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has ever been able to explain the mystery and yet we accept it as a fact. Do we do this because physiologists tell us it is so? No. We know it through our own inner experience.

For instance. I see a book on the table. I think I would like to examine it. I am conscious of that thought. Then I think I will take it up. I am conscious of that thought also. Then I do take it up and I know, or am conscious, which means the same thing, that my taking up of that book is the result of my first thinking that I would like to see the book, and afterward thinking that I will see it.

I know that my thought has somehow extended my hand toward the table and caused the fingers to close about the book and then my hand has drawn the book toward me. Hundreds of nerves and muscles have been brought into action, and yet I do not know how it was accomplished.

I may have it explained to me how muscles contract and expand and I may see that the entire network of nerves and muscles throughout the body is controlled by thought, but that is not seeing how it is done.

That, it seems, must remain a mystery. But for that reason do we deny it? Not at all! I know of no one who does not acknowledge that thought controls the body; that is, that his thought controls his own body.