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and more of creation he has discovered Thought to be a mighty though hidden Force. For that matter all Force is hidden, but in some instances the material means are evident, while in the working of Thought the mechanism is invisible and intangible.

How is it that Thought acts upon the nerves and muscles of your body, causing motion? Who ever saw a Thought when it so acted on nerve and muscle? No one has ever explained this mystery, and yet we accept it as a fact, not wholly because physiologists tell us it is so, but because we know it through our own experience.

I see a book on the table. I think I would like to examine it. I am conscious of that thought.

Then I think I will take it up. I am conscious of that thought also. Then I do take it up and I am conscious that in some mysterious way my thought has caused my hand to reach out to the table and draw the book toward me. Hundreds of nerves and muscles have been brought into play, and yet I do not know how it was accomplished. I may have it explained to me how muscles respond to nervous stimulus, how they contract and expand in obedience to it, and I may see that the entire network of nerves and muscles throughout the body is controlled by thought; but that is not seeing how it is done.

That, it seems, must remain a mystery. But for that reason do we deny it? Not at all. I know of no one who does not acknowledge that thought controls the body, that is, that his thought controls his own body.