. Secrets of mental supremacy . e seemedto be conducive to increased mentalefficiency. It is said that there is no royal roadto learning; and while in a sense thisis true, it is also true that, in all things,even in mind training, there is a rightway and a wrong way—or rather thereis one right way, and there are a thou-sand wrong ways. Now, after trying, it seems to me,most of the wrong ways, I have found INTRODUCTION. what I believe to be the right way; andin these articles I shall try to expoundit to you. You need not expect anessay on psychology or a series of dis-sertations upon the ^^facu
. Secrets of mental supremacy . e seemedto be conducive to increased mentalefficiency. It is said that there is no royal roadto learning; and while in a sense thisis true, it is also true that, in all things,even in mind training, there is a rightway and a wrong way—or rather thereis one right way, and there are a thou-sand wrong ways. Now, after trying, it seems to me,most of the wrong ways, I have found INTRODUCTION. what I believe to be the right way; andin these articles I shall try to expoundit to you. You need not expect anessay on psychology or a series of dis-sertations upon the ^^faculties of themind^; for there will be nothing of thekind. On the other hand, I shall, sofar as possible, avoid text-book termsand the text-book tone—both of whichare quite absurd and quite futile. Ishall try to give you bare facts. I shalltry to give you plain directions,stripped of all verbal and pseudo-scien-tific flummery, for the acquisition ofmental activity and mental supremacy. W. R. C. Latson, New York City. MIND AND ITS MATERIAL. IRST of all, before youare able to think at all,you must have some-thing to think about. Youmust have some mental^^stock in trade/^ Andthis mental stock in trade you can gainonly through the senses. The appear-ance of a tree, the roar of the ocean, theodor of a rose, the taste of an orange,the sensation you experience in han-dling a piece of satin—all these are somuch material helping to form yourstock of mental images—^^the contentof the consciousness,^ as the scholasticpsychologists call it. Now, all these millions and millionsof facts which make up our mental stockin trade—^the material of thought—are SECRETS OF gained through the senses, sight, hear-ing, smell, taste, touch, and so on. Value of the Perceptions. In a recent article in a leadingFrench scientific journal, a well-knownscientist. Dr. A. Peres, has presentedsome ideas which are so thoroughly inaccord with my own observations ex-tending over many years, that
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