LESSON X
HOW TO CONTROL THOUGHT
BEFORE considering how thought may be controlled let us fully understand what thought is. In the first place, it is, in the sense in which it is here used, the power of thinking. It is the exercise of the faculty that enables us to compare, to contrast one thing with another, such as differentiating between right and wrong; the power of arguing from premises and drawing conclusions from the argument.
In order to be able to think, we must have knowledge; in order that knowledge may be of use, we must be able to conceive and apply it; in order that it may be so conceived and
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