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Professor Gates made some very interesting experiments in this direction.

He provided a spring regulated to maintain an even degree of resistance, and so arranged as to register the number of times it had been pressed down.

A man was required to make depressions of this spring with his finger until, from exhaustion, the finger refused to act.

This was repeated until Gates was able to determine the average number of depressions which the man could make under ordinary circumstances before exhaustion occurred.

Then, at different times afterward, he was asked to think about some subject which would cause discordant thoughts, such as the saddest thing that ever happened to him, or the man he most hated, and on one occasion he was asked to read Dickens's story of the death of Little Nell.

After much thinking on such a topic, so that his mind was filled with the thoughts which it suggested, he was required to depress the spring. The average number of depressions possible under such mental conditions was very much less than he had previously made when his mind was in its usual condition.

On the contrary, harmonious thoughts, as of love, peace, or anything good, raised the number of depressions above the average in a similar large proportion.

A great number of experiments persistently showed similar results. All this seems very wonderful because of the manner in which it is presented, but it is of the same character as indicated by the ordinary experience and observation of every one.

There are multitudes of similar incidents in everyday life. Who has not noticed that far less physical or mental weariness or exhaustion follows an evening thoroughly enjoyed, no matter how hard at work one may be, than follows the same length of time if engaged in some enforced or disagreeable occupation? In one case the thinking is harmonious, and in the other it is discordant.

"Develop Positive Thinking Right And Wrong Thinking and their results..."

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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."