Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
Date:
1926
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Now it is manifestly no concern of the tele¬ grapher what sort of messages he conveys. They may be good, bad, or indifferent. His job is to transmit all messages as received. If his instrument is working properly and if the line is clear, there is certainly no complaint to be made as to the medium of communication. The trouble, if any, lies with the message itself. One might as well blame the messenger boy who brings the yellow slip of paper telling of a sorrow or tragedy, as to blame our “nerves” for their bad tidings. They are merely telling us the things we ought to know. There is not the slightest indication in the marvelous mechanism of man that he was in¬ tended to become weak, crippled and useless after a comparatively few years. Instead, all the indications are toward progress into a larger, completer, fuller manhood, greater power. We ought to do our best work after fifty, or even after sixty or seventy. Many people actually do this. The elixir of youth which men so long sought in chemicals lies in ourselves.
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