The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-01-30
The POTENCY OF PSYCHOLOGY.

Psychology is the most potent lnHu-
ence known to man. No thought is
ever lost As Henry Wood has so
we'll 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 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, a mo-
ton, a 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
.est the emperor on his return from
Elba. No sooner did the marshal
come within the spell of Napoleon s
powerful suggestive genits than he,
himself, surrendered to Napoleon, and
10 roi Cd ~ rs,1 f1C
the king In reading the history of
France | have sometimes imagined
continues the historianl that Napo-
leon must have hynotized the entire
French nation and then died without
removing the spell of his genus. 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-
teal 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 revised.
Nearly 20 centuries ago the great
naturalist, Piiny, declared: There
surely exists in man certain power
of changing, attracting and binding
whatever he desires or wills to at
tract, change, bind or impede"
| am a firm believer in thought VI
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 that 1t 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
displays itself far more impressively
in repose than in action. Napoleon,
with h6s arms crossed over his breast,
is more expressive of power than the
famous Hercules beating the air with
his athletic fists.