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within a month, without any further human effort on the part of himself or his friends, and this, after five years of the most strenuous human efforts of lawyers, had failed utterly to bring the truth to light or to release the prisoner.

Some minds are so constituted that they get better results from repeated use of denials; others, from using denials less and affirmations more.

No definite rules can be laid down as to which will work most effectually in each individual case to eradicate apparent evil and bring the good into manifestation, but some little hint that may be helpful can be given.

Denials have an erasive or dissolving tendency. Affirmations build up and give strength and courage and power. People who remember vividly and are inclined to dwell in their thoughts on the pains, sorrows, and troubles of the past or present need to deny a great deal; for denials cleanse the mind and blot out of memory all seeming evil and unhappiness so that they become as a faraway dream. Again, denials are particularly useful to those who are hard or intolerant, or aggressively sinful; to those who, as a result of success, have become overconfident, thinking the human is sufficient in itself for all things; to the selfish and to any who do not scruple to harm others.

Affirmations should be used by the timid and by those who have a feeling of their own inefficiency,