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The Miracle of Right Thought

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The Divinity of Desire - Success and Happiness Are for You - Working for One Thing and Expecting Something Else - Expect Great Things of Yourself - Self-Encouragement by Self-Suggestion - The Crime of the "Blues" - Change the Thought, Change the Man - The Paralysis of Fear - One With the Divine - Getting in Tune - The Great Within - A New Way of Bringing Up Children - Training for Longevity - As a Man Thinketh - Mental Self-Thought Poisoning - Contents -

When the world was young the brain of man was very primitive, because the demand upon it was largely for self-protection and the acquisition of food, which called only for the development of its lower, its animal part. Gradually, however, there was a higher call upon it and a more varied development, until to-day, in the highest civilization, it has become exceedingly complex.

Every new demand of civilization makes a new call upon the brain, and, just as the physique of animals and men has been modified to meet varying conditions of climate and of maintenance, it develops faculties and powers to meet these fresh calls of a more complicated life.

The brain changes to meet these new demands upon it, develops new cells and strengthens weak ones, whenever the latter are brought into helpful activity.

Prof. Elmer Gates trained young dogs to develop some one sense, such as that of sight or sound. Other puppies of the same age and of the same litter would be kept in such a way that those particular brain cells would not be brought into activity, in which case they did not develop.

The parts of the brain presiding over color,

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