The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-15
4 Magnetic Mans Explanation.
Of the Secret-"Make Heart a
Highway for Every Brother.
Man Cold, Calculating sPeo-
pie Do Not Attract Physical
Side Tal,1age's Horse
Practice Of Actors Sitting.
Dead Still.
BY Calvin Dill Wilson, D. p.

(Author OF ''Tho story Of the Cid, !" etc.)
E.stE HAVE been told by the most
I~ magnetic man we know some-
yX thing to this effect: the secret
Ns3S1Kal OF magnetism IS to make inc
& heart a highway for evorS'
| brotller-man.n He believes that 1t has
moral and spiritual side.
This man Is OF extraordinary physique,
large-headed. large chested, full-blooded'
with muscles and nerves Of steel. and has
led a life of great activity, physical and
intellectual. He doubtless had some nat
ural endowment OF the quality we call
magnetic, and his capacity for developing
an unusual ma gnetism certainly had a
strong physical side. He has {, vivid and
Vigorous Imagination, which makes every
thing Of which he thinks or speaks most
real to him; he has been reader and
observer and student from early life. 50
that his mind Is full and rich. Yet. ms
own belief In regard to magnetism IS that
it's secret Is in the heart. In the emo-
lions, in the sympathy that makes the
heart a highway for every brother man..
In 80 subtle and difficult q matter we
may give due weight to q magnetic man
own opinion without concluding that ne
knows all about It. He is probably so
used to the powerful influence that ema-
mates from him that he has. MADE no
exact analysis, II such were possible, OF
the subject; but unquestionably ne IS aple
to recognize that at those times Wheh
his nature expands most and MS syillpa-
thtes flow out most strongly 70 ms .lei--
lowmen his influence is most oVermaster-
ing; on this part OF the subject his opin-
Ion should be taken as that OF an ex-
pert. Byron said in reply to certain
critics who undertook to tell what his
genius was: Is to what they are pleased
to call my genius is they know no more
than l, and / know no more than they;
yet ne was capable Of Judging the condi--
lions under which hts genius worked best,
and. In fact, he has told us the prepa-
;rations by diet, etc, which he made for
his work. 5a.
SO one may not be able to tell Just
what his 1agnetism Is. but may know the
conditions under which 1t works best.
that OF many other influential men, we
may take for granted that one way
to gain the subtle and strange Influence
called magnetic over your fellowmen Is
to be really and deeply interested in them.
To love them Is part of the secret, to look
on them critically or consciously, or
dwell upon differences of costume or
rank or condition or culture, but to dwell
upon the common humanity between.
them and yourself to consider them as
fellow toilers, fellow sufferers, at one
with yourself in hopes and fears. sue
cesses ard defeats; to look upon the.
good in them or to consider the possibili-
ties OF good In them.
It is love for people, it is faith in
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the humblest and most ignorant that
makes Lincoln or any other great lead
er Of men. A great many whose Ideas
and prejudces are as unlike Walt Whit
man as can be are attracted to him;
read him, at least somewhat; are as
tonished, shocked. amazed at those,
streams Of electric words that he CALI
ed his poems" and are Impressed by
them. and this is largely due to the
fact that one feels that here is a man
who really cared for and loved all men,
We may recall that generally the cen
serious people we know, the critical,
fault-finding people, the cold, calculating
ones who are always looking out first
>for their own interests. the cunning
planners for their own advancement, are
never magnetic. but are repellent8 rather.
Colonel Ingersoll said that real orator
must be n good man-at least he must
be good at the time of his speech; by
this we may understand that the man
who wishes to sway his fellow-men by
oratory must be asrlght-living man ply
sically. that he must be. sincere intel
lectually, and that he must have those
traits OF heart sympathy. love that would
be commonly classed as good. So young
people may learn that heart states. moral
qualities enter largely, probably chief
l-H t,@f1 ~,
by your personality. scamps. tricksters.
tentimes do get along. but the people
who win and retain lasting Influence
are they who are right inside and whose!
hearts abound with genuine sympathy
for the SORROWS, the Ignorance, the SIM
the degradation, as we'll as the noble
and good elements OF humanity.
This ds not to ignore the physical side
nor the mental. Talmage was one Of
the most magnetic orators Of modern
times. Whether you liked his rhetoric
or his Ideas or not. he swayed crowds.
and he was very careful of his body.
which he called his horse: he said he
groomed ut, put 1t into the stable, fed
It, put It to sleep just as he would a.
good horse. He believed in and prac-
El!Gcu outuOpi llNIH6, ~ cR.!AdFS 9''SI 't'tii
on the seashore, with his coat on his
arm, and have been told that as soon
as he got out Of sight Of .the. crowds, SO
that people would mot think there was
dog fight or a fire. he was going
to take a run, that there was more exer-
else In five minutes running than In an
hours walk. That is, he maintained his
stock OF magnetism by keeping his sys-
tenn active. oSygenated, blood pure and
filled with sunshine.
The magnetic people arc commonly
good, hearty eaters; they are aware that
there must be fuel under the boiler to
keep up the steam They are generally
good. sound sleepers. They are active
persons of energetic temperament, They
keep every faculty and organ at work
and under control of the will. They are
never sluggish, inert, persons Their every
muscle and nerve obeys the spirit
Bonaparte sa.. me world IL governed
from the diaphragm; the strong, active
diaphragm controls a great part Of the
body; when II is firm and sound the
will Is likely to be powerful or at least
TO have a strong system through which
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