River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-30
THE POTENCY OF PSYCHOLOGY.

Psychology is the most potent 1nhu-
ence known to man. No thought. is
ever lost AS Henry Wood has so
well expressed it: "There is not a
thought but has its due influence.
The every idle word for which men
shall be judged, when rightly inter-
preted, is a startling psychological
TRUTH
LAS a man thinketh in his heart so
is he" Not the conscious thought OF
the moment makes him what he is, but
the sum total of his previous thoughts.
Thought is, indeed, the motive power
Of the universe, and psychological
thought the most potent. Do not con-
found the terms psychology and hyp-
notism. We frequently hear one say:
"Oh, he has hypnotized you" instead
of saying: "He has psychological
you"
A certain historian says OF Ma
poleon: Among his associates in
the army, in the councils of the ma
ton his word was law. A look, mo-
ton, few quietly uttered words were
sufficient to command obedience. All
felt the mystic spell Of his power.
Note the instance when Marshal Ney
had been sent by Louis XVIII. to ar
rest the emperor on his return from
Elba. No sooner did the marshal
come within the spell of Napoleon's
powerful suggestive genius than he,
himself, surrendered to Napoleon. and
the combined forces marched against
lii II. no hicfOrU
France | have sometimes imagined
CONTINUES the historian) that Napo-
leon must have hynotiZed the entire
French nation and then died without
removing the spell Of his genius. A
suggestion of his spirit still broods
over the land
Although hypnotism is suggestion,
suggestion is not necessarily hypno-
tism. In the case of Napoleon it was
his personal magnetism and psycholog-
zeal power that were evidenced in look,
word and movement.
The New Thought people are, many
of them, extremists and quite extrav'
agant in their ideas of the attractive
power of thought. The New Thought
is not always right thought; nor is it,
in reality new thought, but, rather,
the old thought revived.
Nearly 20 centuries ago the great
naturalist, Pliny, declared: There
surely exists in man a certain power
of changing, attracting and binding
whatever he desires or wills to at
tract, change, bind or impede"
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bration and know, by experience, that
the psychological power thus exercised
has a most potent influence whether
1t is used in drawing things unto
ones self or in projecting a spirit of
helpfulness and success to others.
Reason, however, steps in and says:
Thus far and no farther. 'Tis true
''All things come to him who will but
wait"-if he hustles while he waits.
The New Thought apostles say that
you can sit in the silence and attract
anything you desire-horses, car
riages, flowers, etc. / believe tiff
you sit long enough in the silence; but
/ also believe that the horses, car
riages and flowers will be those that
come to your funeral.
You may sit with folded arms and,
Micawber like, expect something to
turn up, but you will find thatelt will
facilitate matters very much if you
go out and turn it up.
On the other hand, it is not the nerv-
GUS, restless, excitably active person
who accomplishes most. True energy
5iSDIoxvc ;tco1f for mora imDrecciUa1v
In repose than in action. Napoleon.
with his arms crossed over his breast,
is more expressive of power than the
famous Hercules beating the air with
his athletic fists.