The Washington herald., 1912-06-23

gether. A simple and even mechanical classi-
heation may Be a. much needed By one who
would think precisely a. was the poHsssEion
Of accurate fAets At the beginning.
Nothing gives Q man much more satisfae-
tion or delight than TO exercise the imagina-
ton and get results from this exercise, but
even the Imagination needs q wen nIled store
house behind It The Imagination does not
take facts and claSsify them mechanically.
but It picks bit here and BIT there with
humming bird cslsrity and makes q creation
like something that never was on sea or land.
Great discoveries have sometimes come as a
fash OF the imagination, but days Of patient
research and careful experiment went before
The constructive Imagination builds beau
tiful buildings, makes great poems or stories
or splendid musical compositions, but It had
to have something to build with and have this
something in some arranEement- The errant
Imagination with no solid facts at itE COM
uand IL no more productive than tramp Of
any other sort
Pure thinking Is often terribly dinicult and
wholly beyond the power Of the lnsxperi-
enced. The inertia OF the mind Is as hard to
overcome a. to climb q prectpice, but Il life
depended upon It a man might DO either.
There may seem to be no foothold. yet
searching with life and death interest will
discover one But even when q straight and
level road presents itself any number Of
stumbling blocks can be found by the unwll-
ing mind. a. many as beset the most pious Of
pilgrims. The feelings interrupt A pretu-
dice pops up and demands attention. The
mind easily tires. Its exhaustion point u
lower the less II is exercised. Attention Il
unframed or BY nature VacIIlAting. There Il
need Of something pointing steadily north.
The mind itself can be 90 set
Concentration Bennett's Hobby.
The most popular writer Of today 10 making
q hobby Of mental concentration He has re-
duced thinking to q sort Of muluplica5on
table. Concentration u well To turn the
thinking process. however. into . sort Of hop
per. sure 10 produce something, but some
thing Of q machins-uks quality. Is well
enough In the pot boiling business but Il has
decided IImfta1aDns. even II they are not those
OF thinking IN q circle
Yet Arnold Bennett gives some eDceIlsnt
advice, II II u not followed too literally. In
his several HttIs m0nnE-apbs, showing how
efficient one may become By taking thought.
and holding on % an hea
Even the title Of one OF these bookIets " The
Human Machine" shows that he gives some
thing Of 0versmphasiS to the fact that the
mind Is q factory, whose products can be
standardized, q something that can turn out
machine instead Of hand work He has dis
covered, as few men have, what q wonderful
and mysterious affair Is his brain. and be has
perceived what he would Ike to have all
men perceive. how important q factor In
daily life Is the brain For the effects
that can be accomplished by mere steady,
persIstsDt thinking must appear 10 be mira
cles to apprentices In the practice Of thought
When once a man. having passed an IN
happy day because his clumsy. negligent
brain forgot TO control his instincts at q crit
ical moment, has said to his brain: I will
fonce you, by concentrating you on that par
ticuIar point, 70 act shcisuGly the next time
similar circumstances arise he has carried
out his intention then that man will
regard his brain with q Dsw eye. BY JoveI'
he Will say, I've stopped one source Of unhap-
piness anyway
c ontroi1ed Thinking Brings Happiness.
Good, intelligent, controlled thinking. then.
brings RppinsSA Yes, loads Of I'll 1t Is
thinking without advance or aim. dIssoluts
and dissipated thinking IKE q ny wheel
whirIing without o belt, that brings ma
to the verge Of insanity and suicide
With a developed power 10 think man may
turn anxistIsS 20 account. From such raw
material he may even get Inspiration Think
Ing over thsSs things. As a sort Of outsider.
he will see q way to trEn them 10 helpful
account n ths future, for he determines that
they shall not appear a. elements In his life
after this.
To quots Bsnnstt again: "The man who
commGness his day By Etsady contemplation
Of the dangers which the next sixteen hours
are likely to furnish, and by arnninE him.
self especially against those dangers, has
thereby armed himself. though to a less s1-
tent, against dangers which he did not dream
Of"
Mr.. Bsnnett thinks that the majority Of
men never know why they are dissatisfied
with their Bo$oun on this planSt- The reason
is. as he BsSS It. that man DO not have
control Of their thinking machines, and are
therefore eonEIEtsntIy dIssanGhsd with sx-
IEtsncs. They are Elos men being secretly
poisoned, but cannot decide With what or By
whom
UnhAppInosS controilina Thought.
4 man who Is dIssstIEdsd cannot hsIp but
go around IN an LFFitAtIpE oirols- HiH mind
constantly oomSs around 10 he naot that he
Is not happy There re few things 50
ItsFatIVa as dissatisfaction Watch some
body Whs % dEsatIshah II you cannot gst
far away from yourself 70 see how your dis
BatIsEactioR work.
People vino hsVs developed thslr thinking
powers, haFnssEsd them, as Il were, can
not but be constantly amazed to sesaH about
them such eood gifts neglected. good fields
that might be cultivated to yield hssrtsn-
ing harvest, running to WsadA, ehoksd up,
barren
No delights N fhs world are greater thzR