How to get what you want / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
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[1917]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get what you want / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    life itself; we cannot image it absent from any atom, molecule, or electron in existence, any more than we can image a spot where the math¬ ematical law does not apply, or that two and two do not make four. Some of our most advanced scientists believe that the cells of the different organs of the body constitute what we may term a com¬ munity mind or brain, which presides over the life and functions of each particular organ. These community brains, such as the stomach, the liver, the kidneys, the heart, get their instructions from the great central station of intelligence,—the brain. Every cell in the body is an energetic little worker, incessantly laboring for the commun¬ ity to which it belongs. Take, for example, the group of cells which form the liver. The office of this organ is to secrete bile, manufac¬ ture sugar, and eliminate poisons which might be fatal to other organs, such as the kidneys. Every cell is occupied in this important work. Another group of these tiny cell workers, that which forms the heart, are continually busy in the service of this great central organ. Its duty is to keep the blood in circulation,
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