vibration, that very human being vibrates at a cer- ain rate—a matter dealt with in Your Aura and personal Atmos- here”—so that all vibrations not in ccord with year own are au.omati-

“The message of all the religions is a t heart the same—the infinite and eternal meaning of the individual.oIt brings in the noble hymns of the Arj'ans; Zoroaster dreamed it in history’s remote dawn; pitying Buddha preached it to the despond ent orient; Christ uttered it by the sea of Galilee;' Paul carried it to Greece and Rome; Savonarola re iterated it to the amazed Floren tines ; it brooded in the winged thought of Plato and sang in theexultant Paradise of Dante—the in finite significance of each human end.”—(Griggs.)

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Mental Concentration is Secretof AchievementB y GARRETT P. SERVICE

HE necessity of concentration difficulty th a t he had experienced in can never be too much insisted follow ing them arose from the fact upon. All kinds of success in th a t they neither saw clearly what

this world depend upon it. Young they w ished to say nor expressed it people who think that genius or luck in clear language.

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will carry them through make a ter- H e g o t hold of the general idea trible mistake. Genius and w hat is of a speaker, and then went off by called luck are concentration and him self and labored over it in jusnothing else. own m ind, putting it in more ex

What concentration means m ay pressive w ords, and re-shaping it iiI be illustrated by euaruples.; a m ore logical form, until it became )

When Abraham Lincoln was a as clear as crystal. Finally, he stir- boy he used to listen to the talk of prised his elders by stating theirhis elders. Out in that new country ideas b e tte r than they could statewhere he* lived everybody talked them them selves.politics. Young Abraham did not Now, th a t was concentration, andknow much about politics then, b u t L incoln practiced it until it becamehe saw that the men who did know the settled habit of his mind. Itgot ahead in the world, somehow, m ade him President of the Unitedand he determined to understand S ta tes and tl\e clekr-headnd leadersuch things for himself. of his coun tryy fi tn^mos\/tnrat-

Accordingly, he listened in tently en ing crisis th a t it ever passedevery time he heard a political dis- th rough . , r

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cussion. At first he understood very T h ere w as once a little boy in thelittle, but he only listened the harder, city of U trech t, the son of a poor and thought and thought over w hat w orkingm an, who determined to get he had heard. After a while he be- an education. H e showed so much

earnestness in his ambiton that he Then he put his mind so closely a ttrac ted the attention of good peo*

to work upon the subjects discussed pie, wiho go t him admitted as a freeby the debaters that he was able not scholar in the University of Louvaiu.

gan to understand.

only to see what they were driving W hile the students who could payat but to criticize their methods of did w hat was required of them in aexplaining their thoughts. half-hearted way, and spent as muchLearned to Put Things Into Clear tim e as possible in idle amusements,

Language he w as not content with the lessonsHe saw that a large part of the of the day, bu t borrowed booksjo

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study alone at night*, and, because he was too poor to have candles, he spent a part of each night study ing his books by the light of stree t lam ps or in illuminated church porches.

That, too, was concentration, and the young scholar carried it so far that he was made preceptor to the man who was to be the g rea t E m peror Charles V., and afterw ard he was elected Pope of Rome under the famous name of Adrian V I.

When James Ferguson w as 7 or 8 years old the roof of his fa ther’s co t tage in Scotland fell in, and he saw his father take a beam to p ry up the fallen roof. The boy w as aston ished, because the beam seem ed togive his father the s treng th of a giant.

He watched how it was used, then experimented with sticks, and dis covered, unaided, the m echanical principle of the lever. B ut observ ing that the long end of a lever had to be moved through an inconven iently great distance in order to produce a slight m ovem ent of the weight to be raised, he reasoned upon the m atter so closely th a t he invented a wheel and axle to do more easily the w ork of a long lever.Through Concentration Found

Great T ru thThus, by simple concentration of

mind, this boy discovered for him self a great mechanical truth, which, as he did not then know, had oc cupied the inventive powers of fa mous men for centuries.

The habit of mental concentration which he established at so early an

age m ade h im a fte rw ard one of the m ost ce lebrated and influential m en of h is tim e. ^

T h ese a re concrete exam ples of concen tra tion . T h ey could be m u lti plied a thousandfo ld , b u t le t us g lance a t the princip le th a t underlies them . T h a t princip le is sim ply close, undiv ided a tten tio n .

T h e th in g th a t m akes m en failures is d issipation of th e m ind. D on’t le t your a tten tio n w a n d e r; hold your m ind^fttm ly upon the sub ject before it. S tick to it until you have got to the bottom of it. Avoid d artin g from one th in g to another, leaving each half finished.

Sun ConcenJjpftfionI IN one of the laboratories of W ash

ington they have a g reat sun glass th a t m easures three feet

across. I t is like the burning glass we used to treasure when we were boys, only much larger. This great glass gathers the rays of the sun th a t strike its flat surface and focuses them on a single point in a space a few feet below. T hat single spot is hotter than a blow torch. I t will melt through steel plate as easily as a red-hot needle burns through paper.

This terrible heat—it cannot be measured for it melts all instrum ents —is just three feet of ordinary sun shine, concentrated on a single point. Scattered, these rays are hardly felt —perhaps just pleasantly w arm ; concentrated, they melt adamant.

The same principle applies to hu man endeavor.

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