Have you a strong will? or, How to develop and strengthen will-power, memory, or any other faculty or attribute of the mind, by the easy process of self-hypnotism / by Charles Godfrey Leland.

  • Charles Godfrey Leland
Date:
1929
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Credit: Have you a strong will? or, How to develop and strengthen will-power, memory, or any other faculty or attribute of the mind, by the easy process of self-hypnotism / by Charles Godfrey Leland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    made to exactly resemble a screw. Hun¬ dreds of people had, perhaps, seen it, thought they knew all about it, or what it was, and then passed it by, little sus¬ pecting its real value. There is an exact spiritual parallel for this incident or parable of the screw-pencil in innumerable ideas, at which well-nigh everybody in the hurrying stream of life has glanced, yet no one has ever examined, until someone with a poetic spirit of curio¬ sity, or inspired by quaint superstition, pauses, picks one up, looks into it, and finds that it has ingenious use, and is far more than it appeared to be. Thus, if I declare that by special attention to a subject, earnestly turning it over and think¬ ing deeply into it, very remarkable results may be produced, as regards result in knowledge, every human being will assent to it as the veriest truism ever uttered;
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