The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-11


 other mind and to the knowledge of every other mind on the same sub jective plane as itself.
 Brookheld has one mental quality that distinguished him in 8 degree from most of his fellows. His power of visualization was greater than theirs. Such ideas as were capable of graphic representation he saw in pictures: ideas that might not be so represented he saw in diagrams.
 It is. probable that this ability to form clear picture in the mind is the one that, according to the degree of It's possession, determines the de- gree of mans success. It is prob able that the strongest individual will in the world would accomplish but little if it's owner could form no con- ception of what he desired. It is prob able. on the other hand, that thing desired can be obtained by a man of very ordinary will power if 8 clear picture of that thing can be persis- tently held in the mind. Y
 Where there's a will there's way" is true only when the will is guided by the light of defined de- sire.
 BrookheId had a will. He had also the ability of visialization. Along his chosen line Brookdeld was a success.
 As he read the illuminating hypo- thesis of the author whose book Prem tice had sent him, his vivid concep- ton outshone the description in the of the sea. Over the deep bosom of the water were pillows, waves, and individual crests separating into drops of blown spray. To his minds eye lnese drops and crests and waves and pillows symbolized the objective mind 5 oI ona inaivlduais. nna families, communities. ana peoples sprung from an ocean Of lnnnlte mind of which each was part and with which each and all had pos- sible communication.
 bf0okheld's own mind by constftu. ton, by habit. and by a certain fal- iowness iOw;a was most fertile soil for an invited analogy of this kind. The pictured idea took possession of him. He sat alone in his library. His lmaglnat1on made the silence vocal With the hum of subtle and nnysteri- ous power. On every side of him wherever his gaze fell 1t encountered some object acquired In response to an apparently vagrant whim. yet now all or these became intel1igently elo- quent and collaborative of the mes sage he was just apprehendine, Hrookheld's habitual mental boise was Tor the moment too disturbed to en- apIe him to see that the tonal agree ment between the objects was easiiv referrable to the one taste and tenn perament that had dictated their choice and collection. When 8 les sen1ng agitation did permit the ap- proacn or this idea he saw in that explanation. itself only a more pro- found plan and prearrangement.
 Over the mantel of this room. as over the mantel in the diniug-room. was marine painting built into the wooo-Worh-a tossing sea with crests of spray.
 Brookf1eld was startled, not so much to note that the painted picture was the counterpart of the mental nic- ture he had c0njured, as he was at his failure to associate the painting and it's metnaa reflection at the. flrsf moment. This very disaociation gave the canvas mystic importance and ambassadoriaI authority. ~-
 The room was lighted by the hood ed electrolier under which Brookfield nad been reading It's shade threw a ha!f-sloom over walls and ceiliusa. a, naH-gioom made unstable and wayer- ing by the flicker of the open fire. From the biz clock in the halj: a soft contralto bell struck two.
 Beneath the painting on the mantei was bronze cast of the Autommarchf death-mask of Napoleon; the.@a inert toucn or the lower lip against the un-- covered teeth seemed trembling into the pronunciation of fate. On the other side Of the room . scuIptured Sphinx crouched on the book-sheIves. BrooH1eld had brought 1t as q sou- venir from the Mile. It had been in it's present place some fifteen years without ever once living until now.
 Over the door to the hallway was a marble bust Of Pallas, with the raven perched upon 1t; on another book case rested the Donatello head of Dante; q reproduction of the well-s known mask of Beethoven. the mystic of melody. hung near by. Broo1Eield al $r% tSrN A. 1ects The profundity Of the men whose masks and portraits were about him: the solemn riddle Of the Sphinx: the placidity of the goddess of wis., dom beneath the bird of doubt: the circling. embracing. synboiixing infin- itude of the sear-each spoke to him of the restful deep in which all rec posed: the infinite, all-wtse4 Mind, watchful, communicating, benign; the one force for which his mind had been Sroping. the force behind the texture of material appearance.
 The objects in the room were related In significance. not because his con- sciou1 taste had chosen them. but be- cause power behind him wiaer than himself had done so-a power to which he also bore expressive reia ton. through the recognition of the signi- ficance of some important symbol. whatever that symbol be: a thing or an event, q banner or Q bereavement.
 The time was coming for Brookdeld, as for all men, when the vibrating wire in the electric lamp over his ta- ble, or the embossed swirl on the cov- CT of Khayyam. would be as eloquent as the tragic face of the dead em- peror; when nothing in the universe, animate or inanfmate, would akain be mute But for the present the ob- jects about him were particular and accredited messengers. :.
 The truth which Broohfield felt he had grasped, the truth reconnoitered by his recent psychological reading. the truth cogently expressed in the book from Justice Prentice. the truth insinuated by the objects of art with which he had surrounded himself was. ness of all life, the essentially same of all things. By it's light the years of what he had been pleas ed to call intellectual improvement: and growth in culture seemed years of arrested development, even years of retrogression-nothin was of value that had not made for spiritual un- foldment: and as he reviewed his life Broohfield felt that he had hitherto walked in Cfmmerian night
 For this new thought. this new con. ception of life that possessed him, th4 house seemed small and stifling. Brookdeld took his hat and coat and went noiselessly into the street. went from the sculptured, the painted, and printed symbols in his room into the chill and tonic air, under the denuded moving branches of the trees through