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As has already been said, the mind may originate thought within itself independent of any suggestion from an external source, and it is therefore correct to say that we often "feel" pure thought; that is, we recognize the changed physical conditions following that thinking which had no cause outside of the mind.1 This is necessarily the case because, as Professor James says,

This mental consciousness of the new bodily conditions which have been caused by thinking constitutes what we call " feeling "; and a person speaks as accurately when he says," I feel sad because of the loss of a friend," as when he says,

"I feel hurt because of a blow." In both cases the words are used to designate the mental consciousness of certain new physical conditions, and include in their meaning both the conditions and the consciousness of the changes.

In one case it is thinking that has changed the bodily conditions; in the other it is thinking also, but we attribute the change to the blow.

"All mental states are followed by bodily activity of some sort." That it was thinking, even though unnoticed, which caused the feeling and its peculiarities is shown by the fact that, if thoughts consciously in the mind are changed, the feelings will change with the change of thought.

It is thinking alone which originates feeling and afterwards becomes aware of it. The mind even notes its own action as well as the actions of the various portions of the body and of external things; and each of these three may cause further action in the mind, to be followed by other and consequent action in the body.

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There is no more fitting counsel for the close of this book than is contained in the following words from The School of Life, by William R. Alger: --

"And now there is one more lesson for us to learn, the climax of all the rest; namely, to make a personal application to ourselves of everything which we know. Unless we master this lesson, and act on it, the other lessons are virtually useless, and thus robbed of their essential glory. The only living end or aim of everything we experience, of every truth we are taught, is the practical use we make of it for the enrichment of the soul, the attuning of the thoughts and passions, the exaltation of life. . . . When we do what we know, then first does it put on vital lustre and become divinely precious."