h normal concentration,--that
is, the power of erasing all previous impressions and allowing a
subject to hold and carry us, by dropping every thought or effort that
interferes with it, in muscle, nerve, and mind. The nerves of the
senses must be kept clear through this same ability to drop all
previous impressions.

First in importance, and running all through the previous training, is
the use of the will, from which all these servants, mental and
physical, receive their orders,--true or otherwise as the will itself
obeys natural and spiritual laws in giving them. The perversions in the
will to be shunned are misuse of muscles by want of economy in force
and power of direction; abuse of the nervous system by unwisely
dwelling upon pain and illness beyond the necessary care for the relief
of either, or by allowing sham emotions, irritability, and all other
causes of nervous distemper to overcome us.

The remedy for this is to make a peaceful state possible through a
normal training of the physique; to realize and follow a wholesome life
in all its phases; to recognize daily more fully through obedience the
great laws of life by which we must be governed, as certainly as an
engineer must obey the laws of mechanics if he wants to build a bridge,
that will stand, as certainly as a musician must obey the laws of
harmony if he would write good music, as surely as a painter must obey
the laws of perspective and of color if he wishes to illuminate Nature
by means of his art.

No matter what our work in life, whether scientific, artistic, or
domestic, it is the same body through which the power is transmitted;
and the same freedom in the conductors for impression and expression is
needed, to whatever end the power may be moved, from the most simple
action to the highest scientific or artistic attainment.

The quality of power differs greatly; the results are widely different,
but the laws of transmission are the same. So wonderful is the unity of
life and its laws!

THE END.

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