A Book of ExpositionHomer Heath Nugent |
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Page 130 - Just as a bicycle-chain may be too tight, so may one's carefulness and conscientiousness be so tense as to hinder the running of one's mind. Take, for example, periods when there are many successive days of examination impending. One ounce of good nervous tone in an examination is worth many pounds of anxious study for it in advance. If you want really to do your best in an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, " I won't waste another minute on this miserable thing, and...
Page 127 - The gospel of relaxation, as one may call it, is preached in this admirable little volume, which ought to be in the hands of every teacher and student in America of either sex.
Page 124 - We say that so many of our fellow-countrymen collapse, and have to be sent abroad to rest their nerves, because they work so hard. I suspect that this is an immense mistake. I suspect that neither the nature nor the amount of our work is accountable for the frequency and severity of our breakdowns, but that their cause lies rather in those absurd feelings of hurry and having no time, in that breathlessness and tension, that anxiety of feature and that solicitude for results, that lack of inner harmony...
Page 122 - ... half contracted for a rise ; if you breathe eighteen or nineteen instead of sixteen times a minute, and never quite breathe out at that, — what mental mood can you be in but one of inner panting and expectancy, and how can the future and its worries possibly forsake your mind? On the other hand, how can they gain admission to your mind if your brow be unruffled, your respiration calm and complete, and your muscles all relaxed ? Now what is the cause of this absence of repose, this bottled-lightning...
Page 103 - Pray save your rags, new beauties it discover ; For paper truly, every one's a lover : By the pen and press such knowledge is displayed As wouldn't exist if paper was not made. Wisdom of things mysterious, divine, Illustriously doth on paper shine.
Page 133 - ... there for the love of GOD, and with prayer, upon all occasions, for His grace to do his work well, he had found everything easy, during fifteen years that he had been employed there. That he was very well pleased with the post he was now in; but that he was as ready to quit that as the former, since he was always pleasing himself in every condition by doing little things for the love of GOD.
Page 113 - WISH in the following hour to take certain psychological doctrines and show their practical applications to mental hygiene,— to the hygiene of our American life more particularly. Our people, especially in academic circles, are turning towards psychology nowadays with great expectations ; and, if psychology is to justify them, it must be by showing fruits in the pedagogic and therapeutic lines. The reader may possibly have heard of a peculiar theory of the emotions, commonly referred to in psychological...
Page 128 - Become the imitable thing, and you may then discharge your minds of all responsibility for the imitation. The laws of social nature will take care of that result. Now the psychological principle on which this precept reposes is a law of very deep and widespread importance in the conduct of our lives, and at the same time a law which we Americans most grievously neglect. Stated technically, the law is this, that strong feeling about one's self tends to arrest the free association of one's objective...
Page 133 - I shall never do otherwise, if You leave me to myself; it is You who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss.
Page 92 - Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2. Take away the sword ; States can be saved without it ; bring the pen ! Ibid.