Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1920 — MARVELOUS IS HUMAN MIND [ARTICLE]

MARVELOUS IS HUMAN MIND

Five Hundred Million Brain Celia Responsive to the Call of Ruler of the Intellect. On a rough estimate, the brain contains 500,000,000 cells, each having a consciousness of its own. Your selfconsciousness, your personality, should be the master of all these willing slaves. They are the genii of the mind, humbly waiting to do your bidding; guardians of the vast stores of ideas that you, more often than not without realizing it, have gathered along life’s highway. Are you one of the reckless kind, who have "no Idea.” or are yon in the ranks of the sensible, who summon the spirits of the Intellect to their aid? How Is this done? Nothing more simple. Get the problem fairly and squarely into your head, and then forget it I The little genii of the brain refuse to be coerced; humor them, however, and there is no limit to what they can, and will, do for you. You have to make a decision. Turn the problem round and round In your head till you are giddy, you will get no nearer to the solution. Put it away from you. Don’t force your thoughts; leave them alone, and behold, suddenly, when you least expect it, the idea you have been searching for will jump into your mind, to be Instantly recognized as the idea you wanted. The magicians of the brain would appear to be more amenable to feminine than masculine rule, for the proverbs of all nations agree that women’s best ideas are her first ones, while man has to wait for second thought if he would act rightly. Our search for ideas, too, must be systematic If we want to get hold of useful ones. According to the Platonic phllosk ophy, ideas are the universal types of which individual specimens are the more or less Imperfect copies; so that we need not be downhearted If we cannot carry out our ideas In practice exactly as they occur to us in the mind. Thought grows snowball fashion, and is the opposite to money. The more we spend the more we have. —London Answers.