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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
HOW TO UNLOCK 
 
 YOUR 
 
 SUBCONSCIOUS 
 
 MIND 
 
 THROUGH THE SCIENCE OF 
 MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 ELSIE LINCOLN BENEDICT 
 RALPH PAINE BENEDICT 
 
 PRINTED AND BOUND BY 
 
 THE ROYCROFTERS AT THEIR SHOPS AT 
 
 EAST AURORA, NEW YORK 
 
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 Copyright, 1921 
 
 By 
 
 Elsie Lincoln Benedict 
 
 and 
 
 Ralph Paine Benedict 
 
 All rights reserved 
 
 Mi 24 1922 
 
 ©CI.AB77116 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Profound Truths Plainly Told 9 
 
 Your Secret, Subconscious Self - - 19 
 
 LESSON I 
 
 How Our Dreams Reveal Us 57 
 
 LESSON II 
 
 Your Emotional Niagara - - - 97 
 
 LESSON III 
 
 Dissolving Our Fixed Fears - 137 
 
 LESSON IV 
 
 Mental Miracles - - - - - 181 
 
 LESSON V 
 
 Love, Courtship and Marriage - - 223 
 
 LESSON VI 
 
 Success Through The Subconscious - - 275 
 
 LESSON VII 
 
 How You Attain Your Supreme Wish - 317 
 
DEDICATED 
 
 TO 
 
 OUR STUDENTS 
 
 "V 
 
Profound Truths Plainly Told 
 
 O you recall the 
 slightly baffled 
 sensation you ex- 
 perienced when 
 a physician to 
 whom you had 
 gone in time of 
 need handed you 
 a prescription? 
 
 You took the 
 1 'scrap of paper" 
 because there was nothing else to do, and on 
 your way to the drug store scanned it inter- 
 estedly trying to decipher its meaning and 
 especially to figure out what bearing these 
 mysterious hieroglyphics could have on your 
 very real and very personal problem. 
 
 But you decided, about the time you found 
 the prescription clerk, 't were a vain ambition 
 for a mere average man to aspire to under- 
 stand the cryptic scientific code, bandied so 
 nonchalantly between these wise technicians. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 You confessed it quite over your head, paid 
 the bill and tried to forget it. 
 
 Could you have stepped behind the counter 
 and heard the drug clerk translating your 
 prescription to himself it would have amused 
 you to see to what agony scientist No. I had 
 gone to put into Latin for scientist No. 2 the 
 simple directions for concocting for you a 
 simple remedy which in plain United States 
 was simple peppermint or castor oil. 
 
 The scientists in this case are going on 
 the ancient theory that they would lose your 
 respect and incidentally your money if they 
 came down off their Minerva-like pedestals 
 and told you the everyday contents of this 
 bottle. Moreover, you might be able to make 
 your own medicine next time, apply your 
 own remedy — and THEN where would they 
 be! SS 3S 
 
 Medical science has contributed much 
 to the health and happiness of man, but it 
 could have helped much more and many 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 more had it been placed within the reach of 
 the everyday man as it might easily have 
 been! S3 S3 
 
 Now comes a new human science called 
 Psychoanalysis — a science destined to do for 
 mankind far greater things than medical 
 science has ever done; to cure not only the 
 mind, which the physician overlooks, but 
 physical ailments the physician has never 
 been able to reach. 
 
 It is not an intricate science. It deals, as 
 do all sciences, with the simple though stu- 
 pendous facts of everyday life. It can be used 
 by every individual who once secures an under- 
 standing of it, and help him in the solution 
 of his most pressing, personal problems. 
 
 But practically everything that has been 
 given out to date has been, like the prescrip- 
 tion, couched in mysterious phraseology, and 
 written by scientists to other scientists over 
 the heads of the everyday man whose suffer- 
 ings they purport to relieve. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Musicians will play the ultra-classical, 
 though it put the audience to snoring in 
 eight minutes, and scorn the simple things 
 everybody longs for; because they play not 
 for the people but for their critical contem- 
 poraries 33 33 
 
 Singers sing to their contemporaries, 
 learned men talk to the learned, scientific 
 writers write for other scientific writers — all 
 out of fear. 
 
 Between and around these few are the 
 unlearned, the unmusical, the unscientific — 
 that backbone of the nation, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Everyday American and their children. 
 
 They are in trouble. Worry, fear, poverty, 
 grief, sorrow, disappointments and disillu- 
 sionments overwhelm them. 
 
 When the struggle becomes acute the most 
 intelligent go to books for help. Among other 
 things they read reams on this new and 
 wonderful psychoanalysis. 
 
 It is about as understandable as the pre- 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 scription. The reader, like the patient, seeks, 
 struggles, pays the bill and tries to forget. 
 
 But he can't forget because the problem 
 is still unsolved, not because psychoanalysis 
 could not have solved it, but because he 
 found nothing understandable to apply to 
 his own troubles. 
 
 Here is a course, putting into plain, 
 simple American terms the scientific truths 
 recently discovered about the subconscious 
 mind, with definite, specific explanations of 
 exactly what it is, how it works, where it 
 comes from, where and how it so vitally 
 affects your life; plus definite specific instruc- 
 tions for applying this knowledge to your 
 own personal affairs — in short, a prescription 
 in English. 
 
 It is so plain you can make your own 
 medicine next time, and after a while perhaps 
 avoid the necessity for remedies altogether. 
 
 There is nothing in this course a child can 
 fail to understand, yet every word is scientifi- 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 cally accurate and deals with the greatest 
 problems of human life. 
 
 After all, nothing in the world need be 
 made mysterious. Nature is performing 
 miracles all the time, but she speaks a simple 
 language. All the greatest facts of life can be 
 stated in clear, helpful terms and made to do 
 something worth while. Therefore, to begin 
 with, the name of this course which includes 
 all the significant and thoroughly tested ele- 
 ments of psychoanalysis and also those of 
 everyday human psychology is translated 
 into plain American Mental Analysis. 
 
 Clews to Our Intimate Mysteries 
 
 <I Here are a few of the hundreds of questions 
 about ourselves which are answered in this 
 pleasurable, practical course: 
 
 Why are we so different in our dreams from 
 the person we are in real life? 
 
 How does unhappiness produce disease 
 and why do joy and success cure it? 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 i i 
 
 Why do the rich, the powerful, the beloved 
 and beautiful commit suicide? 
 
 Why do criminals always go back to the 
 scene of the crime? 
 
 Why does falling in love improve your 
 mental, physical and spiritual health? 
 
 Why do we sometimes hate the one we 
 most love? 
 
 Why does a wife call her husband " just 
 a big boy" when he also thinks of her as " a 
 mere child? " 
 
 What is the true explanation of love at 
 first sight? 
 
 Why do we get over our wildest love affairs 
 while tamer ones last through the years? 
 
 Why do lovers often feel sure they have 
 met and mated in a previous existence? 
 
 Why do we take instantaneous and intense 
 dislikes to people? 
 
 Why do boys fall in love with older women 
 and girls have violent loves for mature men? 
 
 And how does this reconcile itself to the 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 fact that women dislike to marry men 
 younger than themselves while the older the 
 man the younger he wants his wife to be? 
 
 Why do you change certain details when 
 relating a dream? 
 
 Why are we afraid of certain things and 
 why do we avoid certain others without 
 knowing why? 
 
 Why do we often become angry, morose, 
 elated or excited over trifles? 
 
 Why do we forget the names of people we 
 know perfectly well, misspeak ourselves and 
 say things we don't mean before we realize it? 
 
 Why are we poor when we want money so 
 badly? 33 33 
 
 What is the secret of every person's supreme 
 subconscious wish? 
 
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1 9 m daily looking for a man 
 
 As on my way I go — 
 His features and his general plan 
 
 I greatly wish to know. 
 
 He is that MAN INSIDE 0' ME 
 
 That holds the most of good 
 I hat I myself some day might be, 
 
 If I but understood. 
 
 — John Kendrick Bangs 
 
Your Secret, Subconscious Self 
 
 ROM the deck of 
 a steamer you see 
 an iceberg. Always 
 afterward you 
 think of it as con- 
 sisting of just 
 what you saw — 
 no more and no 
 less. You describe 
 its outlines to 
 your friends and 
 
 explain its size and shape as being what was 
 
 visible to your eye. 
 
 Yet you saw but one-tenth of that iceberg. 
 
 The other nine-tenths were floating beneath 
 
 the surface, entirely out of sight. 
 
 If you have never seen a big iceberg, drop a 
 
 miniature one into your glass next time you 
 
 are at table, and the same thing on a smaller 
 
 scale will happen. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Your Two Minds 
 
 <J Your mind is like that iceberg. It has its 
 upper and nether parts — the conscious and 
 subconscious. The conscious may be likened 
 to the tenth of the iceberg which is discernible 
 above the surface, for its operations and 
 processes are always apparent to you. It 
 consists of the thoughts you think from 
 moment to moment in your waking hours, 
 but lose when you fall asleep. 
 
 This conscious mind is busy handling the 
 experiences which arise in your environment 
 — the " awareness' ' of your surroundings, 
 sensations of what you are doing, seeing, 
 tasting, touching, smelling. All plans, visual- 
 izations and imaginings which catch and 
 hold your attention are also a part of this 
 surface mind. 
 
 You express this conscious mind more or 
 
 less externally and can readily detect its 
 
 operations. You can open the door on it any 
 
 instant and catch it at work. Right now, for 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 instance, you can watch your mind thinking 
 of this page and what you are reading. You 
 can look on while it reasons, judges and 
 decides about what is printed here. 
 
 In short, this conscious element of your 
 mind is the mind we are all familiar with, the 
 mind we have always known we possessed, 
 the mind dealt with in academic psychology, 
 the mind that does our conscious thinking. 
 
 The Submerged Nine-Tenths 
 
 <I But recent discoveries have shown that 
 this surface mind, which we had supposed 
 comprised all our mental processes, is less 
 than one-tenth of the total human conscious- 
 ness 53 53 
 
 These discoveries reveal that underneath 
 this conscious mind, part and parcel of it, 
 bound up and wound around it, powerfully 
 influencing it but out of sight are the "sub- 
 merged nine- tenths" called the subcon- 
 scious 53 53 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 c==* 
 
 What Is The Subconscious? 
 
 fl This subconscious is the warehouse in which 
 you have been unconsciously and involun- 
 tarily storing away all the impressions, 
 memories, feelings, accumulated force and 
 "aftermaths" of everything that has ever 
 happened to you. 
 
 This means not only all the things you are 
 conscious of having experienced but millions 
 of sensations you were unaware of at the time. 
 All have stowed themselves away down there 
 in the pigeonhole of that submerged nine- 
 tenths of your consciousness, to be heard 
 from later in life. 
 
 Many of the mysteries about yourself which 
 have baffled, discouraged or inspired you are 
 solved by the new science of Mental Analysis, 
 which explains this secret self that lies deeply 
 buried but always active within each of us. 
 
 Retail and Wholesale Thinking 
 
 fl[ The conscious mind may be called the 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 11 retailer mind." It is compelled to deal with 
 non-essentials, the externals of your hourly 
 experiences, the thousands of details that 
 arise in your immediate environment. 
 
 But your subconscious mind knows noth- 
 ing of these. All its power is directed toward 
 the attainment of your deepest desires. It is 
 a wholesaler and does things only in the by- 
 and-large 33 33 
 
 It is not so much concerned with what you 
 are doing, saying or experiencing at this 
 moment, as with the massed result of the 
 experiences through which you have already 
 passed, plus the probable effect upon you 
 of those you are now facing. 
 
 Your subconscious mind does not so much 
 think as feel. It does not believe or reason, as 
 does your conscious mind. It knows. 
 
 Your Subconscious Ocean 
 
 ^f Nothing you see, hear, say, think, do, feel, 
 or experience is ever lost. Each is preserved 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 forever in the deeps of your subconsciousness. 
 
 It is as though you lived in a houseboat on 
 a great ocean, into whose depths something 
 dropped every time you had a thought, a 
 feeling or any kind of experience whatever. 
 
 Some of these are of such a nature as to 
 throw overboard the seeds from which would 
 grow beautiful water lilies, ferns and lacey 
 mosses. Some would bring forth weeds, others 
 poison ivy, while others would fringe the 
 shore with great trees whose strength would 
 delight you and whose shade would comfort 
 and bless all who came that way. 
 
 Some of your deeds and desires would fling 
 into this ocean only trash — chunks of pig iron, 
 bits of wood, baubles, toys, debris — trap- 
 pings and trimmings of idle moments, dark 
 thoughts, primitive instincts — all would lie 
 there at the bottom of the sea. Divers could 
 find every one — some distorted, some washed 
 cleaner than when they went in, but each and 
 every one affected in some way by being there. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Many of the thoughts and things we had 
 supposed lifeless would turn out to be fertile 
 seeds. They would have sprouted all manner 
 of strange, exotic, ugly and beautiful plants, 
 each bearing fruit according to its nature 
 and sending up to the ocean's surface the 
 results natural to itself. 
 
 We do and say many things which are the 
 result of the things we previously submerged 
 in this subconscious sea. 
 
 The Stranger in Your Skin 
 
 <I A man does things that are "foreign" to 
 him — not what he intended. They seem to 
 do themselves. 
 
 He means to say a certain thing, to express 
 a certain thought and instead says something 
 entirely different. He forgets the names of 
 people he knows perfectly well, answers " No " 
 when he means ' ' Yes, ' ' and in a hundred ways 
 entangles himself against his will. 
 
 He says " that was accidental," " I said 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 that unconsciously/ ' or " I wasn't myself." 
 But none of these is really true. The fact 
 of the matter is that all of them were done by 
 his subconscious. They are not accidental 
 but in accordance with the definite law that 
 we tend constantly to express to the outer 
 world whatever is in the back of our minds. 
 We also tend to forget whatever is dis- 
 pleasing to the ego and to remember what- 
 ever is pleasing to it. 
 
 The Actor's Story 
 
 <I One of the well known actors in America 
 told us this: 
 
 " I am often asked to dinners and other 
 social affairs with people in whom I have no 
 interest whatever — people with whom I have 
 nothing in common and with whom I would 
 rather not be bothered. 
 
 41 1 found that almost invariably I jotted 
 down these engagements on my calendar for 
 the day following the actual date, and was 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 always being called up afterward and re- 
 minded of my absence. 
 
 " After a while it dawned on me that 
 my subconscious wish not to go caused me 
 habitually but innocently to put down the 
 wrong date and always to make the mistake 
 for the day after so that it would be safely 
 over before I could be reminded. 
 
 " I arrived at these conclusions because 
 of another strange experience I was always 
 having of putting down engagements with 
 personal friends for the date previous to 
 that in the invitation, evidently because I 
 was subconsciously anxious to go. 
 
 " More than once I arrived at these houses 
 a day or even two days prior to the party — 
 as unconscious of this mistake as I was of 
 the opposite one/ ' 
 
 In Our Own Lives 
 
 <I In a lesser degree these experiences happen 
 to all of us — as when we find it so easy to be 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 C =3 
 
 early at any affair we wish to attend, but 
 late tc things we dislike. 
 
 Memory's Treasure Vault 
 
 ^f The subconscious has also been called " the 
 treasure vault of memory." In it is preserved 
 the record of everything we have ever heard, 
 seen, read, learned. 
 
 It never forgets. Everything you ever knew 
 you know still — whether your memory is able 
 to dive down and bring it from the bottom 
 of your consciousness at this moment or not. 
 
 One reason why all persons are not able to, 
 do this now is that we have, until the last 
 few years, been ignorant of the fact that 
 the mind did remember, and have taken it 
 for granted that things passed entirely out of 
 our mental grasp — that we had " forgotten." 
 
 A clearer understanding of the subconscious 
 enables even the beginner to revive in con- 
 sciousness many things he had imagined 
 completely erased from memory. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The Subconscious Never Sleeps 
 <I The subconscious is always on the alert. 
 We now know with complete certainty that 
 it never sleeps — in fact, that it is more active 
 when the conscious mind sleeps than during 
 our waking hours. 
 
 We have seen proof of this many times in 
 our own lives — as, for instance, when we can 
 awaken without an alarm clock to catch a 
 4 a. m. train if we really want to take the 
 journey 53 33 
 
 Nurses in hospital wards full of patients 
 sleep soundly through all manner of outcries 
 but awaken at the whispered request of their 
 own patients. A mother sleeps through many 
 disturbances but rouses at the merest move- 
 ment of her sick child. 
 
 The country man upon coming to the city 
 is unable to sleep the first few nights but his 
 subconscious soon adapts itself and he sleeps 
 as soundly through those same noises a week 
 later as he did out on the farm. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Bridge Between Mind and Body 
 
 <I " Does the mind have a body or does the 
 body have a mind?" is a question over which 
 the philosophers have wrangled for centuries. 
 Today we know that both are true and that 
 the subconscious mind, of which these ancient 
 arguers were unaware, is the bridge between 
 the body and the mind. 
 
 The conscious mind functions through the 
 brain but the subconscious functions 
 throughout the entire body — the cerebrum, 
 the muscles, the solar plexus, the nerves — 
 apparently through every cell in both body 
 and brain 33 5S 
 
 That this is no far-fetched theory is shown 
 in the fact that its first American exponent 
 was that greatest living material scientist, 
 Thomas A. Edison. He says, " Every cell 
 in us thinks/ ' and has proven to his own 
 satisfaction that nothing is dead matter but 
 all is living energy expressing itself in various 
 forms SS 5& 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Inner Recesses and Outer Results 
 
 <I There have always been those who realized 
 the influence of these submerged selves of 
 ours and there is not a thinking human but 
 who realizes that many things in his life, 
 however much they may mystify others, are 
 but the outward expression of something 
 in his inner life. 
 
 But it requires an unusually high grade 
 of intelligence and an unusually frank heart 
 to acknowledge what Mental Analysis shows 
 us so clearly today — that: 
 
 Your money, 
 
 Your possessions, 
 
 Your good luck and bad luck, 
 
 Your ill health or perfect health, 
 
 Your environment, 
 
 Your life as a whole — 
 
 are the harvests from seeds you planted in 
 
 the soil of your subconscious in days gone by. 
 
 But whether you realize it or not, these 
 
 things are true. You are reaping what you 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 have sown. The results are in accordance 
 with laws — laws that are inexorable, unchang- 
 ing, and absolutely impersonal. 
 
 Your life today is the net result of your 
 yesterdays. Your tomorrows will be the net 
 result of those yesterdays plus the seeds you 
 are planting today, this hour and this instant. 
 
 The only way to make the tomorrows what 
 you wish them to be is to learn what you have 
 already planted, how to uproot the weak and 
 cultivate the strong things that are growing 
 in your personality, and how to plant from 
 this hour onward only the seeds whose fruit 
 you desire to reap in your coming years. 
 
 This course, by showing you these things, 
 can enable you to remake your life, as it 
 has already done for thousands of our former 
 students 33 53 
 
 The Secret of the Famous 
 
 <I All great souls have recognized and 
 declared that they were strangely aided by 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 something within themselves but which they 
 did not " reason out." 
 
 Every famous composer has said, " No, 
 I can't tell you how I thought out the music 
 because I did not do so. It came to me. I put 
 down what came." 
 
 Every great poet has said, " I can not tell 
 you how I wrote this poem because I do not 
 know. It said itself in my mind, and I wrote 
 it down/ ' S3 53 
 
 Every famous orator has said, " The right 
 thoughts never come when I am trying to 
 write out a speech. My audience is the other 
 half of me. The best ideas come only when I 
 am face to face with the crowd." 
 
 Every illustrious minister has declared, 
 " The best parts of my sermons are never 
 written in my study but come into my mind 
 as I stand before my congregation. " 
 
 The " flash of inspiration' ' which comes 
 to the lawyer at the crucial moment in his 
 trial of a case, comes not from his conscious 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 but from his subconscious mind, as he will 
 tell you himself. 
 
 The reason so few people achieve greatness 
 is not that there are but few with the spark 
 of genius in them, but the source of greatness 
 — the subconscious mind — is clogged in all 
 but the few. The mental machinery of most 
 people is full of monkey wrenches and junk, 
 the brakes are all on and the cylinders are 
 skipping 33 33 
 
 The average mind is as disorganized as a 
 rag bag 33 33 
 
 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 
 
 ^ Almost every individual leads a Dr. Jekyll 
 and Mr. Hyde life, with part of his mind 
 pulling one way and another pulling the 
 opposite. Then he wonders why this split 
 personality makes no more progress. 
 
 There is no mystery about it. Such a man 
 is never able to present a solid front to the 
 world 33 33 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 A unified personality is the first requisite 
 for success or happiness under any condition 
 whatever 53 53 
 
 The energies, mentality and interests of 
 the average individual are disorganized, 
 disrupted, chaotic, jumbled in a mixed-up 
 heap. Few people see the ruinous effect of this 
 splitting of the personality, and some even 
 consider it an achievement. 
 
 A man calls himself clever when he is able 
 to live one life outwardly and another inward- 
 ly. He is able to appear at a social affair 
 disliking the whole thing — the guests, the 
 interruption to his business, even the hostess 
 — and all the while talk and act as though 
 charmed, flattered, delighted and happy. 
 
 11 Good gracious, what an insufferable 
 bore!" he exclaims to his wife the instant 
 they are out of earshot. 
 
 " Society compels me to lead this double 
 life," he will say, " My business requires it, 
 social amenities demand it." 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 And to an extent these are true. But we are 
 coming to realize that insincerity of any kind, 
 reacts back on the personality with fatal 
 consequences 53 53 
 
 First among these consequences is the dis- 
 integrating of the consciousness and no man 
 can succeed whose two minds are not work- 
 ing in harmony. 
 
 The Penalty of Pretense 
 
 <I It is not easy to lead double lives, even 
 though they be comparatively innocent ones. 
 Concealed facts are always popping out into 
 open sight. Slips of the tongue, glances and 
 postures — a hundred things betray the man 
 who would keep out of sight his real and 
 actual self. 
 
 The subconscious is like a vast irrigation 
 system with every muscle a tiny headgate 
 in the great network. A man may learn to 
 watch one or two or even a dozen of these 
 headgates in eyes, mouth, voice and manner 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 — but they are so numerous he can not 
 watch them all, and from whence he least 
 expects it there will break out the tell-tale 
 overflow 53 53 
 
 A Practical Personal Science 
 
 <I This latest of the human sciences shows us 
 what we have been doing to ourselves, our 
 lives, our chances in life, our loves, hopes 
 and aspirations; how we have been uncon- 
 sciously poisoning our own wells at their 
 source; how we have administered mental 
 narcotics to ourselves when we most needed 
 mental stimulation; how we have built up 
 the present from our own individual, racial 
 and biological past into a structure in which 
 we now live and through which our person- 
 alities function, express themselves and meet 
 the world 53 53 
 
 It shows how we may easily and immedi- 
 ately reverse the process and begin to get 
 the things we want out of life. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 ^f It is an essentially practical, personal 
 science, dealing with our everyday problems 
 in an everyday way. 
 
 Our aim and our accomplishment to date 
 has been to give it to the student in such 
 simple and straightforward language that 
 it begins from the first moment to help him 
 in the solution of his most intimate, inward 
 affairs. It will do this for you. It will give 
 you the insight into your own mentality 
 which will explain to you — 
 
 Why you think and feel as you do; 
 
 Why you have gotten no farther in life; 
 
 Why some succeed and others fail. 
 
 What Are You Preparing For ? 
 
 <R Elbert Hubbard stated a great truth 
 when he said, " We get what we prepare for." 
 People bring their own unhappiness. That 
 they do so innocently, blindly, unknowingly 
 does not help matters. " Ignorance of the 
 law excuses no man." 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The laws which rule us and our lives are 
 divine, unalterable. He who obeys them, 
 whether he do so consciously or uncon- 
 sciously, reaps the rewards that other people 
 call " good luck." He who consciously or 
 unconsciously violates them pays the penal- 
 ties he calls his " bad luck." 
 
 The supremest effort of life, therefore, 
 should be to learn what the laws are which 
 rule human happiness and how they operate, 
 that we may consciously and constantly 
 plant the seeds for the harvests we want. 
 
 This course in Mental Analysis has made 
 these laws so clear, concise, graphic and under- 
 standable that any one can put them to use 
 in the solving of his everyday problems. They 
 bring results from the first moment of apply- 
 ing them, in happiness, health and success. 
 
 Skepticism and Criticism 
 
 <I Some may say, ' i These things sound impos- 
 sible/ ' It is inevitable that some would say 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 this. Every step in human progress has been 
 opposed at first and forced to fight its way 
 to recognition against skepticism and criti- 
 cism 33 33 
 
 This is due to the well-known psycho- 
 logical fact that the average individual does 
 not think for himself, even about his own 
 most serious problems, but gives himself 
 ready-made and outworn excuses for his fail- 
 ures and flatteringly false congratulations 
 for his success. 
 
 Such a one refuses to believe a new thing 
 because it is new. Thinking men and women 
 know that the human race is in the infant 
 stage of its development; that a few hundred 
 years from now human beings will be doing 
 things as far beyond our present achievements 
 as ours are beyond those of prehistoric man. 
 
 And those who have given the subject 
 
 thought realize that this progress is coming, 
 
 as it has already begun to come, through 
 
 the one thing that has given man sovereignty 
 
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 over the globe — further understanding and 
 development of his consciousness. 
 
 Man is superior to animals in proportion 
 as his mind is superior to theirs. One man 
 is superior to another and achieves results 
 superior to the other's in exact proportion as 
 his mind is in better working order, more under 
 his control and better understood by him. 
 
 Why We Were Not Told 
 
 •I " If I bring my own sufferings and successes 
 why have I not been taught this before?" 
 others will ask. 
 
 There is but one answer. We are never 
 taught the things most vital to human happi- 
 ness S3 53 
 
 Fathers and mothers are so busy getting 
 food for their children's stomachs and clothes 
 for their backs, they have no time or energy 
 to investigate or explain either to themselves 
 or to their children how the human mind 
 controls human happiness. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The result is that parents who would not 
 think of feeding their children's intestines 
 canned food, feed their intellects with canned 
 ideas — ideas so outworn, so stale and putrid 
 that the child is forever handicapped in the 
 race of life. 
 
 Teachers and preachers — the other two 
 forces which train the young mind— are so 
 harassed by the overpowering problem of 
 making small salaries suffice for necessities 
 that they have neither heart nor head for 
 remoter human ones. 
 
 Favorite Fibs 
 
 ^f Thus we grow up, knowing "a. lot of 
 things that ain't so" — things that are easy 
 to teach, pretty to preach, but impossible to 
 live up to. 
 
 We are told that ' ' virtue is its own reward ' ' 
 — and see the most virtuous people all around 
 us rewarded with kicks and poverty. 
 
 We are told that " genius is the art of 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 taking infinite pains' ' — only to discover that 
 the most painstaking people are in book- 
 keeping cages getting $20 a week, while every 
 genius is notoriously incapable of taking 
 pains with anything save what he loves — 
 even his shoe laces! 
 
 We are taught that " success comes from 
 hard work" — but note how the day laborer 
 gets four dollars for working his hands eight 
 hours, while the banker makes a fortune by 
 working his head four hours a day and play- 
 ing golf the rest of the time. 
 
 The Secret of Success 
 
 flf The secret of success is not hard work, 
 painstaking effort, nor even virtue — though 
 each of these is essential to supreme happi- 
 ness 33 33 
 
 The secret of success for every human being 
 lies in the harmonious working of his con- 
 scious and subconscious powers. 
 
 Those who have succeeded have, in every 
 
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 instance, consciously or unconsciously, used 
 their minds as they were intended to be used; 
 those who failed unconsciously violated the 
 laws of the mind and reaped the inevitable 
 result S$ 53 
 
 Purpose of the Subconscious 
 
 <& This submerged nine-tenths of the con- 
 sciousness is of the utmost significance in 
 every human life. It has unlimited capacity 
 for good or evil, according as it is used or 
 misused. Each individual's life is made or 
 marred by this vast subterranean sea of 
 urges and impulses. 
 
 This great self is infinitely strong, infinitely 
 courageous, infinitely powerful. It exists for 
 one purpose, and one only — to externalize 
 you, to bring you self-expression, to secure for 
 you an untrammelled personality, to attain 
 for you your supreme subconscious aim. 
 
 From birth to death it strives to set you 
 free, to enable you to be yourself, your truest, 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 realest self; that happy successful self you 
 were created to be; the great self you may be, 
 can be, and shall be. 
 
 The Supreme Wish 
 
 <I The greatest psychological discovery of 
 recent ages shows us that the entire person- 
 ality of every human being is built around 
 some one deep, consuming desire — some 
 supreme subconscious wish. 
 
 In one individual this supreme desire is 
 for one thing, in another for something else, 
 depending on the type and temperament 
 of each, but no human being lives who does 
 not have some deep desire at the core of his 
 heart 33 S& 
 
 Life Built Around the Wish 
 
 <I That every man builds his life around 
 this supreme wish is the explanation of many 
 of our otherwise incredible inconsistencies, 
 strange reactions, and of the remarkable 
 
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 accomplishments of apparently mediocre men 
 and women. 
 
 Many persons know what their supreme 
 life wish is. The most successful always know, 
 and their success is due more to this knowl- 
 edge than to any other one thing. 
 
 When we say "that man knows his own 
 mind," we are saying much more than we 
 realize. For there are many who do not know 
 and these many are the failures in life. 
 
 Those who only guess are the half-failures. 
 
 No Hard Work Necessary 
 
 <I In utilizing your subconsciousness, stren- 
 uous effort is neither necessary nor desirable. 
 This mind is already organized and ready 
 to work out for you whatever you desire. It 
 does not need urging. It is the real you. It 
 contains all your aspirations and impulses 
 already. It does not require encouragement 
 any more than a river needs to be encouraged 
 to flow to the sea. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 All it needs is direction. It is keyed for 
 action, and has been every day since you 
 were born. It is like a race horse that has 
 been trained for the track. Take the reins in 
 your hand and let it work for you. 
 
 You have never tested the powers within 
 your own personality because society, schools, 
 teachers, preachers and parents are organized 
 against every kind of spontaneous expression 
 of the individual. 
 
 That is why it is in danger of committing 
 suicide — this society of ours. That is why 
 some of its members are constantly turning 
 against it and doing damage in the form 
 of murder and war. 
 
 We must live understanding^ before we 
 can live uprightly. 
 
 " Getting Gut of Yourself" 
 
 ^ Do not waste time and energy trying to 
 " get out of yourself.' ' The man who tries 
 to get out of himself before he has cleaned 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 house is working in the wrong direction. 
 
 The person who feels impelled to get out 
 of himself has something wrong inside which 
 he can not bear to look at. So he goes to 
 the theatre, drinks, gambles, speeds, scolds, 
 spends money and time foolishly. 
 
 But it does no good. He can not get away 
 from himself. The moment the excitement 
 is over back he slumps to the old self which 
 is worse than it was before, because it knows 
 and he knows the wasting of time, energy, 
 money and thought in the attempt to drown 
 his troubles has harmed him, entangled him 
 more deeply and pushed him farther back 
 than ever. 
 
 The teaching, " forget yourself for the 
 world " is a beautiful ideal — one we must 
 more and more live up to if we hope to be 
 truly happy. It is necessary to the progress 
 of the world for us to lose ourselves in 
 self-forgetful service. 
 
 But we must learn how to do it. No one 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 takes very long steps toward it until he 
 settles his " internal warfare." 
 
 Every Day Illustrations 
 
 <R Your subconscious is either backing your 
 work or " bucking it." It will back you in any- 
 thing that is in accordance with your supreme 
 wish. You will do the amazing tasks with 
 amazing ease once you start. 
 
 But anything which is in opposition to 
 it will go slowly, sadly, heavily, and inef- 
 ficiently 33 33 
 
 Whatever aids and abets your supreme 
 subconscious aim you will labor over for 
 long hours absolutely without fatigue, but 
 whatever takes you in the opposite direction 
 leaves you actually physically exhausted at 
 the end of ten minutes. 
 
 How gladly and gaily we do a task today 
 
 when it furthers some particular project! How 
 
 glumly and grumpily we do thevery same thing 
 
 tomorrow if it no longer furthers that project. 
 
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 With what vim a young girl who has 
 always disliked housework helps mother with 
 dinner and the dishes when her young man 
 is there to see! 
 
 How easy it is to forget the bills we owe — 
 but how that same memory of ours does 
 work when the other fellow owes us! 
 
 How simple to remember the addresses, 
 the initials, and even the telephone numbers 
 of new people we are interested in, and how 
 difficult to remember even the names of those 
 we are indifferent to! The only difference in all 
 these cases is the difference in the way in which 
 a subconscious wish is affected. 
 
 Why We Fail 
 
 <I " If it is possible for my subconscious to 
 get for me anything I wish why have I never 
 gotten the things I most desired?' ' is a reason- 
 able and inevitable question. Because you 
 have violated the laws whereby the subcon- 
 scious operates. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 You, like everything else in the universe, 
 are a part OF, not apart FROM natural 
 law. Your being is responsive to and built 
 in accordance with certain divine rules, regu- 
 lations and edicts. When you disobey those 
 you suffer, when you obey them you succeed. 
 
 The First Law of the Subconscious 
 
 <I You must free your subconscious of the 
 shackles with which you have all your life 
 crippled it; you must take off the throttles 
 with which you have been choking it; you 
 must give the strong self of you a chance to 
 work for you; you must take your hands off 
 the bridle of this swift racer that champs at 
 the bit, and let him go. 
 
 Every great, successful, big or famous 
 person has differed from the failures wholly 
 and solely in proportion as he learned there 
 was a deep voice within him, listened to 
 that voice, and let it out for all the world 
 to hear! 33 S& 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Your Problem Is You 
 
 <j[ First of all get rid of the notion that people 
 and things and life in general are " against 
 you." Nothing can harm you but yourself 
 and the only way you can permanently hurt 
 yourself is by the misuse of your mentality. 
 Luck is not against you. Luck is what 
 you make it. Conditions and circumstances 
 may be adverse to you at this moment, but 
 if so, they are the ones you have made by 
 your previous thinking. Stop that kind of 
 thinking or you will go on piling up more 
 adverse conditions for tomorrow. 
 
 Your Invisible Self 
 
 <J Your subconscious may be compared to 
 a great ocean liner. As we gaze at her across 
 the blue ocean what do we see? 
 
 We say we see the steamer. But what we 
 see is her upper decks, masts and fluttering 
 flags; the waving, smiling passengers — the 
 life and action of her. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 But there is far more to that steamer than 
 this. There is her great body — the lower 
 regions, the steerage, the hundreds of work- 
 men, tons of cargo, massive machinery and 
 powerful dynamos. 
 
 The upper decks look important, but the 
 thing that determines how far and how 
 fast she travels, what she carries, and whether 
 or not she ever reaches port, depend on the 
 way the unseen forces work down there in her 
 hull 53 33 
 
 The outside of you that men see are your 
 upper decks. People, and perhaps you your- 
 self, imagine these are all there is to you. 
 
 But it is only a fraction. The direction in 
 which you go, what you do with your life, 
 how far you travel and the port at which 
 you arrive, all depend on the workings of the 
 subconscious mind down there in your hull. 
 
 That subconscious is not only nine-tenths 
 of your mind but nine-tenths of you. It is 
 far stronger than anything and everything 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 else within you, utterly fearless and unafraid. 
 It possesses powers beyond your wildest 
 dreams. When you put yourself in harmony 
 with it, it will carry you surely and safely to 
 your desired destination. 
 
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Like tides on a crescent sea beach 
 
 When the moon is new and thin, 
 Jo the lonely heart strange longings 
 
 Come swelling and surging in; 
 Come from the mystic ocean, 
 
 Whose rim no foot has trod. 
 Some of us call it Longing, 
 
 But others call it God. 
 
 — William Carruth. 
 
c&*£SS- 
 
 Lesson I 
 
 How Our Dreams Reveal Us 
 
 The Secret of Every Dream 
 
 SECRET lies 
 back of every 
 dream and every- 
 thing that hap- 
 pens in a dream. 
 Though science 
 has but recently 
 discovered that se- 
 cret this discovery 
 is so far-reaching 
 and fundamental 
 :hat already it has cleared up some of the 
 deepest mysteries of human personality, 
 aided in the curing of all manner of physical 
 diseases, mental disorders and heretofore in- 
 explicable ailments. 
 
 The new insight it has given into the 
 psychology of every human being, and espe- 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 daily into his deepest desires, has revolution- 
 ized the procedure of physicians, psychia- 
 trists, psychologists and all whose work it is 
 to help humanity straighten out its tangles. 
 This startling but strikingly scientific 
 secret of the origin and meaning of dreams 
 is that every dream is the fulfilment of one 
 or more wishes that have been thwarted in our 
 waking life. 
 
 Dreams Tell Desires 
 
 <I In other words, everything you have or do 
 or say or experience in a dream is the expres- 
 sion of some desire, longing, craving, yearn- 
 ing or wish which has been cheated of expres- 
 sion or repressed during the daytime. 
 
 One look into your own dreams will prove 
 to you that this is true. You will recall how 
 many times you have been doing in your 
 dreams what actuality prevented your doing; 
 how your dreams contain so many more of 
 the desired elements than does real life, and 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 how much more intense are your dream 
 experiences than those of reality. 
 
 The poor who go to bed hungry or those 
 who are dieting against their will, dream 
 of feasts and banquets where there are 
 quantities of just the food they like best. The 
 man who retires thirsty dreams of cool springs, 
 babbling brooks, steins of beer, goblets of 
 wine, pitchers of ice water, or whatever kind 
 of beverage he prefers. 
 
 A young woman friend who homesteaded 
 a "dry farm" in Montana, told us that 
 over and over again when she was most 
 longing for it she dreamed of finding a beau- 
 tiful deep spring on her land. 
 
 An intense repressed desire of any kind 
 ultimately expresses itself in some form in 
 our dreams. We dream of doing things we 
 do not countenance in our waking thoughts 
 but we dream them because, subconsciously, 
 we desire to do the thing or the thing it 
 symbolizes. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 In many instances the conscious mind 
 is not aware of this desire at all or, if it is, 
 pushes it into the background for moral, 
 ethical or other reasons. 
 
 No one should be blamed or criticised for 
 the evil or "immoral" things he does in 
 dreams. The fact that he dreams of doing 
 them proves that he does not do them in 
 his waking life. 
 
 Any desire that is fully gratified during 
 the daytime is satisfied. It " gets out of the 
 system." It is only those we are prevented 
 from " getting off our chests " in the day 
 that we dream of at night. 
 
 Your Two Lives 
 
 flf^You live two lives — outer and inner. The 
 outer one consists of what you say and do f 
 the inner of what you think and wish. 
 
 The world witnesses much of your surface 
 life and decides from it that you are a certain 
 kind of person. But you know, with poignant 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 sadness, how little any one knows of the real 
 you S& S& 
 
 You have a thousand thoughts, desires, 
 ambitions and longings no one has ever 
 dreamed you possessed. You have some 
 faults too that they would be rather sur- 
 prised to see. But you have beautiful ideals, 
 sympathies for the sufferings of others, many 
 generous impulses and big hopes of helping 
 humanity which no one suspects and which 
 you feel no one would understand, regard- 
 less of how hard you tried to explain them. 
 
 The Parts You Play 
 
 <I One of these lives is your surface life, the 
 other your submerged life. Each has its own 
 consciousness, its own experiences and oper- 
 ates in its own way. 
 
 "All the world's a stage/ ' said Shakespeare, 
 
 and all of us are actors and play many roles. 
 
 The tenth part of your mind which controls 
 
 and handles your surface life is, as stated, 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 the conscious mind. It is at the helm during 
 your waking hours. It directs the role you 
 play in the many-act drama in which you 
 appear day by day on the stage of your 
 hourly existence. 
 
 The part you play out here on the stage 
 of this everyday conscious life is a part that 
 has to conform to " appearances.' ' You say 
 certain lines, you do certain things, you act 
 a certain way because the exigencies of life, 
 the amenities and the world in general 
 demand it. 
 
 These compel you to do a great many 
 things you do not like to do under any 
 conditions — in your social relationships, in 
 your work, in your business, in your duties 
 as a citizen, parent, friend, and as a mem- 
 ber of society. 
 
 The Surface You, accompanied by the 
 conscious tenth of your mind, is forced to 
 go through these parts all the time you are 
 awake 33 33 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Psychology of Dreams 
 
 flf When you " lose consciousness,' ' out comes 
 the other nine-tenths of your mind — the Sub- 
 merged You — and takes charge of the stage. 
 
 In a flash he clears away the trappings 
 of that sordid, humdrum play called " every- 
 day/ ' and instantly up goes the curtain on 
 the perfect, the ideal, the longed-for dreams 
 of " What I Want. M This is the dream and 
 the " stuff M of which it is made. 
 
 In it all is as you desire. You are the star 
 of the caste, the envied, the influential, the 
 handsome, the powerful, the all-important 
 personage around which everything else 
 revolves. Your real self, halted, hampered 
 and hurt during the hours of consciousness 
 is now strong and free and favored in these 
 hours when only subconsciousness reigns. 
 
 The Dream-Doings 
 
 <I In your dreams you are always different 
 from the person you are during the day. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Instead of being at the mercy of reality, as 
 you are in your waking hours, you begin to 
 play some role you want to play, to act a 
 part you want to act, to be some person you 
 want to be, regardless of how fantastical 
 these desires may be. 
 
 Primitive Nature of Dreams 
 
 <I In the dream there are no laws, no rules, 
 no regulations, no inhibitions. The dreamer 
 harks back a million years, before any of 
 these restraints came to repress and civilize 
 the intense, instinctive self of man, to that 
 ancient stage of human development when 
 every creature was free to do as he pleased 
 in just the degree that he was able to vanquish 
 his enemies. 
 
 This fact explains why we fight so hard 
 in our dreams for what we desire and why 
 the action is so much more crude than during 
 our waking life. 
 
 The conventional self which dominates 
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 us during the day gives way, at night, to the 
 primitive self which brooks no opposition, 
 knows no defeat, has no scruples, no morals, 
 no conventionalities — nothing but desires 
 and their doings. 
 
 We Dream in Pictures 
 
 <I Because the dream takes us back to the 
 ancient stages when the keenest sense man 
 possessed was the visual one, our dreams 
 are mostly purely visual experiences. 
 
 The senses of hearing, touching, tasting 
 and smelling, all of which figure prominently 
 in our conscious life, are relegated to the 
 rear in dreams because these were less acutely 
 developed than sight in primitive man. 
 
 Only those of the keenest auditory sense 
 or gifted in music ever hear sounds in dreams. 
 Only those whose gustatory senses are most 
 highly developed ever taste things in dreams. 
 Only those with the keenest of noses ever 
 smell anything in a dream. Next in acuteness 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 to the sense of sight is that of touch, and 
 this figures frequently in dreams. 
 
 But for the most part we dream in mental 
 pictures. The average dream is but a series 
 of visual images — a moving picture in which 
 we play the leading role which exists around 
 and through and for our personal selves. 
 
 Difficulties in Dreams 
 
 ^ In dreams the mind places obstacles in our 
 pathway for the joy the ego experiences in 
 demolishing them, and this is especially true 
 of the dreams of Americans who, more than 
 any other people, measure a man's success 
 by the difficulties he has overcome. 
 
 This conclusion is based in our analysis 
 of hundreds of individuals from almost every 
 civilized country. 
 
 The Opera Star's Story 
 
 <§ In California we recently conversed on this 
 subject of the ego in dreams with an operatic 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 star whose name is famous the world over — so 
 famous that she was at that time traveling 
 incognito to avoid the homage of the multi- 
 tude and have a few days of rest and quiet. 
 
 She told us a dream she had had the night 
 before. Here it is in her own words: 
 
 11 1 was always intensely desirous of fame. 
 Even as a child I knew I must be a great 
 singer or life would not be worth living. I 
 constantly pictured myself as a famous 
 opera star — a silly performance for an un- 
 attractive little girl whose parents were as 
 poverty-stricken as mine. 
 
 " As the eldest of a large family of children 
 I was responsible for little brothers and 
 sisters who were constantly getting into 
 the kinds of troubles that demanded my 
 attention 33 53 
 
 " This often irritated me beyond endurance 
 
 and made me more incensed than anything 
 
 in the world except one. Our parents owned 
 
 a small chicken farm, and when I was not 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 having to leave my day-dreams, fairy books 
 and personal pursuits to care for babies I 
 was being compelled to look after the chickens 
 — see that they were let out occasionally but 
 kept away from the garden. 
 
 11 I hated herding those chickens with all 
 the blind hate of childhood. I felt humiliated 
 every time I had to look after them. Was 
 that any business for a future star to be in? 
 I used to think to myself. 
 
 11 That was twenty-five years ago. 
 
 " Last week I came to this little Inn and 
 registered under another name without letting 
 any one know who I was. No one suspected. 
 The result was that I, who have been accus- 
 tomed to homage and special attentions every- 
 where, was treated like the Miss Average 
 American I was supposed to be — no favors 
 of any kind. In fact quite the opposite. 
 
 " They gave me a North room when I had 
 specified a Southern exposure; the girl at the 
 news stand was flippant, a bell hop was 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 insolent, and all around I suffered from 
 inferior service — the kind most everybody 
 gets these days but which I have been spared 
 for several years because wherever I went 
 they knew who I was. 
 
 11 1 suppose — in fact I admit — that all 
 this irritated me. It humiliated and exasper- 
 ated me. I could not get it off my mind. Had 
 it not been for my intense desire to have a 
 week of complete seclusion, I would have told 
 them who I was at once. As it was I decided 
 I would do so as I was leaving, just in time 
 to get even with everybody. 
 
 11 I went to sleep in that humiliated frame 
 of mind and this is what I dreamed: 
 
 " The flippant news stand girl, accom- 
 panied by the bell boy who had been insolent, 
 came to my door and told me to come down 
 to the back yard. They rather ordered than 
 invited me to come. I resented it but felt I 
 must be as dignified as possible. 
 
 " When we reached the back yard it looked 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 exactly like that back yard we had at home 
 twenty-five years ago. 
 
 " There was the one scrubby tree, the 
 weeds and stones and general sordidness I 
 remember so well as characterizing that rear 
 lot of ours. 
 
 " These two pointed out to me a large 
 flock of chickens running loose, and told me 
 that though it was their task to keep them 
 out of the garden, they were going to a 
 concert that afternoon and I must do it in 
 their place. 
 
 41 1 bitterly resented this, especially their 
 thinking I was such a nonentity as that. But 
 the final insult came just as they were leaving. 
 
 44 'Here are the twins/ they said, handing 
 me over two soiled, squalling, squirming 
 babies. I did not seem able to resist nor put 
 into words my unutterable fury at this pro- 
 cedure, and before I could do anything they 
 were gone. 
 
 41 I had a very interesting book and sat 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 down to read, only to be incessantly inter- 
 rupted by the babies' getting into a nearby 
 ditch and the chickens picking at the lettuce. 
 
 " For a while I tried to carry out my orders, 
 then decided I would show them. When they 
 returned the chickens had eaten up all the 
 garden and the babies were wallowing in the 
 water, completely covered with mud — their 
 dresses hopelessly ruined. 
 
 "They rushed in exclaiming that the con- 
 cert was a great disappointment. The star 
 had not appeared. 
 
 " Then they spied the babies and the 
 chickens and began to scold me. I let them 
 say just enough to get themselves in deep. 
 
 " Then I pointed to the Western sky which 
 had by then darkened and in which the 
 evening star was just visible. 
 
 " There they saw — blazing across the firm- 
 ament and illuminating the whole world — 
 my name in letters of flame, millions of miles 
 high! 53 33 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " They gasped and exclaimed: 'Why, 
 that 's the name of the star who did n't 
 appear this afternoon/ Whereupon I ex- 
 plained very modestly, ' Even a star can't 
 be in two places simultaneously, and I was 
 here you see/ 
 
 " Then as the horror of the thing they 
 had done came over them and they began to 
 apologize, I haughtily lifted my skirts away 
 from them and their muddy babies and 
 sailed off, leaving them utterly crushed and 
 bitterly bewailing the fact that they had 
 missed this chance with the world-famous 
 star they adored !" 
 
 Explanation of Her Dream 
 
 <I This dream is so obvious it scarcely re- 
 quires explanation. Nevertheless it is interest- 
 ing to note how true to form it runs and how 
 it illustrates almost every phase and element 
 of dreams 53 53 
 
 To begin with, the opera star's dream has 
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 the clarity, vividness and intensity which 
 characterizes most of the dreams of success- 
 ful people 33 33 
 
 Any individual who is getting from every- 
 day life so much satisfaction, fame and 
 fortune as this illustrious woman, does not 
 think in the double symbols which are 
 forced upon the unsuccessful or disappointed. 
 
 Things as they are being highly gratifying 
 to her, this woman thinks in terms of things 
 as they are, with little subterfuge, pretense, 
 or symbolization. 
 
 The star's ego had been wounded by the 
 news stand girl and the bell hop, and she 
 reasoned thus to herself, " They would treat 
 me very differently and deferentially if they 
 dreamed who I was." So in her dreams these 
 two unappreciative people (whom she sup- 
 poses know of and adore the person she 
 really is and would give anything to associate 
 with her personally) are reduced to utter 
 humiliation, and she triumphs gloriously. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 All the ignominy she permits herself to 
 suffer tending the chickens and the twins is 
 endured for the sole purpose of thoroughly 
 humiliating those two people who snubbed 
 her during the day. (You note how she 
 did n't really tend the garden nor the babies 
 very long, but got her revenge even before the 
 parents returned, by letting the babies ruin 
 their dresses and the chickens ruin thegarden) . 
 
 In her dream she achieved complete revenge 
 — even to the sailing off with her skirts held 
 away from them as she would like to do in 
 the hotel lobby. 
 
 The babies and chicken-tending were old 
 images stored away in her subconscious from 
 childhood and used in this dream as symbol- 
 izing the extreme humiliation which she felt 
 when ignored and insulted by the girl and 
 the bell hop. 
 
 Her name, lighting up the entire sky in 
 letters of fire, is the one mental image which 
 above all others would symbolize fame in the 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 mind of one who had always been ambitious. 
 The evening star was a very obvious symbol 
 of herself, " the star," closely connected with 
 the famous and shining name, blazing there 
 in the firmament for all the world to see. 
 
 This dream differs from the average dream 
 in that it was exceedingly long, and at the 
 same time coherent and integrated from 
 beginning to end. 
 
 There were no missing links, no disjointed 
 parts. The entire experience was vivid, co- 
 ordinated, with every part fitting into place 
 like a mosaic into a pattern. 
 
 " I often remember snatches of dreams/ ' 
 she said, " and fleeting dream-experiences 
 that do not appear to belong anywhere, but 
 this one was as definite and dramatic as 
 a play, with nothing extraneous, nothing 
 isolated. It was more clear, in fact, than 
 almost any actual experience I ever had." 
 
 This latter fact is often true of our dreams 
 and for two excellent reasons: 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The first is that the dream is the product 
 of the subconscious which constitutes nine- 
 tenths of the mind and is nine times more 
 powerful. 
 
 The second is that in dreams our attention 
 is not diverted by irrelevant or marginal 
 things such as distract us during waking 
 hours, but is concentrated exclusively on the 
 dream. You will recall how in dreams you 
 are never interrupted by other people's tak- 
 ing the stage, and are never aware of any 
 time, place or condition other than those 
 of your dream. 
 
 Dreams and Day Events 
 
 <R " My dreams seem to be nothing but left- 
 overs from the day's experiences" says many 
 a one, and this at first glance seems to be the 
 only tangible significance of most of our 
 dreams 53 53 
 
 But that there is a far deeper meaning you 
 may see for yourself by noting that though 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 c a 
 
 many a dream begins with some event of the 
 day, it never sticks to the facts of the original 
 occurrence but branches off into other 
 directions, injecting all manner of new details 
 which are in themselves irrelevant. 
 
 In every instance you will note that the 
 dream is built around a recent event which 
 was in some way a disappointment to you. 
 In the dream you go back and make changes 
 to suit your subconscious self. 
 
 You live over certain elements of the expe- 
 rience, or live it over up to a certain point. 
 From that point onward, instead of adhering 
 to what actually happened the dream carries 
 out what you wish had happened. 
 
 Dreams That Mystify Us 
 
 ^ And now we come to one of the most 
 interesting things about dreams — their sym- 
 bolism S& 33 
 
 As you have read this lesson, perhaps 
 you have been thinking, " But how can my 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 dreams come from my desires? Why, I have 
 often had dreams in which I did things I 
 did n't like and experienced all manner of 
 things I did n't desire." 
 
 This apparently paradoxical condition 
 delayed for many centuries science's unravel- 
 ing of the real meaning of our dreams. 
 
 Then a few years ago there was discoverea 
 the most significant fact of all — that we 
 dream not only in pictures, but that those 
 pictures are full of symbols. 
 
 In other words, the subconscious, which 
 is in control of our dreams, is full of symbols, 
 each of which represents, in the mind of the 
 individual, something very definite. This 
 symbol stands for this definite something 
 because of its having been connected with 
 some experience of the individual's life 
 (usually in his childhood) in such a way as 
 to fasten it into his subconscious mind. 
 
 There are several reasons for this, the 
 chief one being that the subconscious is not 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 a reasoning but a feeling, knowing mind. 
 It simplifies all things, reduces them to 
 their lowest common denominator. 
 
 So when the individual passes through 
 some especially vivid experience it is filed 
 away in the memory — not as a detailed, 
 minutely-recorded thing like a page of sta- 
 tistics, but as a highly colored picture. 
 
 In every case the picture will relate to 
 whichever element was experienced at the 
 moment of the highest pitch of emotion. 
 This emotional element is what makes any 
 experience vivid in memory. 
 
 More will be explained concerning these 
 pictures and their far-reaching effect upon 
 the individual's life, in the next lesson, but 
 for the present it is sufficient to know that 
 your mind has automatically been filing away 
 these symbols ever since you were born and 
 that very early in life you acquired one for 
 almost every kind of thought, feeling or group 
 of thoughts and sensations you experienced. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Dreams, being almost exclusively in 
 pictures staged by the subconscious, deal 
 in wholesale fashion with these old mental 
 pictures of ours. 
 
 Your Mental " Morgue " 
 
 <I The best illustration of how the subcon- 
 scious mind utilizes old symbols in the mak- 
 ing of new dreams is seen every day in the 
 office of big city newspapers. 
 
 Every newspaper has filed away, numbered 
 and indexed, every picture it has printed in 
 previous issues. This department is known fit- 
 tingly, though uncannily, as " the morgue/ ' 
 
 These pictures correspond to the pictures 
 you unconsciously filed away in your sub- 
 conscious as symbolizing your previous ex- 
 periences. That your subconscious, like the 
 newspaper office, files these away at the time 
 and then forgets them till they are needed 
 again, makes the analogy a perfect one. 
 
 There are thousands of these old pictures. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 photos, illustrations, cartoons and diagrams 
 stowed away in the newspaper's " morgue/ ' 
 
 The keeper of the morgue remembers only 
 the merest fraction of them. But when 
 a striking thing happens — when something 
 " breaks," as the newspaper world says — 
 the morgue is called upon for any pictures 
 which can be utilized to illustrate the story 
 in that day's issue. 
 
 This accounts for the fact that you some- 
 times see ancient photos,. with hats, coiffures 
 and clothes that have been out of style for 
 twenty years, used in connection with new 
 stories 33 33 
 
 The editor used these only for lack of newer 
 ones. New pictures of private individuals 
 are not easily secured by newspapers, just 
 as new symbols are not easily acquired by 
 your subconscious mind and, as the news- 
 paper is compelled to use pictures (symbols) 
 representing an individual as he appeared 
 at some function or affair twenty or thirty 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 years ago, so the subconscious digs up and 
 uses in our dreams old, old symbols which 
 stand for experiences, thoughts and emotions 
 which we experienced many years ago. 
 
 Your conscious mind may be likened to 
 the city editor who keeps in momentary 
 touch with everything happening around him. 
 Your subconscious acts and reacts precisely 
 as does the keeper of the newspaper's picture 
 gallery. It takes no more notice of what is 
 passing in your immediate surroundings 
 moment by moment than the morgue keeper 
 takes of the news happening in the great city. 
 
 That is n't his job. But when anything 
 exciting or interesting, and especially when 
 something highly dramatic or sensational, 
 happens in your everyday life, either as a 
 desire or an actual experience, the city editor 
 of your conscious mind reports it to the 
 keeper of your old subconscious picture 
 gallery and he furnishes the illustrations 
 for the picturesque edition that floats before 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 your mind in the form of dreams that night. 
 
 Every dream gets its original impulse from 
 some recent personal experience or desire 
 which hinges on something that has just 
 previously happened or been hoped for, as 
 does every story or article printed in the 
 daily paper. By ten o'clock in the morning 
 the dreams of the night before are as out of 
 date and forgotten as is the newspaper of 
 the day before. 
 
 The conscious mind is busy, just as is the 
 city editor, with the problems of the present — 
 getting ready to print a new edition. 
 
 What the dream edition prints in your 
 mind's eye that night will depend on which 
 of the day's experiences have most intimately 
 and emotionally affected the ego or your 
 subconscious wishes. 
 
 This accounts for the fact that we dream 
 
 many dreams during each night, some related 
 
 and some unrelated to each other. Though 
 
 many people do not recall their dreams the 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 next day no one has yet been found who, 
 when suddenly awakened, was not in the 
 midst of some sort of dream. 
 
 He may forget it an instant afterward, but 
 he will have at least some slight realization 
 on the instant of waking that he was having 
 some kind of dream-sensation. 
 
 Dreaming What You Do Not Want 
 
 <I When you dream of having things or doing 
 things you dislike or are indifferent to — 
 that is, whenever the desire is not apparent 
 in a dream, think back through your expe- 
 riences and see if you can not recall what the 
 dream-pictures symbolize in the back of your 
 mind. For the following law operates in every 
 dream 33 33 
 
 Law of Symbols 
 
 <I When a dream contains elements which 
 are, so far as we know, undesired by the 
 conscious mind these elements are symbolic 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 of something which is deeply desired either 
 by the conscious or subconscious mind, and 
 usually by both. 
 
 Nightmares are merely dreams contain- 
 ing desires whose symbols are not pleasant 
 ones, and in which the action, which is also 
 symbolic, becomes so intense it awakens 
 the conscious mind from sleep. 
 
 The Nurse's Dream 
 
 <I A case illustrating the use of symbols in 
 staging subconscious wishes in dreams came 
 under our notice several years ago. 
 
 A nurse of high standing in the city of 
 San Francisco wished to have analyzed the 
 following dream which had recurred until 
 it had become an obsession: 
 
 She said, " The hospital has an insufficient 
 staff of nurses so I am busy all day and part 
 of the night. This has continued for many 
 months and I am getting so worn out phy- 
 sically that unless I am able to free myself 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 of the distracting dream which often awakens 
 me with its horror I shall have to resign. 
 
 " Every time I fall asleep, if only for a 
 moment, I have this dream: 
 
 11 1 am standing at the foot of a bed in the 
 ward, where of course I have witnessed many 
 deaths. The white screen which we always 
 place around a cot in the last moments looms 
 up in this dream as clearly as it does in my 
 waking hours. 
 
 11 But instead of a stranger it is one of the 
 former hospital doctors who lies there dying. 
 I see his agony and the death struggle, his 
 appeal to me to save him. 
 
 11 But just as I try to do something the 
 dream ends — soon to begin all over again." 
 
 The full understanding of her dream so 
 clarified the subconscious of this young 
 woman that in four days it ceased to recur — 
 a recovery much more rapid than is possible 
 in most cases. 
 
 Her frankness, sincerity and previous 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 6— J 
 
 scientific training, added to the fact that 
 the dream was easily analyzed according to 
 symbols, made the cure a simple one. 
 
 The Nurse's Dream Explained 
 
 <& The death-bed had become, unconsciously, 
 a very significant symbol in the nurse's mind 
 — the symbol of something she deeply desired. 
 
 She had, despite valiant efforts to the 
 contrary, and despite the fact that she would 
 not admit it to herself, fallen in love with 
 one of the hospital physicians who was 
 already married. 
 
 Some months prior to her coming to us 
 this physician had resigned from the hospital 
 board and had moved to another city. The 
 last time she had seen him was when they 
 officiated jointly at a death-bed scene in the 
 ward 33 33 
 
 She had lived this last moment with him 
 over so vividly, had recalled the emotions 
 with which she had been torn at the time 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 (knowing, as she did, that he was leaving) 
 that it became fixed in the subconscious as 
 a symbol of his presence. 
 
 Subconsciously she had longed to have 
 the wife's place, to minister to him, endear 
 herself to him and be able to do something 
 very great for him — something that would 
 make him care. 
 
 To save man's life is the surest, quickest 
 route into his gratitude and affection, so 
 the subconscious devised this little drama. 
 
 When she met her situation frankly and 
 when she realized that the dream came from 
 her own mind and was not, as she had feared, 
 a premonition of the impending death of the 
 doctor, the condition cleared immediately. 
 
 The Speaker's Dream 
 
 <I A dream composed entirely of symbols 
 recurred to a woman on an average of two 
 or three nights a week for over twenty-five 
 years. She said: 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " In this dream I am laboriously climb- 
 ing over huge bowlders, deep ravines and 
 tremendous crags in my efforts to reach the 
 top of a high mountain whose sides are 
 almost perpendicular. 
 
 " Far down below — straight down below 
 in the bottom of the canyon — there dashes 
 over the rocks a mad, rushing, foaming 
 river. I am constantly on the lookout to 
 prevent myself from falling for I know I 
 would be mangled to death long before I 
 reached the bottom if I should lose my 
 footing 33 33 
 
 " Now the strange part of this is that I 
 am never really frightened by this great 
 height nor actually in danger of falling, for 
 I am wearing thick-soled, heavy mountain 
 shoes which enable me to secure a sure and 
 solid footing. Though I can never climb as 
 rapidly as I desire I am always making 
 good progress. 
 
 " Another strange thing in this dream 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 t * 
 
 is that I always have one boon companion 
 — William Jennings Bryan. He walks by my 
 side, though he never takes hold of my hand 
 nor offers to help me. But he is extremely cour- 
 teous and we chat pleasantly and in the most 
 simple friendly way as we climb upward. 
 
 " A great many people are in our party, 
 but Mr. Bryan and I seem to be finding the 
 path by which they are to climb. Every 
 little while we lean over the precipice and call 
 down to them. They make headway and 
 some of them climb very fast. These seem 
 happy and exceedingly grateful to us for 
 showing them the way and blazing the trail. 
 
 " In this dream Mr. Bryan and I are 
 very simply clothed — he in an old fashioned 
 suit and I in a durable brown serge. Mr. 
 Bryan carries in his right hand exactly six- 
 teen different kinds of flowers — columbines, 
 brown-eyed susans and other wild flowers- 
 while my arms seem to be loaded with those 
 dark red blooms called l Bleeding Hearts/ ' 
 — 90 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 c =a 
 
 Explanation of the Dream 
 
 <I This dream, so symbolical from beginning 
 to end, is crystal-clear when the woman's 
 supreme subconscious wish, plus her child- 
 hood experiences, are made known. 
 
 She had grown up in the wildest part of 
 the Rocky Mountains, and mountains be- 
 came to her the symbols of " the heights' ' 
 to which her ambition pointed. This ambition 
 was to be a great orator — an orator like 
 Bryan, whom she had first heard of when 
 he ran for President in 1896. Mr. Bryan 
 became to her the symbol of her oratorical 
 ambition 33 33 
 
 Having lived all her life in the fastnesses 
 of the mountains this young woman's 
 symbols all bore the marks of her early 
 environment. This accounted for the fact 
 that though she was a woman of middle age 
 when she told her dream and had for many 
 years lived exclusively in great cities, the 
 symbols in the dream had never changed. 
 — 91 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Neither did the dream-elements alter so 
 much as a hair's breadth, and the reason 
 for this too is obvious. 
 
 Her ambition, her supreme subconscious 
 wish, had never changed. From her youth 
 she had desired one thing above all others — 
 to be a great speaker. And though she desired 
 it so much that she became a well known 
 lecturer, she still dreamed the dream because 
 she had never reached the complete fulfil- 
 ment of her ambition. 
 
 She came, in years, to have audiences 
 which filled the largest auditoriums, but she 
 had other ambitions than speaking to great 
 crowds, though this element was naturally 
 always present in her desires. 
 
 That Mr. Bryan carried sixteen kinds of 
 flowers to one was amusingly symbolical 
 of Bryan's first slogan, " Sixteen to One." 
 
 The most significant symbol in this dream 
 is that of the " Bleeding Heart' ' flowers 
 that " loaded down her arms." 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 She grew up in poverty, and her youth 
 was black with those hardships known only 
 to pioneer and especially mountain pioneer 
 regions 33 33 
 
 At an early age she came to sympathize 
 with all the poor and struggling because 
 of her own struggles and poverty — and to 
 think of their broken hearts in the terms of 
 the " Bleeding Heart' ' flowers that grew on 
 the mountains near her home. 
 
 She longed to help these others who were 
 poor and ambitious up the heights along 
 with herself, and wanted to do it through 
 oratory — the simple, sincere kind Bryan 
 used. In all her dreams, even after she came 
 to realize this ambition in great measure, 
 she dreamed the same thing over and over 
 because she was still struggling, still climb- 
 ing, still trying to go higher and take more 
 people 33 33 
 
 Sometimes their burdens seemed to " load 
 her down," as did the flowers they symbol- 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 ized, but always "they made progress" and 
 always she was confident she would not fall 
 into the canyon symbolizing Failure because 
 she wore mountain shoes and planted her 
 feet solidly on the ground. 
 
 They were symbolic also of her certainty 
 that she "stood on solid, scientific ground," 
 that she had grounded herself in what she 
 was teaching; that she had a good founda- 
 tion for what she was doing. 
 
 Her plain brown serge symbolized the sim- 
 plicity which the woman had always held as 
 an ideal 33 53 
 
 This dream is more pleasant than other- 
 wise — containing just enough of the struggle 
 element to stimulate the courage and test 
 the ambition — so she has never tried to be 
 rid of it, and indeed is better for having her 
 greatest ambitions and ideals run off in this 
 dream-movie to keep her reminded that the 
 top has not yet been reached. 
 
 — 94 — 
 
If y° u can keep your head when all about you 
 
 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 
 If you can trust yourself when all men doubt 
 you, 
 
 Yet make allowance for their doubting too; 
 If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, 
 
 Or, being lied about, dont deal in lies. 
 Or, being hated, dont give way to hating, 
 
 And yet dont act too good nor talk too wise; 
 If you can fill the unforgiving minute 
 
 With sixty seconds worth of distance run, 
 Yours is the Earth and everything that y s in it, 
 
 And — what is more — you'll be a Man, my 
 son! 
 
 — Kipling. 
 
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 Lesson II 
 
 Your Emotional Niagara 
 
 ONEYMOONERS, 
 tourists, and pass- 
 ers-by may see Ni- 
 agara Falls as 
 only a great spec- 
 tacle. But to the 
 engineer, the sci- 
 entist and the 
 man who stops to 
 think, it is a great 
 spectacle, plus S3 
 He sees its mighty avalanche in the terms 
 of power — the power that furnishes light and 
 heat and driving energy for cities hundreds of 
 miles in every direction — a torrent, swift, 
 swirling and stupendous. Dashing over the 
 precipice its gigantic force instantly annihi- 
 lates everything before it, but with its energy 
 harnessed in electricity by the mind of man 
 it becomes a powerful constructive current. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Your Own Niagara 
 
 <I Within every individual there is a seeth- 
 ing current of feelings, impulses, instincts — 
 his emotional Niagara. 
 
 It is primal, elemental, overwhelming. If 
 uncontrolled it will handicap, cripple or com- 
 pletely destroy him — according to the type 
 and temperament of the individual. 
 
 In some types the emotions are for the 
 most part like a wide Mississippi. Such are 
 the unruffled people. In other and very 
 methodical types the current is apparently 
 measured out with the precision of an irri- 
 gation system, while in others it is a rapid 
 mountain brook with its current never still 
 and never put to any constructive use. 
 
 If we waste our emotional energy on non- 
 essentials we are like the brook that babbles 
 and bubbles without doing anything for 
 itself and evaporates, till at the end of its 
 life journey it is nothing but a trickle, finan- 
 cially and otherwise. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 If, for any reason, we have little emotional 
 energy and open the headgates only enough 
 to do this little thing and that, in method- 
 ical routine, our conserving will do but little 
 good 33 33 
 
 Emotion and Success 
 
 <I You have seen men and women who took 
 the same street car at the same corner at the 
 same moment every morning for years. This 
 is the conserving type — and it conserves 
 everything, from food to feelings. 
 
 Such a man is never late at the office. He 
 never misses a day, he never leaves five 
 minutes early. But he never goes to the top. 
 He lacks emotional energy — that great power 
 which in men corresponds to horsepower, 
 and should be called human power. 
 
 His human power is always under control, 
 
 chiefly because there is so little of it. He 
 
 measures it out as a New England grocer 
 
 measures out sugar — two grains at a time! 
 
 — 99 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 These people run their lives like train 
 schedules and are about as impersonal. 
 
 At the next desk there is a man not half 
 so faithful, not a tenth so careful. He is late 
 occasionally, has a day off now and then and 
 instead of doing his work like a machine, 
 slows down some days and races like mad 
 others. But he is the one who gets invited 
 to the social affairs at the boss's house and 
 when a promotion is being passed around 
 he is the man who gets it! He is full of human 
 power. Half organized, he can go farther and 
 faster and accomplish more for the heads of 
 that business than the emotionless man. 
 
 Control Your Current 
 
 <I But if the emotional man forgets to con- 
 trol his torrent; if the powerhouse of reason 
 is closed up so often that the force of the 
 Niagara is not transmuted into electricity 
 for running the main plant — his life — he 
 can and will wind up a failure. 
 — ioo — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The most desirable human possession in 
 the world is emotion. Without it, man is 
 colorless, bloodless, lifeless. He can neither 
 experience a great enthusiasm nor kindle 
 it in others. 
 
 But it must be controlled by his mind, 
 and its power turned into constructive 
 channels if he would be happy and successful. 
 
 Psychology of Emotion 
 
 flf Emotional energy may be likened to an 
 electrical current in other ways. It is some- 
 times decreased, as when we are asleep. 
 
 For the most part we are not made con- 
 scious of it because it is expended as fast as 
 generated — used up in the activities of 
 every day. 
 
 But there are other times when we are con- 
 scious of intense feeling — when something 
 pleasant or unpleasant has happened which 
 generated, sometimes instantaneously, an 
 excess of this current. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Do You Repress or Express ? 
 
 <I Whenever this happens you do one of two 
 things. You can not turn the current back 
 to nothingness. It is there. It is intensely 
 alive. You either express it or repress it. 
 
 If you express it you are immediately 
 relieved. This explains why the types that 
 have the most fiery tempers forgive quickest. 
 They get it " out of their systems.' ' 
 
 It also explains why those that say noth- 
 ing when angry nurse their grudges. The 
 people who tell you what they think when 
 offended are never pernicious. Those who 
 hide their feelings usually seek revenge later, 
 sometimes long after you have forgotten the 
 incident. They have " saved up," stored 
 away their emotion, awaiting an opportunity. 
 
 Corking Your Bottles 
 
 <I Keep the cork out of a bottle (which is 
 what the outspoken type is doing) and there 
 is little danger; put the cork in and it fer- 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 ments. Keep the lid off the kettle and the 
 boiling will do no harm. But keep it on tight 
 and there will be an explosion in some 
 direction S3 53 
 
 If the emotion you feel is one which can 
 not be expressed freely and fully in the way 
 it craves; if for any reason you are compelled 
 to push this violent feeling into the back- 
 ground, you may imagine you have short- 
 circuited it, but Mental Analysis proves 
 that such is not the case. You have only 
 stored the current. 
 
 A switching of the current to something 
 else, through which it can be fully and freely 
 expended, is the only solution in this case. 
 
 Cause of Emotion 
 
 <I Every emotion is the combustion that 
 ensues when something has happened which 
 set fire to instinct. 
 
 Each of your instincts is a pile of tinder, 
 laid ready for lighting, and handed down 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 to you from remote ancestors. These bundles 
 of tinder " catch fire" easily. They are always 
 ready to blaze up. 
 
 Some of them flame out early in life. The 
 instinct of assimilation burns in the new 
 born babe. It is hungry. There is no thought 
 behind its cry for food — nothing but blind 
 instinct S3 S3 
 
 Other instinctive fires are lighted later on 
 — the sex instinct at adolescence and higher 
 ones as we proceed through life. We become 
 more reasonable as we grow older because 
 reason is given more and more ascendancy 
 as the fires of instinct die down. 
 
 But all emotions are the temporary flaring 
 up of the instinct fires. The expression " he 
 got into a heated argument," is not an 
 accidental phrase. 
 
 Neither is it accidental that we say " he 
 is a cold nature." Such people are never as 
 emotional as the ones we call ' ' warm natures. ' ' 
 
 If you can imagine for a moment that 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 though you are a human being, you are full 
 of little banked fires called instincts which 
 are fanned into flame by certain things, you 
 will never again wonder why it is that you 
 become heated literally as well as figur- 
 atively when gripped by emotion. 
 
 Two Kinds of Emotion 
 
 <R Emotions are of two kinds — pleasurable 
 and painful. 
 
 When something occurs to arouse an 
 instinct you do one of two things, as referred 
 to above — repress or express. If you gratify 
 the instinct, the accompanying emotion will 
 be pleasurable. If you thwart it the accom- 
 panying emotion will be painful. 
 
 Thus, when you become hungry your 
 instinct of assimilation is active. If, when 
 thoroughly aroused, you can sit down to a 
 delicious meal, the emotion is a pleasant one. 
 But if prevented from eating the emotion 
 generated will be a painful one. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Two Kinds of Instincts 
 
 <I Society, as we all know, is organized 
 against the free and full expression of certain 
 instincts S3 53 
 
 Laws, rules and social customs exist for the 
 purpose of regulating the expression of cer- 
 tain primitive ones which have come down to 
 us from such remote ages that they are habit- 
 ually and easily aroused; and for the reward- 
 ing of certain other and higher instincts 
 which are so recent in us that they must 
 needs be constantly encouraged and upheld 
 to be kept growing. 
 
 Thus we see society praising generosity — 
 an expression of the recent instinct of 
 altruism — and punishing profiteering which 
 is an expression of the remote and primitive 
 instinct of greed. 
 
 It rewards the courageous and ostracizes 
 the coward because his cowardice is the 
 expression of the ancient instinct, Fear. 
 
 It teaches the young to emulate the example 
 — 106 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 of the ambitious, the idealistic, the fas- 
 tidious, though ambition, idealism, and 
 fastidiousness are instincts, too. But they 
 are high instincts and make for the good 
 of society as a whole. 
 
 Society knows this and safeguards itself 
 so far as it is able. By exacting penalties of 
 various kinds (according to the destructive- 
 ness of the instinct involved in each case), 
 it compels more repression of the lower and 
 additional expression of the higher. 
 
 This is necessary and right, and will event- 
 ually lead to the elimination of the worst 
 and a development of the best in man. 
 
 What It Does To Us 
 
 1^ But meanwhile this does not alter the 
 fact that present-day man, possessed as he 
 is of powerful primitive instincts, finds it 
 very difficult to adapt himself to civilization's 
 code S& 33 
 
 Something is always occurring to strike 
 — 107 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 the match to an instinct and unless it happens 
 to be one which society favors he either 
 expresses it (in which case he risks society's 
 penalty) , or he suppresses it (in which case he 
 pays a personal penalty in some form,depend- 
 ing upon his own type and the intensity of 
 the urge) . 
 
 Neither of these is desirable. Therefore, 
 it is imperative that the fire of every emotion 
 be permited to burn out, but that instead 
 of being allowed to destroy should be put to 
 constructive use. 
 
 Psychology of Sublimation 
 
 ^f Suppose there is a bonfire in your back 
 yard. If you throw water on it, it may smoul- 
 der and break out later. If you allow it to go 
 unchecked it will endanger not only your 
 own house but the homes of your neighbors 
 and perhaps the entire community in which 
 you live S3 33 
 
 There is but one thing to do. You must 
 — 108 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 control that fire and give it something con- 
 structive to use its force upon. 
 
 In your house there are a number of things 
 you have planned to cook. Bring them out, 
 put them over the blaze and let it be doing 
 something worth while with its heat-energy. 
 Then when it has burned itself out you have 
 done something constructive instead of 
 destructive; you have hurt no one, accom- 
 plished something for the betterment of your 
 own affairs and perhaps in the doing prepared 
 extra food for the hungry. This would be 
 sublimation 33 33 
 
 Some types find it very difficult to subli- 
 mate and others do it almost automatically 
 all their lives. Extremely bony people, 
 extreme brunets and those with extremely 
 incurving profiles find sublimation most 
 difficult, but are the very ones who need it 
 most, for they are people of intense feel- 
 ings. When their feelings are destructive they 
 either wreck things in their expression or 
 — 109 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 repress them so deeply they sometimes wreck 
 the individual himself. 
 
 These people are the extremists who either 
 bury an emotion completely or defy the 
 universe 33 33 
 
 You will recall that the individuals with 
 these characteristics either stay entirely away 
 from a thing or go into it with a faithfulness 
 that is unending. 
 
 Instincts and Individuality 
 
 <I The keynote of a man's nature which we 
 sometimes speak of as his individuality is 
 largely determined by' his predominant 
 instincts 33 33 
 
 These instincts are outlined in the externals 
 of that individual. Every general kind of 
 inner impulse which is common to the human 
 race has outer gateways through which it 
 travels to reach the world and which are 
 indicative of the amount and intensity of that 
 particular urge in the individual's makeup. 
 — no — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Instincts and Emotions 
 
 <I Every individual becomes emotional most 
 quickly and most intensely over the things 
 which concern his predominant instincts. 
 
 Thus it is that the thing which arouses one 
 man to furious anger leaves another unstirred 
 and still another only mildly resentful. 
 
 Each is reacting according to the amount 
 and intensity of his pugnacity instinct, a 
 characteristic which shows plainly in his jaw. 
 
 Look about amongst your acquaintances 
 and you will see that the references made 
 herein are corroborated in every one of them. 
 
 Whether man or woman, the one who is 
 constantly quarreling, " having it out" with 
 people, is an individual with a longer, wider 
 or more protruding jaw than the average. 
 The most noted American example of this 
 was Theodore Roosevelt. 
 
 The person who does not become angry 
 until something important or constantly 
 repeated arises, has a jaw that is not 
 — in — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 extreme in any direction, while the one who 
 lets everybody step on him and never shows 
 anger has either a very receding jaw, a very 
 incurving mouth or fat features. 
 
 Effect of Expressing Emotion 
 
 <R The immediate effect of completely express- 
 ing an emotion is a feeling of satisfaction. 
 This is true regardless of whether the instinct 
 is destructive or constructive, recent or remote 
 and also regardless of the type of the indi- 
 vidual 33 33 
 
 But if the instinct is a destructive one and 
 the individual a man predominantly of high 
 instincts — that is, if he is highly evolved, 
 idealistic or thoroughly civilized — this feel- 
 ing of satisfaction will soon give way to one 
 of regret, self-criticism or, in extreme cases, 
 remorse 33 33 
 
 If he is low-grade evolutionally — if he is a 
 man most of whose instincts are primitive 
 and remote — this feeling of satisfaction will 
 
 — 112 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 last for a long period and the action, no 
 matter how unsocial, may never be regretted. 
 
 If You Are a Regretter 
 
 <I If you are one of those who are constantly 
 making certain kinds of mistakes and con- 
 stantly being torn with regret for having 
 made them, remember this: you are domi- 
 nated too often by some primitive instinct;, 
 but the great majority of your instincts are 
 high grade or you would not have the 
 regrets S3 S3 
 
 Such a man can always learn. He can 
 adapt himself, improve himself, and if you 
 half try you can overcome your weaknesses. 
 But the remorse you have had, the twinges 
 of conscience you have suffered are certain 
 proof that you have high grade ore in you 
 to a greater extent than the average person. 
 
 Let this fact sink in, then make up your 
 mind not to spend any more time blaming, 
 criticising, despising or loathing yourself, for 
 — 113 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 these mental attitudes are fatal to work and 
 happiness 33 33 
 
 You have done enough of that for a hun- 
 dred lifetimes. Hereafter use all your energy 
 self-confidently, apply it to constructive 
 things. From this time on never waste 
 another moment in remorse no matter what 
 you have done. 
 
 When you make mistakes the next time 
 don't become depressed. You can indulge in 
 a little healthy disgust if you must, but 
 never discouragement. Remind yourself that 
 every person in the world who ever made 
 anything worth while, made many grave 
 errors and committed many sins. 
 
 The difference between great minds and 
 the rest of mankind was not that the great 
 ones did not make mistakes but that they 
 refused to be crushed by them, got up, shook 
 the dusk off their minds and proceeded to 
 make up for it by doing something con- 
 structive 33 33 
 
 — 114 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 You must do the same, or the future will 
 find you more and more unhappy. Unhappi- 
 ness leads to more sin, wrong and crime than 
 anything else in the world, but happiness 
 is a powerful aid to goodness. 
 
 The Business Man's Story 
 
 <I A man came under our observation several 
 years ago whose health had become under- 
 mined. Metabolism tests proved that no spe- 
 cific thing was organically wrong but showed 
 almost every organ functioning subnormally. 
 
 He had once been a man of means, with a 
 good business, but had lost it several years 
 before. Since that time he had gradually gone 
 down financially, physically and mentally, 
 till his friends could scarcely recognize in him 
 the person they had once known. 
 
 Yet he had no bad habits, his system was 
 organically strong and mechanically perfect. 
 So far as could be determined there was noth- 
 ing to account for his disintegration. 
 — 115 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 His home life had been ideal and his wife 
 was devotion itself. He loved her dearly and 
 took pleasure in the achievements of their 
 two girls who were talented musicians. 
 
 He could shed no light on the matter, 
 either for his physicians or for us. He ate well 
 and slept well. But he had lost all interest 
 in living and refrained from committing 
 suicide only out of consideration for his 
 family 53 33 
 
 An analysis showed that the trouble had 
 started during a period when he began to 
 despise himself for having done what was, to 
 his high sense of honor, a contemptible thing. 
 Thousands of others would have had no more 
 than a momentary regret, if any, but this 
 self-loathing ate its way into his mind till it 
 consumed him. 
 
 He had been sent as a delegate from his 
 district to a convention, but owing to the 
 illness of one of their daughters his wife could 
 not accompany him. 
 
 — 116 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 On the train he met a very charming 
 woman whom he had known very slightly 
 in his youth, and who had become so success- 
 ful a business woman herself that she also 
 was a delegate to the convention. 
 
 It happened that they stopped at the same 
 hotel and, entirely without prearrangement, 
 ran into each other constantly during the 
 convention. As each was there alone they ate 
 most of their meals together and, by the time 
 the convention neared its close, he had 
 become decidedly though not deeply attached 
 to her 53 S3 
 
 He was not a talkative man, but during 
 their last day on the train and in response to 
 an inexplicable impulse in the midst of a 
 champagne supper on the diner, he told her 
 the details of a highly dramatic but regret- 
 table episode in the girlhood of his wife. 
 
 Her sin had never been found out, and 
 she had atoned for it by a life of goodness and 
 gentleness. She had confessed it to him fully 
 — 117 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 and he had not only forgiven her but for- 
 gotten it now these many years. 
 
 An hour after his arrival home he would 
 have given ten thousand dollars to have the 
 story back. At first he lived in the fear 
 that the woman might relate the story, but 
 when her death a month afterward precluded 
 this his regret at having told her was not 
 lessened 33 S3 
 
 In his own estimation, his conduct had 
 been all the more unpardonable and unfor- 
 gettable because he was by nature a man of 
 extreme reticence and unusual refinement. 
 His regret became remorse. He could not 
 look at his wife nor hear her voice on the 
 telephone without being reminded of what 
 he had done. 
 
 The incident repeated itself in his mind 
 all day and in his dreams all night. He con- 
 sidered himself beneath contempt. He grew 
 to despise himself. He secretly called himself 
 " rotten to the core " and, as he expressed it, 
 — 118 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " a man without character, devoid of all 
 manhood/ ' 
 
 This so wore on him that nothing seemed 
 of any importance in comparison. He had 
 always prided himself on his character and 
 now felt he had none. The result was inevi- 
 table to one of his sensitive temperament. 
 
 He soon began to lose his grip on business. 
 This made it increasingly difficult for him 
 to give his wife and daughters the things 
 they desired and this in turn increased the 
 self-contempt which was causing the trouble. 
 
 Being a business man and a rather ultra- 
 practical one at that, he had never con- 
 ceived of the idea that his mental condition 
 was in any way responsible for his physical 
 and financial ones. But he at last sought 
 advice 53 53 
 
 When told that the strange situation 
 could have had none other than a mental 
 foundation he recalled the sufferings just 
 related 53 53 
 
 — 119 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 c =a 
 
 Upon being shown that his remorse, which 
 had become a prolonged, painful emotion, 
 was not only the cause of his disintegration 
 but the proof that he was by nature a man 
 of the highest impulses, he began to get well, 
 and is today a bigger, better business man 
 than he was before. 
 
 The Stenographer's Story 
 
 flf To be forced to do things calling for 
 extreme development of some instinct which 
 in that individual is underdeveloped, causes 
 almost as much emotional stress as the 
 thwarting of overdeveloped instincts. 
 
 A case clearly illustrating this came to 
 our notice in a Western city some years ago. 
 
 An ambitious young woman had risen to 
 a very responsible position for one of her 
 youth — private secretary to the president 
 of a large importing house. But she became 
 so ill-tempered that her employer finally 
 told her she could have a month in which to 
 
 — I20 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 redeem herself, at the end of which time she 
 must leave unless her disposition had 
 improved 33 33 
 
 She was especially chagrined at this for 
 she had only a few months before been pro- 
 moted to the position after years of keeping 
 her eye on it as her goal. 
 
 She adapted herself easily to all the duties 
 save one: The president insisted that the new 
 secretary take his dictation herself. 
 
 She had done little stenography in her 
 previous position, but was in practice and 
 got out the letters in expert fashion. But after 
 each dictation period she was so emotional 
 that the merest trifles caused her to cry or 
 scold or laugh hilariously. 
 
 When she came to us she was on the verge 
 of a nervous breakdown, due to the suppres- 
 sion of one instinct, and to the demand for 
 another which in her was but little developed. 
 
 The overdeveloped instinct was that of 
 approbation. She demanded constant praise, 
 
 — 121 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 and had always received much of it from 
 previous employers. The president was not 
 given to compliments and no matter how 
 excellent her work, never told her it was so nor 
 seemed to be aware that she was a remarkably 
 competent secretary. 
 
 She was also very pretty and this was the 
 first employer who had not, in some nice, 
 indirect way, taken notice of this fact. 
 
 In addition to this, he dictated much more 
 rapidly than she had been accustomed to and 
 though she got every word and punctuated 
 correctly, it was at the cost of intense effort, 
 because she had very little of the instinct of 
 manipulation upon which easy hand work 
 depends 33 33 
 
 Fat Men's Emotions 
 
 <& You are well acquainted with the fat man 
 who never loses his temper save when his 
 meals are interfered with. 
 
 His emotions are painful or pleasurable 
 
 — 122 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 in accordance with the degree in which his 
 stomach is satisfied. Such a man becomes as 
 enthusiastic over good food as other types do 
 over good music, good books, good ball 
 games or good business deals. In this man 
 the instinct of assimilation is paramount. 
 
 Inertia and Indolence 
 
 <I An intellectual and charming woman of 
 thirty-five, who had taught in Columbia 
 for several years, decided to put her knowl- 
 edge to a wider use and one which would 
 bring her better financial returns. 
 
 She entered into a partnership with another 
 college woman and they were very successful. 
 
 The other woman was full of common 
 sense and practicality as well as learning. 
 She was, moreover, a bundle of energy. She 
 loved the work and never tired of it — 
 retiring at one in the morning and arising 
 at six more refreshed than the other who 
 usually retired several hours earlier. 
 — 123 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Though their work was but a few hours 
 in duration it began at eight o'clock each 
 morning. The first woman was always late. 
 
 She could not bring herself to get out of 
 bed, and must take a warm bath in which 
 she lay relaxed for twenty minutes before 
 bringing herself to dress, and became very 
 angry if warned to hasten. 
 
 She finally returned to the teaching where 
 her working hours were in the middle of the 
 day 33 33 
 
 When relating the experience after study- 
 ing Mental Analysis she said, " I used to 
 become so furious with my partner when 
 she urged me to get up early, hasten through 
 my bath or sit up after ten o'clock that I was 
 ill afterward. I had never been compelled to 
 hurry or rise earlier than eight, and my half 
 hour of relaxation in the bath was as much 
 a part of my day's schedule as meals, and 
 much more necessary to my peace of mind. 
 
 " I blamed myself for losing my temper, 
 — 124 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 especially as she was right and our success 
 depended upon my being prompt, but that 
 did n't help matters. I know why now. The 
 instinct of inertia is overdeveloped in me. I 
 can work long and hard once I am up and 
 out, but I demand frequent periods of 
 complete relaxation, lots of sleep and to 
 begin the day with that feeling of utter com- 
 fort which nothing but a warm bath gives.' ' 
 
 The Wife's Story 
 
 <I A wife found that she was losing her hus- 
 band because of her frequent emotional 
 explosions. She made all manner of sacrifices 
 for him — loved him devotedly, and permitted 
 him to impose on her in numberless ways. 
 But when he dropped cigar-ash on the carpet, 
 left his newspapers strewn over things, threw 
 his towels in a wad on the bathroom floor, 
 or failed to hang up his clothes, she flew into 
 a rage. She could not explain it. 
 
 That the emotion was out of all proportion 
 — 125 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 to the importance of the thing itself, she well 
 knew. What she did not know was that the 
 home-keeping instinct * which man shares 
 with all birds, beavers and nest-building 
 creatures was overdeveloped in her. 
 
 Her one desire in life was to keep her home 
 nest in apple-pie order. She had married a 
 man who had so little of this instinct that 
 her ill temper on these occasions seemed to 
 him nothing short of insanity. She gradually 
 learned to use that emotional current to tidy 
 up the house that much sooner, instead of 
 expending it on her husband. 
 
 The Mother's Story 
 
 <R ' l What shall I do about my boy? ' ' a mother 
 said. " I try so hard to please him. I cook 
 only the food he likes; I wait upon him and 
 adapt myself and the household to his wishes. 
 But he seems to hate me." 
 
 The boy admited all this and his shame 
 at the treatment he gave his mother, but 
 — 126 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 said she unknowingly did one thing which 
 so irritated him that he was actually growing 
 to hate her. 
 
 " She is always afraid — afraid of the future 
 for me and for herself. She is afraid we may 
 get ill; afraid she is getting a cold; afraid that 
 it is going to storm; afraid that something 
 will happen to one or both of us. 
 
 " Now I am afraid too, but I am trying 
 to keep my fear to myself, to forget it and 
 outgrow it. But she waves it in front of 
 me all the time and I can't forget. I am not 
 naturally self-confident. I suppose I get this 
 fear-attitude from her. I am sorry she suffers 
 from it, for I suffer too. But her insistence on 
 holding every kind of catastrophe before my 
 imagination enrages me more and more." 
 
 The mother, when told what ailed her son, 
 was completely taken back. She had " only 
 done it for his good," — to warn him and 
 induce him to be prepared for the exigencies 
 of life. A little lesson on how to cure worry 
 — 127 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 C =5 
 
 changed her and the son and the household 
 in a month's time. 
 
 Higher Emotions 
 
 <& But not all emotions are inimical ones. 
 Those of love, patriotism and religion show 
 how an emotion can stimulate and purify 
 the personality. 
 
 Sympathy, forgiveness, generosity and all 
 forms of humanitarianism are good emotions 
 which lift us far out of our small selves, and 
 give us the joy of being all human for hours 
 or days at a time. 
 
 Every kind word, every courageous deed, 
 every act of voluntary self-sacrifice, is full of 
 emotion. Every pioneer, every trail-blazer in 
 any line of endeavor goes on and on in the 
 face of difficulties which seem overwhelming 
 to other men, because he is sustained by an 
 emotion they do not feel. 
 
 The mother gives of herself, her love, ser- 
 vice, toil and life itself, all for the emotion 
 — 128 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 of mother love. The father works long hours 
 at uncongenial tasks, not actually for the 
 boss but for the wife and babies at home. 
 
 Knowing Yourself Better 
 
 <I The first step in conquering destructive 
 emotions and encouraging constructive ones 
 is to study yourself. 
 
 Begin to think of yourself as you are and as 
 you know you are, without whimpers or 
 pretences. But don't let anything in your 
 nature cause you to give up. Look it square 
 in the eye and half the trouble is over. 
 
 We handicap ourselves by putting on the 
 blinders of self-evasion. We refuse to be frank 
 with ourselves. We subconsciously know we 
 are full of faults but we exaggerate some and 
 ignore others. 
 
 Some of the emotions you possess could, 
 
 if capitalized, make you a real success in life. 
 
 But you have not thought of emotion as 
 
 having any such power. The world has not 
 
 — 129 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 recognized it until very recently. History and 
 biography dwell on the less significant 
 elements of its great men and women, for- 
 getting or leaving to the poets the emotional 
 qualities which are at the foundation of every 
 famous name S3 S3 
 
 Don't Be Supersensitive 
 
 <I The opposite extreme are those who 
 imagine emotionalism alone is something 
 to be proud of. Such people pride themselves 
 on their sensitiveness, their "high strung" 
 natures — forgetting that only as we direct 
 our emotions into worth-while channels for 
 accomplishment, for the good of ourselves 
 and our fellows, can strong emotions become 
 an asset 33 53 
 
 Every organism, to live, must be sensitive 
 to the stimuli in its environment. But if it 
 is too sensitive it will forever be in the busi- 
 ness of dressing its wounds and have time 
 for little else. 
 
 — 130 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Supersensitive people are like the little 
 flowers called " sensitive plants" which curl 
 up at the merest touch. They are always 
 looking at their feelings with a microscope. 
 Others are just as emotional but spend their 
 feelings outward and upward like a sunflower 
 that is so enthusiastic about the sun it turns 
 its face from East to West each day to keep 
 looking at it. 
 
 Use Your Emotions 
 
 ^ Your character is the result of your conduct. 
 Your conduct is the outward expression of 
 your inner emotions. If you desire a strong 
 and beautiful character you must learn to 
 use your emotions toward building the things 
 you want to come true in your life. 
 
 Though it is not an easy thing to believe, 
 it is nevertheless true that we can apply our 
 emotions to good ends. We can turn their 
 current into positive channels where it 
 will, like the torrent of Niagara, furnish 
 — 131 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 power for doing many big things we can not 
 do by reason alone. 
 
 Whenever you have a destructive emotion 
 don't swallow it and try to forget it. Don't 
 hate or love a thing, desire to do or crave not 
 to do a thing, and sit still. Get up while the 
 mood is on and do something you have been 
 neglecting 53 53 
 
 One of the ablest men I have ever known 
 told me he had mastered three languages by 
 carrying a little grammer in his pocket and 
 studying it while waiting for his wife in the 
 hall, on the street corner or wherever he had 
 an engagement to meet her. 
 
 11 The first five years after we were married 
 I, who am a naturally prompt person myself, 
 was so incensed at her unvarying tardiness 
 it threatened to wreck our marriage. She 
 could never understand my ravings. Each 
 time she felt she had been unavoidably 
 detained. I was ill sometimes for days after 
 one of these explosions. 
 
 — 132 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 11 When I realized I could never change 
 her I hit upon this idea of improving the 
 time. This was my wife's one serious fault. 
 We have been ideally happy for thirty years 
 since — in which time I have not only learned 
 these new languages but read and digested 
 much of the world's best literature. " 
 
 This is but one of thousands of possible 
 ways in which an emotion and a period of 
 precious time, which would otherwise be used 
 to tear down, can be made to build up. 
 
 Choose Your Emotions 
 
 <& Just as surely as you can use your emotions 
 after they are aroused you can prevent the 
 wrong ones being aroused most of the time, 
 by learning, as you will in the last lesson of 
 this course, how to gain conscious control 
 of the attitudes which bring forth your 
 habitual emotions. 
 
 It is these habitual explosions that en- 
 danger our happiness. They can be made 
 
 — *33 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 constructive instead of destructive by 
 changing our predominant mental attitudes 
 from negative to positive — an accomplish- 
 ment perfectly possible to any person of 
 average intelligence. 
 
 134 — 
 
Fear is the twin of Faith's sworn foe, 
 
 Distrust. 
 If one breaks in your heart the other must. 
 
 Fear is the open enemy of Good. 
 
 It means the God in man misunderstood. 
 
 Who walks with Fear adown life's road 
 
 will meet 
 His boon companions, Failure and Defeat. 
 
 But look the bully boldly in the eyes 
 With mien undaunted, and he turns and 
 flies. 
 
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 Lesson III 
 
 -cs=s£*&> 
 
 Dissolving Our Fixed Fears 
 
 N the back of his 
 mind, each indi- 
 vidual has a mass 
 of fixed preferences 
 and prejudices. 
 
 The fundamen- 
 tal predilections of 
 his nature are due 
 to his type and are 
 held in common 
 _ with all others of 
 that type. Their origin is biological, as has 
 been fully treated in our course, "The Five 
 Human Types/ ' 
 
 But in addition to these, and alongside 
 of them, there are myriads of little attitudes 
 peculiar and personal to each and every indi- 
 vidual and which come from his training, his 
 education, his environment and his experi- 
 ence si 53 
 
 — 137 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Beans and Apples 
 
 <I To realize the difference between the bio- 
 logical foundations of your nature — the 
 things that make you in the by-and-large — 
 and the hundreds of inclinations and indis- 
 positions which are privately and personally 
 " your own make," you might visualize a 
 half bushel basket full of apples. These are 
 your type traits. They make up your fund- 
 amentals. 
 
 But after the basket is as full of apples as 
 it will hold you can pour into the chinks a 
 very large amount of navy beans. These are 
 akin to the personal peculiarities which "fill 
 in " the main outline called You. 
 
 In every individual over five years of age 
 there are literally thousands of these minia- 
 ture but mighty eccentricities which help or 
 hinder us. They vary as widely and exist as 
 universally as the human beings who possess 
 them — which helps to account for the fact that 
 no two people in the world are exactly alike. 
 -138- 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Where They Come From 
 
 ^ The average man, though he possesses — 
 and is only too often possessed by — these 
 automatic attitudes, seldom realizes their 
 existence in his subconscious, much less con- 
 ceives of their causes. He often imagines he 
 makes his decisions volitionally, when his 
 friends have long since learned that under 
 certaiA-ircumst^nces he is sure to react a 
 certaiflway. 
 
 He always gives reasons and he is perfectly 
 sincere in imagining these reasons are the real 
 foundation of his decisions. 
 
 But a mass of complicated machinery run 
 by very definite psychological and physi- 
 ological forces, of which he is entirely uncon- 
 scious, really works out the reaction he gives 
 to almost every situation. 
 
 He knows little or nothing about psy- 
 chology and so neither sees his mental wheels 
 go round nor even dreams of the vast plant 
 in which they operate. 
 
 — 139 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Origin of Fixed Feelings 
 
 <J As before explained, we get the main fun- 
 damentals of our natures — the outlines — 
 from our biological type. But the dents, fan- 
 cies, faiths and fears are impressed on us by 
 environment. 
 
 There are three kinds of fixed feelings — 
 fixed fears, fixed faiths and fixed fancies. 
 
 Every fixed fear comes from an experience 
 which produced so painful an emotion that the 
 memory sank deep into the subconscious mind. 
 
 The reason we are so often unconscious 
 of the origin of these fixed feelings is, as stated 
 earlier, that the conscious mind deals in 
 thoughts but the subconscious in feelings; and 
 because they usually arise from experiences 
 which occurred in childhood before the con- 
 scious mind was developed. But the sub- 
 conscious, being thoroughly alive even in 
 babyhood, remembers the emotion while the 
 conscious one forgets the cause. 
 
 The more intense any feeling (emotion) 
 — 140 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 the more does the conscious mind tend to 
 forget it. This is true for two very interesting 
 reasons. 
 
 The first is, that since we can not think 
 deeply and feel deeply at the same moment, 
 any intense emotion (feeling) temporarily 
 dethrones the conscious thinking mind and 
 thus prevents its having a very clear conscious 
 memory of what happens. 
 
 (You will note how little you can recall 
 of the things you did or said during excite- 
 ment or any intense emotion). 
 
 The subconscious (which never forgets 
 anything and especially never forgets an 
 emotion), is deeply concerned with every 
 emotional experience. Every intensely emo- 
 tional experience makes an impression so 
 deep that its permanent mark is left on the 
 subconscious. Secondly, to be reminded of 
 any deep emotion so interferes with the work 
 of the conscious mind that it is automatically 
 on the defensive. 
 
 — 141 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Psychology of Fixed Fears 
 
 <I When an emotion is extremely painful 
 a scar is left which is easily irritated ever 
 after by anything which reminds the sub- 
 conscious of the original pain. 
 
 We so often have revulsions of feeling 
 against people and things without in the 
 least knowing why. Whenever this happens 
 it is because the person or thing which you 
 automatically dislike — while doubtless 
 innocent in itself — bears a resemblance to 
 the symbol by which the old painful experi- 
 ence was recorded in the subconscious. 
 
 The subconscious, as you will recall, does 
 not deal in thoughts nor details but reduces 
 everything to simple symbols which ever 
 afterward stand for the original. 
 
 Why You Dislike People 
 
 <J When, for instance, you take an instan- 
 taneous dislike to an individual, even before 
 you have spoken to him, it is because he 
 — 142 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 brings up the symbol of some past painful 
 emotional experience. 
 
 The way he combs his hair, or the tilt of 
 his ear, may bring up the old ugly picture 
 subconsciously. You may never have noticed 
 that the person you disliked combed his 
 hair that way and you may not be consciously 
 aware now that the present man does, but 
 the subconscious noted it in the first man 
 and is reminded of it by the second. 
 
 Foolish as all this seems to practical every- 
 day souls, it is invariably the real reason. 
 The conscious mind is not so impressionable 
 but remember, the conscious mind reasons 
 whereas the subconscious feels — and that, 
 blindly 33 3$ 
 
 This illustration holds good only concern- 
 ing people whom you dislike instantaneously. 
 
 Laws of Our Personal Dislikes 
 
 <I The following little rules will clarify the 
 reasons for your likes and dislikes of people. 
 
 — H3 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 When you dislike a stranger instantane- 
 ously and before he has spoken, it is because 
 something about him reminds you of the 
 symbol of a painful experience. 
 
 When you dislike a stranger after the first 
 five minutes of conversation with him it is 
 because of his personality. 
 
 When you dislike him after long acquain- 
 tance it is because his type conflicts with yours. 
 
 Psychology of Fixed Faiths 
 
 ^ Faith is the opposite of fear. It operates in 
 exactly the opposite manner on the mind, 
 body and spirit of man. Faith is a stimulant, 
 fear a deadly narcotic. Faith is food, fear is 
 poison. Faith develops, fear destroys. 
 
 Recalling again that the subconscious 
 does not think but feels and that faith 
 is a feeling, you will see why faith has been 
 necessary to the uplift of mankind. 
 
 Thoughts are cold things compared with 
 feelings and " the faith that moves moun- 
 — 144 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 tains' ' is always a matter of heart more than 
 head S3 33 
 
 Law of Fixed Faiths 
 
 ^ Every fixed faith comes from one or many 
 experiences which produced emotions so 
 pleasing and uplifting that the memory of 
 them sank deep into the subconscious mind. 
 
 This accounts for the fact that cold logic 
 never swerved any man from any religious 
 faith which had fully satisfied him in times 
 of need. 
 
 Conversely, no man was ever completely 
 won to any religious faith till his emotions 
 had been appealed to, no matter how logical 
 the evangelist. 
 
 No public speaker ever became famous 
 on his reasoning. His " heart as well as his 
 head" had to talk. We are creatures of feel- 
 ing much more than thinking; but our success 
 in life depends upon directing our feelings 
 by thinking. 
 
 — 145 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 When You Like People 
 
 <$ All of us are swayed in favor of certain 
 people purely upon our feelings. We see men 
 and women whom we instantaneously like 
 or even love, without being able to tell why. 
 
 They may have none of the qualities we 
 have always supposed necessary to the win- 
 ning of our love, just as the other person we 
 disliked may have had them all — but we 
 love them — that's all. 
 
 This illuminating new science of Mental 
 Analysis shows us it is no accident that we 
 instantaneously like or love another person. 
 Whenever this happens it is because that 
 person reminds the subconscious of a symbol 
 which stands for some highly pleasurable 
 emotion or group of pleasurable emotions 
 in our past experience. 
 
 Woman in the Fur Hat 
 
 <I A man of our acquaintance who owned a 
 grocery store told us that for thirty years 
 
 — 146 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 he had made it a point to wait on every 
 woman who came into his store wearing 
 a fur hat. 
 
 No matter what he was doing he let a 
 clerk take his customer and gave his attention 
 to the fur-hatted woman. 
 
 He had just one other fixed feeling and it 
 was of an opposite nature. Whenever a man 
 came in wearing an oil coat he waited on him 
 only if there was no one else to do it and 
 hustled him out as quickly as possible. 
 
 He had no idea of the origin of these fixed 
 attitudes till the above explanation was 
 made. Next day he recalled vividly two 
 experiences which he had not remembered 
 for many years and which had given rise to 
 the fixations. 
 
 As a boy he had lived in Canada where the 
 winters were long and severe. His mother, 
 whom he adored and who died when he was 
 seven, always wore a fur hat in the winter 
 months (a fact which he did not consciously 
 —147 - 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 remember, but which was corroborated by 
 her photographs and by his uncle, the 
 mother's brother, with whom he lived). 
 
 Into his childish and sensitive subconscious 
 had gone the memory of those happy emo- 
 tions which his mother had given him, and 
 all of which were symbolized by a woman in a 
 fur hat 33 33 
 
 The Man in the Oil Coat 
 
 <R The explanation of his repugnance to men 
 in oil coats was equally easy to analyze, once 
 he was given a clew to his subconscious. 
 
 His father, though a predominantly kind 
 man, was a very austere one and as a boy he 
 had been very much afraid of him. His father 
 often threatened to punish him but he could 
 remember only one time when he did so and 
 that was one time when he did not deserve it. 
 
 The father accused him of taking an ax to 
 the woods and losing it when, as a matter of 
 fact, he had not touched the ax and had seen 
 — 148 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 his father take it away himself that morning. 
 The father denied this and gave the boy a 
 severe whipping. 
 
 When he did so he had just come in from 
 looking everywhere for the ax and still wore 
 his heavy oil coat. " I never smell an oil coat 
 without experiencing the same sufferings I 
 had during the few moments my father was 
 lashing me." 
 
 In this case the oil coat had become, in an 
 emotional moment, the symbol of injustice, 
 unhappiness, punishment and disgrace. 
 
 Popular Fixed Fears 
 
 <& Superstition against " Friday the Thir- 
 teenth/' refusal to walk under ladders, hatred 
 of having one's path crossed by a black cat, 
 fear of raising an umbrella indoors, the super- 
 stition against going back home to get some- 
 thing without sitting down to count ten, and 
 the certainty that breaking a mirror means 
 " seven years of bad luck " are a few of the 
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 most widespread and popular fixed fears. 
 
 Almost every man and woman has one 
 or more of these ancient superstitions so 
 deeply planted in his mind that he would 
 just a little rather avoid them. 
 
 The only thing that can be said about 
 them is that they belong to the Dark Ages. 
 
 Psychology of Fixing Fancies 
 
 ^ But all our fixed feelings are not of an 
 intensely happy or unhappy nature. Many 
 of them are tinged only with sufficient pleasur- 
 able feeling to make us know we have a 
 definite preference, not necessarily a faith. 
 On the other hand, we may have just 
 enough prejudice against a person or thing 
 to experience a vague unrest or the merest 
 opposition, without its being sufficiently 
 poignant to be called a fear. But always an 
 instantaneous opposition, however slight, 
 is the result of some previous painful 
 emotion S3 33 
 
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 Fear of Knives 
 
 <][ A woman was obsessed by a fear of every- 
 thing with a cutting edge. She could not work 
 at her kitchen table so long as the butcher 
 knife was in sight. Whenever she had to use 
 it for cutting bread or cake she put it away 
 as soon as possible. 
 
 If her scissors fell into her lap while sewing 
 she could not take another stitch until she 
 had removed them. 
 
 Whenever her husband or sons left their 
 razors on the wash-basin in the bathroom 
 she was ill half the morning. 
 
 If she saw a penknife on the desk when 
 writing a letter she could not go on until she 
 had put it in a drawer, and then was usually 
 too upset to finish. 
 
 This condition had persisted since before 
 she could remember, and was getting worse. 
 The husband, after ten years of trying to cure 
 her of it by telling her to " forget it," had 
 finally accepted her strange fear and was 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 careful to put all such things out of sight. 
 
 But their four sons were now grown and all 
 living at home. They could never remember 
 Mother's freakish terror and left their razors 
 and knives about where she was constantly 
 coming in contact with them. 
 
 She was told by the Mental Analyst that 
 this obsession was nothing more nor less 
 than a fear fixed in her subconscious by some 
 past painful experience in which a sharp- 
 edged instrument had figured and which had 
 ever since been a symbol of that painful 
 emotion 53 53 
 
 She was asked to let the matter lie 
 fallow in her mind for a few days; to make 
 no special effort to remember but to leave 
 her memory free to recall anything connected 
 with such an experience which might account 
 for it. We saw her every day for a week but 
 she could remember no incident of the 
 kind 53 53 
 
 Her disturbance at not having been able 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 to recall anything proved that she had been 
 straining her conscious mind — the very 
 opposite of the proper method. 
 
 We told her to loosen her mental grip and 
 let her mind drift for a few days or even 
 weeks — until the memory came of its own 
 accord S3 S3 
 
 Explanation of the Fear 
 
 <J In a few days she returned. She had dug 
 up from her subconscious the recollection 
 which fully explained the obsession. 
 
 In her childhood her parents had been 
 very poor. When she was three they lived in 
 a tumbledown house where the windows had 
 no catches and, to be kept open, had to be 
 held up with sticks or other things. 
 
 One Summer day, for lack of anything 
 else, the mother had propped up a window 
 in the kitchen with a long butcher knife. 
 A few minutes later she had seen her baby 
 sister, whom she dearly loved, push the knife 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 over, and in doing so permitted the window 
 to fall upon the knife whose blade laid the 
 baby's palm wide open. 
 
 Fear of Sirens and Sawdust 
 
 <J But the subconscious does not always 
 choose such obvious elements as symbols 
 and frequently chooses less significant ones 
 instead of the outstanding things we might 
 expect 53 33 
 
 This is aptly illustrated in the case of a 
 woman who had two terrors, neither of which 
 seemed to bear any relation to the other or 
 to anything she could recall. 
 
 She was forced to the conclusion that she 
 needed an analysis when she discovered she 
 could not enjoy her new home — a beautiful 
 frame house in a Middle-Western town — 
 because of her long-standing dislike of the 
 smell of new lumber. 
 
 They had moved into the house before it 
 was finished and the odor of the pine boards 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 became unbearable. Her husband suggested 
 that she take a trip, that she was nervous 
 and overwrought, but it was impossible for 
 her to leave just as the new furniture and 
 hangings were to be installed. 
 
 One other thing had greatly disturbed 
 her — the fire siren. 
 
 This was one of those small towns where 
 a steam whistle is used for a fire-alarm. The 
 new home was within a block of the factory 
 whose siren was used for this purpose. Its 
 screech was deafening, and left her nervous 
 for hours afterward. 
 
 When told that these fears were from 
 something which had happened in her past 
 and doubtless in her childhood, she could 
 recall nothing at the moment. But next day 
 she related this story which was afterward 
 corroborated by her sister 
 
 Its details came out as vividly as though 
 it had happened the day before, which was 
 not as surprising as it sounds. Though her 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 subconscious had kept the memory below 
 the threshhold of her conscious mind, this 
 secret hiding of it had caused it to be etched 
 in with even greater vividness than it would 
 otherwise have been. 
 
 This woman had grown up in a lumber 
 camp. When about four years of age she had 
 witnessed an accident at the sawmill. One 
 of the men, in handling the logs, had slipped, 
 lost his balance and had his foot carried with 
 the log into the saw. 
 
 She had seen him fall, and almost died of 
 fright as the great jagged saw-teeth sliced 
 his foot from the ankle. She saw it fall off 
 into the sawdust. Ever after the smell of 
 lumber and the sight of sawdust were sub- 
 conscious symbols of that experience. 
 
 Her aversion to sirens and other screech- 
 ing noises was as obvious as the other 
 elements, when we recall that this peculiarly 
 shrill scream of the saw accompanies every 
 cut into a log. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 She was so much more taken up with the 
 awful sight that she was not conscious of 
 having heard the screech of the saw at the 
 moment of the accident, but the subcon- 
 scious recorded it as part of the symbol. 
 
 When this memory was allowed to air 
 itself fully the obsession began to fade and 
 in a few months had entirely disappeared. 
 
 A Man's Story 
 
 <I A Minneapolis man caused much comment 
 among his friends a few years ago. He was 
 handsome, had more than average means, 
 was much sought after by women, equally 
 popular among men, and a success in business. 
 He was fastidious in his dress and person 
 to the point of eccentricity. Any one of a 
 dozen wealthy and beautiful society girls 
 would gladly have accepted him in marriage. 
 But he seemed to have no serious affairs of 
 the heart, though he paid homage to many 
 women 53 53 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 At thirty-six he met a young professional 
 woman, a law student, who wore her hair 
 cropped short like a man's and who dressed 
 in extremely mannish fashion. They were 
 married two weeks afterward. 
 
 The man was as much mystified as his 
 friends at his strange attraction, and the 
 only explanation he could give was this: 
 
 " I have always had a fixed fear of long 
 human hair. Since I was a small boy I have 
 never seen a long, loose hair lying on anything 
 without its disgusting me. Occasionally when 
 a stray one came home inside my shirt with 
 my laundry it made me actually ill. 
 
 11 I have never known why I had this queer 
 aversion and all my friends laugh at me for 
 it. I laugh at myself, but that doesn't help 
 matters 53 53 
 
 11 In my youth when women wore their 
 
 hair fluffy and flying about the face, I was 
 
 terrified whenever I was with a young woman, 
 
 for fear one of those long, silky hairs would 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 attach itself to me. I liked several girls tre- 
 mendously, but the fear of ever touching 
 that long hair prevented my ever falling 
 really in love. 
 
 " The young law student was a girl of 
 brains, personality and native good looks. 
 We had the same tastes and ideas. She was 
 no more interesting in many ways than some 
 of the young society girls I had met, but I 
 loved her short hair. 
 
 1 1 1 have been ideally happy in my marriage. 
 My wife, now that she has given up law, and 
 since she knows her short hair is a handicap 
 to me as well as herself, wants to let it grow. 
 She has discarded the mannish clothes and 
 naturally the short hair is incongruous. 
 But I can not bear the notion, nor explain 
 why." 53 S3 
 
 He was told the law of fixed fears and in 
 about a week recalled an incident of his child- 
 hood which he had not consciously remem- 
 bered for many years but which fully ex- 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 6 d 
 
 plained the complex and in the end cleared 
 it up to the place where he was willing for his 
 wife to have long hair. 
 
 When he was a small boy — somewhere 
 between five and seven — he and his younger 
 sister were playing one day in the woodshed 
 where the laundress was doing the family 
 washing 53 53 
 
 This was in the days of the washboard 
 and old fashioned tubs to which were 
 attached the big rollers for wringing clothes. 
 The baby sister, who had very long hair, 
 dropped her ball into the tub, ran and 
 leaned over to rescue it, just as the laundress 
 was ready to put a handful of clothes through 
 the wringer. 
 
 The baby's curls were carried into it and 
 she was lifted off the floor by her hair and 
 suspended there for what was a terrified 
 moment before the boy could make the 
 laundress thoroughly understand what was 
 wrong 53 53 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The Strain of Music 
 
 flf But every individual has, in addition to 
 these painful ones, hundreds of pleasurable 
 fixations which give him enjoyment. 
 
 You have preferences of many kinds which 
 are as intense as they are inexplicable. 
 
 One woman of our acquaintance loves a 
 certain strain of Dvorak's " Humoresque" 
 so much that she is filled with ecstasy every 
 time she hears it and keeps it on her Victrola 
 to play whenever she is depressed or unhappy 
 about anything. 
 
 The first time she heard it was one night 
 in the dining room of the Biltmore just after 
 the theater. The young man whom she loved 
 and is now married to, had taken her there 
 to supper. He proposed to her as the orches- 
 tra was playing this selection. 
 
 The Linen Handkerchief 
 
 <§ A noted business man of Kansas City who 
 
 prides himself on his hardheadedness keeps 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 t- * 
 
 twenty clean handkerchiefs in the right hand 
 drawer of his private desk because he finds 
 he can talk big deals over with much more 
 confidence if, at the moment of opening the 
 discussion, he can also open up a crisp, creased, 
 perfectly fresh handkerchief. 
 
 But handkerchiefs are not mere handker- 
 chiefs to him. Indeed, they are a very great 
 deal more 33 33 
 
 He declares they have a personality all 
 their own. The only kind he will use are those 
 of the severest plainness but of pure linen. 
 Whenever he is presented with one bearing 
 an initial, a fancy border or a touch of color 
 — different in any way from the kind he 
 prefers — he not only does not use it but is 
 upset till he has disposed of it. 
 
 The fact that this man can not remember 
 what caused all this does not alter the law. 
 Somewhere in his past he had a very pleasant 
 emotional experience in which there figured 
 a crisp, clean linen handkerchief. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The Cuckoo Clock 
 
 <I An interesting illustration of how some- 
 thing which has been a symbol of a painful 
 emotion can later become symbolic of a 
 pleasant one is seen in the following. 
 
 In Denver in 1909, lived a splendid and 
 sensible young woman who had one little 
 fixation. Owing to an unpleasant experience 
 with a cuckoo clock years before, she could 
 not bear the ticking of watches or clocks. 
 
 She held an important position in which 
 she needed a watch but instead of wearing it, 
 hung it up on the wall as far away from her 
 desk as she could see its hands. 
 
 She would not own a clock and at night 
 put the watch under her sofa pillows at the 
 far end of her room. This condition had 
 persisted for fifteen years. 
 
 Then the young man who is now her 
 
 husband and whom she was deeply in love 
 
 with at the time, went to California and 
 
 wanted some one to keep his valuable cuckoo 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 clock for him while away. The young woman 
 not only put it up in her room, but loved its 
 ticking, cuckooing and everything else. 
 
 When teased about the sudden change 
 she declared its noises were entirely different 
 from those of all other clocks, and that.it 
 seemed to say, " Julius, Julius, Julius' ' (the 
 young man's name), with every swing of the 
 pendulum. It had been so long associated 
 with him that to her, in his absence, it became 
 a living symbol of her lover. The memory of 
 the old unpleasant emotion was erased and 
 has not returned. 
 
 In the lesson " Love, Courtship and 
 Marriage' ' the effect of symbols on our loves 
 will be taken up more fully. The aim here is 
 to give a few illustrations of the power of all 
 kinds of symbols in our lives. 
 
 The Heliotrope Perfume 
 
 <j[ A Chicago banker of fifty, conservative, 
 conventional to a degree, and so austere as 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 to be almost formidable, has one fixed 
 preference. 
 
 He loves heliotrope and, though con- 
 sciously despising the use of perfume, espe- 
 cially by men, must have a drop or two 
 applied to his tie every morning before he 
 can go to the bank. If he forgets it he makes 
 his chauffeur turn around and take him 
 home to get it. 
 
 He has had a standing order with his 
 florist for twenty years, and every day before 
 noon a small sprig of heliotrope is delivered, 
 put into an exquisite little vase and placed 
 by his secretary at a certain spot on his desk. 
 
 One day last year this secretary met with 
 a sudden accident and was sent home from 
 the office before he had arranged the flowers. 
 In the excitement the little package contain- 
 ing the flowers was put into the taxi with him 
 and carried away. 
 
 The banker told us himself that though 
 some of the biggest bank heads in Chicago 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 were in his office at that moment for a dis- 
 cussion concerning a loan of two million, 
 and every moment important to them all, 
 he could not begin the conference until a 
 new bouquet had been obtained and placed 
 in its vase at exactly the proper angle in front 
 of him 53 53 
 
 " I am fully aware and always have been 
 of the origin of this fixation, though I have 
 never told any one before. As you know, I 
 am unmarried but, as you probably do 
 not know, I shall always remain unmarried. 
 I have loved but one woman. 
 
 " She loved me in return. I was not a young, 
 impressionable boy but a man past thirty 
 when I met and cared for her. 
 
 "She always used heliotrope perfume and 
 the first time I ever saw her a sprig of these 
 little flowers was pinned to her muff. She 
 died 53 53 
 
 "To me she lives whenever I breathe this 
 exquisite odor. I would not wish to live 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 myself if I could not have it near me. I have 
 felt this way for twenty years." 
 
 Strange Fixations 
 
 <J There are many people who have freakish 
 fixations which they can not explain and 
 which, unless they cause trouble, need not 
 be traced to their source. They should, how- 
 ever, be cleared up if they become obsessions. 
 
 One such case is that of a man who never 
 steps on a crack in the sidewalk. He can not 
 carry on a coherent conversation when walk- 
 ing with you down the street because he is so 
 concentrated on avoiding the cracks in the 
 cement or boards. 
 
 A certain Boston woman can not over- 
 come the notion that germs are in everything 
 and lives in terror lest she will be infected. 
 
 She washes her hands fifty times a day, 
 
 will not wear anything coming from a store 
 
 without first having it laundered, and will 
 
 eat no food save what is cooked under her 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 own supervision in her own kitchen by a 
 woman she has trained. 
 
 She is well acquainted with the fact that 
 only lowered bodily resistance makes us 
 susceptible to germs and that though they 
 are everywhere we are safe from them if we 
 keep in good physical condition. 
 
 But that does not eliminate the strange 
 fixation. She is the bony type that can not 
 bring itself to believe in " these new-fangled 
 sciences,'' so is spending her life in trench 
 warfare with bacteria. 
 
 A Post Fixation 
 
 <I A Philadelphia minister says that for 
 twenty years he has not been able to pass a 
 gate post, a hitching post or a fence post 
 without wanting to kick it. 
 
 " Last Winter," he said, " the Bishop 
 
 was in the city for a few days and we were 
 
 entertaining him at our home. I hoped I 
 
 might be able to avoid going near any posts 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 while with him and engaged a car to take us 
 wherever he wanted to go. 
 
 " But the last day of his stay was sunny. 
 He wanted to go for a walk, and insisted on 
 its being down an avenue of fine old residences 
 in front of many of which still stand the 
 hitching posts of the pre-automobile era. 
 
 " For the first block I managed to keep 
 from kicking these things, but half way down 
 the second one I had to step over and touch 
 one with my foot. 
 
 " The impulse was overwhelming. I said 
 something about knocking some snow off 
 my shoe and managed, by turning into 
 another street at the next corner, to get along 
 without doing it again. But I had to do it 
 that once, regardless." 
 
 Pin Fixations 
 
 <I Many people can not walk past a pin on the 
 floor; others can not resist the temptation 
 to look at every scrap of paper they see on the 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 sidewalk. Others can not walk or drive with- 
 out continuously counting the change in 
 their pockets. Others must count the steps 
 on every staircase they climb and know 
 the number in every stairway of every home 
 they frequent. 
 
 We know a man in Washington, D. C, 
 who can tell you the number of steps leading 
 into every government building in that city, 
 and also the exact number in every stairway 
 in the U. S. Senate. 
 
 A woman in Seattle said she never listened 
 to a lecturer without counting the number 
 of steps he took, from the moment he 
 appeared till he left the platform. 
 
 A man in Indianapolis said he had counted 
 every gesture made by a certain lecturer 
 during a six weeks' engagement and had 
 filled a notebook describing them. 
 
 This was not due to any special interest in 
 the lecturer. He had done the same for every 
 speaker he had listened to for many years. 
 — 170 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Origin of Strange Fixations 
 
 <I Every person with a freakish fixation such 
 as these just described has acquired these 
 strange avenues of expression because he was 
 denied more normal outlets. 
 
 For instance, the woman who was so afraid 
 of germs is a spinster of the most straight- 
 laced type. She has held the same position 
 for twenty-three years, is faithfulness itself 
 and conventional to excess. She has not only 
 not married but never had a love affair. 
 
 Many of the normal instincts have had to 
 be repressed. Since she is of this severe type 
 she had expelled them so completely from 
 the conscious mind that the feeling which 
 should have been given to them has broken 
 out, as do all repressed urges, via the sub- 
 conscious. 
 
 Her subconscious has merely produced 
 a substitute upon which to expend her energy. 
 
 The minister who kicks posts lived for 
 several years in China as a missionary and 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 as it was difficult for him to learn the 
 language, was denied almost all companion- 
 ship. He acquired this habit there. 
 
 The man who counts the steps in Wash- 
 ington was disappointed in love years ago 
 and in the preoccupation which submerged 
 him at the time unconsciously acquired this 
 habit 53 S3 
 
 Every person who, for any reason, is driven 
 in upon himself breaks out again through 
 channels which are slightly or extremely 
 abnormal — depending on the type of indi- 
 vidual and the severity of his suffering. 
 
 Every lonely person after a while takes on 
 strange habits. All who are compelled to live 
 much alone, and most of those who are forced 
 to repress the mating instinct, ultimately 
 become " queer," and some unbalanced. 
 
 "Keeping the Faiths" 
 
 ^ If your fixed feelings are fixed faiths — that 
 
 is, if they reassure you, uplift you, sustain 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 you, and help you to live a better, happier 
 life, do not let anything or anybody take 
 them away from you. 
 
 If they are fixed fancies of a pleasing sort, 
 such as the preference for heliotrope which 
 the banker has, by all means keep them. 
 
 Life is all too drab and difficult not to 
 brighten it by these innocent and purifying 
 means whenever possible. 
 
 One Woman's Fixed Faith 
 
 <§ A woman of our acquaintance who took 
 her own part with great gusto in everything 
 else permitted people to impose on her in 
 just one way. 
 
 She allowed them to push past her into 
 street cars, subways and all manner of other 
 places. She gave up her place with no re- 
 sistance whatever, seeming almost pleased 
 to do so. 
 
 When asked for the cause of the strange 
 inconsistency she said: 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " Four times my life has been saved be- 
 cause I lost a place in line. Twice it caused 
 me to miss a train — once because the man 
 in front of me at the Pullman windowdropped 
 his change and tickets and kept me waiting 
 while he gathered them up; and once because 
 the baggage man did not get my trunk 
 checked in time. 
 
 " Both these trains were wrecked. 
 
 " At another time I was refused admittance 
 to a packed elevator. I was in a hurry and 
 insisted on getting in. The fact that a large 
 woman who was standing behind me was 
 permitted to enter it did not lessen my anger. 
 
 11 The operator lost control of his car which 
 was overcrowded, and it dropped eight stories, 
 killing instantly every person in it. 
 
 " The day of the historic Iroquois Theater 
 fire in Chicago I was standing in line for a 
 ticket when I discovered I had lost my purse 
 and stepped out of line to find it. By doing 
 so I lost the chance to see the play. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " If I had not lost my place I would doubt- 
 less have been among the hundreds burned 
 alive in that awful disaster. 
 
 11 Now whenever I lose a place in line I 
 believe it is for some good purpose." 
 
 Bonaparte's firm faith that " the bullet 
 had not been cast nor the shell tempered that 
 could kill Napoleon' ' not only filled the minds 
 of his enemies with fear of even attempting 
 it, but carried him to many victories. 
 
 Freeing Yourself of Fixed Fears 
 
 <I But if you have fixed fears of any nature 
 you must master them or run the risk of 
 their mastering you. 
 
 Nothing in nature remains stationary. 
 The moment you are not getting stronger 
 you are getting weaker. The man who stops 
 climbing has begun to slide back. 
 
 To live a healthful, happy, honorable life 
 you must be master of your moods. To be 
 master of your moods, the first thing to do 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 is: face the fact and begin to be honest and 
 sensible 33 33 
 
 Mental Analysis, this most searching and 
 profound of all human sciences, has proved 
 that most of our worst mental and physical 
 ailments, disappointments and failures come 
 from our refusal to be frank and straight- 
 forward with ourselves. 
 
 Whether the thing you are afraid of is big 
 or little, real or imaginary, you can be free 
 from it if you try. 
 
 You are one of God's creatures and God 
 never meant any creature to be sad, dejected 
 or frightened. We make ourselves so by 
 violating His divine laws. 
 
 Renovating the Subconscious 
 
 flf If your obsessions are those of regret for 
 past sins of commission or omission, try 
 to think of this subconscious of yours as a 
 pool that you are going to drain by being 
 perfectly honest with yourself. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 And you can be because nothing you have 
 ever done, thought, said or been guilty of 
 was so very bad. 
 
 The force that rules the universe is big, 
 beautiful, and above all, benign. A benign 
 force, whether personal or impersonal, for- 
 gives or ignores our faults. Put yourself in 
 harmony with the divine by forgiving your- 
 self right now for anything that has been 
 causing you regret or remorse. 
 
 No matter what you have done or failed 
 to do, just remember tbis: you did the best 
 your nature was capable of at that time, 
 under those conditions, and with those par- 
 ticular temptations. 
 
 The worse it was the more is it necessary 
 that you do that much better in the future. 
 
 You can not do anything big or fine with 
 fear gripping and crippling you. 
 
 Whatever negative thing is in your mind 
 and however long it may have been there, 
 it can be eliminated by doing two things: 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 First, be honest with yourself. Admit to 
 yourself that you have been a weak, silly fool 
 or anything else that you have been. But 
 don't let it discourage you. 
 
 Confession is good for the soul. It clears 
 the air. It blows the cobwebs out of your 
 mind. It is a mental vacuum cleaner. 
 
 Second, realize that whatever you desire 
 to come true in your life can be brought to 
 pass if you really want it. 
 
 It can be brought to pass by the same 
 power that has brought most of the things 
 you have in your life — your own sub-con- 
 scious mind. 
 
 It will not do so in a day. The subconscious 
 does not respond to a thought until many 
 times repeated. The only thing it reacts to 
 instantly is feeling. But through a law which 
 is fully explained in the last lesson of this 
 course, any desired impulse can be planted 
 in the subconscious. 
 
 Once there, it will operate with the same 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 C 3 
 
 unresting force as these other urges of ours 
 which have been shot into it by emotion. 
 
 You can plant in your subconscious soil 
 the seeds of anything you truly desire. It 
 will bring forth its harvest according to its 
 nature S3 33 
 
 You must stop filling this great battery 
 with negative energy. 
 
 By right thinking you can make all its 
 energy positive, and that positive force will 
 bring to pass whatever you deeply desire. 
 
 179 — 
 
Mind is the master power 
 
 That molds and makes, 
 And man IS mind, 
 
 And evermore he takes 
 The tool of thought 
 
 And shaping what he wills. 
 Brings forth a thousand joys 
 
 Or a thousand ills. 
 He thinks in secret 
 
 And it comes to pass, 
 Environment is just 
 
 His looking-glass. 
 
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 -SS3£*^ 
 
 Lesson IV 
 
 Mental Miracles 
 
 AN is a unit. Each 
 human being is 
 an organized 
 community of liv- 
 ing cells, of which 
 there are over 
 twenty-six tril- 
 lions in the com- 
 monwealth of the 
 brain and body. 
 This intricate 
 and intimate relationship between all the 
 cells of the human organism is effected 
 through two channels — the nervous system 
 and the circulatory system. 
 
 The living cables of the nervous system 
 run from the brain through the spinal cord 
 and solar plexus; and branch and rebranch 
 until practically every cell in the body has 
 its own tiny nerve. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 By means of this sensitive system any part 
 of the brain or body instantly influences — 
 for health or disease, happiness or distress — 
 every other part of the organism. 
 
 Nerve Messengers 
 
 ^ To illustrate to yourself how quickly and 
 keenly the outside world, without tangible 
 contact, affects the body through this delicate 
 nervous system, recall what happened to you 
 when you have smelled something extremely 
 disagreeable. 
 
 The impression was carried to the brain 
 which instantly sent over its nerve-wires a 
 mental telegram to your stomach. If it was 
 very unpleasant you became nauseated. 
 
 If the revulsion was severe there resulted 
 those violent convulsions of the stomach 
 which cause vomiting. 
 
 Yet you had neither touched nor tasted 
 the unpleasant thing — merely heard of it 
 through your nerves. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Chemical Messengers 
 <I The next day you are passing a bakery. 
 You smell the delicious odor of bread. The 
 brain dispatches a pleasing telegram to your 
 stomach telling it to secrete the gastric juices 
 preparatory to digesting some of that bread. 
 
 You instantly become hungry. If you can 
 not stop and get a loaf to take home or eat 
 it then and there — if you keep on going and 
 ignore it — an interesting thing happens. 
 
 The juices which ran into your stomach 
 on that hurry call have no food to work on. 
 Since their energy (like that of everything 
 else) must expend itself, they agitate your 
 empty stomach — an abnormal process, which 
 in turn makes you slightly physically and 
 then mentally upset. 
 
 When that point is reached the circle is 
 completed; you are back to the mind from 
 whence the message first came. 
 
 Your body and mind always operate in this 
 circle. Whatever affects one affects the other. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 A mental disturbance not only harms the 
 body but, because the body also affects the 
 mind, comes back like a boomerang when it 
 completes the circle. 
 
 A physical disturbance not only upsets 
 the mental processes, but returns, via their 
 influence, back to the body in that same 
 vicious circle. 
 
 Human Hungers 
 
 ^ This little hunger for the bread is only the 
 most elemental illustration. Every normal 
 human being has hundreds and thousands 
 of hungers . 
 
 The particular kind most frequent and 
 intense with each individual comes, as a 
 bread-hunger would ultimately have come, 
 from your own inner nature. This inner 
 nature will show in his externals and deter- 
 mine his type. 
 
 But life is forever tempting, reminding, 
 awakening these sleeping tendencies, just as 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 the accidental passing by the bakery awak- 
 ened your hunger for bread. 
 
 Type Hungers 
 
 <§ Now if you had been excessively hungry — 
 that is, had a deep inner urge for food — 
 before you came to the bakery it would have 
 been much more difficult for you to keep going. 
 
 And so it is with our type-hungers. They 
 come from our inner biological systems, and 
 are quick to flare up when anything occurs 
 in our environment which appeals to them. 
 
 But whether the hunger comes from the 
 over-development of an inner system or is 
 aroused by outer stimuli, any hunger which 
 is repressed and ignored expends its pent- 
 up energy, as did the gastric juices, on some- 
 thing else. Thus we have discovered the 
 
 Law of Repression 
 
 <I Every intense impulse or ambition which 
 is refused expression through normal, natural 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 outlets, finds less normal and sometimes 
 abnormal outlets for itself. 
 
 Today science shows that most of our 
 unhappiness and failure and practically all 
 our ill health, half-health and disease are 
 but the distorted expressions of deep desires 
 long repressed. 
 
 The Dammed-Up Stream 
 
 ^ Your mental and physical energy is like a 
 river. It must flow onward and outward to 
 stay pure and natural. 
 
 A pool becomes stagnant only when denied 
 an outlet. The most foul water purifies itself 
 in a few miles of rapid flowing. 
 
 Society in general, and conditions or 
 relations in which we place ourselves restrain 
 us and choke back this natural expression 
 as a dam holds back a river. 
 
 Such a dam holds the water back tempo- 
 rarily, and nothing happens. 
 
 But if the pressure becomes greater and 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 t— s 
 
 greater, after a while one of two things will 
 happen: the dam will break or the stream 
 will burst over in another direction. 
 
 Disease and wrongdoings are often the 
 breaking out of the subconscious stream. 
 Reversions are the result of the breaking of 
 the dam itself. 
 
 Causes of Crime 
 
 ^ Criminologists declare that crime is the 
 result of the repression of the true personality 
 and that criminals differ from the average 
 man and woman chiefly in that a much larger 
 proportion of the personality is thwarted. 
 
 It is well known that delinquents are 
 invariably defective physically and often 
 physically deformed. 
 
 Every man who has been long a criminal 
 has one or more serious physical diseases — 
 a fact known to all heads of jails, reform 
 schools, penitentiaries, and to all penal and 
 social investigators. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 These and hundreds of corroborative facts 
 prove how closely the body, mind and spirit 
 of man are intertwined, and how everything 
 which affects one affects the other. 
 
 What To Do 
 
 <I It is not necessary to dwell on these im- 
 pulses in our minds nor to act them out in 
 our lives. 
 
 Civilization has cost too much on the part 
 of brave souls and is too great a boon to 
 mankind for any individual to revert to the 
 primitive where all this is lost on him. 
 
 He owes it to himself, first of all, and 
 second to the world, to straighten his spine 
 and live the life of a man. 
 
 We have been told this before. But we 
 have not been told how to make a working 
 compromise between these inner impulses 
 which, for any reason, could not be expressed 
 naturally, and the ideals we so much desired 
 to live up to. 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 No one was to blame for this state of 
 affairs. No one knew, until very recently, 
 that choking an intense impulse did not 
 kill it S& 3& 
 
 No one suspected, for instance, the real 
 reason for the chronic ailments, soured dis- 
 positions and ''queer streaks' ' of old maids 
 of both sexes; nor why people who live alone, 
 people who are unloved or unsuccessful, 
 develop certain kinds of maladies, mental 
 and physical. 
 
 About w Forgetting " 
 
 ^ Today we know that the admonition to 
 " forget it " merely crowds the unspent energy 
 down into the lower reaches of the organism, 
 from whence it emerges sooner or later in 
 some less natural form. 
 
 The big lesson taught by Mental Analysis 
 
 is that whenever you have any intense 
 
 impulse which can not or should not be 
 
 expressed, you are to look it straight in the 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 face, realize that it is no different from the 
 impulses of millions who have gone before 
 you; that it is not perverted, disgraceful nor 
 anything to be ashamed of as an impulse. 
 
 No Self-Hate 
 
 <I The thing to be ashamed of would be the 
 secret loathing of yourself for having it or 
 permitting it to act itself out in harmful, 
 dishonorable or destructive deeds. 
 
 After you have looked at it; after you have 
 recognized it for the out of date or out of 
 place impulse it is, say to this thing: " Yes, 
 you were all right in your day, a million 
 years ago before we learned that human 
 progress depended on the development of 
 the higher instincts. You are the natural 
 descendant of the primitive in me, and as 
 such are not to blame for being here. 
 
 " But if you think I am going to live down 
 to your level just because you are here, you 
 are very much mistaken! 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " Now, you have a lot of energy. Stop 
 whining in the dark there. Come out into the 
 light and I '11 put that energy to work. I am 
 a twentieth century human being with a 
 brain and I am going to live the life of one, 
 not that of a man of dead ages. 
 
 11 I have nothing against you. All you need 
 is to expend that energy of yours. I '11 find 
 something right out here in the daylight for 
 you to do. Get at it! " 
 
 Tender-Minded vs. Tough-Minded 
 
 9 As a result of our wrong systems of train- 
 ing the most sensitive and high-minded are 
 often obsessed with a sense of shame and 
 disgrace which cripples all their efforts, while 
 the " tough-minded/ ' as James called them, 
 express more of their inner urges, accomplish 
 more, keep their health and get the good 
 things out of life. 
 
 They do not do this necessarily by express- 
 ing destructive urges in their original form, 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 but often by an automatic sublimation 
 natural to their biological type. 
 
 Other and finer types — taught by parents, 
 teachers, preachers and society that certain 
 things are vile — believe it and grow to 
 despise themselves. 
 
 Psychology of Shame 
 
 <& No human being can stay well or do good 
 work who secretly loathes himself. 
 
 It is small wonder that some of our ortho- 
 dox churches are empty. Renunciation and 
 repression are stunting, saddening, sicken- 
 ing doctrines. They weaken, disintegrate and 
 destroy 53 53 
 
 The sense of " original sin," of an inner 
 filth that can never be quite eliminated, is 
 fatal to health and happiness. Of its own 
 force, it is ultimately fatal to any sect that 
 teaches it 53 53 
 
 God never intended any living thing to be 
 cowed or shamed. Everything in nature grows 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 up, not down. It grows with its head toward 
 the heavens. 
 
 When human beings listen less to men 
 and more to the sermons in every sun-seeking 
 flower, they will begin to be good, happy, 
 healthy and successful. 
 
 Conscious vs. Subconscious 
 
 ^ The average individual tries not to think 
 or feel certain things. He crowds them out 
 of his mind and thinks they are gone. 
 
 Today we know that whatever is pushed 
 out of consciousness recedes into subcon- 
 sciousness. 
 
 If these throttled thoughts concern deep 
 desires they come back again and again. If 
 rejected over and over they finally return 
 behind the " false face" of some unaccount- 
 able attitude which we do not recognize as 
 connected with anything we have previously 
 felt. We now know these are merely old 
 urges in disguise. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 (===) 
 
 Most of our physical ills, emotional ex- 
 plosions, outbursts of temper and faults are 
 these repressed impulses on masquerade. 
 
 Satan At Our Shoulders 
 
 <$ As children we were taught that the way 
 to dispose of Satan was to say, " Get thee 
 behind me." We were told that when we did 
 this Satan vanished. 
 
 Today the science of Mental Analysis shows 
 what we have always suspected — that Satan 
 stayed right there and has been talking over 
 our shoulders ever since! 
 
 It shows us that we have got to do some- 
 thing besides put Satan behind our backs 
 unless we wish to be pushed into the very 
 things we fear. 
 
 Fortunately, it shows us that the things 
 we must do to turn his power into construc- 
 tive channels is much easier than the things 
 we have been doing in our blind and ignorant 
 efforts to get rid of him. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Where Faults Come From 
 
 <I Every human fault, like every disease, is 
 the result of dammed-up energy. 
 
 Everything in the world moves, and does so 
 because it is full of energy. Nothing is ever 
 still, even for an instant, no matter how 
 much it may appear so. 
 
 Everything — from the particles in the wood- 
 en chair on which you sit to the constellations 
 in the sky — are moving, moving, moving. 
 
 Motion is the law of the universe. Motion 
 creates energy and energy must expend itself. 
 
 If you do not permit it to expend itself in 
 natural, normal ways it expends itself in ab- 
 normal, unnatural ways — depending always 
 on the type of individual and the weakest 
 point in his physical or mental makeup. 
 
 When you see no evil effects for a time you 
 imagine you have obliterated this impulse. 
 
 But you have only bottled it, and the 
 longer you keep the cork in the more it 
 ferments. Some day it will explode. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
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 Expression and Repression 
 
 <§i Any work, situation or condition which 
 compels you to keep on doing a thing you do 
 not like to do causes the gradual building up 
 within you of a mass of aversions and 
 repulsions which eventually break forth. 
 
 They may not break out in open rebellion 
 against the thing itself. In fact we have dis- 
 covered that the greater the dislike of a thing 
 on the part of certain types of people the 
 less likely are they to voice their resentment 
 or to show open resistance to that specific 
 thing S3 S3 
 
 These are the people to whom comes the 
 greatest harm. Whenever you express open 
 opposition to a thing you "let off steam' ' 
 and relieve the pressure just that much. 
 
 The types that " speak out" have far 
 fewer subconscious complexes than the silent, 
 timid ones, though they often have the very 
 ones they and their friends would least 
 expect to find in them. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The Hidden Fires 
 
 <$i A young boy was left alone while his mother 
 went to the corner grocery. A box of papers 
 he was playing with caught fire from the open 
 grate. He was too young to know how to put 
 out the fire and afraid to run away from it. 
 So he ran to the back stairs, threw the blazing 
 box into the basement and slammed the door. 
 
 He had a few moments of apparent safety. 
 
 But the house burned down. 
 
 Effect of the Wish 
 
 <I It used to be supposed that some men had 
 an aim and others had not; that some knew 
 what they wanted and others had no prefer- 
 ences; that some men were blessed with 
 ambitions and others did n't care. 
 
 Today we know that every individual has 
 many subconscious wishes and one over- 
 whelming subconscious longing toward 
 whose attainment every act of his life is 
 consciously or unconsciously directed. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Everything which tends toward the fulfil- 
 ment of this subconscious wish reacts con- 
 structively, happily, healthily back upon his 
 body, mind, work, and life in its entirety. 
 
 Everything which hinders it reacts destruc- 
 tively upon every element of his personality 
 — physical, mental, moral and spiritual — 
 and takes its toll in some form of depression, 
 disintegration or disease. 
 
 Minstrels and w The Merry Widow " 
 
 <J " An interesting illustration of how the 
 thwarting of a subconscious wish can cause 
 physical troubles and how quickly the 
 removal of the barrier can cure, came to my 
 notice in 1910," said a physician recently. 
 
 11 It also shows the lesser power of conscious 
 wishes as compared to the great force of 
 subconscious ones. 
 
 11 I was sent for at 4:30 one afternoon to 
 come to an office in the State Capitol in 
 Denver where a young woman was ill. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " She was suffering with intense pain and 
 had a temperature of 103. 
 
 " It developed at five o'clock, when the 
 rest of the office force left, that she had been 
 very anxious to see 'The Merry Widow' 
 which was playing at the Broadway Theater 
 that week, and was to have gone with the 
 rest of the girls that evening to see it. 
 
 " She was much disappointed that her 
 illness necessitated their giving the ticket 
 to some one else. 
 
 " While we waited for the taxi which was 
 to take her home she told me how sorry she 
 was not to see ' The Merry Widow ' but glad 
 she did n't have to see the minstrels which 
 were also in town. She very much disliked 
 minstrels, she said. 
 
 11 A moment later the telephone rang and 
 she was asked for. I told the young man at 
 the other end of the wire that she was too ill 
 to answer. But before I could prevent it she 
 took up the receiver. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " Two minutes later she walked out of that 
 room free of her headache and fever — 
 perfectly well. 
 
 " The illness, she told me as we walked 
 down the hall, had come from a week's worry 
 over not having heard from the young man, 
 whom she loved devotedly. She feared she had 
 lost him. 
 
 " When he phoned and asked her to go 
 that evening to the minstrel show (having 
 already seen ' The Merry Widow' himself) 
 she found she would love the minstrels after 
 all; that she did n't mind missing ' The 
 Merry Widow' and was well enough to go." 
 
 The illness in this case was real. The desire 
 to see "The Merry Widow" and not to see 
 the minstrels was genuine, but existed only 
 in her conscious mind, whereas the desire to 
 be with the young man was part of a deep 
 subconscious wish and, as such, able to make 
 her not only glad to see the minstrels, but to 
 become well instantly. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Fear and Health 
 
 ^ Fear causes more maladies, physicians say, 
 than all other things combined. The man 
 who is afraid is never a well man. 
 
 Strange as it may seem, it is the fears we 
 repress more than the fears we express, which 
 do us severe harm — another illustration of 
 how things shoved back into subconscious- 
 ness wreak their force upon us under assumed 
 appearances 33 33 
 
 Fear and Epidemics 
 
 ^f It is a historical and well-known fact that 
 every war is followed by epidemics. 
 
 We have assumed that congestion of masses 
 of men, poor sanitation and exposure were 
 the inevitable causes, and certain it is that 
 these have had much to do with it. 
 
 But hundreds of the leading physicians 
 
 of the world have declared that the Spanish 
 
 Influenza epidemic of 191 8 was caused 
 
 largely by fear in many cases and that at its 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 height many people had every outward 
 symptom of this disease without the slightest 
 fever or any actually diseased condition. 
 They have gone a step farther and declared 
 that patients died under the impression that 
 they were afflicted with this malady when, as 
 a matter of fact, they were killed by fear. 
 
 Complexes and Consciousness 
 
 fl It was shown in a previous lesson that 
 fixed fears always come from very painful 
 emotional experiences of one's past. 
 
 The insidious and far-reaching effect of a 
 single fixed fear was explained. 
 
 Imagine then the effect upon the individual 
 of an integrated, organized group of fixed 
 fears — a "set" of them — surrounding some 
 long drawn out or vital experience in his life. 
 
 Mental science distinguishes these groups 
 
 of fixed fears by the name of complexes. They 
 
 differ from others chiefly in the fact that 
 
 instead of one element they have many. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Single fixed fears arise from momentary 
 or even instantaneous experiences, such as 
 the little girl suffered in the fraction of a 
 second when she witnessed the saw cutting 
 off the man's foot. Her fixed fear of screeching 
 noises and the smell of lumber was born in 
 that instant of intense emotion. 
 
 What can rightly be called a complex is 
 the result of an experience of much longer 
 duration — sometimes of years — which con- 
 tained many characteristics. Several of these 
 are symbolized in the subconscious mind 
 with such vividness that being reminded 
 of one brings the " total experience' ' forth 
 from memory's vault. 
 
 A Husband's Complex 
 
 <i A Cleveland broker who had a reputation 
 for cool-headedness and self-control developed 
 a violent complex against women's white 
 kid gloves, plumes, French-heeled shoes and 
 baby-Irish lace. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Whether displayed in shops or being worn 
 by their fair owners, whenever and wherever 
 he saw any of these things his composure 
 instantly left him and he grew angry, dis- 
 gusted and resentful. 
 
 Though he succeeded in concealing his 
 agitation from his friends and employees, he 
 declared it was hours, sometimes days, 
 before he fully recovered. 
 
 These things upset him, he said, because 
 they brought back to him with terrific force 
 memories of a bitter period in his life. 
 
 Many years before he had been married 
 to a charming and unusually beautiful 
 woman whom he idolized — the only woman 
 moreover that ever interested him. 
 
 She flirted with other men, gave him ten 
 years of heart-breaking disillusionment and 
 finally eloped with a clerk of his office. 
 
 She was a woman of extremely fashionable 
 and fastidious tastes. She specialized in 
 French-heeled shoes, white kid gloves, and 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 the willow plumes and baby-Irish lace which 
 were the mode at that time. 
 
 Whenever he saw any of these things the 
 tragedy of the whole ten years engulfed him — 
 the " total experience' ' lived itself over in his 
 feelings, condensed and intensified. 
 
 Not only did it remind him of the love for 
 his wife, the scandal in the newspapers, the 
 loneliness and shame he underwent because 
 of her deception, it recalled the humiliation 
 his pride had suffered at her having gone 
 away with one of his own employees. This 
 was a young man he had never liked and 
 whom he had often reprimanded. 
 
 A Wife's Complex 
 
 <I A woman developed a complex against 
 men smoking pipes. She had once liked the 
 sight of a man smoking a pipe and, unlike 
 the man just described, could not imagine 
 why she became enraged whenever she saw 
 a pipe in any man's mouth. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 If, in addition to seeing it, she heard the 
 slight smack of the lips as he puffed at its 
 stem her emotion was so intense she had to 
 leave the room or even the street car in which 
 it was occurring. 
 
 As she was a widow and had several chil- 
 dren to support, she found it necessary to 
 overcome this violent aversion. 
 
 She had just been promoted to a much 
 better paying position which she was perfectly 
 able to fill but which she was having great 
 difficulty with because several men at nearby 
 desks smoked pipes during office hours. 
 
 After a time she realized that something 
 she had faithfully pushed out of her conscious 
 mind for years and which she had not once 
 admitted to herself, was a fact and that this 
 fact had given rise to the complex. 
 
 Cause of Her Complex 
 
 <I Her husband insisted on a large family, 
 yet failed to support them. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 He was an able man who drew a good 
 salary at the time of their marriage. She 
 loved him devotedly and believed him when 
 he said he could get nothing to do later on. 
 
 He finally gave up trying to work, on the 
 plea of not being well, and spent all his time 
 at home, sitting by the fire, puffing away at 
 his pipe. 
 
 He was finally killed in an automobile 
 accident — after the wife had had twelve years 
 of hard work trying to support their family — 
 twelve years when her most vivid picture of 
 him was as he looked and sounded, sitting 
 there by the fire, smacking his lips on his 
 pipe stem. 
 
 She had never permitted her conscious 
 mind to harbor the suspicion that he was lazy, 
 worthless and selfish. But the conviction of 
 it was imbedded deep in her subconscious 
 which had symbolized the heartaches and 
 hardships of the whole twelve years in the 
 scene and sound of a man smoking a pipe. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Types and Complexes 
 
 ^ You have often wondered why two people 
 of the same family (therefore of the same 
 heredity) and of the same environment 
 (living in the same house under exactly iden- 
 tical conditions) would react in diametrically 
 opposite ways to the same experience. 
 
 For instance, twin sisters lose their mother 
 through death. 
 
 One is completely overwhelmed by grief, 
 loses weight, becomes ill and is unconsolable, 
 while the other grows rosier and plumper 
 every day and goes on just as before. 
 
 Why does one girl develop a complex and 
 the other not? 
 
 Chiefly because of difference in type. 
 
 Certain types react to certain kinds of 
 experiences destructively and others con- 
 structively, and do so habitually and auto- 
 matically 3$ 33 
 
 On the other hand, the girl who reacts with 
 automatic constructiveness to her mother's 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 death may develop complexes from different 
 kinds of experiences which would not affect 
 the other girl at all. 
 
 What Happens To You 
 
 <J Whenever the mind is working destructive- 
 ly — when, for instance, you are full of fear — 
 it throws the switch and sidetracks the body, 
 preventing its running properly or safely. 
 
 When our emotions become tangled up with 
 wrong ideas, destructive attitudes or opposi- 
 tion, they are at cross purposes with the body. 
 
 This always has its damaging results. 
 These results may show themselves in the 
 form of nervousness, ill temper, ill health, 
 melancholia, neurosis, insanity, crime or 
 suicide — always depending on the type of 
 individual. 
 
 Or, they may merely cause him to wonder 
 
 what is wrong between himself and the world ; 
 
 to form incomprehensible aversions to people 
 
 and things in his environment; or to be 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 vaguely restless, upset or unhappy, without 
 knowing why. 
 
 Dreams and Diseases 
 
 <I Thousands of facts go to show that the 
 dreamer weaves his own dream out of the raw 
 materials in his own conscious experience 
 and subconscious desires — that each dream 
 is the dreamer's own psychic production. 
 
 This fact is of the utmost significance. It 
 has shown the underlying causes for neuroses 
 and other illnesses which, until the discovery 
 of Mental Analysis, were inexplicable to phy- 
 sicians and supposedly incurable. 
 
 The psychologist is today curing many 
 people of many maladies which the physician, 
 dealing only with the body, failed to help. 
 
 " Within ten years/ ' says a prominent 
 surgeon, " every physician who undertakes 
 to help a patient suffering from any functional 
 disorder will make his first step the analysis 
 of the patient's dreams.' ' 
 
 — - 2IO — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Today we know that numberless opera- 
 tions, most organic and all functional ail- 
 ments are the result of unhappiness, fear, 
 repression or other negative mental con- 
 ditions 33 33 
 
 We know that nervous breakdowns, for 
 instance, are due not so much to overwork 
 as over-worry. 
 
 Reality and Regression 
 
 <& One of the most significant discoveries of 
 recent times is that in every human being 
 there is a subconscious tendency to escape 
 from the facts of life whenever they become 
 too painful 33 33 
 
 In scientific circles there is a new but 
 already well-known phrase describing this: 
 " the flight from reality. " 
 
 This profound and universal fact is revolu- 
 tionizing the therapeutics of the civilized world . 
 
 It is explaining all manner of mental, 
 moral and physical maladies and curing them 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 because it deals with the real source of the 
 trouble 53 53 
 
 Forms of "Flight" 
 
 ^ The particular way taken to achieve the 
 " flight from reality" will depend, in each 
 case, upon the type, temperament and train- 
 ing of the individual and the intensity of his 
 sufferings. 
 
 The most repressive, sensitive types suffer 
 most because they bury their griefs and dis- 
 appointments deeper than others. 
 
 Those who express their feelings suffer 
 least from the repressive ailments, as was 
 proven during the World War. 
 
 Soldiers and Shell-Shock 
 
 <R Thousands of soldiers suffered from a 
 baffling ailment. It robbed them of various 
 phases of consciousness; it vented itself in 
 all manner of mental derangements, with no 
 two cases quite alike. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 For the lack of a better name it was called 
 " shell-shock/ ' though these men had not 
 been hurt by shells, and other men, under 
 precisely the same conditions, had come 
 through safely and sanely. 
 
 In many instances sight and hearing were 
 lost, in spite of the fact that tests showed 
 their eyes and ears to be in perfect condition. 
 
 Thousands of such cases were cured upon 
 being removed from the scene of battle and 
 thousands more became well in an hour after 
 the signing of the Armistice. 
 
 What was the reason? The strange malady 
 left as mysteriously as it came when the dan- 
 ger disappeared. In these cases fear and fear 
 alone was responsible, say the greatest auth- 
 orities now. 
 
 Repressed Fears 
 
 <I It was not an open, expressed, conscious 
 
 fear. Any openly expressed feeling drains off 
 
 through consciousness. These shell-shocked 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 men were of the highest human grade. They 
 had been taught that fear is dishonorable, 
 especially upon the field of battle. 
 
 But self-preservation is the first law of 
 nature. Each man's subconscious mind is 
 concerned, not with patriotism nor any other 
 modern innovation, but with the sole busi- 
 ness of self-preservation and self-expression 
 for that individual. 
 
 Refusing To Run 
 
 ^ These men refused to run or to be con- 
 sciously afraid. But the subconscious was 
 afraid and reacted with fear to that danger 
 exactly as the hair of a cat rises when a dog 
 comes near, and as a bird's heart beats 
 wildly when the cat approaches. 
 
 The greatest conflict came in the conscious- 
 ness of these soldiers who had the traits of 
 conscious courage and self-preservation most 
 highly developed. These were precisely the 
 men who suffered most from shell-shock. 
 — 214 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Finding a Road For Flight 
 
 <I Their conscious minds refused to harbor 
 cowardice, but the subconscious, always 
 ready to take us out of a reality that is too 
 terrible to be borne, developed a disease that 
 removed the men from reality, from danger 
 and even from a realization of the horrors 
 around them. 
 
 It is a matter of history now that when the 
 steamers carrying shell-shocked men were 
 torpedoed and the patients flung into the 
 water, almost every man recovered his sight, 
 hearing, reason or whatever it was he had 
 lost — all through the subconscious powers 
 which gave him the diseases in the first place. 
 
 The Explanation 
 
 <I "The subconscious minds of these men," 
 said a leading New York physician, " recog- 
 nized in the torpedoing of the boat a new 
 danger from which shell-shock could not 
 save them — a danger, in fact, wherein every 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 fiber of that organism must fight for its life. 
 So the lost senses returned. 
 
 "The subconscious mind is the miracle 
 mind of man! " 
 
 Dreams are the most frequent and the 
 least harmful of these " flights from reality/ ' 
 Invalidism, hypochondria, drunkenness, 
 drug-taking, all forms of neuroses and sui- 
 cide itself, are but the different roads 
 which different types and temperaments 
 under differing conditions, take to get away 
 from life-as-it-is. 
 
 Drugs and Dream- Worlds 
 
 <I In all these the conscious mind relaxes, 
 forgets the troubles of the day, the dis- 
 appointments, the hurts, the wounds — and 
 reverts to temporary peace. 
 
 With the drugging or putting to sleep of 
 the conscious mind the individual ceases to 
 think. He reverts to that much more ancient 
 and pleasurable thing — feeling. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 His modern, civilized brain, which is yet 
 so new it finds the struggle difficult, "goes 
 off shift" and the subconscious mind — 
 primitive, powerful, pleasing and pacifying 
 — takes charge. 
 
 He ceases to deal with abstract thoughts 
 or ideas 33 33 
 
 He revels in the mental pictures sup- 
 plied by the subconscious from its endless 
 "morgue" of symbols. 
 
 Psychology of Movie Popularity 
 
 <I The real reason for the popularity of the 
 modern motion picture is the fact that it 
 appeals to an age-old instinct, an ancient 
 psychological habit of the human race— the 
 habit of dreaming in pictures. 
 
 Every person subconsciously recognizes 
 in the motion picture the same kind of 
 activity he has engaged in every time he 
 dreamed a dream. Your dreams are your 
 personal, private movie shows. 
 — 217 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 What is a " Good Movie ? " 
 
 flf An even deeper significance of the 
 popularity of the moving picture lies in the 
 fact that it furnishes in the lives of the dis- 
 appointed, the depressed, the discouraged, 
 the worried and the ailing, exactly the same 
 relief from reality as do the dreams in our 
 sleep — but in a lesser degree. 
 
 People unconsciously prove this by measur- 
 ing every moving picture according to its 
 ability to grip and interest them; in other 
 words, to make them forget reality. 
 
 When one says he did not enjoy a certain 
 moving picture he is unconsciously saying 
 that, for some reason, it did not take him 
 out of reality. 
 
 Why Tastes Differ 
 
 <I The fact that there are different types of 
 people, each requiring something different 
 to take him out of the troubles of everyday, 
 accounts for the fact that what one calls " a 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 great picture " is called " absolutely no good " 
 by someone else. 
 
 We unconsciously make every moving 
 picture fill the pleasure-requirement of the 
 dream in another vital respect — by auto- 
 matically visualizing ourselves in the role 
 of the hero or heroine. We then live the whole 
 story vicariously, with the action revolving 
 around ourselves. 
 
 To Test Yourself 
 
 <I The surest way to attain health is to 
 renovate the mind. One way to know whether 
 yours is building for health and happiness 
 or for distress and disease, is to watch your 
 own mental movies — in your day-dreams 
 and the dreams of your sleep — measuring and 
 estimating their meaning according to the 
 standards laid down in this lesson. 
 
 If destructive emotions pervade your sleep- 
 dreams these same emotions are disturbing 
 your waking life and in turn your health. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 If you are constantly trying to escape 
 reality you are in danger, mentally and phy- 
 sically. Instead of attempting to sneak out 
 the back door, walk out through the front, into 
 the facts of your life, and begin to change 
 them in accordance with the last lesson in 
 this course. This and this only will perform 
 mental miracles for you. 
 
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We live together years and years, 
 
 And leave unsounded still 
 Each other s springs of hopes and fears, 
 
 Each other's depths of will. 
 
 — Lord Houghton. 
 
Lesson V 
 
 Love, Courtship and Marriage 
 
 OVING and being 
 loved is the supre- 
 mest human expe- 
 rience. Under its 
 magic influence we 
 become changed 
 beings — happier, 
 stronger, sweeter, 
 better. Without it 
 we wither, weaken 
 and disintegrate. 
 Its effect on health and achievement is 
 immeasurable. Many have attained mediocre 
 success without visible lovers, but none ever 
 achieved greatness without a great love. It 
 might almost be said that none save great 
 lovers have scaled the heights. 
 
 This does not mean that the great love 
 of a life must necessarily be for or from one 
 of the other sex, though these are the most 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 powerful and productive loves possible to 
 man 33 33 
 
 Nor does it assume that the loved one 
 must be a flesh-and-blood creature. 
 
 The ideal whom many adore in secret and 
 whose prototype is never found in real life, 
 often serves greater purposes than any living 
 lover 33 33 
 
 "Ideal" Lovers 
 
 <J Very idealistic, very sensitive, very repres- 
 sive types seldom find mates as beautiful, 
 refined, sympathetic or understanding as 
 they demand, and this accounts for the fact 
 that these are the very types which most 
 often remain unmated, while their opposites 
 marry early and often. 
 
 14 No one lives who is not in love, all the 
 time, with a person, either real or ideal, " says 
 Wilfrid Lay. 44 In many men and women 
 this ideal personality is the only one loved, 
 but often loved subconsciously, while for 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 others there is also a consciously loved or 
 admired real person. 
 
 " How to unite the conscious and uncon- 
 scious love, so frequently at variance in the 
 same soul, and center it upon one person of 
 the opposite sex, becomes therefore a great 
 problem of life today/ ' 
 
 Love and Ego 
 
 <I In civilized human beings the love-urge is 
 second to the ego-urge. In many it appears 
 to take precedence of the direct ego-urge, 
 though it must not be forgotten that love 
 for an individual is always, and to a far 
 greater extent than the lover realizes, an 
 indirect expression of the ego. 
 
 To be loved is gratifying to the ego of every 
 individual, regardless of whether he has ever 
 seen or ever will see the one who loves him. 
 
 To love is to know a new power, to sense 
 unplumbed depths in one's own soul, to 
 realize his own strength, to express his spirit. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The Power of Love 
 
 <J So powerful is the effect of love that, though 
 loving and being loved by one of the other 
 sex is life's profoundest experience, to love 
 and be loved by a friend, a parent, a follower, 
 a child or even a dumb animal, is uplifting, 
 strengthening, consoling. 
 
 This has been proven in countless cases, 
 such as have come within the range of your 
 own observation. 
 
 You wonder why certain men and women 
 become so deeply attached to a dog, a bird, 
 a cat or other pet. But to the student of 
 Mental Analysis there is nothing strange 
 in this phenomenon. 
 
 Love-Substitutes 
 
 <I Every individual craves personal love from 
 some one, and to give out his own. 
 
 When, for any reason, he is unable to find 
 a human being sufficiently similar to his ideal, 
 to love and be loved by, he seeks a substitute 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 in whatever other creature appeals to him 
 most 33 33 
 
 Rather than being indicative of a less high 
 evolution this often indicates a higher-than- 
 average nature on the part of the pet-loving 
 person 33 33 
 
 It is well known that cruel, selfish people 
 seldom care for animals. It is equally well 
 known that those who are kind to animals are 
 gentle, refined, sensitive, idealistic — in short, 
 highly evolved men and women. 
 
 These two facts are so universally known 
 that when a motion picture introduces a 
 character by letting you see him kick a dog 
 or mistreating any animal you know he is 
 the villain. 
 
 But when sweetness of nature, kindness 
 of heart and goodness in general are to be 
 pictured, the camera tells it all to you in a 
 flash by showing the character petting or 
 playing with some birds, lambs, dogs, kittens 
 or horses. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 A Cartoonist's Canary 
 
 <I One of the most beautiful, brilliant and 
 famous young women in America is the 
 cartoonist, Fay King, of whose hands we 
 have spoken in " Realizing On Your Per- 
 sonality/ ' Spirituality and gentleness of 
 heart distinguish all her work. 
 
 In her room at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 
 New York City, is her pet canary "Mike," 
 whom she has had for ten years and whose 
 imaginary sayings are familiar to the millions 
 who see MissKing's stories and cartoons every 
 day in the leading newspapers of the country. 
 
 Bill Hart's devotion to his beloved horse 
 " Pinto " and Mary Pickford's to her big 
 Danes are stronger proofs than even press 
 agents can produce, of the natural goodness 
 and inner refinement of these famous figures. 
 
 Freud's Sex Theory 
 
 <& The Freudian theory that all our activities 
 have a sexual significance is not only dis- 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 proved by the ordinary facts of our own every- 
 day lives, but further disproved by the study 
 of the human instincts. 
 
 Sex is a fundamental instinct and as such 
 wields the great influence over our lives which 
 any basic instinct wields. 
 
 But that it pervades our personal universe 
 to the extent ascribed to it by the Viennese 
 school seems scarcely possible, even when we 
 allow the wide latitude and admit the great 
 self-ignorance which the first psychoanalysts 
 suggested 33 33 
 
 Sex Not First 
 
 <I In fact, measured by their effect upon our 
 lives, a large group of instincts takes pre- 
 cedence of the sex instinct in the life of the 
 average human being. 
 
 That there is a period, during adolescence, 
 when the instinct of sex dominates our 
 thoughts, feelings and actions, is undeniable. 
 
 But that that period of intense preoccupa- 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 tion with sex is of short duration is also 
 undeniable. In the normal individual it is 
 ordinarily not more than five years. 
 
 Even in the less-than-average lifetime there 
 are, before it arrives and after it passes, some 
 forty years when the instincts of assimila- 
 tion, pugnacity, egoism and self-expression, 
 — singly or combined — far overshadow the 
 influence of the sex instinct. 
 
 Primitive Sex Symbols 
 
 ^f With due respect to Freud, who has done 
 so much to awaken mankind to its great 
 subconscious forces, and whose contributions 
 to the human sciences are immeasurable, 
 he gives (or so it seems to some of us) undue 
 weight to the ancient sex symbols of primitive 
 peoples 33 33 
 
 It is not unlikely that instead of these 
 
 symbols running inward toward sex as the 
 
 spokes of a wheel run into the hub, these 
 
 sexual symbols were primitive attempts to 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 picture, in the only language they knew, 
 higher and non-sexual cravings. 
 
 Not only do we know that we have mani- 
 fold and mighty impulses which are not 
 related even remotely to sex, but we know 
 that love itself is by no means wholly sexual 
 — even the love between the sexes. 
 
 Love's Lure 
 
 <I The lure of love goes far beyond and far 
 higher than sex lure, as we see in that greatest 
 example of human devotion — mother-love. 
 Every creature desires to be loved — and 
 often to love and be loved by those with whom 
 he cares to associate nothing sexual, even 
 remotely S& S& 
 
 Love Cures 
 
 <R Alienists, physicians and psychologists are 
 all aware of the healing power of love and the 
 harming power of hate. We have seen many 
 a patient cured of a disease which medical 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 science could not touch, by the patient's falling 
 suddenly in love. And we have seen stalwart 
 ones succumb to all manner of maladies when 
 thwarted in a much-desired affection. 
 
 So all-powerful and so all-pervading is the 
 demand for love and the desire to give love 
 that every child, so scientists say, is in love 
 with some one by the time he is three years 
 old. From that time to the moment of death 
 he is in love with some real or ideal person 
 upon whom he showers, in imagination if not 
 in real life, the flowers of his spirit. 
 
 Parents and Children 
 
 <$ Being instinctive, intense and impulsive, 
 this love-urge, like every other, demands 
 expression and, like every other, is forced to 
 express itself in its environment. 
 
 The only environment the child knows is 
 the home. The only people from whom it can 
 demand love and draw love unto itself are 
 the people in its environment. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 To the average child this means his parents. 
 They are the objects upon which he showers 
 his own instinctive love-energy, and he tries, 
 with all the subconscious powers he possesses, 
 to induce them to love him in return. 
 
 None of this is reasoned nor " thought 
 out" in any conscious sense, but is done 
 inevitably and unerringly just as the new- 
 born babe, consciously knowing nothing 
 whatever, yet subconsciously knows how to 
 satisfy hunger at its mother's breast. 
 
 The Real " First Love " 
 
 ^ Under normal home conditions, the child 
 finds, ready-made, the ideal situation for the 
 growth and expression of his instinctive love- 
 urge 33 53 
 
 His parents, craving always more love 
 themselves and craving always to give more 
 love, respond not only unreservedly to the 
 child's demand for love, but encourage its 
 further development by doing all the things 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 which lure love from any one anywhere at 
 any time since the world began. 
 
 Love begets love. It is practically impossible 
 to resist people who truly, deeply love us and 
 who self-sacrificingly, unselfishly continue to 
 shower it upon us. 
 
 Thousands of marriages are consummated 
 every year as a result of one of the pair having 
 loved the other into loving him. 
 
 Between the child and the parent there are 
 no barriers. Everything conduces to the 
 encouragement, enhancement and full ex- 
 pression of love — to the child from the parent, 
 from the child to the parents, and back 
 again in an accentuating circle. 
 
 A New Discovery 
 
 <I It is small wonder then that by the time 
 he is three, every child is deeply, intensely in 
 love with his parents. 
 
 In many instances, this first great love is 
 never excelled in adult life. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Thousands of men and woman fail to find, 
 when grown up, any love-situation to com- 
 pare with this original one, and remain 
 single, without ever realizing the underlying 
 reason 33 3& 
 
 " Blind Love" 
 
 <I With every condition ideal and ripe for 
 love on the part of the parent and the child, 
 and with every tradition backing up the 
 parents' love for their children, it is inevitable 
 that parents and children should develop 
 a devotion for each other that is all the more 
 intense because all the rest of the world blocks 
 love. For this very reason it is inevitable that 
 this concentrated love should sometimes sub- 
 consciously exceed the bounds of cold reason. 
 It is always a surprise to outsiders to see the 
 blindne c s of parental devotion. It is equally 
 surprising, looked at from the standpoint of 
 actual facts, to see the blind faith of the child 
 in his weak or unworthy parents. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 But all this is inevitable. We love those 
 who love us. We believe in those who love us, 
 even after we are old enough to know better. 
 So it is hardly to be expected that the young 
 child should refrain from pouring out its 
 instinctive affection upon the parents who 
 comfort, feed and shelter it and who shower 
 upon it the affections it demands. 
 
 CEdipus and Electra 
 
 <R It is true in most cases (for reasons entirely 
 apart from sexual ones) that the daughter 
 loves the father more than she loves the 
 mother, and that the boy loves his mother 
 more than he loves his father. 
 
 But that the sexual element predominates 
 even unconsciously in this relationship is as 
 false as it is unfair. And it is proven in this 
 fact: that at least one- third of all girls love 
 their mothers more, while more than a third 
 of all boys love their fathers best. " CEdipus' ' 
 and " Electra' ' are indeed myths. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 What Determines The Child's Love 
 
 <I Which parent will the child love more? If 
 we need any further proof of the fact that the 
 ego-urge is more powerful than the sex-urge 
 we find it in the answer to this question. 
 
 For, the child will love most that parent 
 who most appeals to his ego, regardless of 
 sex 53 53 
 
 The child will center its greatest love 
 exactly where the rest of us do — on those 
 who are most devoted to him. 
 
 If the father is more strict, more unyield- 
 ing than the mother the daughter will love 
 her mother best, and the greater warmth of 
 her devotion to her mother will be in pro- 
 portion to the differences in their treatment 
 of her 53 53 
 
 For instance, if a father is extremely severe 
 with his children and the mother almost as 
 much so, all the children, regardless of sex, 
 will love their mother more, though not 
 much more than their father. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 If she is the opposite extreme from the 
 father — if she gives them their way, pets, 
 loves, fondles and forgives them where he 
 punishes and tyrannizes — all the children will 
 adore their mother and (whether or not they 
 ever admit it even to themselves) subcon- 
 sciously dislike their father. Regardless of 
 how right he was or how wrong and weak the 
 mother was, this will invariably be true. 
 
 On the other hand, if the mother is austere, 
 undemonstrative and a hard taskmaster, her 
 children may have great respect for her and 
 consciously admire her more than a worth- 
 less father. But if that father indulges them, 
 and shows more affection — though he be a 
 drunkard, thief or murderer — still will all 
 the children love him best. 
 
 And they will continue to do so just so long 
 as he is the more indulgent parent. 
 
 This love is from the subconscious, and 
 the subconscious, as has been stated before, 
 knows nothing of these modern standards of 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 conduct. It deals with the expression of the 
 individual. It is for whatever and whoever 
 serves his instinctive cravings. 
 
 Parental Partiality 
 
 <I The accuracy of all this can be proved at 
 any moment by any person from his own 
 experience S3 33 
 
 Regardless of whether he is willing to con- 
 fess it or not, he knows that the parent he 
 truly feels the greatest affection for is that 
 one who was the more kind, more loving and 
 more indulgent with him. 
 If, as often happens, the severe parent selects 
 one of his children for special favors — if he 
 shows partiality to that child to a greater 
 extent than does the other parent — that 
 particular child will begin to prefer him to 
 the other parent, whereas the recognition of 
 this partiality by the other children will make 
 all the others withdraw farther and farther 
 from the father and nearer to the mother. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 a— j 
 
 Fathers and Daughters 
 
 <I Here we come to the secret back of all the 
 father-daughter and mother-son complexes. 
 And like most secrets it proves upon investi- 
 gation to be a perfectly simple thing after all! 
 
 It is true that most daughters love their 
 fathers best simply and solely because most 
 fathers indulge their daughters more than 
 they indulge their sons. 
 
 In other words then, because they are con- 
 scious of the difference in sex and have been 
 trained to protect women, fathers more often 
 do for their daughters than for their sons 
 the things that inevitably win love from 
 any one at any time under any conditions. 
 
 Let a father who has thus won his 
 daughter's love suddenly begin to favor his 
 son while the mother, who has been partial 
 to the son, suddenly commences to show 
 extreme favoritism to the daughter — and 
 both these children, after a few days or weeks 
 of suffering and uncertainty, will interchange 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 their affections and go on just as before with 
 their new loves. 
 
 Mothers and Sons 
 
 Q It is true that most sons love their mothers 
 more than they love their fathers and for the 
 same reason as that stated above. In all 
 such instances the mother has shown more love 
 and indulgence to the son than did the father. 
 
 Here, again, we come to the effect of tra- 
 dition. Just as the father indulged the 
 daughter because of the traditional protec- 
 tion of women by men, he is inclined to be 
 strict with his son because tradition says 
 sons must be made to stand alone. 
 
 But the old subconscious knows naught 
 of these things which have come recently 
 into the world. All the boy's subconscious 
 knows is that he loves his mother best. 
 
 His affection for her is enhanced by her 
 devotion to him — a devotion in which she 
 too is the creature of tradition. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Women are expected to minister to males. 
 Her son is a young male, a wee man. To him 
 she naturally and habitually tends to give 
 the best of things, and he inevitably and 
 automatically to love her best. 
 
 Love's Tragedy 
 
 <I All this is delightful to the child. He loves 
 to love and be loved. His childhood is more 
 wonderful by far than that of the children 
 who, for any reason, do not receive this 
 unstinted affection. But he often pays a 
 tremendous price for it in later years. 
 
 To, the boy who loves his mother, that 
 mother becomes the epitome, the symbol of 
 all that is desirable in love. 
 
 As a man he can love only those women 
 who bear a real or imaginary resemblance 
 to her 33 53 
 
 If he can find no woman who seems to him 
 at all like his beloved mother he will never 
 fall in love. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The more superior the mother and tne 
 more deeply and exclusively he loved her, the 
 less likelihood will there be of his finding 
 any one resembling her. 
 
 Unconscious Love 
 
 <& Proof of how deeply submerged are some 
 of our strongest impulses is seen in the fact 
 that all this is unknown to the individual 
 in whom it is operating so strongly. 
 
 He has never been consciously in love with 
 his mother and may even imagine he would 
 prefer women who are very different from her, 
 but the fact remains that those who are dif- 
 ferent from her never appeal to him, while he 
 will fall in love at first sight with one who 
 recapitulates the mother-symbol. 
 
 The daughter who loved her father may 
 never know why she can not find it in her 
 heart to marry any man. The real reason — 
 that she is unconsciously still in love with 
 her father, or rather with the image of him 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 which she carries in her subconscious — is 
 usually inconceivable to her. 
 
 She may care little or nothing for him now. 
 He may be the kind of man whom her mature 
 judgment and lifelong training tell her is 
 beneath her affection; she may know he has 
 always been beneath it; but it will not alter 
 that subconscious symbol. 
 
 The man she loves is not her father as he 
 is today, as he looks today, nor is it her father 
 himself whom she loves. 
 
 Image-Love 
 
 ^[What she loves is the image of him — 
 face, features, ungrayed hair, smiles, gentle- 
 ness and all — that he was in her babyhood 
 days S3 S3 
 
 She loves in men only those things which 
 her father seemed to be in that far-off time. 
 She admires only those men who have the 
 traits her father seemed to have. 
 
 She will never truly love any man who does 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 not, in some or several particulars, remind 
 that subconscious mind of hers of this 
 Father-image. 
 
 As in the man's case, this woman seldom 
 dreams what it is that determines her attitude 
 toward men. She was not consciously in love 
 with her father, any more than he was con- 
 sciously in love with his mother. 
 
 Love Is Subconscious 
 
 <J "What in the world did he see in her?" 
 and " How did she ever happen to fall in 
 love with him?" are questions the world 
 often asks 33 33 
 
 The real answer is never forthcoming 
 because nobody knows it, least of all the 
 person whose taste is being discussed. 
 
 Such a man may explain to you for hours 
 at a time the many delightful traits he l ' saw in 
 her," but the fact of the matter is that what 
 he saw in her was his original love-image. 
 
 If as a child he was tenderly cared for and 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 loved by some other woman because of his 
 mother's death or absence, it will be her 
 image as he loved it then which he will seek. 
 
 The Subconscious, Unconscious Seeker 
 
 <§ In all this it must be borne in mind that 
 the person need not necessarily look like 
 the loved parent, for the reason (as has 
 been stated in earlier lessons) that the sub- 
 conscious tends to take, not the whole, but 
 a part or section of a thing and let it stand 
 for the total. 
 
 There is no knowing what element it will 
 take as the symbol of the whole (much 
 depending, as we saw in the "Emotions" 
 lesson, on the emotional intensity accom- 
 panying isolated incidents). 
 
 So there is no way of determining, without 
 a mental analysis, either by one's self or an 
 analyst, what characteristic was chosen by 
 the subconscious as the symbol of the loved 
 parent 33 33 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 A Self-Test 
 
 <I The nearest one can come to knowing what 
 symbolizes this parent in his mind, if he does 
 not already know, or if he can not be fully 
 analyzed by an expert, is to ask himself this 
 question: 
 
 What is the first thing that comes into my 
 mind when I speak the name of my favorite 
 parent? 33 33 
 
 The difficulty with this question is that, 
 having read this question before putting it 
 to yourself, your conscious mind tends to 
 short-circuit the real answer. 
 
 It therefore tends to throw the switch on it, 
 as it were, and deliver the answer in accord- 
 ance with your conscious preferences, rather 
 than the facts. 
 
 But if the question were put to you by an 
 analyst without your knowing its signifi- 
 cance, your answer would, under proper con- 
 ditions, come direct from your subconscious 
 mind 33 33 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Testing For Preferences 
 
 <I If by any chance you are still in doubt as 
 to which of your parents you loved more you 
 can test yourself by the following: 
 
 Which one do I think of first when recall- 
 ing my parents? 
 
 Under an analyst your spontaneous answer 
 to this would be the name of the parent you 
 had loved best. 
 
 There are several reasons why it is not easy 
 for us to analyze ourselves, especially in the 
 matters referred to in this lesson. 
 
 The first one is that when we know the 
 significance and meaning of the question the 
 surface mind almost invariably intercepts 
 the true answer before it comes to the thresh- 
 hold of consciousness, and substitutes one in 
 keeping with its own standards. 
 
 A Pair of Brown Eyes 
 
 <I An illustration of this was seen a short 
 time ago in a woman of middle age who had 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 had a most lonely life. She had been in love 
 but once, and then with a man who was 
 already married. 
 
 She criticised herself for years for having 
 cared for another woman's husband, though 
 she had no overt acts to be ashamed of, and 
 in fact had never indicated to the man nor to 
 any one else that she cared for him. 
 
 She left the city where he lived, but worked 
 in uncongenial positions, with uncongenial 
 people and, instead of caring less for him, 
 felt that she was caring more as the years 
 went on. 
 
 At last it so happened that this man not 
 only moved to the city where she was but was 
 employed in the same establishment as her- 
 self 33 33 
 
 She was determined to rid herself of what 
 she had all these years termed her " unholy 
 affection/ ' 33 33 
 
 She had no real respect for this man, who 
 was mentally and morally her inferior. But 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 t * 
 
 his dark brown eyes made her forget every- 
 thing save her love for him. 
 
 Analysis showed that she had really loved 
 her shiftless father because he had been most 
 indulgent to her in her childhood. 
 
 As she grew older and realized his mental 
 and moral weaknesses she ceased to respect 
 him and was not really sorry when he passed 
 on 33 33 
 
 She lived with and supported her mother 
 who had suffered much at the father's hands. 
 
 So fully did she respect her mother's 
 superior qualities that she supposed she 
 cared more for her than she had ever cared 
 for the father. 
 
 Two tests brought out the fact that her 
 father had dark brown eyes and that dark 
 brown eyes of a particular expression were to 
 her the symbol not only of her father but of 
 all love 33 33 
 
 The similarity of expression in the married 
 man's brown eyes, his shiftlessness, and 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 moral and mental weaknesses, all combined 
 to revive the old symbol. 
 
 When fully convinced that it was not the 
 married man she loved but the symbols of 
 which he reminded her, she ceased instantly 
 to care for him. 
 
 A Soft Voice 
 
 <I A physician who had struggled for many 
 years with a growing dislike for his wife was 
 analyzed S& 5& 
 
 He had consciously refused to display this 
 aversion or encourage it. It had assumed 
 such proportions, however, and was arousing 
 such dangerous emotions that he feared not 
 only for his health but for the future of their 
 family 33 33 
 
 It was found that when he was twenty- 
 eight he had had an accident which it was 
 feared would make him permanently blind. 
 
 He spent nine weeks in a hospital with his 
 eyes bandaged. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYST'S 
 
 Long before they were unbandaged he had 
 fallen in love with the waitress who brought 
 the meals to his bedside, though he could not 
 explain why. 
 
 When he saw her for the first time he found 
 she did not look at all as he expected her to. 
 But that did not prevent his marrying her 
 two weeks afterward — as soon as they were 
 sure his eyes would be normal again. 
 
 Analysis showed that what he had really 
 fallen in love with was the girl's voice. It was 
 low and sweet like that of his mother whom 
 he had subconsciously loved but who had 
 been dead many years. He pictured her face, 
 before he saw it, as that of his mother. 
 
 By the time they removed the bandages 
 from his eyes he was so deeply in love with 
 the symbol-voice he forgave the difference in 
 the face 33 33 
 
 If the mother's face instead of her voice 
 had been the love-symbol in his mind he 
 would not have loved this girl. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 But her face was secondary and thus 
 relinquished, when necessary, from the 
 ensemble 33 33 
 
 The mother's voice was the real symbol 
 of love to him and any woman with this 
 voice would have appealed to him. 
 
 Before he had been married a week he 
 realized that this woman's voice was the only 
 thing she possessed in common with his 
 beloved mother. The wife was, in fact, the 
 almost exact opposite of the mother, most 
 of whose traits he unconsciously loved. 
 
 Their marriage had been to him one dis- 
 illusionment after another. His wife was 
 unlearned where his mother had been highly 
 educated. She was uncouth and crude where 
 his mother had been refined; rough, out- 
 spoken and quarrelsome, where the mother 
 had been amiability and gentility itself. 
 
 He tried to accustom himself to her, to 
 overlook, to convince himself that this woman 
 who loved him and bore his children was not 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 to blame. He had been brought up to believe 
 that a husband and father had no right, 
 under any circumstances, to think of himself; 
 that his family deserved his time, strength 
 and love, regardless of everything. 
 
 To escape from the hated reality he drank 
 much coffee, then other stimulants, and when 
 we met him had been taking drugs some time. 
 
 It was very difficult for this man who had 
 treated others for so long in his practice to 
 relax sufficiently and confide sufficiently to 
 the analyst to give her the story of the real 
 (though hitherto unrealized reason) for his 
 falling in love with this woman so far beneath 
 him 33 33 
 
 It was not easy for him to admit that 
 things medicine could not touch could be 
 brought out into the sunlight and cured by 
 mental analysis. But such was the case. 
 
 He was shown the exact facts — that he had 
 not turned away from his wife for the reason 
 that he had never loved her. 
 — 254 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 He had married what he supposed was a 
 woman like his mother and she was utterly 
 different 53 33 
 
 His years of brave struggle to keep from 
 hurting her — a large husky woman — had 
 resulted in almost wrecking his own much 
 more refined organism. 
 
 A recognition of the facts and the restora- 
 tion of his self-respect enabled him within 
 a few months to resume his practice and give 
 up his drug habit. 
 
 The Brownings 
 
 <I This love between mothers and sons and 
 fathers and daughters, with its far-flung 
 influence upon human lives, is seen in almost 
 every great love of history. 
 
 But nowhere is it more strikingly illus- 
 trated than in that most illustrious love- 
 union of modern times — between Elizabeth 
 Barrett and Robert Browning. 
 
 We will quote direct from its sympathetic 
 — 255 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 and poetic raconteur, Elbert Hubbard, in 
 his ''Little Journeys:" 
 
 11 Robert Browning's mother was a woman 
 of fine feeling and much poetic insight. She 
 knew good books. The mother and son 
 moused in books together and, according 
 to Mrs. Sutherland Orr, his biographer, this 
 love of mother and son took upon itself the 
 nature of a passion. 
 
 "She was an invalid Shut-In, reclining 
 always on a couch. 
 
 " The love of Robert Browning for Eliza- 
 beth Barrett was a revival and a renewal of the 
 condition of tenderness and sympathy that 
 existed between Browning and his mother. 
 
 " There certainly was a strange and marked 
 resemblance in the characters of Elizabeth 
 Barrett and the mother of Robert Browning; 
 and to many this fully accounts for the 
 instant affection that Browning felt toward 
 the occupant of the 'darkened room/ when 
 first they met. 
 
 — 256 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " It also accounts for the answering love 
 Elizabeth Barrett gave him that first moment. 
 Robert Browning was, on first sight, much 
 more the father-type than the poet. His 
 frame was compact and strong — like her 
 father's. His poise, his protective power sym- 
 bolized the things her father had meant to 
 her in her childhood days when he was all 
 love for her. 
 
 " Edward Barrett had a sort of fierce, 
 passionate, jealous affection for his daughter 
 Elizabeth. He set himself the task of educating 
 her from her very babyhood. He was her con- 
 stant companion, her tutor, adviser, friend. 
 
 " The child's health broke. From her 
 thirteenth year she appears to us like a 
 beautiful spirit. 
 
 " But she did not much complain. She had 
 a will as strong as her father's, and felt a 
 Spartan pride in doing all the studying he 
 asked and a little more. She read, translated, 
 thought 33 33 
 
 — 257 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 11 To spur her on and to stimulate her, he 
 published several volumes of her poems. 
 
 11 Came a time when Mr. Barrett was 
 jealous of his daughter — of the fame that 
 was taking her away from him. The passion 
 of father for daughter, of mother for son — 
 there is often something loverlike in it — a 
 deal of whimsy! 
 
 " Edward Barrett's daughter — she of the 
 raven curls and gentle ways — was reaching a 
 point where her father's love was not her life. 
 
 " A good way to drive love away is to be 
 jealous. He had seen it coming years before; 
 he had brooded over it ; the calamity was upon 
 him. Her fame was growing; some one called 
 her the Shakespeare of women. 
 
 11 Edward Barrett scowled. He accused 
 her foolishly and falsely of perverseness. He 
 attempted to dictate to her — she must use 
 this ink or that. Why? Because he said so. 
 He quarrelled with her to ease the love-hurt 
 that was smarting in his heart. 
 — 258 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 11 Mr. Browning, who had heard of Miss 
 Barrett and admired her work, wrote asking 
 permission to call upon her. 
 
 " Miss Barrett replied that her father 
 would not allow it, neither would the doctor 
 or nurse; that she lived in a darkened room. 
 She added, ' There is nothing to see in me.' 
 
 " But this repulse only made Mr. Brown- 
 ing want to see her the more. He appealed to 
 her cousin, an elderly gentleman who was 
 the only person allowed to call. 
 
 " The cousin arranged it. He timed the 
 hour when Mr. Barrett was down town, and 
 the nurse and doctor safely out of the way, 
 and they called on the invalid prisoner in the 
 darkened room. 
 
 11 They did not stay long, but when they 
 went away Robert Browning trod on air. 
 The beautiful girl-like face, in its frame of dark 
 curls, lying back among the pillows, haunted 
 him like a shadow. She was slipping away. 
 He would love her back to life and light! 
 — 259 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 " And so Robert Browning told her all 
 this shortly afterward 
 
 " She grew better. 
 
 " And soon we find her getting up and 
 throwing wide the shutters. It was no longer 
 a darkened room. The sunlight came dancing 
 through the windows. 
 
 " The doctor was indignant; the nurse 
 resigned. Of course Mr. Barrett was not taken 
 into confidence, and no one asked his consent. 
 Why should they? She was thirty-five — and 
 her father a man who could never understand. 
 
 " So one fine day when the coast was clear, 
 the couple went over to Saint Marylebone 
 Church and were married. The bride went 
 home alone — could walk all right now — and 
 it was a week before her husband saw her, 
 because he would not be a hypocrite and go 
 ring the doorbell and ask if Miss Barrett was 
 home; and of course if he had asked for Mrs. 
 Robert Browning, no one would have known 
 whom he wanted to see. 
 
 — 260 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 4 4 But at the end of a week the bride stole 
 down the stairs while the family was at dinner 
 and met her lover-husband there on the street 
 corner where the mail-box is. No one missed 
 the runaways until the next day, and then 
 the bride and groom were safely in France, 
 writing letters back asking forgiveness and 
 blessings 
 
 44 Health came back, and joy and peace and 
 perfect love were theirs. But it was joy bought 
 with a price — Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
 had forfeited the love of her father. Her letters 
 written to him came back unopened . . . .He 
 declared she was dead 
 
 11 We regret that this man, so strong and 
 manly in many ways, could not be reconciled 
 to this exalted love. 
 
 14 Why could he not have followed the 
 example of John Kenyon who had always 
 loved her and who, it is said, did not smile 
 for two years after her elopement? "..-.. 
 
 The answer is to be found in human psy- 
 — 261 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 chology which today shows us that many 
 who think they love some one are really only 
 loving themselves! 
 
 When you truly love you want the adored 
 one to have not you necessarily but what- 
 ever he or she desires. 
 
 That John Kenyon truly loved Elizabeth 
 Barrett was proven when in his will he left 
 all he had — fifty thousand dollars — to the 
 Brownings, to add the last touch to their 
 happiness 53 53 
 
 They were poor but his kindness placed 
 them forever beyond financial-fear and gave 
 them perfect peace. 
 
 Sex vs. Love 
 
 <& In this ideal mating of the Brownings, as in 
 all great loves, it was again proved that it is 
 love rather than sex which most human beings 
 seek in marriage. 
 
 People seek marriage in proportion as they 
 lack love and friendship in their lives. 
 — 262 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Many a handsome bachelor remains un- 
 married not because women do not care for 
 him but precisely because they do. 
 
 This satisfies his demand for love without 
 the entanglements resultant from wedlock. 
 
 Psychology also explains why, at fifty 
 or so, these men finally marry. They are 
 beginning to lose their attractiveness, the 
 love and friendships of women which have 
 substituted for marriage became fewer in 
 number and fainter in feeling. 
 
 Such a man awakens to the fact that if he 
 is to be supplied with personal affection he 
 must find a mate and " settle down." 
 
 Truth About Bachelors 
 
 <I While it is true that many supposedly 
 celibate men and women live far different 
 lives from what we imagine, it is equally true 
 that the attractive, popular type of bachelor 
 described usually lives a far more celibate life 
 than the sophisticated would believe. 
 — 263 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 We base this statement not only upon 
 observation and knowledge of psychology, 
 but upon our experience with thousands of 
 students throughout the United States. 
 
 Many of these men have stated in private 
 analyses (where they can be even more frank 
 than with their physician, and where there is 
 the fullest understanding and consequent 
 tolerance of every human weakness) that 
 though they bore the reputation of being 
 exceedingly gay, as a matter of fact they lived 
 lives of chastity out of preference. 
 
 Many of these men desired an analysis 
 largely to find why they preferred to live this 
 life instead of the one popularly ascribed to 
 them — the kind they also supposed other 
 such men lived. 
 
 In many instances such a man has labored 
 under the delusion that he was " queer/ ' 
 " freakish" or abnormal, and was relieved 
 but not surprised when he learned that his 
 was not only a perfectly normal but much 
 — 264- - 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 more prevalent attitude than the world 
 realizes 33 33 
 
 It is not the popular man but the unpopu- 
 lar one (who gets little or no love from any 
 one) who seeks sexual expression and who, 
 instead of the celibate life credited to him, 
 lives one containing sexual experiences that 
 would amaze his unsuspecting friends. 
 
 The Flirtatious Woman 
 
 <$ The same is true of the flirtatious, attractive 
 woman — and especially of the supposedly 
 dangerous young widow. 
 
 It can not be repeated too often that what 
 the human being desires most is not sex 
 but love. If love of a personal nature can be 
 obtained without sex many there are, in both 
 sexes, who much prefer single blessedness to 
 mating, and celibacy to sexual expression. 
 
 The attractive woman who can win and 
 hold the devotion, attention, affection and 
 love of men — to whom they send flowers, 
 — 265 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 candy, books and other gifts — is never the 
 sexual creature she is painted. 
 
 This also we know from private analyses 
 of thousands of such women. The adulation 
 which the ego is always subconsciously craving 
 in love is satisfied by these attentions. The 
 love-demand is met by the affections of a 
 large number of men. Often they feel no 
 further need of expression. 
 
 The Female Puritan 
 
 <& It is the quiet, self-effacing, timid, plain 
 and outwardly puritanical woman who dwells 
 on the matters of sex, searches the libraries 
 for sex literature and finds sexual expression 
 in the least-suspected paths. 
 
 She it is also who is most easily induced 
 to give herself out of wedlock because her 
 heart is so starved for love. 
 
 Such a woman, if no longer young, or if of 
 the extremely repressed type, often refuses, 
 but it is in the face of terrific struggle. 
 — 266 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 She desires not to refuse, more than the 
 self-expressive woman can ever know. Her 
 will power deserves our utmost respect. 
 
 The Real Unsexuality of Love 
 
 <I All these and myriads of corroborative 
 situations, facts and conditions throughout 
 all human experience prove conclusively that 
 even love is far less crassly sexual than we 
 have ever supposed. 
 
 Every human being craves understanding, 
 communion and the certainty of intimate 
 personal interest. 
 
 We believe the time will come when all 
 thinking men and women will recognize that 
 the things of sex are resorted to not so much 
 for their own sake as because they give the 
 surest and completest sense of this deep 
 personal intimacy. 
 
 Look in any direction you will, under any 
 condition, observe any person or persons of 
 any race, nationality, education, belief or 
 — 267 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 training, and you will find what historians 
 have always seen but never understood — 
 that the instant this personal intimacy is 
 fully established the sexual element assumes 
 a less important role. 
 
 Once the sexual act has taken place the 
 utmost intimacy known to humans is estab- 
 lished. The sex urge is, to a far greater degree 
 than we have ever dreamed, merely a means 
 to this end. 
 
 Having fulfilled its mission it immediately 
 takes a secondary place. This again proves 
 to us how much more of the ego element 
 exists in even the wildest love than we have 
 ever recognized.* 
 
 The Passing of Passion 
 
 <I Hundreds of women and men wonder why 
 no subsequent sexual experience with the 
 same mate ever rises to the heights of the 
 
 * For further elaboration of the ego instinct see " The Human Instincts " 
 by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict. 
 
 — 268 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 first. Many whose mates love them more than 
 they did at first, imagine that because passion 
 has died, love has flown. 
 
 The exact opposite is more often true. 
 
 Passion is always and invariably self- 
 centered, egoistic and wholly self-expressive. 
 It can not, by its very nature, awaken or 
 exist minus these qualities — any more than 
 you can become hungry because another has 
 been without food, nor halt your own starva- 
 tion by watching him eat. 
 
 To yield one's self without desire as the 
 instrument of another's desire, is unselfish 
 (though a most dangerous and reprehensible 
 kind of unselfishness!) — but to satisfy one's 
 own desire is the essence and epitome of self- 
 seeking S& 53 
 
 An Old Mystery Solved 
 
 .<! Many a wife and many a husband who 
 recognizes this subconsciously withdraws from 
 contact with his mate for no other reason 
 
 — 269 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 than his aversion to being made merely 
 an avenue of self-expression for another. 
 This again illustrates the all-pervading urge 
 of the ego. 
 
 The greater the ego of such a one the more 
 certain is he to retreat from his mate when 
 his subconscious finally becomes aware of 
 the facts. 
 
 He may never suspect the reason for the 
 cooling of his ardor. On the other hand it may 
 be a fully conscious reaction. 
 
 Sex and Complexes 
 
 <I If he has reached the age or stage of life 
 when the sexual urge is less dominant this 
 withdrawal and relinquishment of sexual 
 expression may have no appreciable effect. 
 But if such a one still loves his or her mate 
 and is still very much alive sexually, there 
 may arise a conflict between the ego instinct 
 on one hand (which refuses to adapt itself to 
 utilization by another) and the sex instinct 
 — 270 — 
 

 MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 (which demands expression and knows noth- 
 ing save its own desires). 
 
 In these cases — and there are tens of thou- 
 sands of them — conflicts and complexes of 
 various kinds arise — always in accordance 
 with the type of the individual. 
 
 As time goes on and one finds that his 
 mate bears little or no resemblance to his 
 ideal-image, he will try to forget, or fight 
 his aversion; seek new relationships or sepa- 
 rate — depending again upon his type and 
 temperament. 
 
 For You 
 
 <I If you were one of a large family of children 
 the probabilities are you did not have enough 
 parent-love lavished on you exclusively to 
 establish a too-vivid love-image. 
 
 If you were brought up by some one 
 other than your parents it is not likely that 
 you were harmed by a too-intense affection. 
 
 If you grew up in an institution you doubt- 
 — 271 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 less received too little love and were permitted 
 to show too little. 
 
 But in any case, this lesson can not fail to 
 help you 53 33 
 
 Read it carefully, be frank with your- 
 self. Through it you will come ultimately to 
 a deeper understanding of your own personal 
 problems 53 33 
 
 ■272 — 
 
V 
 
Why build these cities glorious 
 
 If MAN unbuilded goes? 
 In vain we build the world unless 
 
 The builder also grows. 
 We all are blind until we see 
 
 That in the human plan 
 Nothing is worth the making 
 
 If it does not make the man. 
 
 — Edwin Markham 
 
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 -C^5£*^ 
 
 Lesson VI 
 
 Success Through The 
 Subconscious 
 
 UCCESS is, next 
 to love, the most 
 vital matter in 
 one's life, for only 
 through success- 
 ful accomplish- 
 ment of some 
 nature can civil- 
 ized men and 
 women be thor- 
 oughly happy. 
 Not only does success fulfil a great personal 
 need by aiding in the self-expression of the 
 individual but through it he contributes to 
 the progress of the world. 
 
 These two elements are necessary to the 
 happiness of any normal man or woman. 
 First, the normal individual desires self- 
 — 275 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 expression. But a close second is his sincere 
 desire to help humanity. The latter is not a 
 mere margin which he wishes to dispose of 
 but a natural demand of his ' ' success instinct/ ' 
 
 Civilized man has two roles and is taught 
 early in life what they are. He is himself — 
 and himself is ever his primary consideration. 
 But he is also a part of society — a tiny section 
 in a great mosaic. 
 
 The average individual thinks chiefly of 
 that little self-section — not so much because 
 he is selfish or narrow but because his own 
 troubles, problems and difficulties are so 
 great he has little time, energy or thought 
 left over to give to the general pattern. 
 
 The greatest result of Mental Analysis is 
 that it is helping the individual to untangle 
 his own troubles. 
 
 The moment this is done the rest follows. 
 
 He awakens to the needs of his fellows — 
 
 his family's first, then his friends', next his 
 
 acquaintances', and in time, the world's. 
 
 — 276 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 "The Herd" and Happiness 
 
 <I Every normal human being, to be happy, 
 must know that he is a part of the big world. 
 One need not be "out in the world" — like 
 the father who meets the public in his work — 
 in order to have this gratifying realization. 
 
 The loving mother, the understanding 
 wife in her little apartment, knows that in 
 doing her work she is directly connecting with 
 the work of the world through her husband 
 — that she is the quartermaster, the Red 
 Cross and munition plant behind the lines. 
 
 Subconsciously, every such woman demands 
 that her man make a success of his work out 
 there in the front trenches, for her sake as well 
 as his own. She does not like to feel that all her 
 efforts are being expended for a losing army. 
 
 Life at Loose Ends 
 
 9 Many more lives than we realize are ruined 
 from a lack of definite connection with the 
 world of real work. 
 
 — 277 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 C =5 
 
 The individual himself (and especially if it 
 be a herself) often wonders what is wrong and 
 goes through years or a lifetime without real- 
 izing that it is the thwarting of this natural 
 success instinct which is causing the difficulty. 
 
 The woman who has a home, a husband 
 or children will find in them full satisfaction 
 of this urge if she happens to belong predomi- 
 nantly to one type. 
 
 But if she belongs predominantly to either 
 of the other four human types she will never 
 find complete self-expression in the care of 
 home, husband or even children. 
 
 She, like the men of these types, demands 
 direct self-expression. To her some interest 
 outside the four walls is essential to happiness . 
 
 Each type always selects the general kind 
 of outside interests most appealing to it. 
 
 Women and Work 
 
 <![ Until recent years home and church work 
 were the only activities in which women 
 
 — 278 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 could engage and keep the full admiration 
 of the world. 
 
 Then the woman's club was born. Various 
 charitable organizations inaugurated and 
 backed almost entirely by women came into 
 being 33 53 
 
 The prohibition crusade gave thousands 
 of women an opportunity to emerge and 
 connect with a world-cause. Later the woman 
 suffrage movement, for fifty years, gave the 
 same opportunity to thousands more. 
 
 Types and Crusades 
 
 <I It will be interesting to you to note how 
 each of these crusades — churches, charitable 
 organizations, prohibition and woman suf- 
 frage — was headed by different biological 
 types of women and that the rank and file in 
 each consisted chiefly of women of that same 
 type 33 33 
 
 The Francis E. Willard type still predomi- 
 nates in the W. C. T. U. The Susan B. 
 — 279 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Anthony type still predominates in the 
 National League of Women Voters. 
 
 Whenever a woman of one of these crusades 
 joined another it was for the furtherance of 
 her real interest, as, for instance, when the 
 W. C. T. U. joined the woman suffrage move- 
 ment. It did so, not so much for woman 
 suffrage per se as because it was convinced 
 that woman suffrage would help prohibition. 
 
 When the Susan B. Anthony type joined 
 the W. C. T. U. it was largely for the purpose 
 of gaining co-operation in the suffrage cause.* 
 
 Type and the Subconscious 
 
 1R These facts of type-preference were obtained 
 by four years' first hand observation of thou- 
 sands of women in both these organizations 
 throughout the United States. 
 
 Many other surveys show that women, 
 like men, must have self-expression and that 
 
 * For further elaboration of types see " The Five Human Types " by 
 Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict. 
 
 — 28o — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 each invariably chooses, out of the possi- 
 bilities in his or her environment, the particu- 
 lar kind of activity always preferred by his 
 type 33 33 
 
 He chooses more or less automatically 
 because his choice is predetermined by his 
 subconscious. But his subconscious is largely 
 determined by his type. This because the 
 subconscious mind is the hereditary mind — 
 the mind of instinct with which man is born. 
 What he does after he gets here will affect its 
 content but not its predominant trends. 
 
 Every individual of every type, tempera- 
 ment and combination, desires self-expres- 
 sion through some kind of outgoing activity. 
 
 He will be content, congenial and construc- 
 tive only in those endeavors which aid in the 
 attainment of his supreme subconscious wish. 
 
 Three Classes 
 
 <J If his supreme wish is to spend his life in 
 some particular kind of activity, regardless 
 
 — 281 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 of its tasks or drudgeries, and if he concen- 
 trates on this activity, he will become a genius. 
 But if his choice of a vocation is secondary 
 to his wish — that is, if it is selected only as 
 an adjunct to the wish — an aid and abetter 
 of something he desires more — and he gets 
 into such a vocation, he will be in it only 
 one of the many big successes. 
 
 If he spends his life in a kind of work which 
 calls for traits which he has only in a small 
 degree, he will be mediocre. 
 
 If his work demands activities that are the 
 opposite of his natural ones he will be a 
 failure 33 33 
 
 The Subconscious Sentinel 
 
 <I In each case the subconscious mind regis- 
 ters feelings for or against certain vocations 
 and for or against specific lines of work 
 contemplated by the individual. 
 
 Your preference for or prejudice against 
 any line of work is not an accident nor a 
 — 282 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 mystery. It is an emotion based in the sub- 
 conscious unreasoning feeling that this voca- 
 tion would help or hinder the materialization 
 of your supreme wish. 
 
 It automatically votes against everything 
 which would interfere with your life's desires 
 and for everything of any nature (including 
 vocation) that aids and abets them. 
 
 The Genius 
 
 <$ The child destined to become a genius has, 
 like every other, a supreme subconscious 
 wish. But this wish differs from that of the 
 average child in two things — intensity and 
 content 33 S& 
 
 The supreme subconscious wish of the vast 
 majority of men, women and children is to 
 possess things. 
 
 The supreme wish of the genius-child is 
 to do a certain kind of thing. 
 
 The average supreme wish, though it may 
 be fired with the deepest emotion of which 
 — 283 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 that individual is capable, is much less intense 
 and furious than that of the genius-child. 
 
 These two lead to the third element — 
 opportunity — as inevitably as the desire 
 and ability to sing point the song bird 
 instinctively to an opportunity to unburden 
 his silvery throat. 
 
 Requisites of Genius 
 
 <I So we find that the requisites for the 
 making of a genius are: 
 
 1. A desire to do a certain kind of thing, 
 regardless of good or bad consequences. 
 
 2. That this desire shall constitute the 
 one supreme, subconscious wish of his life, in 
 comparison with which all else is insignificant. 
 
 3. That this supreme wish to do a certain 
 kind of thing shall be so intense as to allow 
 no room for feelings of doubt. 
 
 These things and these only have invari- 
 ably differentiated the genius from other men 
 and women. 
 
 — 284 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 These intense inner urges compel the 
 genius to find opportunity for doing the 
 thing he wants to do. He has no peace until 
 he does it. Once started at it, satisfaction 
 permeates his spirit, saturates his soul. He 
 is at the business for which he was created; 
 he has found himself. 
 
 Finding Himself 
 
 <I In this supremest of human achievements 
 — meeting and working with one's self face 
 to face — the genius forgets all else. 
 
 Is it to be wondered at that such enthusi- 
 asm produces great things? 
 
 Other men give but a fraction of themselves 
 to their work and none of their subconscious 
 selves to work they dislike. The subconscious 
 of the genius is in tune with the world. 
 
 Any man who wants to do a thing with the 
 same intensity, the same selfless, concen- 
 trated determination can make of himself 
 a genius S& 33 
 
 -285- 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 But the average man does not want to do; 
 he only wants to have without doing. 
 
 He is always expecting to " put one over" 
 on Fate 53 3& 
 
 It can't be done. 
 
 Are You a Genius ? 
 
 <I " A genius is one who can not be kept away 
 from his work." If nothing can keep you away 
 from yours, if you love its toil and drudgery 
 so much it is play, this means that to do this 
 thing is your supreme subconscious wish. 
 Whatever you supremely, subconsciously wish 
 can and does come true, as you will see in 
 the last lesson of this course. 
 
 The Successful 
 
 <R Those who are not geniuses but the next- 
 highest — the big successes in any line — are 
 those whose supreme wish is to achieve a 
 certain goal and who are willing to do any- 
 thing honorable to reach it, no matter how 
 — 286 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 hard, how humiliating or how difficult the 
 necessary sacrifices. 
 
 Such a man or woman will become ulti- 
 mately a supreme success. For him, as for the 
 genius, there is no question of opportunity. 
 The world is full of opportunity and he knows 
 it. Such a man says 
 
 " With doubt and dismay you are smitten? 
 
 You think there's no chance for you, son? 
 Why, the best books have n't been written, 
 
 The chances have only begun; 
 The best score has nt been made yet, 
 
 The best race has nt been run. 
 The best game has nt been played yet, 
 
 Cheer up, for the world is young! " 
 
 The trouble with the unsuccessful is not 
 that they lack ability or opportunity. They 
 lack none of the success-requisites save one, 
 and that one they can get any moment they 
 want it — willingness to pay the price. 
 — 287 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 c a 
 
 Why They Make Money 
 
 <I The rest of the world wonders and com- 
 plains at the success of a certain well-known 
 race of people, but it might better be learn- 
 ing a lesson from them. 
 
 We need not concentrate on the same goal 
 but we can apply the one big secret of their 
 success to higher ones. That secret is the one 
 stated above — a willingness to make any 
 sacrifice necessary to success in a chosen 
 undertaking. 
 
 To people of other races self-complacency, 
 inertia, pugnacity, and a hundred other 
 things, take precedence of the success-desire, 
 but to this one there is nothing but the 
 goal S3 S3 
 
 You may kick this man down your front 
 steps, but by the time you have closed the 
 door you will find him smilingly entering 
 at the back. 
 
 And the chances are he will leave with 
 your name on the dotted line! 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 This type of person — regardless of race, 
 color, nationality, training, education or 
 environment — is bound to win. He can bear 
 any humiliation and make any sacrifice for 
 success 33 33 
 
 One Thing 
 
 <JA woman who has attained fame and 
 fortune by her own efforts, despite poverty, 
 ill health, ugliness and other handicaps, was 
 talking not long ago to a small group of old 
 friends whom she had not seen since she was 
 a ragged little girl in the ragged little Western 
 town where she grew up. 
 
 11 Let me see, Helen, did n't you wait table 
 once at the Smith Central? I seem to remem- 
 ber seeing you there when you were about 
 f if teen/ ' asked one of the friends. 
 
 " Yes," she replied, " and the Summer 
 before that I washed dishes at the Belvedere, 
 and the Summer before that I had a stren- 
 uous position as cook, scrub woman and 
 — 289 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 maid-of-all-work on a big ranch where forty 
 men were employed. The rancher's wife had 
 a nap every afternoon and retired at nine. I 
 was up at five and did not sit down from 
 that time until midnight. 
 
 " But I had a wonderful time. I needed 
 that $3 a week to buy books and clothes for 
 high school that Fall. When Fall came I got 
 another job — working for my board in a 
 family of seven children — but I had to have 
 an education and thought I was a lucky girl 
 to even get a, job!" 
 
 After more mutual reminiscenses one of 
 the women turned to the now successful 
 one and said, " Did you ever select anything 
 and say you would not do that — did n't 
 you have powerful aversions to doing some 
 things?" 
 
 1 ' There was one," the woman replied — 
 ''just one thing I always said even as a 'child 
 that I would not do. I said it over and over, 
 and it was, ' I will not fail! ' " 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Flirting With Failure 
 
 <J If you care enough about being a success 
 to stop flirting with failure you will find the 
 work and the opportunities necessary to 
 make you one. 
 
 People miss success because they want to 
 eat their cake and have it too. They won't 
 do this and they are too good to do that; 
 they are above this and superior to that — 
 in their youth. At middle age they are making 
 excuses, and at sixty many are brought to 
 to a choice between those very same menial 
 things and the poorhouse. 
 
 False pride has cheated more people out 
 of success than any other thing in this world. 
 
 Pride that is real is too proud to drag 
 you a frazzled failure through this world of 
 opportunity! 
 
 Self-Tests for Success 
 
 <I The content of your own subconscious- 
 ness determines your success or failure. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 To know whether you are going to be a real 
 success you have but to ask yourself the 
 following questions: 
 
 1. Which of these two attitudes predomi- 
 nate in my mind : the determination against 
 doing certain things or a determination to 
 do certain things? 
 
 2. Do I keep my mental eyes fastened on 
 the fears of failure or the certainties of 
 success? 33 33 
 
 3. Do I think more about the obstructions 
 in my pathway — my troubles, my enemies, 
 my handicaps, my disadvantages, my weak- 
 nesses — than the goal I hope to reach? 
 
 The answer to these questions reveals the 
 content of your subconscious as regards 
 success-qualities. If you are wasting your 
 strength against things, people, problems 
 and life in general instead of expending it 
 for the things you desire, you are running 
 your car in reverse and backing yourself 
 down hill. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Faith or Fear ? 
 
 <I If your mind has more fear than faith in 
 it you are going to lose! Nothing on earth 
 can make any man a winner who does n't 
 believe in himself. 
 
 Nothing can make you a failure save your- 
 self 33 33 
 
 If your subconscious is centered more on 
 thoughts about your troubles; if your talk 
 is full of them, you will have lots more of 
 them, for you are putting into operation a 
 great law and the law, being immutable, will 
 bring them to you. 
 
 Forget Your Enemies 
 
 ^ If you burn the candles of memory at the 
 shrine of your enemies you are going to make 
 more enemies and further embitter the ones 
 you already have. 
 
 If you think and talk and act out your 
 handicaps, your disadvantages, your weak- 
 nesses, you are planting tares and will reap 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 bigger and bigger harvests of these very 
 things as life goes on. 
 
 For your subconscious content makes or 
 mars your life. If it is destructive your life 
 will be destructive. There is no way on earth 
 to avoid it, though millions have tricked 
 themselves into thinking they could. 
 
 The Might of Mind 
 
 <& What is in your mind comes out in your 
 life. You can' t fool the Force that rules the uni- 
 verse. That Force decrees that certain causes 
 bring certain results and they always do. 
 
 The world calls the successful man an 
 egoist and he is. But he is seldom a vain 
 egotist. He believes in his own strength and 
 proves he has it. 
 
 The mediocre and the failures become 
 mediocre and fail because they so overrate 
 themselves as to imagine they can outwit 
 divinity. This is not true of every failure but 
 of most 33 33 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The Failure Ego 
 
 <I You can apply another little test that will 
 tell you whether any man is this type or not. 
 If he is forever expressing envy, jealousy, 
 suspicion and criticism of the successful it 
 has but one cause — the resentment of his 
 own disappointed ego. 
 
 Those who have failed through little fault 
 of their own are never embittered by the 
 successes of others. 
 
 If you are constantly deriding, pulling 
 down, carping at the good fortune of others; 
 if you call every successful person vain, 
 selfish or a money-grabber, wake up to 
 yourself S3 33 
 
 Realize that this attitude betrays you 
 to every person who knows anything at all 
 about human psychology. It tells him you 
 are only judging others by yourself and that 
 you are assuming they must be all these 
 because your wounded vanity demands con- 
 solation S3 $£ 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Self-Revealers 
 
 <ft Furthermore, it is a well-known fact that 
 the motives you are in the habit of ascribing 
 to others are what you know your own would 
 be in their place. If you can not see a man 
 successful without calling him vain, it is 
 because you would be vain in his place. 
 
 If you can not see a rich man without 
 calling him mercenary, it is because you are 
 mercenary. If you can not see another on the 
 pinnacle of fame or fortune without thinking 
 he is insincere it is because you lack sincerity. 
 
 Subconscious Content 
 
 All these are indications of your subcon- 
 scious content. 
 
 Since your subconscious content deter- 
 mines your success, do you not see why some 
 people have failed? People who worked and 
 slaved and skimped — yes, and went to church! 
 
 You have got to have the pure air of right 
 attitudes blowing through your mental 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 windows if you want to be successful. Andre 
 Tridon says, " The genius is always un- 
 selfish. In the neurotic, egotism is a mask 
 for a sense of inferiority. ,, 
 
 He and scores of other mental scientists 
 declare that the successful are less vain, less 
 selfish, less deceitful, less mercenary than the 
 failures 53 33 
 
 Success and Constructiveness 
 
 <I But that is not by any manner of means 
 the most important thing upon which they 
 agree 33 33 
 
 They have found that it is chiefly because of 
 their more constructive mental attitudes that 
 these people have succeeded. 
 
 Does this not contain a great lesson for 
 every human being? And does it not prove, 
 after all, that regardless of our particular 
 belief or unbelief, the truth was spoken when 
 it was said, " The letter of the law killeth but 
 the spirit maketh alive? " 
 — 297 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Your Subconscious Army 
 
 <J Your subconscious is a great standing 
 army you personally own and control. 
 
 Through your conscious mind you are 
 giving it orders every waking moment. 
 
 If you keep your mind full of destructive 
 thoughts of any nature whatever you are 
 giving destructive orders to your army and 
 it will bring to pass in your life the destruc- 
 tive things you order. 
 
 If you have been getting what you did not 
 want it was because, unknowingly, you have 
 been giving your subconscious powers the 
 wrong kind of orders. 
 
 Function of the Subconscious 
 
 ^ Your subconscious is wrapped and woven 
 around and over and under and through 
 just one thing — your supreme life wish. 
 
 It has no function save to see that wish grat- 
 ified; it never tires, never sleeps, never forgets. 
 
 It never accepts excuses; never takes No 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 for an answer; never for so much as an instant 
 lessens its concentration on the attainment 
 of your one supreme aim. 
 
 It gathers from every source within your 
 reach all manner of materials for your use 
 in the furthering of this wish, much of which 
 you never suspect until you start to do the 
 thing you want to do. 
 
 How the Subconscious Helps 
 
 <I A man has a deep desire for many years to 
 write a certain book. He is so busy with his 
 everyday affairs it is years before he sits down 
 to start the manuscript. He thinks he has 
 only enough material for a beginning. 
 
 But he soon finds that through his intense 
 and genuine interest in this subject, his sub- 
 conscious has gathered data for a dozen 
 books — and hands it out to him. 
 
 He is amazed to discover how deeply he has 
 thought on this subject and how many illus- 
 trations he has at his tongue's end. He can 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 not write fast enough to keep up with his 
 mind, which is bursting with material for the 
 tangible products. 
 
 But if this man, instead of deeply desiring 
 for years to write a book only thinks for years 
 that it would be a good idea to write a book, 
 he will find when he sits down that he has 
 almost no material. 
 
 He will awaken to the realization that he 
 knows very little about the subject and that 
 what he does know is unorganized, chaotic 
 and distasteful. 
 
 When one truly desires to write on a 
 certain subject he has so much material in 
 his mind he scarcely uses his notes. But when 
 he attempts to write anything against his 
 desires he gets little from even the most 
 voluminous notes, memoranda or previous 
 manuscript S3 33 
 
 These facts and similar ones are known to 
 every person who tries to do anything he has 
 long desired to do. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Another Test 
 
 <J The condition of your subconscious tells, 
 with unmistakable certainty, whether you 
 are achieving about what you are capable of, 
 whether you are lagging behind or falling far 
 short of what you have the ability to ac- 
 complish 33 33 
 
 You can go far toward determining for your- 
 self which you are doing by the following tests: 
 
 First of all, in what are you dissatisfied 
 with yourself? 
 
 And, in what way are you constantly con- 
 scious of not coming up to your standards? 
 
 That standard comes from your subcon- 
 scious and comes because you are capable of 
 doing the very thing you desire to do. 
 
 Regret a Recorder 
 
 <I Subconscious discontent is the method 
 taken by your subconscious to register its 
 disapproval. It never disapproves of you for 
 not doing what you can not do. The fact that 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 you regret not living up to a certain ideal 
 is the proof that you are fully able to do so. 
 The man who can do wrong, weak things 
 without regret is always a far lower-grade 
 man than the one who suffers remorse. The 
 one who knows the keenest suffering and self- 
 discontent is the man who is possessed of the 
 highest powers. 
 
 Ambition — The Acid Test 
 
 <IWhat is the amount of your ambition? 
 
 If you have little it is because you have 
 little ability. 
 
 Ambition to do a thing comes from the 
 capacity to do it and is the demand of that 
 capacity to be brought out and utilized. 
 
 A thing you have no ambition to do you 
 have no ability to do. The man who, at thirty, 
 has no ambition to be an architect will never 
 be an architect. 
 
 The woman who, at thirty, has no ambi- 
 tion whatever to sing has no singing ability. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The Real Difference 
 
 flf In this connection do not confuse the kind 
 of work you really wish to do with the kind 
 of work you imagine would bring you the 
 things you want. 
 
 For instance, if you really want to sing, 
 for the sheer love of singing and not for its 
 rewards or the things it would bring, you 
 have singing ability. 
 
 But if the real desire in the bottom of your 
 subconscious mind is not to do the singing 
 for the sheer joy of doing it but to have the 
 emoluments, honors, glory, fame or money 
 you think it would produce for you, you have 
 little and perhaps no singing ability. 
 
 You will never succeed supremely in any 
 line of work or endeavor which you do not 
 truly, deeply, subconsciously, intensely want 
 to do 33 53 
 
 What you want to do you have immeas- 
 urable power to do — and the power is in 
 proportion to the desire. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 The "Sleep Test" 
 
 <& Science has made one other amazing and 
 illuminating discovery. It is that we crave 
 sleep in proportion as we are unhappy, 
 unhealthy or unsuccessful. 
 
 When we are happy, well, and successful 
 we can stay in perfect health on much less 
 sleep than we require at other times. 
 
 When we are disappointed, discouraged, 
 depressed, ill or humiliated we want to escape 
 from reality, and the subconscious furnishes 
 the sleepiness necessary to bring temporary 
 peace 33 33 
 
 Napoleon's Sleep 
 
 <I Napoleon required sleep wholly according 
 to whether he was winning or losing battles. 
 Three hours were sufficient when things were 
 going well with him. 
 
 His biographers and all historians of the 
 period agree that immediately following his 
 most successful battles he often went several 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 days and nights without any sleep whatever. 
 After his exile — when the light had gone 
 out for him forever, and he knew it — he slept 
 from ten to fourteen hours out of every 
 twenty-four. 
 
 Another Notable Example 
 
 § It is no mystery either to himself or to 
 the psychologists why Thomas A. Edison 
 requires less than four hours' sleep out of 
 each twenty-four. 
 
 He is doing what he wants to do. He is 
 achieving in real life, the things his subcon- 
 scious self, his real self, desires. He is living 
 life to the full. 
 
 His conscious and subconscious minds are 
 working in harmony, aiding and abetting 
 each other as they were created to do. There 
 are almost none of the conflicts, interferences, 
 oppositions, misunderstandings, or warfare 
 which split and disintegrate the conscious and 
 subconscious minds of the average individual. 
 — 305 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 This fact accounts not only for the success 
 of Edison but for that of every successful 
 person who ever lived. 
 
 Unlock Your Nine-Tenths 
 
 <R No man can succeed through his conscious 
 mind alone, for this conscious mind is so 
 recent an acquisition in human evolution 
 that it is not yet in good running order. The 
 slightest thing sidetracks it. 
 
 Though far more powerful than we have 
 ever suspected, the conscious mind is incap- 
 able of the deep concentrated activity of the 
 subconscious. It is flighty, erratic, whimsical, 
 superficial compared to the subconscious 
 mind 33 33 
 
 The man who puts only his conscious mind 
 on a thing gets only surface results. 
 
 The saving fact here, however, is that the 
 
 man who constantly turns his conscious 
 
 mind on anything secures the co-operation 
 
 of his subconscious also — and secures it to 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 whatever degree this thing on which he 
 centers his mind promises to fulfill the 
 supreme subconscious wish. 
 
 In Your Own Case 
 
 <R For instance, you may consciously dislike 
 to be a traveling salesman. You don't like 
 the traveling, the constant absence from 
 home and friends which it necessitates. But 
 you can do them all provided your supreme 
 subconscious wish is to be the star salesman 
 in your district. 
 
 If your supreme wish is not for anything 
 of this kind; especially if your deepest wish 
 is to succeed at something entirely different, 
 you will never get the co-operation of your 
 subconscious mind in your salesmanship, no 
 matter how long you keep at it nor how hard 
 you try 33 33 
 
 And all the years you keep at salesmanship 
 you will find relief whenever possible in some 
 form of forgetfulness. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 6 * 
 
 Sleep and the w Sleave of Care " 
 
 <& The safest and sanest of these forms of 
 forge tfulness is our friend Sleep — who " knits 
 up the raveled sleave of care" and tries, by 
 giving the stage of the mind over to the sub- 
 conscious manager, to further our supreme 
 ambitions. 
 
 It takes the teamwork of conscious and 
 subconscious minds, working in harmony 
 both in sleep and in waking hours, to achieve 
 anything great in life. If we sleep too much 
 we hold back the other very necessary part 
 of the team — the conscious mind. 
 
 Sleep as the Refuge 
 
 <IAs explained in the lesson on " Mental 
 Miracles," whenever you are in trouble of any 
 kind you tend to relieve the conscious mind 
 of the strain — to " lose consciousness.' ' Some 
 types find this relief in long nights of sleep 
 or frequent "naps." 
 
 Others seek it in various kinds of drink— 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 the same types invariably choosing drinks 
 furnishing the same kind of reaction. 
 
 Others seek forgetfulness in excitement, 
 entertainment, society, travel, and the hun- 
 dreds of other modern allurements. 
 
 Any person's craving for these various 
 "aids to forge tfulness" is in proportion to 
 the degree that reality, actuality — the facts of 
 life — are disappointing or disillusioning him. 
 
 Desire For Drugs 
 
 ^f Thus the man who is discharged, jilted, 
 financially ruined or worried, takes to drink 
 if he is of a certain type. 
 
 If he is of another type this same dis- 
 appointment turns him toward the deep 
 oblivion brought by drugs — in which case he 
 will again choose the particular kind of drug 
 that appeals to his particular temperament. 
 Every suicide is committed in the effort to 
 escape reality. The fact that the rich, beau- 
 tiful and apparently happy destroy them- 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 selves shows how little we know of the inner 
 facts of any other human being's life. 
 
 That " dope " and drug " fiends " are often 
 sensitive, keenly intellectual and idealistic 
 individuals is not accidental. Such organisms, 
 for a combination of reasons, find the harsh- 
 ness of reality too awful to bear. 
 
 For these reasons we are short-sighted and 
 narrow when we blame or despise the person 
 who resorts to any of these things. He is in 
 trouble. What he needs and deserves is our 
 sympathy and understanding. 
 
 Success and Sleep 
 
 <I Success, as each individual sees it, comes 
 from the materialization of his supreme sub- 
 conscious wish. The man who makes a million 
 but who has missed the one big thing he 
 wanted does not consider himself successful; 
 but the one who wanted only to make money 
 says when he does it, "I have succeeded. " 
 Success is, after all, a matter of personal 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 viewpoint. You may not know what any given 
 individual's standard of success or happiness 
 is, but there is one way in which you can tell 
 with absolute certainty whether he is coming 
 up to the standard he has set for himself, and 
 that is by noting how much or how little of 
 his time he gives to things that bring mental 
 oblivion S& 33 
 
 The man who is achieving his supreme 
 subconscious wish is so happy in the real- 
 ization of life that he feels little need of any 
 kind of mental oblivion. 
 
 Sleep An Instinct 
 
 <& Facts gathered over large areas and 
 through long periods of time concerning the 
 life of men and women in all countries in all 
 ages show that sleep is an instinct, just as is 
 eating or sex, and that it is resorted to, as are 
 other instincts, in the degree as other instincts 
 are undeveloped or unexpressed. 
 
 Because sleep makes us harmless instead 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 of harmful as some of the other instincts do, 
 society has smiled upon it and encouraged it 
 — unless it is carried to excess — in which case 
 society (feeling itself endangered by it) will 
 criticise it, and apply the much-feared appel- 
 lation "lazy" to whoever over-indulges in it. 
 Carried to excess, sleep is as reprehensible 
 as the excessive expression of any other 
 instinct, but deserves more consideration at 
 our hands even in its excess than we have 
 been inclined to give, for no individual 
 anesthetizes his senses save when those senses 
 are suffering. 
 
 Sleep In Future Ages 
 
 <JAs man learns more and more how to 
 coordinate his two minds he will be more and 
 more successful and happy. 
 
 As more and more men and women emulate 
 in their lives the perfect co-ordination of 
 powers seen in Edison they will more and 
 more emulate his four hours of sleep. 
 — 312 — 
 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 And, ages hence, when we have learned 
 how to live, the instinct of withdrawal from 
 reality (which came down to us from the 
 ages when reality was almost unbearable) 
 will fade away. 
 
 When that time comes there will be no 
 beds, no skyscrapers honeycombed with 
 " bedrooms' ' in which living men retire for 
 hours from reality — and we will use con- 
 structively the third of our lifetime which 
 we now spend in sleep. 
 
 Success and Your Subconscious 
 
 <J Will you make a success of your job? 
 
 The answer to this big question must have 
 dawned on you while you have been reading 
 this lesson. At least it has given you such 
 insights into the real reasons for your own 
 successes and failures as you never had before. 
 
 It must be clear to you now that the 
 things at which you failed were things which, 
 for some reason, lacked the complete co- 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 operation of your subterranean, subcon- 
 scious forces. It is these things and not just 
 hard work that make any undertaking a 
 success 53 3& 
 
 It must be equally clear to you why your 
 own triumphs and those of other people often 
 came from less work than you had devoted 
 to the thing that failed. 
 
 You now know why, in the moment of 
 winning, you could scarcely realize that the 
 winner was really you. 
 
 You also know why you often felt you 
 really did n't deserve such a lot of credit as 
 people gave you; that the person who did 
 this successful thing was not you but some 
 one working through you — some one bigger 
 and stronger than yourself. 
 
 Will You Succeed ? 
 
 <J But to get back to the big question — will 
 you succeed ? 
 
 You will succeed provided your supreme 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 subconscious wish is for success. If your 
 deepest, most absorbing desire is for success 
 nothing under Heaven can keep it from you. 
 
 If your supreme wish is for something else 
 than success you will get that something else. 
 If it is for mediocre success you will achieve 
 mediocre success. If it is for supreme, sublime 
 success you will get it. 
 
 You will get it because it would then be 
 your supreme, subconscious wish. 
 
 How that wish is to be attained will be 
 made clear in the next lesson — a lesson con- 
 taining hitherto unpublished and until very 
 recently unknown laws of the most vital 
 import to every human being. 
 
 — 3i5 — 
 
The high soul goes the. high way 
 And the low soul gropes the low, 
 
 While in between on the misty flats. 
 The rest drift to and fro. 
 
 But to every man there openeth 
 
 A high way and a low. 
 And every man decideth 
 
 Which way his soul shall go. 
 
 — John Oxenham. 
 
<#* 
 
 Lesson VII 
 
 cfr*^ 
 
 How To Attain Your 
 >reme Wish 
 
 Supi 
 
 HAT, more than 
 anything else in 
 the world, do you 
 want out of life? 
 The answer you 
 make, in your 
 secret soul, to this 
 question deter- 
 mines with utter, 
 inexorable cer- 
 tainty what you 
 are going to get. Not the details — they don't 
 count — but ultimately, eventually in your 
 life as a whole. 
 
 In this lesson is published, for the first 
 
 time, the most recent and by far the most 
 
 startling psychological discovery concerning 
 
 the real secret of human happiness that has 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 been made in the history of scientific research. 
 
 It will show you to your complete satis- 
 faction what has been holding you back and 
 how to take your foot off the brake if you 
 really desire to do so. 
 
 It is going to take the props from under 
 some of your pet alibis, but if you are the 
 honest seeker after truth which your study 
 of mental analysis implies, you will be glad 
 to part with them in return for the great 
 self-revelation and self-realization this lesson 
 gives you. 
 
 Why You Lost 
 
 <R This lesson will show you, with intense 
 clarity, why you have lost many things you 
 tried to get. It will show you where the fault 
 lay and where it came from. It will show you 
 who was to blame and why. It will show you 
 how that person was to blame for your not 
 accomplishing the thing you attempted. It 
 will show you exactly what stood in your 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 path and who put it there. It will show you 
 how to take obstructions away from your 
 path in future if you really desire to be free of 
 them. It will also show you why and how 
 others have failed. 
 
 Why You Won 
 
 <I This lesson will show you why you 
 succeeded when you did succeed. 
 
 It will show you why you seemed to do the 
 biggest things most easily; why you had, 
 through it all, a sense of not really doing it 
 yourself but of being the instrument, as it 
 were, of a person bigger and stronger than 
 yourself 53 33 
 
 It will show you why you lived through 
 some of your greatest tragedies in spite of 
 the conviction that you never would. 
 
 It shows you the real, inner secret of all 
 your own accomplishments and those of 
 other people. 
 
 It shows you the great law which has 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 brought every personal success, every personal 
 achievement and every personal triumph 
 that has ever been accomplished in this world. 
 
 Why You Did Them 
 
 flf It shows you why you always find time, 
 strength and opportunity to do certain things 
 and none for certain others; why you " give 
 up" certain ambitions and reconcile your- 
 self to going without all kinds of things you 
 had supposed paramount in your life while 
 clinging tenaciously to others which your 
 common sense tells you are inconsequential. 
 
 It shows you why the people of the 
 supposedly greatest gifts fail while others, 
 who started with few, go to the top of Life's 
 Ladder 33 33 
 
 It shows you why you have permitted 
 some of your own greatest talents to lie 
 undeveloped while working hard to succeed 
 at something for which you seem to have no 
 ability 33 53 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Clews To Our Own Mysteries 
 
 <I You have sometimes wondered why you 
 simply could not go on with a thing which 
 you knew was for your own best good. You 
 have marvelled at your capacity for making 
 the same kind of mistake over and over. 
 
 You have become disgusted and often dis- 
 couraged with yourself for the inexplicable 
 reactions certain things and especially cer- 
 tain work cause in you. 
 
 You have thought of all these and a 
 thousand other self-mysteries, and either 
 arrived at some theory that appeals to your 
 particular type and temperament, or you 
 have given it up, thinking — and perhaps say- 
 ing — " There is no accounting for us; a human 
 being is a conglomeration of enigmas! " 
 
 Life a Mystifying Drama 
 
 *I The average individual is like a child seeing 
 
 a moving picture for the first time. He sees 
 
 an amazing, mystifying, myriad -sectioned 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 drama unwind before his eyes. To him it is 
 the realest of reality. All is as it seems on the 
 screen — and all arises from and returns to 
 the unseen, the mysterious. 
 
 The average unthinking individual lives 
 in a maze of moving mysteries which he calls 
 his life. The unexpected is always happening 
 to him. The expected and longed-for happens 
 but seldom and when it does he can not see 
 how nor why, so is unable, in any way, to 
 repeat it 33 3S 
 
 He no more attempts to understand the 
 laws back of his life-dream than the three- 
 year-old child at the movies attempts to 
 figure out how pictures are made. He swallows 
 it, enjoys what he can, registers verbal dis- 
 approval when things go wrong — but sits and 
 takes it, like the babe in the theater. 
 
 He feels helpless, often hopeless. But it is 
 too big a tangle to understand or straighten 
 out; so there he waits watching his life-story 
 play itself out as it will. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Making Your Own Movies 
 
 <I This lesson is to prove to you that your 
 life-movie does n't " just happen;" that you 
 are not at the mercy of Fate; that you and 
 you alone make your own life drama. 
 
 It is going to show you that the play in 
 which you are acting the life-picture you see 
 unwinding before your eyes each day, is based 
 on laws as sane, simple and scientific as those 
 back of the making of a motion picture. It is 
 going to do for you, in explanation, what 
 we would be doing for the child if we took 
 him out of the theater — whose pictures he 
 had always supposed to be magic-made — 
 and showed him the camera, the studio, the 
 actors and actresses, the stages and direc- 
 tors, scenarios, lighting effects — the mass of 
 natural forces through whose application 
 every picture is made. 
 
 We hope this lesson will do for you much 
 more than that. We shall show you how 
 certain everyday, ever-operative natural laws 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 are behind every individual drama; how every- 
 thing in your life is made, directly or indi- 
 rectly, consciously or unconsciously, by you, 
 through your use or misuse of these same 
 natural laws. 
 
 We are going to show you how your 
 pictures are made — the machinery back of 
 every movie you have ever put on in your 
 own life; why you played the role you did and 
 why you are playing, at this moment, the 
 very part you are. 
 
 It is our sincere hope that you who read 
 these pages will, from this day onward, apply 
 these laws in your own life, for by so doing you 
 shall attain your deepest and dearest desires. 
 
 A Law-Ruled World 
 
 Q We, like the babe at the movies, live in the 
 delusion that things are only what they seem 
 — a maelstrom in which we are caught, a 
 moving mirage that whirls and swirls and 
 carries us on against our will. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Science shows us that everything in the 
 universe has a cause and that the same cause 
 always and invariably brings the same results. 
 Nothing " just happens.' ' There are no acci- 
 dents. All occurs in accordance with divine, 
 unchanging law. 
 
 The world we live in today is exactly the 
 same world the cave man dwelt in. But 
 civilized man, through a working knowledge 
 of law, has brought out of these unseen and 
 hitherto undreamed-of forces the things that 
 make life livable, beautiful, uplifting. 
 
 The cave man called the lightning a god of 
 wrath and fell down in fear when his flashes 
 illumined the sky. Civilized man, through a 
 study and understanding of law, brings that 
 same force to bear on his problems and with 
 it lights the world, heats his home, travels 
 around the globe and talks, without wires, 
 from one end of the earth to the other. 
 
 In the last twenty years science has been 
 discovering that human health and disease, 
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 human success and failure, human happiness 
 and unhappiness — all the problems of human 
 life — are equally controlled by law; that man 
 is a part of, not a part from natural and 
 divine law; that the laws of the mind, body 
 and spirit of every individual are ever oper- 
 ating and are ever bringing to him, in exact 
 accordance with these laws, the things that 
 come out in his life. 
 
 The stars shine out across the wide-domed 
 
 space. 
 Faring their fleeting journey night and 
 
 day; 
 Each keeping to its measured time and 
 
 place, 
 According to the law each must obey. 
 
 And stars and souls, rosebloom and planet, 
 
 whirled, 
 Obey the wondrous law that makes the 
 
 world. 
 
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 Conscious Wishes 
 
 fl Every man and woman has many con- 
 scious wishes. They are in the surface mind, 
 the busy brain that handles the affairs of the 
 moment and the events of the day. 
 
 You have a conscious wish to arrive at the 
 office in time to look through your mail before 
 the opening hour. You have another con- 
 scious wish to remember a fact, statement, 
 the amount of that check you must write. 
 
 You have thousands of these conscious 
 wishes during the course of a busy day. They 
 pass into and out of your mind without 
 much ado. 
 
 Conscious Standards 
 
 ^f As a result of your training, education, 
 environment, experience, type, personality 
 and several other things, you have acquired 
 certain conscious standards — of what you 
 ought to do and be and accomplish; of 
 what you owe the world, society and your 
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 fellow-man; of the right and square way to 
 treat people; of honesty, justice, fair play; 
 of how much and how well a man ought to 
 work to get on in life; of how you ought to 
 act under all conditions; of what you ought 
 to acquire, achieve, accomplish; of the heights 
 to which you ought to rise; the influence you 
 ought to wield; the prestige you ought to 
 have; the good name, fame or glory you ought 
 to win 53 53 
 
 In short, you have builded into that con- 
 scious mind of yours whole sets of ironclad 
 ideals which you aspire to live up to. 
 
 Whether you have lived up to them in the 
 past has depended on just one thing which 
 you had in those past years; whether you are 
 living up to them now, and in what propor- 
 tion, all depends on how much of that same 
 thing you have today. 
 
 Whether you will in the coming years live 
 up to these standards, achieve these things 
 you consciously strive for, will depend upon 
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 how much you understand, amend and 
 utilize that same something. That thing 
 which determines it all— which has actuated 
 directly or indirectly every act of your life — is 
 
 Your Supreme, Subconscious Wish 
 
 <I One of the most recent and revolutionizing 
 discoveries of science is that every human 
 being has, in addition to these temporary 
 conscious wishes and conscious standards, 
 one wish which overtops all others, a wish 
 which is often secret and sometimes sub- 
 merged, but which saturates his subconscious 
 mind S& S& 
 
 This wish is never for one specific thing 
 nor does it deal with details. It is not for 
 certain things, nor even for specific people 
 in our lives, but for a condition in life — 
 an environment, a kind of expression — the 
 untrammelled satisfaction of a basic instinct! 
 The achieving of a great ambition in some 
 general direction — the attainment of a beau- 
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 tiful character, the acquirement of riches or 
 the winning of an immortal name. And 
 sometimes — in fact all too often — the secret 
 supreme wish is for none of these uplifting 
 things but for others of a far different nature. 
 
 Life Builded Around the Wish 
 
 1& The second great discovery which is revolu- 
 tionizing the science of psychology is that 
 every human being builds his life around 
 his supreme subconscious wish. 
 
 Some build their lives around the supreme 
 wish consciously; others, unconsciously or 
 subconsciously; but each is building every 
 year, every day, every hour, directly or 
 indirectly toward the gratification of his 
 deepest desire. 
 
 The average individual has never heard of 
 this urge at whose behest he lays practically 
 every plan of his life. He is often unaware of 
 this intense yearning which dictates the 
 direction of his energies, predetermines the 
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 trend of activities characterizing every week 
 of his life; which actuates the manifold 
 expressions of himself and which prejudices, 
 pulls and pushes him in directions serving 
 its purpose. 
 
 But this does not alter the fact that it is 
 there and that it wields an influence upon 
 our lives which, in the end, makes or mars 
 them 53 53 
 
 The Weak Link 
 
 <JWe often wonder why a promising man 
 with brains, education, advantages, good 
 looks and every possible chance makes such 
 a mess of his life. 
 
 Especially do we wonder why this intel- 
 ligent individual should make the same kind 
 of mistakes over and over, permitting this 
 one species of weakness to ruin his existence. 
 
 " He is so unusual in so many ways," we 
 say. " Why can't he see that it is only this 
 one thing that is wrecking his chances? Is n't 
 
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 it too bad that a fine young man like that, 
 with such splendid qualities, should permit 
 one little thing to destroy him! " 
 
 In every such case — and there are many of 
 them — the individual's supreme subconscious 
 wish is for something which the giving in to 
 this weakness brings him. 
 
 One Woman's Wish 
 
 <R A woman who was well known as a writer 
 of superior magazine articles was an out- 
 spoken radical. 
 
 She lived in a suffrage state so had a vote 
 and cast it consistently for a radical ticket. 
 She believed in birth control and declared 
 that if she ever married she would not feel 
 entitled to bring children into the world — 
 not only because it was, as she was fully con- 
 vinced, too cruel to give them a chance, but 
 because her mother had died in an insane 
 asylum and her father in a tuberculosis 
 hospital S3 S3 
 
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 She lived in Arizona herself as a result of 
 of a prolonged siege of the disease which 
 had taken away one lung, but which seemed 
 now to be under control. 
 
 This woman had a most unusual mind. 
 Her conversation was as interesting as a 
 play, her writing was scintillating and extra- 
 ordinarily clever. She was widely read, a deep 
 student and a most convincing speaker on 
 these very subjects upon which she held such 
 radical views. 
 
 She finally married. Her husband did not 
 care for children. But once every year for 
 twelve years now she has presented him with 
 a son or daughter, and once with both! 
 
 All her friends say, " What in the world 
 has come over Agnes? What became of her 
 convictions? " 
 
 The answer is not far to seek. Agnes, under 
 all her conscious attitudes, had a deep, 
 devouring, desperate desire. 
 
 Far back of and behind and beyond these 
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 surface things there was a supreme subcon- 
 scious wish. That wish was to be the mother 
 of a large family. 
 
 Reason, common sense, horse sense and 
 her sense of justice told her that she — in 
 whose veins ran two taints — had little right 
 to jeopardize innocent lives. 
 
 Intelligence and human sympathy told 
 her that life — never easy for the strongest — 
 would be cruelly savage to the handicapped. 
 Study and thought convinced her conscious 
 mind that one hampered as she was might 
 better be educating the world toward social 
 and political betterment than adding to its 
 population. 
 
 But the moment opportunity offered away 
 went every conscious conviction, every stan- 
 dard of the years — and in came the subcon- 
 scious urge! It took possession. Or rather, 
 it kept possession. For it was the working 
 out of that old subconscious longing which 
 caused her to marry at all. 
 
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 And this brings us to the third great new 
 discovery: 
 
 You Get What You Want Most 
 
 ^ This newest, hitherto unpublished and 
 most far-reaching of all the discoveries con- 
 cerning the laws of human life is that every 
 human being GETS his supreme subcon- 
 scious wish. 
 
 At first glance he may question this; but 
 five minutes of honest self-inventory serves 
 to convince every person that it is literally, 
 utterly true. 
 
 You, for instance, may say, " That can't 
 be true. Why, I wanted a college education 
 more than I wanted anything else in the world . 
 I have wanted it for years and I have failed 
 to get it!" 
 
 You are sincere in saying this — just as 
 you have been sincere all the time in telling 
 the same thing to yourself and your friends. 
 
 But if you will look deep into your own 
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 heart you will find that at least one other 
 desire — perhaps a dozen of them — takes 
 precedence, in your secret list, of this desire 
 for a college education. 
 
 You may never have stopped to think of 
 it before (and the probabilities are you have 
 said it so often you fully believe it) but when 
 you come right down to it, there are several 
 things you want more than you want that 
 college education. Yes, I know, something 
 was always happening to prevent your going 
 to college. There always is something happen- 
 ing to prevent things, and it prevents them 
 too — all but your real wish! 
 
 When things happen to that, you go right 
 over them. You find a way out. You do 
 something to counteract it. You invariably 
 ride over the difficulty — and do it! 
 
 From Observation 
 
 <& During the past ten years at least a hun- 
 dred men and women have told us " the only 
 
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 thing on earth they had wanted most was to 
 go to college but it had been impossible/ ' 
 
 What were the psychological facts? 
 
 One young man who vehemently denied 
 at first that he had ever desired anything as 
 much as a college education, finally said that 
 he believed he wanted to get married more 
 than he wanted an education. This was the 
 reason for his marrying instead of going to 
 college S3 S3 
 
 Another who was certain that nothing had 
 ever superseded his desire to go to college 
 realized that what he had really wanted most 
 was to travel. He hoped to go abroad and had 
 decided a college education would help to 
 give him a keener appreciation of the things 
 he expected to see in his travels. 
 
 When he was given a position which took 
 him several times a year to London and Paris, 
 he subconsciously gave up the college idea, 
 though continuing consciously to think and 
 to declare that it was a great disappointment. 
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 These are not deliberate deceptions we 
 practise upon ourselves and our friends. We 
 know very little about our real selves until 
 we study the human sciences. The result is 
 that only an occasional individual ever meets 
 the stranger that lives in his skin! 
 
 What You Really Want 
 
 <I A man once said to us, "I can not believe 
 that every person gets his supreme, sub- 
 conscious wish. I have loved a woman for 
 eight years. My subconscious wish was to 
 have her. I have n't gotten her, and what 
 is more, it does n't look as though I ever 
 would. Yet I have tried with all my might 
 to win her." 
 
 We explained to him this other great law: 
 Our supreme subconscious wish is never 
 for any specific thing or person but for a con- 
 dition, a certain avenue of self-expression. 
 The supreme wish saturates the subcon- 
 scious mind but the subconscious mind never 
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 knows nor cares anything about details 
 nor the fine points concerned with methods. 
 All it knows is overwhelming desire for a 
 certain kind of satisfaction for your per- 
 sonality as a whole. 
 
 The conscious mind supplies methods, 
 means, the vehicles for realizing these sub- 
 conscious desires. 
 
 Your Special Train 
 
 <I These two great minds of ours may be 
 likened to the equipment of a freight train. 
 The subconscious mind supplies the steam, 
 the going power, the forces necessary to your 
 arriving at a certain destination. 
 
 It is unlike steam in this, however: it knows 
 the general direction in which you want to 
 go and is concentrated on your getting there. 
 But it allows the engineer (your conscious 
 mind) to select the crew, the paraphernalia 
 for the journey and to take whichever one of 
 the tracks it prefers. 
 
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 But it gives you no peace save when you 
 are traveling in the general direction of its 
 {and your) subconscious aim! 
 
 It stays out of sight, but goads, drives and 
 lashes you whenever you start down a side- 
 track — and gives you its full help only when 
 you get back on the main line. 
 
 What He Really Wanted 
 
 <& What this man really wanted was not this, 
 nor any one specific woman, but some gen- 
 eral kind of self-expression for his personality 
 which he considered the possession of her 
 would make possible for him. In other words, 
 she was what every individual is to the sub- 
 conscious mind of his lover — the means to an 
 end S3 S& 
 
 No adult man or woman lives who sub- 
 consciously loves another man or woman. 
 The subconscious knows no individuals as 
 such. It is not concerned with the personnel 
 of anything — only with results. 
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 Your subconscious knows no one but you. 
 It has no desire, no religion, no aim, no 
 interest save the accomplishment of your 
 wants. You are its world, its master, its 
 adored. The result of the universe is, to your 
 subconscious mind, only a place in which 
 you function, a stage on which you act, the 
 world in which you live and move and have 
 your being. 
 
 Self and the Subconscious 
 
 <I " Where do I come in? " is the first question 
 your mind puts to everything you ever hear, 
 everything that is broached to you, every- 
 thing that comes within the range of your 
 consciousness. . 
 
 If you can not see wherein you are going to 
 get self-expression of some sort you stay away 
 from it. Even our most generous acts are 
 performed more for our own self-expression 
 than for the persons for whom we do them. 
 
 The man who gives his money to the poor 
 
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 and dies penniless has not really sacrificed 
 himself. His supreme subconscious desire 
 was for that kind of self-expression. He was 
 happiest that way and did it because he 
 could find more happiness in that than in 
 keeping it for himself. 
 
 In other words, he bought, with his money, 
 the thing that appealed most to him, and 
 though in so doing he proved himself a higher, 
 finer nature than the average, and deserves 
 our admiration and respect as a superman, 
 he is not to be credited with self-sacrifice. 
 
 What we call self-sacrifice is always the 
 sacrifice of something the individual wants 
 for something he wants more — therefore is 
 not self-sacrifice at all. 
 
 Supermen and Super women 
 
 <$ The big thing we must not overlook in this 
 new understanding is that the individual 
 who prefers to use his money this way, who 
 gets his greatest happiness out of helping 
 
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 others is a highly evolved individual, far 
 ahead of his time — spiritual in the highest, 
 finest sense, sympathetic, superhuman. 
 
 You need not regret that you can no longer 
 credit him with self-sacrifice. This kind of 
 human being is far more admirable than one 
 who would reverse God's first law of self- 
 preservation. We know it is God's law 
 because He puts it into every living organism. 
 
 Your first duty is to yourself — to make 
 yourself the highest, best, biggest and 
 broadest being you can be; and the proof of 
 this lies in every living thing in the universe. 
 
 You can never help humanity very much 
 till you can walk alone. Your first duty there- 
 fore, to the world and to yourself, is to 
 learn to stand alone! Don't lop and lean and 
 loll on other people. 
 
 First, develop your own backbone. Then, 
 as you go along, help everybody, inspire 
 everybody, uplift everybody — and don't for- 
 get to start! 
 
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 Don't make the mistake that thousands 
 of well-meaning people have — of waiting till 
 your own life is perfect before beginning to 
 give others a lift. 
 
 " You will pass this way but once," so 
 scatter real help as you travel, but keep your 
 life-belt on! Keep your head up, your eyes 
 open, your heart gentle — but keep climbing! 
 
 What Mark Twain Said 
 
 f If you would like to see what a great 
 thinker says about these real human motives 
 read the book Mark Twain wrote and which 
 he directed should not be published till five 
 years after his death, "What Is Man?" 
 In it he shows you, in better words than 
 we can, how every act of every human being 
 is for " the contentment of his own spirit." 
 
 The Real Reason 
 
 <§ What about the man who thought his 
 supreme subconscious wish had been for the 
 
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 woman he had courted eight years and did n't 
 get? 33 53 
 
 He loved her with the only force an adult 
 loves with — his conscious mind. His supreme 
 subconscious wish was for this particular 
 kind of self-expression which he consciously 
 decided such a mate would give him. 
 
 Consciously, therefore, he loved her person- 
 ally, individually, devotedly. His subcon- 
 scious mind, which can love none other than 
 the person to whom it belongs, had no 
 interest in her save as she promised to 
 gratify that supreme subconscious wish for 
 this particular kind of self-expression. 
 
 That this was precisely the situation was 
 proved recently, when this very man was 
 married to another woman, much like the 
 one he had wooed so long — and whom he now 
 feels he loved more than he loved the first. 
 
 11 I realize fully now," he said not long ago, 
 " that my supreme subconscious wish has 
 always been for the kind of home-life these 
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 women would make possible/' Any woman 
 who gave evidence of fulfilling this wish would 
 have gotten a proposal out of this man. 
 
 Why and Whom We Love 
 
 1$ Though it is a startling, and to many 
 a shocking fact, it is nevertheless true that 
 the people we love are desired, not for them- 
 selves but for ourselves, and loved to the 
 extent that they, directly or indirectly, aid in 
 our own self-expression. 
 
 All of which proves again how the beloved 
 ego in each of us makes or mars our world. 
 
 The child loves best the parent who most 
 aids it in expressing itself. The man loves 
 best those women who aid most in his self- 
 expression. Women love best those men who 
 aid them most in their self-expression. 
 
 Every unmated person is seeking, as we 
 have seen, a lover who recapitulates the 
 symbol of his first great love. 
 
 But such a one, even if found, will never 
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 bring him continued happiness unless he be, 
 in addition to this symbol, of a biological 
 type which automatically aids in the self- 
 expression of his mate. 
 
 When a man finds a woman who recreates 
 his love-symbol he can love her instantaneous- 
 ly, but if her biological type is such that she 
 can not aid in his continued self-expression 
 he will eventually tire of her. The more she 
 obstructs his self-expression, the sooner will 
 he tire 3& 33 
 
 If she not only refuses to yield herself as an 
 aid to the expression of his type and subcon- 
 scious wish, but insists upon changes in him 
 which enable her to express her own, he will 
 gradually grow to dislike her. If she keeps 
 it up he will ultimately, subconsciously hate 
 her, though she be the mother of his children! 
 
 Types and Marriage 
 
 <I The matter of biological types is too 
 extensive to go into here and has been fully 
 
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 explained in our course, " The Five Human 
 Types." 33 33 
 
 The present course deals with man's sub- 
 conscious mind, but if you are interested to 
 further understand human types and their 
 effect upon our love-life, see " Types that 
 Should and Should Not Marry Each Other," 
 Lesson VI of the above mentioned course. 
 
 Why People Do Not Marry 
 
 <I Whenever an individual goes through life 
 without marrying it is not because he does 
 not desire a mate, but because marriage with 
 any of the people he has seen would, in his 
 opinion, interfere with his supreme subcon- 
 scious wish 33 33 
 
 Every unmated person desires a mate, but 
 if he desires something else more — that is, if 
 the desire for a mate is not his supremest 
 desire — he will not marry until he finds some 
 one who he is convinced will not interfere 
 with his supreme subconscious wish. 
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 Why Others Marry 
 
 <I Many men and women mate with one who 
 does not remind them of their subconscious 
 love-symbol, and they marry knowing this. 
 
 Whenever this happens it is because the 
 finding of a mate who shall repeat this love- 
 symbol is not this person's supremest wish. 
 He feels that the one he has chosen will aid 
 in that supreme wish, whatever it may be, 
 and strikes a compromise. 
 
 Since that supreme wish is for something 
 which to him is more desirable than the 
 possession of an ideal mate he sacrifices the 
 lesser to the greater. You do the same thing 
 in every decision of your life. 
 
 Why You Give Up Things 
 
 <I You want many things,but you always give 
 up those you want less for those you want 
 most. Thus, in the by-and-large of your life 
 you do what you want to do; you get the 
 things you really want. 
 
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 If you are unsuccessful it is because there 
 was i one or many things you wanted more 
 than you wanted success. 
 
 Look back over your life and you will say 
 that in your life as a whole you have been 
 doing those things which, in general, appealed 
 to you more than the kinds of things you 
 refused to do. 
 
 Perhaps you want money and yet are poor. 
 
 But no one ever had a supreme subcon- 
 scious wish for money. The subconscious, 
 as has been stated, knows nothing of things, 
 details, or the concrete. It knows only certain 
 fundamentals — those big, basic urges of your 
 personality. 
 
 It knows many of these but takes it upon 
 itself to fulfill in your life the one which, 
 above all others, you want most. It has never 
 heard of money and never can, for money, as 
 money, is nothing but worthless chunks of 
 metal and useless pieces of paper. Even your 
 conscious mind, which does know and deals 
 
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 with money, does not want money but only 
 the self-expression which money would bring. 
 
 Since the subconscious gets for you what- 
 ever you want most, if the thing you want 
 most is of such a nature that you have got 
 to have money to get it, your subconscious 
 will find a way for you to make money. 
 
 It can find the means to any end you 
 supremely, subconsciously demand. It will 
 do so by keeping your eyes open for oppor- 
 tunities furthering this end. 
 
 It deals only with ultimates. Money, which 
 has less intrinsic and ultimate value than 
 almost anything with which we come in 
 contact, is never in any man's supreme sub- 
 conscious wish as such. It is not even in 
 the supreme wish of the miser, but is desired 
 and obtained by him wholly and solely as a 
 means to protection. (The miser is always the 
 result of a fixed fear — the fear of poverty — 
 the product of a poverty-stricken childhood.) 
 
 But because the fear-attitude prevents 
 
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 great results in any direction, the miser, with 
 all his skimping, never makes a great deal 
 of money 33 33 
 
 No self-made millionaire in the world ever 
 cared for money as money. He had some 
 kind of supreme subconscious wish requiring 
 money for its full expression. It is precisely 
 this which, every rich person will tell you, 
 drove him to make money. 
 
 Once it is made very few very rich people 
 care for money. They conserve it only in so far 
 as its conservation serves that same original 
 wish 33 33 
 
 Fame Through Fortune 
 
 <I Here is a man whose supremest subcon- 
 scious wish is for fame. His subconscious, 
 which knows and remembers everything 
 about him, contains the necessary elements 
 and brings them to the surface as they are 
 needed 33 33 
 
 He has certain gifts, talents, abilities. He 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 lacks certain others. The quickest and surest 
 route to the materialization of his supreme 
 wish is through these talents. His subcon- 
 scious suggests these routes. 
 
 If these talents are superior he will rise to 
 fame through them. The greater these talents 
 the greater the urge to express them and the 
 greater his ability to serve, entertain, amuse, 
 or enlighten the world. In return, the world 
 applauds him, gives him fame, pays him 
 well — and his supreme wish is gratified. 
 
 People are always glad to pay for what 
 they like. The public is always generous to 
 the able man. Whether or not he cares very 
 much about money he is glad to have the 
 public's money purely as a proof that he has 
 succeeded — that his ego has satisfied itself, 
 proven to itself that it can do this thing. 
 
 Ambitious Americans 
 
 <I In America success is all too often measured 
 by money. Since money is the great Ameri- 
 
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 can standard, and since every ambitious 
 individual desires to live up to the standards 
 of his environment, the ambitious American 
 is compelled to seek money. 
 
 Let a man with a message attempt to carry 
 that message to the American public. Though 
 it be the greatest message in the world, that 
 public will not ask " How much good does 
 this man do? " It will not even ask " What is 
 his message about? " 
 
 This public will ask but one question. That 
 question will consist of six words: " How 
 much money does he make? " 
 
 Though you produce the greatest thing 
 that has yet been produced, the American 
 public will have none of it nor you if you can 
 not make it pay financially. 
 
 In self-defence, therefore, any person who 
 has a great message to give to America is 
 compelled to make that message pay. He 
 must have the confidence of the public, as 
 does any man who aspires to help the world. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 It is inconceivable to the average American 
 that you could have anything worth while 
 unless you are making a financial success 
 of your life. 
 
 Instead of railing at the one who makes a 
 great deal of money, use that energy to re- 
 educate the public if you are really in earnest. 
 
 If You Want Money 
 
 ^ If you want money you must do what every 
 person did who ever made money: produce 
 something the world wants and knows it 
 wants. The world is always willing and glad 
 to pay for what it really wants. 
 
 But it is determined not to pay for what 
 it does not want, just because you want or 
 need the money. And you can't blame it, 
 can you? S3 S& 
 
 Remember, you can only get money via 
 the world. For it you must give value received. 
 To do that easiest and quickest, you must 
 make your supreme subconscious wish into 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 a real desire to produce something the world 
 needs. Once you have done this, the same 
 forces which have always and will forever 
 bring your supreme wish to pass in your life 
 will point the way. 
 
 Your Successful Subconscious 
 
 ^ Let us repeat: Your supreme subconscious 
 wish dictates your life. It permits nothing 
 seriously to interfere with its materialization. 
 It is autocratic, implacable. What you want 
 most of all y as a condition in your life, it 
 will get for you. 
 
 In the getting you are often compelled to 
 forego many or hundreds of things you want, 
 but want less. 
 
 Your subconscious causes you to sacrifice 
 these many things, and all things, if neces- 
 sary, to the accomplishment of this supremest 
 desire S3 S3 
 
 You must relinquish this, sacrifice that, 
 forego the other. You feel all this in the 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 depths of you. You do not like giving up the 
 eating of your cake but — if you want the 
 cake more than you want the pleasure 
 of eating it, you will not eat it. Your sub- 
 conscious and supreme wish will not permit 
 you to. You made this choice yourself. Your 
 subconscious takes you at your word, and 
 not only relieves you of most of the labor by 
 performing it itself, but refuses to permit you 
 to greatly interfere with its activities. 
 
 Your conscious mind may falter and fail, 
 but your subconscious, once saturated with 
 your supremest desire, is always successful. 
 
 Subconscious of the Successful 
 
 <I The most successful men and women, once 
 they have decided on their supreme aim, auto- 
 matically adapt themselves to this great law. 
 Every successful person that ever lived 
 gave up many things for the sake of his big 
 ambition. At first he did so consciously. He 
 had many backslidings. But as time went on 
 
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 his conscious and subconscious minds worked 
 in such unison that his subconscious sentinel 
 learned at last habitually to turn away from 
 the door of his mind the things that would 
 interfere with the big desire, without his ever 
 being conscious of making a decision. 
 
 This is the secret of the great concentration, 
 the " one-pointed' ' mind, the keen thought- 
 capacity of every successful person. 
 
 His mind is not necessarily superior to 
 that of the average man, but he does what 
 the average man fails to do — keeps the decks 
 clear and ready for business. He keeps out 
 of his mind, automatically, habitually, con- 
 sciously and unconsciously the thieves that 
 would steal his mental energy. 
 
 After a time his subconscious becomes so 
 expert that it short-circuits most of the waste- 
 ful, inimical things that are headed for his 
 mental house, thus conserving his mentality 
 for the constructive, the worth while, the 
 big thing in that man's life. 
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 The subconscious performs, in addition 
 to all its other services, the function of an 
 expert private secretary guarding the front 
 office of the mind. He permits no visitor to 
 interrupt the president in his private office 
 when he is at work. 
 
 Thus is the president (his conscious mind) 
 enabled to think out the plans, the ways, 
 means and methods for making him a success. 
 
 Your Wish is a Want 
 
 <$ The reason your subconscious attains for 
 you your supremest wish is that this deepest 
 desire of your life is not a mere wish at all, but 
 a goading, driving, overwhelming want. 
 
 It is necessary, up to this point, because 
 of the inadequacy of language, to call this 
 a wish. But from this moment onward we 
 shall call it what it is — the supreme subcon- 
 scious want. There is a world of difference 
 between wishing and wanting. 
 
 When you wish for a thing you get it — 
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 sometimes. When you want a thing you 
 always get it. For a want is not a mere 
 surface feeling, but a deep, desperate craving 
 that demands not things nor people, nor 
 trifling details, but great general outlets of 
 self-expression. You must satisfy the greatest 
 one or die. 
 
 This supreme want is far more important 
 than life itself to many human beings. 
 
 These are the supreme successes. They had 
 rather die than miss their goal. The man who 
 wants a thing more than he wants life is 
 filled with an enthusiasm so irresistible that 
 it literally burns away all obstacles from his 
 pathway S& S& 
 
 What and Why is the Suicide ? 
 
 <I The psychology of the suicide has been till 
 now a mystery. 
 
 11 No clue to the motive, " say a man's 
 friends when they can find no cause for his 
 desire to die. How seldom does the world 
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 ever guess the real reason for those sufferings 
 which so rack a human soul that it re- 
 linquishes life rather than bear them! How 
 seldom indeed does the man himself know 
 the subconscious source of this urge, beside 
 which life itself seems trivial. 
 
 Yet today we know that every person who 
 commits suicide does so only after he becomes 
 overpowered with the conviction that he can 
 never achieve his supreme subconscious want. 
 
 The Woman Suicide 
 
 <I The woman who commits suicide because 
 her lover has deserted her does so because 
 she is convinced that she has lost the only 
 person through whom her demand for a 
 particular kind of self-expression can be met. 
 She does not think this out. All she knows 
 is that she wants this particular kind of mate, 
 or the particular life that he can give her. 
 Her subconscious want is so strong that it 
 has risen to the surface of her conscious mind 
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 and is there recognized by her for what it is — 
 the one thing which makes life worth while. 
 
 Her error lies in the delusion that this 
 individual is the only individual through 
 whom she can attain this particular kind 
 of self-expression, this particular response. 
 
 Many a woman who has attempted suicide 
 and been saved by resuscitation, or because 
 the bullet went wild of its mark, has lived to 
 realize that this man was, to her subconscious 
 self, only the means to an end; that her fixa- 
 tion upon him resulted from this subcon- 
 scious certainty of his exclusive ability to 
 furnish her with an avenue for self-expression. 
 
 She learns later that the world contains 
 others who will serve this purpose as well, 
 many of whom are far superior to the man she 
 once thought indispensable to her existence. 
 
 The " Money" Suicide 
 
 <§ u Women commit suicide because of love 
 troubles; men because of money troubles/ ' 
 
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 say the statistics. Here again we see the work- 
 ing of the supreme want. 
 
 The supreme subconscious want of woman 
 is more often bound up with love than that 
 of men and, of necessity, must be. She is the 
 mother of the race, the propagation of which 
 depends largely on her love-life. But the 
 support of the home, the securing of life's 
 necessities, is more often man's mission than 
 woman's, and its full expression depends 
 indirectly upon money and the success which 
 money implies. 
 
 When a man commits suicide because of 
 money-troubles it is never because he feels he 
 can not live without the money, but because 
 he feels he can not live and face the disgrace, 
 humiliation or shame the money loss would 
 mean 33 33 
 
 In every such case his supreme subconscious 
 want is for something which only money, 
 directly or indirectly, can provide. 
 
 We choose the lesser evil always; or rather, 
 
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 we choose the evil which to us appears to be 
 the lesser. The standard is the supreme sub- 
 conscious want. Everything is measured by 
 its capacity to further that want. We make 
 our own choices. Each individual who is not 
 feeble-minded determines the course of his 
 own life, and does so as much by the things he 
 unconsciously leaves undone as by the things 
 he consciously, volitionally chooses to do. 
 
 Why Are We Unhappy ? 
 
 <J If each of us is getting his supreme subcon- 
 scious want why are so many of us unhappy? 
 The answer is evident. 
 
 This supreme subconscious want in each 
 of us is a primal, instinctive thing. It may be 
 founded in high, recent and civilized instincts, 
 and often is; but much more often the deepest 
 desire of the average organism is for the grati- 
 fication of a primitive, uncivilized instinct, 
 urge or tendency. 
 
 These primitive instincts are out of place 
 
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 in the world of today. Our training is against 
 them; our cultivated ideals are against them; 
 society in general is against them. But the 
 law of the supreme subconscious want is 
 immutable 53 S3 
 
 If this primitive thing is what he really 
 wants more than anything else in the world, 
 the law brings it to pass in his life. If it is too 
 far removed from modern instincts his family, 
 his friends and the world will call him a 
 coward, a ne'er-do-well, a beast or a criminal 
 — depending upon the particular instinct 
 which, out of the primitive group, is most 
 over-developed in him. 
 
 All the while he will be wishing to live up 
 to his higher instincts. He has many others of 
 high order. One of these — and it exists in every 
 human being — is the instinct of approbation. 
 
 He wishes the approval of his fellows; he 
 wishes to do and be and have the things that 
 make them like, admire, respect and follow 
 him; but his supreme want must and will 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 express itself. All its enemies must go by the 
 board. He makes excuses, he equivocates, he 
 apologizes, he tries to justify his failures to 
 the world, whose opinion he so much values. 
 
 Most of all, he suffers. 
 
 But he feels that he suffers less than he 
 would were he to give up his supremest 
 want — so he pays the price. 
 
 Sympathy, Not Censure 
 
 <R How sad a sight is this suffering man — 
 existing in the twentieth century but living 
 in primitive ages! 
 
 What a contrast to that fortunate one 
 whose supreme subconscious want is in 
 harmony with modern standards, whose 
 deepest desire happens to be toward the 
 production of those things the world needs. 
 
 Give him the laurels he has won, but don't 
 forget to give to the other the sympathy and 
 understanding to which every unsuccessful 
 soul is entitled. 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 Through this you may reach his feeling, 
 subconscious mind, and once there you may, 
 with patience and earnestness, help him to 
 change the subconscious desire which has 
 ruled and ruined his life. 
 
 How to Help Humanity 
 
 <][ Parents, teachers, preachers — the whole 
 world — may talk, argue, beseech, implore, 
 preach to the weak of the desirability of better 
 things, but you will never help him appreci- 
 ably until you induce him to change his 
 supreme subconscious desire. 
 
 The trouble with most of those who have 
 tried to make men see the error of their ways 
 was not lack of arguments, intellect, nor 
 faithfulness. Thousands of high-minded men 
 and women who earnestly desired to help 
 others have had all these, and failed to under- 
 stand the ineffectiveness of their efforts. 
 
 The explanation lies in human psychology. 
 Reasons, arguments, facts and illustrations 
 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 are things which appeal not to the subcon- 
 scious, but to the conscious mind. 
 
 To change a man's supreme subconscious 
 want from low to high, from weak to strong, 
 from evil to good, you must reach his sub- 
 conscious mind. 
 
 To reach any individual's subconscious 
 mind you must talk the language of the sub- 
 conscious, which is not thought but feeling. 
 
 As stated many times before in this course, 
 the subconscious mind is not a thinking, 
 intellectual mind, but a feeling, instinctive 
 mind. It is not appealed to by reason but by 
 " the spirit " of a thing. It is deaf to thoughts, 
 but keenly alert to emotions. 
 
 You will never be able to help humanity rise 
 to better things until you learn to deal with 
 men and women from your heart to theirs. 
 
 The Spirit of Sincerity 
 
 ^ This is the real explanation of the magic 
 of sincerity. When a man is sincere, we do not 
 
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 so much think it as feel it. His heart is right, 
 and our own communes with it. Words and 
 phrases are weak, thin and pale beside that 
 emotional certainty. 
 
 To convince, to inspire, to help another, 
 to change his subconscious content, you must 
 feel what you are saying. You must mean it. 
 Your interest must be real. It must be genuine. 
 
 To Help Yourself 
 
 <I To help yourself you must do exactly the 
 same thing in the same way and with the 
 same feeling. You must think of yourself as 
 two persons, which in reality you are: the 
 weak self and the strong. 
 
 Put you strong self at the helm. Make up 
 your mind that that strong self is going to 
 dictate your life hereafter. 
 
 Treat your weaker self as though it were 
 another individual — an individual whose 
 faults threaten to ruin your life. 
 
 You are going to be fair to this individual, 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 to recognize that he is the product of primitive 
 ages and therefore not responsible for his 
 weaknesses. But you are not going to allow 
 him to wreck your twentieth-century life. 
 
 You must first want to help yourself. Then 
 you must realize that you can remake your 
 life. You must feel it, believe it, know it. 
 
 You want happiness, not mere gratifica- 
 tion of an instinct; and it is happiness you 
 must have to stay well, to achieve, to realize 
 your best, to really live. 
 
 If your subconscious want clashes with 
 your ideals you must and can change that 
 subconscious want for a better one. 
 
 " Can it be done? " you say. 
 
 It has, and is being done every day by 
 thousands of men and women whose instincts 
 are just as out of date as yours. 
 
 You have a brain, a mind, a spirit. It is for 
 you to decide whether you will live in the 
 basement of your lower nature or in the sun 
 parlors of your highest self. 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 
 
 All these instincts, including the one that 
 has been ruining your life, are under the 
 full control of your conscious mind at any 
 moment you desire to use that power. 
 
 Until recent years science had not dis- 
 covered what it was that was wrecking human 
 lives, and only recently did we discover 
 how to remedy it when we did know. It is 
 only just now that we have discovered the 
 laws given in this lesson whereby we can 
 easily and quickly remake our lives. The 
 greatest of all these discoveries is that you can 
 
 Change Your Subconscious Want 
 
 flf You can change the content of your great 
 subconscious mind and direct its forces toward 
 the achievement of any goal you desire. 
 
 If you will have faith, patience, and even 
 a little determination, you can drain out of 
 it the things you do not wish to keep and fill 
 its batteries with the positive power you need 
 for the accomplishment of your highest aims. 
 
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 To Change Your Subconscious Want 
 
 f& To change your subconscious want from 
 evil to good, from destructive to constructive, 
 you need only to use the shortest, surest, 
 swiftest inlet by which anything enters your 
 subconsciousness — your conscious mind. 
 
 The conscious mind is the president of 
 your corporation. It has the brains and 
 intelligence fitted to cope with modern life 
 and your personal problems. 
 
 Your subconscious is but the great factory 
 which carries out the president's orders. It is 
 obedient to his will and his demands, exactly 
 as the privates are obedient to the com- 
 mander-in-chief of an army. 
 
 The average man, or woman, makes a 
 failure of his life because he allows his con- 
 scious mind to abdicate, after which the mob 
 in his primitive subconscious mutinies. 
 
 Stop wallowing in the trenches of your 
 subconscious and take command of that 
 army. Consciously decide what it is that 
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 your standards demand, and then apply the 
 great laws to enforce your orders exactly as 
 a general relies upon the laws of court-martial 
 when necessary with his army. 
 
 Making Life a Masterpiece 
 
 flf After you have decided what your stan- 
 dards and ideals demand; after you have 
 realized that you, like thousands of others, 
 can get whatever you want, whenever that 
 want becomes the supreme one in your sub- 
 conscious mind, set about changing the old 
 want for the new. You can do so by the very 
 simple but stupendous law of suggestion. 
 
 That law is this: Whatever your conscious 
 mind affirms, visualizes and suggests to the 
 subconscious, the subconscious will build 
 into your life. 
 
 Suggest to your own subconscious that 
 
 this thing which you want you are going to 
 
 have; that nothing shall prevent it; that it is 
 
 already coming true in your life. Whenever 
 
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 a thought to the contrary enters your mind 
 eject it, not by force, but by turning your 
 attention to the thing you want. 
 
 Talk, walk, act, speak, and think as you 
 believe that better self will when full grown. 
 
 Because the subconscious mind can not 
 resist repeated suggestions from you, it will 
 begin to take on the new qualities. You will 
 see some of its results within a day; more in 
 a week, many in a month, and in a year will 
 have so greatly altered your life, capacities, 
 and powers that yours will be a new world. 
 
 Your new and strong subconscious want, 
 becoming at last embedded in the subcon- 
 scious, will, of its own force, bring itself to 
 pass in your life exactly as the old and out- 
 grown desire once did. 
 
 Thus will you attain your supreme wish; 
 thus will you be happy; thus and thus only 
 will you become good, and great, and glori- 
 ously strong. Thus you may and shall make 
 of your life a masterpiece. 
 
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