The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-17


boom, has now become settled In
dustry, We use exercises and dumb
bells as "A matter OF daily routine;
care in eating and drinking has been
taken out OF the hands of the faddist
and made both intelligent and re-
9speCtable; We insist on "a proper meas
ure of recreation. and the "open-air
man" ia fast assuming the position or
a minor divinity.
This is all 10 the good. But how
about the mind? is IL not time ones
mental faculties had an inning
Your body and mind are in partner
ship. and mind Is the senior partner.
He has been snubbed long enough be-
cause he was misunderstood. He Is
now going 10 assert himself Folks
used TO lau~h when anybody suggested
that there was any relation between
boat racinE and mind training. The
idea was ridiculous. But long ago thu
colleges proved that training the mind
for a race is as important as train
ing me body,
sport and feats Of strength are be-
ing looked upon as somewhat men
tai; and see a physical culture ex-
pert is calling his system "Psycho-
physical" The fact is that this part
nership between mind and body ~
go intimate that although few of
The clauses of the agreement have been
discovered by psychologists, good
many clauses have never been dis
covered or dociphered. We do not
know on what terms physical and
mental qualities agree TO act together,
but every step in the advancement OF
! knowledge proves the primary import
anCe Of mind, even m things we ratt
purely phy steal
ne scfer1rF of tf1eraputics tends 70
do away with plls and drugs for minor
ailments, and for some that are more
serious The curative power Of mere
: rt1utrEt7t=r=tt If surprising now ont -fafis
into the old way of undertaking mere
thought-has now been proved so Of
ten that in cases where physic has no
potency We resort To hypnotic sug-
Restion, That the mind could ever
cure the body was few years ago re-
garded by the average man as an alb
Eurdity although for ages past there
has been growing list Of what he Is
pleased TO call queer things
II was queer that a healthy man
could imagine himself iii. and then
become ~ and iust az queer that
being IN. he could imagine himself
well. and become well. Mental medi-
cine Ia one Of the signs Of the COM
ing renaissance Of the mind.
But SO long az attention To mind -
restricted To the class in psychology,
or the practieinE physician. the bnSI-
ness man looks upon II "a outside MS
range. All the mind training he gets,
and all he needs is found he belieFes,
in actual experience with men ana
things There must be sense IN
which ha is right. Otherwise how
have so many men made large for
tunes in the past2 There was in these
cases. either no need of being taught
or else there was special APTITUDE
4 for coming money making ideas
But modern business is not the sim
pie thing il was for our forefatheFS.
An early Victorian provision dealer,
who had nothing to do but buy III
goods and sell out again thought, no
doubt. that his affairs were grisVi-
fousIy complex when contracted with
those OF the man who hVed by par
ter. The twentieth century man mas
been obliged To leave both behind. lie
believes he could. 70 use hyperhole, 10
their work while he slept. A s-ccf~s-
full business man today uses a fJil-
lion or two more brain cells than his
progenitor in the past. He has more
10 think Of mer~ TO think out ana
more to remember.
Things ere growing faster imam
brains The compleXity Of affairs rs
such as TO demand a more intensive
mentality than we have as yet peeh
able to produce on large seale-lh
fact complexities are only compIeNl-
{ties at all because Of our inablllty 10
provide ready solution.
Somebody in America recently sala
that brains were t%e cheapest thing
IA the market. He lied. Ability never
commanded a higher price than IT
does today, but man must have the
ability to market his abilify@ PURE
ability is not worth much. 1t Is IKE
having plenty OF money In "a desert,
but no water to drink. The type OF
mind which is wanted, and when IN
coming to the fore. is the one ihal
solves our real as distinct irohi o"i
speculative difficulties.
We are not concerned nowadays
with theoretical probabilities: we are
confronted with an array Of reahtiss
vasTer and more serious than the racc
has ever had TO face before. lhey
are social. economic and politfcal, aia
the education of the day Is NeerlHS
round from its idealism in order TO
meet the new need. The curriculum
Ia construed in the direction of power.
1t aims less at knowledge. and more al
mental training.
Not only In medicine and education,
do we see n renaissance OF nina. out
Wa see II in the popular ootlooh-li
fact we see too much OF IL sometimes
| There is nothing that mind cannot 90
onlv TO think an increase in orders by
every mornings post, and they come.
Mental development is fast becoming
svstematiZed.
There are men who fail, and men
| who. l,tsla tfee balance, 'aHta men wA@
succeed. These are effects whose
causes lie deep in thinking. Alter thae'
and YOU alter destiny.
Few men fell to think success
thoughts. II would be against law y
thew did And II Is the laws - NINA
that are undressing themselves on the
Intelligent man "a souHd mind II, I.
sound body was the ideal OF the last
century. But sounuhess ~
enough Nowadays, It Is trained
mind In trained body, A developed
physique is. happily. becoming quit"
common. but the diciplined mind Is
! s,t,i-a- Srarrr-ar article Nevertheless
tha renaissance is in sight. Mind, as
lthe senior partner. is coming into his
own.
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