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INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL INCIDENTS

Thinking is the initial act of all human actions, but external incidents in many cases precede thinking an 1 provoke it.

Whenever the external suggestive incident is taken into consideration, the order of occurrence is as follows: --

First. The external incident presents itself.

Second. This is followed by thinking of some kind.

Third. Some bodily action takes place which is the result of that thinking.

Fourth. Then occur the events which follow in their natural order.

We see the incident, we think about it, we act; and then follow the events consequent on that action.

The factor governing our action and deciding its character is the thinking and not the occurrence.

It is an error to believe that the incident is the governing power.

We fall into this error because we fail to note the part played by thinking.

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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."