The eyes being closed in the first experiment, you will probably thrust the pencil against the side of the third finger, which is now on the outside of the hand. Explain this little mistake. Exercise No. 5. With eyes closed, place several objects, promiscuously and separated, upon a table. The eyes still being closed, move the right hand lightly over the objects and endeavor to estimate the several distances which separate them. Do not measure by length of hand or finger. Repeat the exercise with the left hand. Keep the question in mind: which hand is more nearly correct in judgment. Repeat every day for ten days, with rest, and on the tenth day note improvement. Exercise No. 6. While your eyes are closed, ask a friend to present to you, so that you can examine by touch alone, but not by taking in your hand, several small objects, one after another. Now try to determine what the articles are. Examples: small onion, small potato, flower bulb, piece of dry putty, piece of amber, piece of wax; or some sugar, sand, ground pepper, salt, etc. Repeat every day for ten days, with rest, and on the tenth. day note improvement. Exercise No. 7. terial wood, iron Procure small blocks of any maround in shape, and of exactly the same size, but differing slightly in weight. Say two blocks weigh each 1 ounce, two 1 ounces each, two 2 ounces each, and so on to a dozen, always having two blocks of the same weight. Let the weights be stamped or written on one side of the blocks only. Place them promiscuously on a table, blank side up. Close the eyes and at random pick up one block and then a second, using the same hand. Determine by "feel" whether the weights so picked up are equal or not. Estimate the weights in each experiment. Repeat with the left hand. Repeat with both hands, used alternately. Repeat the experiment in all cases many times. Continue every day for ten days, with rest, and on the tenth day note improvement in judgment. Exercise No. 8. Procure twenty-four small wooden models of crystals, cut from blocks about three inches square. Throw them promiscuously all at once upon a table. With eyes closed, take one in the hand and observe the mental picture that arises by the sense of touch. Count the faces, lines, angles. Now open the eyes and note the difference between this mental picture and the reality. This experiment will be difficult because you are not familiar with the forms of crystals, and judgment is left to touch alone. To assist, therefore, look at the crystal models until you are able to shut the eyes and perceive with the eye of the mind the form just examined. Repeat every day for ten days, with rest, and on the tenth day note improvement in judgment. Exercise No. 9. Place a model before you. Now think of a number of bullets, and, while looking intently at the model, try mentally to arrange the bullets in such a way as to build up the outlines of the form of the model. Repeat every day for ten days, with rest, and on the tenth. day note improvement. Exercise No. 10. Draw outlines of the models on paper, without shading. Now gaze steadily at any outline and try to fill out in the mind the solid contents of the model. This requires steadiness of thought and coherence and vividness of imagination. It is therefore difficult, but can be accomplished by persistent effort. The strong Will gives the soul power to see solid mental pictures. The endeavor so to see will develop the Will itself. Repeat every day for ten days, with rest, and on the tenth day note improvement. The last two exercises do not directly involve touch, but readily associate therewith in cultivation of ideas of form. With those that precede them they require keen attention, which is a secondary end in all these pages. No one can master his power of attention without acquiring the masterful Will. trol of others." Exercise No. II. When you shake hands with people, note in their grasp any index of their character that may be suggested. Cultivate the gently-firm grasp. Instantly rebuke the bone-crusher; he has a vice which needs destruction. Is the touch of some hands disagreeable to you? Note in what particulars. Be not ruled by that aversion, but seek such hands, and resolve to throw off the feeling. This may be useful to you in the " conThe effort to overcome an aversion always develops Will. Determine that nothing which you. must touch more or less habitually shall control the sensation which it produces. Let this aversion be a type of all tyrannous aversions. Such an aversion means the inability of a small mind to divert its attention. The really large soul masters irritations and dislikes. But the guide and controller here is Will. Every aversion conquered signifies power of Will increased. "I RESOLVE TO WILL! ATTENTION!!" HARMONY. The mighty whirl of suns and stars Goes ever on. Inflexibly Law crushes discord's evil wars. Inflexibly (no less) law links The vaster movements and the small Thus evil into welfare shrinks. Obey! Not as the slave who hates, -THE AUTHOR. 66 CHAPTER XIV. EXERCISES FOR THE NERves. TANDING at the centre of the universe, a thousand forces come rushing in to report themselves to the sensitive soul-centre. There is a nerve in man that runs out to every room and realm in the universe. "Man's inechanism stands at the centre of the universe with telegraph-lines extending in every direction. It is a marvelous pilgrimage he is making through life while myriad influences stream in upon him. "Some Faraday shows us that each drop of water is a sheath for electric forces sufficient to charge 800,000 Leyden jars, or drive an engine from Liverpool to London. Some Sir William Thomson tells us how hydrogen gas will chew up a large iron spike as a child's molars will chew off the end of a stick of candy."-Newell Dwight Hillis. THEORY OF THIS CHAPTER. Cessation of unnecessary motion conserves force; Control of nerves tones up body and mind, and increases the sum total of personal power; Habituated control of nervous energy exercises and therefore strengthens and regulates the Will. PRELIMINARY. Sir Michael Foster once said: "When physiology is dealing with those parts of the body which we call muscular, |