"How To Develop Positive Thinking, Right and Wrong Thinking & Their Results..."

Additional and final proof of the truth of this proposition is found in the fact that if we remove the mind, as in death, the body cannot move.

The nerves, muscles, tendons, and bones are parts of the machine -- wonderful though inert -- which the mind uses. In itself alone no portion of this machine has any more power than a crowbar when it is not grasped by the hand of the laborer.

All acts are due to motive, and are the expression design on the part of the actor. This is as true of the simplest as of the most complex actions of animals, whether consciously or unconsciously. The action of the Amoeba in engulfing in its jelly, is as much designed as the diplomacy of the statesman, or the investigation of the scientist." But motive is a kind of thinking or a state of mind, and thus this statement by Cope, while it includes all the actions of the entire animal kingdom under one general proposition, declares that they are ail due to mind and its action.

The investigations of physiologists show how surpassingly wonderful is the force of mind when acting in connection with motion of the hand, even when looked at from a material point of view. The forearm, considered mechanically, is a lever. The distance to the fulcrum from the point where the power is applied is, we may say, an inch.

The distance from the fulcrum to the point where the weight lies in the hand is, say, fifteen inches.

Then, in accordance with mechanical laws, the power put forth by the muscle to raise the weight must be fifteen times as much as the weight itself.

An ordinarily strong man can raise a weight of fifty pounds.

This means that the mind, acting through the muscle, in this instance exerts a force equal to fifteen times fifty, or seven hundred and fifty pounds.